MRSEC Director’s Meeting Agenda
National Science Foundation
June 23-24, 2010
Dinner 6/23 |
Business meeting of NSF program directors, chair/vice chair, and working group leaders* (Pinzimini 6:30 PM) |
Meeting Day |
NSF Stafford II - room 555 (pick-up badge in the main building first) |
8:00 - 8:30 |
coffee/check-in |
8:30 - 9:15 |
Zakya Kafafi, Director, Division of Materials Research and MRSEC Program Director's opening remarks |
9:15 - 9:45 |
Ben Schrag, NSF Program Director, Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, SBIR/STTR opportunities |
9:45 - 10:15 |
Education Coordinators update - Christine Jones and Christine Broadbridge (report on December BP meeting, Ed. Assessment, JAM, MRSEC kits ) |
10:15-10:30 |
Break |
10:30 -11:00 |
PREM update – Idalia Ramos (Overview of first cycle of PREM, summary of recent PI meeting) |
11:00 -11:30 |
Election of new Vice Chair of the Directors and Working Group Chairs |
11:30 -1:00 |
Lunch and working committee meetings |
1:00 - 2:10 |
Working committee reports and discussion |
2:10 -2:15 |
MRSEC.ORG update - Michael Rubner |
2:15 - 3:00 |
MRFN discussion - Craig Hawker and Tim Lodge (sustainability) |
3:00 - 3:30 |
open session and wrap-up |
*Working Groups: topics of interest |
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Education (Clark) Rm 525 - assessment, post-doc mentoring, website |
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Industry (Lodge) Rm. 555 - website, study, meeting needs of industry |
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BP (Rubner) Stafford I, Rm 1005 - Follow-up to previous meeting, PREM. |
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Communication (Sarikaya) Rm. 555 - brochure, website |
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| Facilities (Hawker) Rm. 585 - MRFN, facilities workshop |