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The ideas behind building a quantum computer and the power of such a device will be explored July 13 in a lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Charles Marcus, scientific director of Harvard University's Center of Imaging and Mesoscale Structures and physics professor, will present the free public lecture "Quantum Physics and Computation" at 7 p.m. in Duane Physics room G1B30. Marcus will discuss the possibility of building a quantum computer and the technological advancements that could be expected from it. He also will talk about his research.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host a public meeting July 19 to receive community input on its state-issued stormwater permit related to protecting the water quality of Boulder's creeks. The permit deals with surface water, irrigation water, storm drains and any other conveyances on campus that run into local waterways without going through a sewage treatment plant. The meeting to solicit public comment will be held on campus in the Environmental Health and Safety Center at 1000 Regent Drive from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the second floor conference room.

Leading resort developers, professors and law professionals will converge in Avon July 27-29 to discuss the latest trends in sustainable resort development during the Sustainable Resort Development Conference, hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business and business community representatives. Leeds executive development programs and the CU Real Estate Center have teamed up with leading resort developers to present the conference at the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek resort in Avon. A fee will be charged to attend the conference.

Business educators from several nations will gather in Boulder July 20-22 to attend a conference designed to help universities tackle the complex problem of teaching business ethics. More than 250 educators are expected to attend the "Teaching Business Ethics" conference, co-sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business, Colorado State University's College of Business, the University of Wyoming and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, or AACSB International.

A shifting diet of two flightless birds inhabiting Australia tens of thousands of years ago is the best evidence yet that early humans may have altered the continent's interior with fire, changing it from a mosaic of trees, shrubs and grasses to the desert scrub evident today, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team.

A team of geophysicists at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a new technique to visualize the colliding rock bodies beneath the Himalaya with unprecedented detail, answering a number of questions about the world's highest mountains and providing a new tool for assessing earthquake hazards.

CU System/Anna and John J. Sie Foundation news release DENVER AND BOULDER - June 29, 2005 Today the University of Colorado and The Anna and John J. Sie Foundation of Denver announced The Sie Family Down Syndrome Break-Through Research Initiative. The initiative will provide $600,000 in grant funds to stimulate new scientific research on Down syndrome with the aim of enhancing cognitive ability. These are the first such grants provided to CU for a specific chromosomal condition and the first nationwide specifically for Down syndrome.

Ofelia Miramontes, former professor of education and associate vice chancellor for diversity and equity at the University of Colorado at Boulder, died today in Boulder. She was 60. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. on July 10 at Koenig Alumni Center on the Boulder campus, located on the southeast corner of Broadway and University Avenue.

Editors: Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend the workshop. For a complete schedule of events, please e-mail caughey@colorado.edu or call (303) 492-4007. Recovery from the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, the communications revolution and "warning fatigue" will be among the topics addressed by about 400 people attending the 30th annual workshop hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Natural Hazards Center.

Note to Editors: Sommers-Bausch Observatory will be closed to the public during the evening on July 3, but reporters and photographers are welcome. CU-Boulder's Fiske Planetarium will be open Sunday, July 3, at 11 p.m. for the public to watch as a probe from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft slams into a comet millions of miles from Earth.