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Aug 21, 2008 10:00 AM
Location: LaGuardia Community College, The Little Theatre, 31-10 Thomson Ave., Queens
This presentation will discuss the basic characteristics of blast resistant design and the development of security criteria and guidelines in modern day skyscrapers post 9/11.

Upcoming Events

All Event Types
This Week: Aug 21, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008
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Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 22, 2008
Conference of the Specialized Neuroscience Research Programs
Location: New York Marriott Downtown, 85 West St., at the Westside Highway.
Price:$400
Type: Lectures & Readings and Meetings & Conferences
Aug 20, 2008 - Aug 24, 2008
Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages
Keynote Speaker: Alan Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Price:: Varies; See Event Site
Type: Meetings & Conferences
Aug 21, 2008 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Free Event
Building Safe Skyscrapers Post 9/11
Location: LaGuardia Community College, The Little Theatre, 31-10 Thomson Ave., Queens
Type: Lectures & Readings
Aug 21, 2008 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Free Event
Special Wally Seminar: The Puzzle of Dating the Vulcanic Eruption of Santorini, a Crucial Time Marker for the Second Millennium B.C.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Geochemistry Building, First Floor Seminar Room
Type: Lectures & Readings
Aug 21, 2008 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Free Event
IRI seminar: Modulated Annual Cycle - An Alternative Reference Frame for Climate Anomaly
Keynote Speaker: Zhaohua Wu
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Monell Auditorium, 60 Route 9W, Palisades
Type: Lectures & Readings
Aug 21, 2008 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Free Event
NYSkies Astronomy Seminar
Keynote Speaker: Gregory Matloff
Location: St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 315 W. 22 St. between Eighth & Ninth Ave.
Price: Free
Type: Lectures & Readings and Meetings & Conferences
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Ongoing Events

All Event Types
This Week: Aug 21, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008
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Through Aug 22, 2008 Free Event
Children's Summer Course: Video Game Programming
Location: Stratolab, 125 W. 72nd St., Suite 4F.
Price:$750, discounts available.
Type: Lectures & Readings and Kids & Family Events
Through Aug 22, 2008
Summer Science Camp
Location: Center for Science Teaching and Learning, 1 Tanglewood Road, Rockville Centre.
Type: Outdoors, Lectures & Readings, and Kids & Family Events
Through Aug 22, 2008
Children's Program: Plant Connections
Location: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Ave., at Crown St.
Type: Lectures & Readings
Through Aug 23, 2008 Free Event
Harlem Week
Location: Harlem
Type: Outdoors, Art Exhibits, Film & Performance, and Kids & Family Events
Through Aug 23, 2008 Free Event
Wet Lab Wonders
Location: South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St.
Price:Free with Admission to Museum.
Type: Outdoors and Kids & Family Events
Through Aug 25, 2008
Art Exhibit: Bernd and Hilla Becher's Landscape and Typology
Location: MoMA, 11 W. 53 St., between 5th Ave. and 6th Ave.
Type: Art Exhibits
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An Evening with John Dobson
Location: The Custer Institute, 1115 Main Bayview Rd. (South of Route 25), Southold.