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Meeting Goals:Increase the community’s knowledge of STEM education research and diversity issues. Review MRSEC logic models (K-12 Students, Public Interactions, K-12 Teacher Professional Development, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students)Address evaluation efforts next steps Address communicating MRSEC Education Network efforts with wider communities. Download Agenda

8:30-8:45 MRSEC Program Directors Opening Remarks 8:45-9:45 Session with Ian Robertson, Director, Division of Materials Research 9:45-10:00 Break 10:00-10:15 Welcome and MPS perspective on innovation and MPS investments Celeste Rohlfing, Deputy Assistant Director, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, NSF

Sept 27th - Education Directors Meeting/Dinner [5-7pm] Sept 28th - 8:30am – 3:30pm meeting/workshop Location: Courtyard Marriott Chicago O’Hare; Meeting Rooms A&B Free shuttle provided by the hotel from OHare [During the day (4am till 12:45am) the shuttle picks up from door number 2 at ~ 15 and 45 minutes after the hour intervals. Look for signs that direct you to the "bus and shuttle center " from the luggage pick up area.] To confirm: 1-847-824-7000

Join DMR Division Director Germano Iannacchione and DMR program directors for our monthly office hour and Q&A session.

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)

This two-day workshop will bring together a group of scientists working on the fundamentals of charge transport across interfaces, adhesion and deformation at small scales, material transport, and functional applications of contacts. http://www.princeton.edu/~pccm/Symposium/irg3workshop06.html

2006 MRS Fall Meeting November 27 - December 1, 2006 Exhibit: November 28 - 30 Hynes Convention Center & Sheraton Boston Hotel Boston, MA more details on MRS site

Center PI Christopher Bowman gave a talk titled "Introduction to Photopolymerizations: From Mummification to Nanotechnology" at the annual national conference for the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans (SACNAS) held in Denver in September 2005.

Join DMR Division Director Germano Iannacchione and DMR program directors for our monthly office hour and Q&A session.

In part to honor the 65th birthday of Todd Dupont next fall, a four-day scientific meeting will be held at the University of Chicago, 6-9 September, 2007. This meeting will be organized around four major themes: Interface computation, Reduced dimension models, Inverse Problems, and Optimization Reliable computation. The scientific committee consists of Dupont, Bruce Ayati (SMU), Anette (Peko) Hosoi (MIT), Qing Nie (UC-Irvine) and Qiang Du (Penn State).