NSF-MRSEC Directors' Meeting
May 1-2, 2008
The Donald E. Petersen Room
Allen Library, 4th floor, Room
485
Univeristy of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195
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
AGENDA
| Thursday May 1st - Scientific Session | |
| 12.00 |
Lunch, Executive Committee Meeting (UW Faculty Club) |
| 1:00 |
Opening Comments (Bill Curtin) |
1:15-2:00 |
Lee Hartwell, Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
|
2:00-2:40 |
Dan Hammer, Chem. Eng., Univ of Pennsylvania
|
2:40-3:00 |
Coffee Break |
3:00-3:40 |
Huajian Gao, Div. of Engineering, Brown University, Providence
|
3:40-4:20 |
Babak Parviz, Co-Director, Microscale Life Sciences Center, U. Washington
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|
4:20-4:35 |
Dan Steinberg, Princeton University,
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|
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 |
9:45 |
Committee Deliberations |
|
10:00 |
Committee Reports |
|
12:00 |
Lunch at UW Faculty Club |