Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Community Calendar

Wed/Feb. 16

Bookmobile — Reserve Rode Inn, 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.; Rancho Grande Estates (at the Adobe Café), 2:30-3:30 p.m.; Luna Mercantile, 4-5:30 p.m.

WOW Luncheon Meeting, 12:15-1:15 p.m. — Socorro Public Library, 2nd floor meeting room. Women's Opportunities for Wellness will host a discussion concerning hospice care. The meeting is free and open to the public.

Chemistry Seminar, Noon — Jones Annex 101. Manoj Kumar will speak.

Introduction to XML, 5:30 p.m. — Speare 116. "The schema and its role in file validation: introduction to Relax NG." Free.

Psychology Club Movie Night, 7 p.m. — Weir 102. Watch a classic movie starring Jimmy Stewart and a 6-foot-tall invisible white rabbit. Admission is free, membership is not required.

Thu/Feb. 17

Bookmobile — Apache Creek Mercantile, 8:30-9:45 a.m.; Aragon Post Office, 10-11 a.m.; Datil Post Office, 1-3 p.m.; Magdalena (by the Chamber of Commerce), 3:45-5 p.m.

Geoscience Seminar, 4 p.m. — MSEC 101. Chris Fielding, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will be the guest speaker.

Physics Seminar, 4 p.m. — Workman 101. Dr. Steward McKechnie, of ITT Industries Inc., speaks on "General Theory of Imaging through Atmospheric Turbulence with Large Ground-Based Telescopes."

Introduction to XML, 4 p.m. — Speare 116. "The schema and its role in file validation: introduction to Relax NG." Free.

Programming with Python, 5:30 p.m. — Speare 116. "Sequence types: lists and tuples." Free.

Library Seminar, 7 p.m. — Skeen Library, Tripp Room. Dr. Rob Bowman and Dr. Paul Tashjian speak on "Shallow Groundwater and Surface Water Geomorphology of the rio Grande Basin."

Fri/Feb. 18

Owl Bar Run, All Day — Runners, bikers and walkers are invited to participate. A 13-mile route from Tech Gym to Owl Bar. T-shirts free to participants. For more info, call (505) 835-5131.

NRAO Colloquium, 11 a.m. — Array Operations Center. Kevin Marvel, of AAS, speaks on "Astronomy Policy 2005."

Electrical Engineering Seminar, 2 p.m. — Workman 101. Dr. Tom Bilodeau, of State University of New York at Canton, speaks on "Electrostatic discharge sensitivity anlyses for GaAs microwave power amplifiers."

Hydrology Seminar, 3:30 p.m. — MSEC 101. Bill Woessner (Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer) speaks on "Examining the Exchange of Groundwater with the Stream/Floodplain System: Physical, Thermal and Geochemical Approaches with Ties to Stream Renaturalization."

Mathematics Seminar, 4 p.m. — Weir 209. Dr. Kimberly Burch speaks on "Modeling Physical Properties of Alkanes."

Fri-Sun/Feb. 18-20

Marriage Enrichment Weekend — For more information, cal Joe & Millie Lopez, (505) 835-0264; or Arthur & Flora Olguin, (505) 835-4345.

Sat/Feb. 19

Rugby Match, 1 p.m. — Tech Athletic Field. Tech Pygmies vs. El Paso Scorpions.

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