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October 2007 Directors' Meeting

Monday, October 29, 2007 - 12:00 to 22:00

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???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