MRSEC Events

[ May 1, 2008 12:00 pm to May 2, 2008 12:00 pm. ] The spring Director’s Meeting will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle over two days, May 1-2 2008. The meeting will begin in the early afternoon on Thursday and adjourn late morning on Friday. This schedule will allow travelers from the east coast to arrive on the 1st and depart on the 2nd.The theme of the meeting is “The Interface Between Biology and Materials”.

[ November 29, 2007; ] Sheraton, Boston, MA

7:30 am MRSEC Education Directors Breakfast and Business Meeting (Beacon A)
8:00 Breakfast and Registration for All Registered Attendees (Clarendon Room)
Morning Session: Getting Updated Morning Session: Getting Updated (Fairfax Room)
8:30 Welcome and Meeting Goals (Robert de Groot – Caltech and Greta Zenner – University of Wisconsin-Madison)
8:45 Update from NSF (Tom Rieker – NSF)
9:15 The […]

[ October 29, 2007; ] The technical topic of the meeting: Computational Challenges in Materials Science.

AGENDA

8:55 Remarks by Dr. Ulrich Strom, DMR Executive Officer
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”

[ June 4, 2007; ] Major Agenda topics: NRC MRSEC Report; Discussion of NRC report with MRSEC program managers. ACI from the perspective of a large company: du Pont; Bob de Groot, Caltech, Informal Science Education Network; ACI from the perspective of a startup company: Platypus Technologies; ACI from the perspective of a startup company: Raindance Technologies. Discussion with representative from Dupont, Platypus and Raindance

[ December 8, 2006; ] Date: December 8, 2006
Location: NSF, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA | more info
Contact person:
Juan DePablo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
depablo@engr.wisc.edu
1415 Engineering Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: (608) 262-7727
Fax: (608) 265-3782

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Agenda
National Science Foundation, Rm. 110
Arlington, Virginia
December 8, 2006

8:30 Introductory Remarks – Tom Rieker, Maija Kukla, and Charles Ying
DMR Division Director’s Greeting – Lance Haworth
9:00 Irina Zaks […]

[ April 14, 2006; ] Link to University of Chicago Directors Meeting page

Thursday, April 13: Introductions/ Dinner/ Poster Session

(Burnham Room, Intercont. Hotel and Gleacher Center, rm. 621)

3:00
(Primarily for education directors) University of Chicago MRSEC Directors welcome; brief overview of each Center’s scientific and educational activities by educational outreach personnel (~5 minutes per Center, 5 slides max, no REU or RET […]

[ November 17, 2005; ] November 17, 2005

5:30   Executive Board Meeting (Location: Rockbottom Restaurant and Brewery, Ballston Common Mall across from NSF, enter at street level and go straight back to restaurant).

There will be no general gathering of the directors this evening.

November 18, 2005

General MRSEC Directors Meeting (NSF Stafford I, Science Board Room 1235)

8:00
Continental Breakfast/Informal Discussions

8:30
Opening Remarks — […]

[ May 19, 2005; ]

8:30 – 9:00AM
The SRC NSEC and MRSEC Survey, Ralph Cavin, VP for Research SRC
(Time Slot for NSF Business – MRSEC Program news)

9:00 – 9:40AM
Updates: Executive Committee report, MRSEC celebration – I. Herman NAS Review of Small-to Mid Facilities – Frank DiSalvo
Workshop on Facilities best practices – Helene Schember
MRSEC website news

9:40-10:40AM
Trust and the Future of Research, […]