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)

8:30 – 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

Jan 10 to 14 ??? ??? ??? Arizona State University Winter Workshop for Undergraduates Jan 27 ??? ??? ??? University of Minnesota Workshop on Polymeric Foams Feb 14-15 ??? ??? ??? SUNY Stoney Brook, Garcia Center Symposium to be held at KAIST, Korea Center to Center CafPoly (KAIST)/Garcia Center (SUNY Stony Brook)-Bilateral Symposium on Nanostructured Materials

Sep 10-14 ??? ??? ??? 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA [MSWORD 40kb]

Jan 5-10, 2003 Gordon Conference - Ventura, CA Polymers (West) Jan 29-31, 2003 University of California, Santa Barbara Materials Research Outreach Symposium Mar 23-27, 2003 ACS - New Orleans, LA ACS 225th Meeting PDF

Jan 7-11 ??? ??? ??? Arizona State University Winter Workshop for Undergraduates Feb 6-8 ??? ??? ??? Kohn Hall, Main Seminar Room, University of California, Santa Barbara Materials Research Outreach Symposium at UCSB

The findings and recommendations of the MRSEC's Education and Outreach activities noted in the National Academy of Sciences Report, "Looking Back, Moving Forward" reveal both areas of strength and areas that can be improved.

Jan 8-12 ??? ??? ??? Arizona State University Winter Workshop for Undergraduates: Research Experience in Materials Synthesis and Charaterization Jan 18-19 ??? ??? ??? University of Chicago Computational Aspects of Materials Science

Jan 28-30 ??? ??? ??? University of California, Santa Barbara Materials Research Outreach Program 2004 (MROP 2004) Jan 31-May 11 ??? ??? ??? The National Atomic Museum, Albuquerque, NM Strange Matter Exhibition ???:??:??? Additional Exhibition Locations

Jan 27-28 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Workshop on Strongly Correlated Electronic Materials Jan 29-Feb 2 University of California, Santa Barbara, Corwin Pavilion Materials Research Outreach Program Symposium 2005 (MROP 2005)