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)

Partnership for Research & Education in Materials Event Featuring: Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology Roeland Nolte, University of Nijmegen

The focus is on Educational and Outreach opportunities provided by the MRSEC and PREM programs with 4 sessions on Sunday afternoon, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Following sessions: Session 1 Session 2

The location of the workshop rotates among the member institutions for the Spring and Summer sessions. Our first meeting was in December 1999 and meetings have been held at Boston University, Brandeis University, Brown University, Clark University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, University of Connecticut, and the Universities of Massachusetts at Amherst and Boston. The Fall meeting is held mid-September at Brandeis, and the Winter meeting mid-December at Harvard.

The International Center for Materials Research (ICMR) at UC Santa Barbara will hold a Summer School on the Intersection of Surface Science with Biomolecular Structure and Function from June 19th – July 1, 2010 at UCSB. The School is aimed at graduate students and junior researchers working in the field of surface science that have interest in simulation, characterization, experimental approaches of biomolecule-surface interactions.

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

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.The theme of the meeting is ???The Interface Between Biology and Materials???.The spring Director???s Meeting will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle over two days, May 1-2 2008.

Join your colleagues at our 10th workshop as we explore web-based applications, computer simulations, virtual field trips, short science videos and other activities to motivate and boost student learning.

Pressure is a variable that plays a key role in a large variety of phenomena that range from large scale effects at the interior of planets to small energy scale properties such as quantum critical behavior and a diversity of exotic phase transitions in, for instance, strongly correlated electron materials. With this kick-off conference we would like to bring together scientists working in this field and to provide a forum for intense discussion and examination of the most advanced aspects of the use of high pressure for the investigation of these phenomena.

The UPR-Humacao PREM will host the 2011 PREM and MRSEC PIs Joint Meeting on March 9-11, 2011 at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in Palmas del Mar, Humacao, Puerto Rico. The program will include PREM and MRSEC joint and parallel sessions.