The MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering, in collaboration with MIT’s Materials Processsing Center and Industrial Liaison Program, organizes an annual symposium entitled “Materials Day at MIT.” Organized as a full day outreach symposium, “Materials Day at MIT” includes a full program of oral presentations by CMSE researchers and other MIT and outside experts in a focused thematic area. This annual event will give industrial participants the opportunity to interact directly with a full complement of MRSEC faculty, students and post-doctoral associates. Members of the MIT community outside of the MRSEC will also be invited to attend. Please note: actual event date is TBA

LC2CAM will enable researchers working at the forefronts of materials science & optics to discuss the emerging uses of light for control of ordered soft materials and advances in the use of liquid crystals to control light. For further details, please visit the LCMRC website at http://lcmrc.colorado.edu

Designed specifically for high school chemistry teachers, the CCMR Institute for Chemistry Teachers (CICT) is a unique opportunity for professional development. The Institute offers a one-week course, CHEM 501: Contemporary Chemistry for Teachers, for graduate credit. Through lectures by Cornell faculty, hands-on laboratory activities and research facility tours, teachers gain an appreciation for modern chemistry and learn about recent advances in the field. Major components of the course are hands-on laboratories, several of which are tailored to address the NYS Chemistry Core Curriculum and meet the budgetary constraints of a typical high school.

“Polymer materials for a sustainable future”

This 2008 program reflects an increasing interest for green materials and combines the two symposia held in 2007 by the CCMR: POP and Green Materials.

Polymer Outreach — Green Materials Program

This year’s symposium “Polymer materials for a sustainable future” hosted by Professors Margaret Frey, Fiber Science and Apparel Design, and Uli Wiesner, Materials Science and Engineering, will include presentations covering the latest advances in polymer research at Cornell, industry presentations and the ever-popular poster session highlighting our entire research portfolio and graduate students and postdocs.

Learn about cutting-edge research at Cornell and network with colleagues in academia and industry at our beautiful campus in Ithaca, New York. We look forward to you joining us.

May 20th and 21st

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. Due to severe constraints on the MRSEC Program managers, this date cannot be changed.

The theme of the meeting is

“The Interface Between Biology and Materials”.

Location:
The Donald E. Petersen Room
482 Allen Library, 4th floor, Room 485
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA 91895

AGENDA

Thursday May 1 - Scientific Session

12:00 Lunch, Executive Committee Meeting (UW Faculty Club)

1:00 p.m. Opening Comments (Bill Curtin)

1:15-2:00 Lee Hartwell, Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle

“Challenges in Personalized Medicine” (Dr. Hartwell is the 2001 Nobel Laureate in Medicine/Physiology)

2:00-2:40 Dan Hammer, Chem. Eng., Univ of Pennsylvania

“Designed, Programmable Membranes”

2:40-3:00 Coffee Break

3:00-3:40 Huajian Gao, Div. of Engineering, Brown University, Providence

“Bridging single molecule and continuum mechanics descriptions of cell adhesion”

3:40-4:20 Babak Parviz, Co-Director, Microscale Life Sciences Center, U. Washington

“Technology Development for Low-Cost Single-Cell Biology”

4:20-4:35 Dan Steinberg, Princeton University,

“Update on Education and Outreach”

4:35-5:00 Remarks by MRSEC Program Managers (Charles Ying, Tom Rieker, & Rama Bansil)

5:00-5:45 Reception

7:00 Dinner at Ivar’s Salmon House, Lake Union (van pick ups at the hotels at 6:40 p.m.)

Friday, May 2nd - MRSEC Business

8:15 Continental Breakfast

9:30  Irina Zaks, mrsec.org webmaster,  Stanford University,

“MRSEC  - from  Funding Opportunity  to  Scientific Network”

9:45 Committee Deliberations

10:00 Committee Reports

12:00 Lunch at UW Faculty Club

Download Presentation Abstracts and Presenters’ Bios

Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) is a nationwide program that encourages middle school girls to pursue careers in science and math. The program at Cornell invites female middle school students in 7th, 8th and 9th grade in upstate New York to spend one day a year on the Cornell campus to attend a series of math and science workshops.

The CCMR Educational Programs Office works with the graduate student leaders of EYH to administer the budget and organize over 30 hands-on workshops in science, engineering, and technology.

8^th Southern School on Computational Chemistry and Materials Science is organized together by the members of the NSF-EPSCOR Computational Chemistry Cluster, NSF-CREST Computational Center for Molecular Structure and Interactions, the NSF-Partnership for Research and Education for Materials (NSF-PREM) and Jackson State University. The meeting will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Jackson, MS on April 25–26 (Friday and Saturday), 2008.

We are planning a small number of 40 minute lectures of invited speakers, 20 minute oral presentations and posters. These presentations will cover all areas of computational chemistry and materials science. For details on abstract and picture formats, conference program, online registration, and other information go through our conference web site.

In order to overcome the fundamental challenges facing fuel cell developers, the Cornell Fuel Cell Institute (CFCI) is engaged in a broad-based materials discovery and development program that occurs in collaboration with our industrial partners.

The Fuel Cell Symposium showcases the research and development projects underway at Cornell and in the labs of our industrial and academic partners. Furthermore, it brings together researchers from across the fuel cell technology spectrum to better plan for and meet the ever-evolving requirements of a commercially viable fuel cells.

May 19th and 20th

The focus is on Educational and Outreach opportunities provided by the MRSEC and PREM programs with 4 sessions on Sunday afternoon, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings.

Following sessions:

• Session 1
• Session 2
• Session 3
• Session 4

Where: San Francisco Marriott Yerba Buena Ballroom
Deadline for Needs and Information Request Form: February 22nd and send to Diana Palma
Contact: Diana Palma - diana.palma@mirc.gatech.edu (404) 894-1541 for questions

8:00-8:30pm – NISE Programs
8:30-10:00pm – Table-top activities and programs (Plan for alternating presenters at 9:15)
This time will allow presenters to network and participate in and learn about each other’s activities. We need NISE members to lead their NISE programs and MRSEC/NSEC/PREM/NNIN representatives to lead their interactive, table-top outreach activities. Space is limited, so apply early!