October 2007 Directors’ Meeting
| October 29, 2007 |
The technical topic of the meeting: Computational Challenges in Materials Science.
Date: October 29, 2007
Location: NSF, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA
Contact person:
William A. Curtin
William_Curtin@brown.edu
Brown University
Tel: (401) 863-1418
Fax: (401) 863-9025
AGENDA
8:15 Continental Breakfast
8:45 Opening Comments (Bill Curtin)
8:50 Remarks by MRSEC Program Directors
8:55 Remarks by Dr. Ulrich Strom, DMR Executive Officer
9:15 Irina Zaks, MRSEC Webmaster “Progress and Plans for MRSEC.org”
9:30 Dr. Dan Atkins, Director NSF Office of Cyber Infrastructure “An Overview of CyberInfrastructure Programs” Download this presentation (.pdf)
10:10 Break
10:40 Dr. C. Bouldin, DMR Instrumentation Program Director, “What the Cyber Discovery and Innovation Program means to the Centers” Download this presentation (.pdf)
11:10 Dr. Peter Schultz, Sandia National Laboratory “Beyond black boxes - the challenge of moving from science to engineering”
11:50 Lunch
1:45 Prof. Brian Wirth, Berkeley “The dynamics of dislocation - obstacle interactions: A combined
multiscale modeling and experimental characterization approach”
2:25 Prof. Juan DePablo, Wisconsin “Emerging Computational Challenges in Soft Materials”
3:05 Reports from Committees
3:30 Final Remarks/Wrap up
