Friday, May 29th 7:30 ??? 8:30 AM Breakfast 8:30 ??? 9:30 AM Introductory Remarks: Tom Rieker, Rama Bansil, and Charles Ying 9:30 ??? 10:00 AM Discussion of MRSEC Directors??? Meeting frequency and format. 10:00 AM Break 10:15 AM 5-10 minute introductions by the chairs of each of the working groups ??? recap accomplishments, plans, opportunities: 10:15 Industry 10:25 International 10:35 Diversity 10:45 Education 10:55 Communication 11:05 Facilities 11:15 ??? 12:00 PM Parallel Breakout Sessions of Working Groups Industry International: Diversity Education: Communication:

You're invited to come and learn more about the latest research in computational materials/chemistry and to mingle with computational scientists who work on UW campus and beyond. The next seminar takes place in January at 3:30 pm in Room 265 of Materials Science & Engineering building.

NSF Stafford I, Room 375 8:00 AM Coffee available 8:15 AM Introductions of new Center Directors Margaret Gardel, U. Chicago Ali Yazdani, Princeton Jim Hone, Columbia

Meeting Location National Science Foundation Room E3430 2415 Eisenhower Ave. Alexandria, VA 22314 7.45-8 a.m. Introductions, MRSEC Directors and NSF MRSEC Program Directors Light Refreshments, Room E3430 Dan Finotello

Productive Affinities: Successful Collaborations Between Museums and Academia The Art Institute of Chicago Northwestern University Joint Seminar Series on Conservation Science October 29-31, 2008 Chicago, IL and Evanston, IL

Girard Science Camp 2011: The first edition of the Penn-Girard Science Camp will work with 7th graders between the 6th and 10th of June 2011. The camp will be conducted by two Graduate Students, two Girard Science Teachers, one UPenn Faculty, and Education Directors.

The next meeting of the MRSEC education directors is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, December 3rd and 4th at MIT in Cambridge, MA. We will begin at 3:00 on Wednesday with a discussion of the network's goals and meetings of the subcommittees. We will be finished by 4:00 on Thursday afternoon. Please mark your calendar. Further details will be sent at a later date.

On September 26, 2008, a workshop for NSF-PREM Program Administrators and Participants will be held at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.

The LRSM, through the NSF-supported Penn MRSEC, is presenting a series of Science Cafés to promote NOVA’s four part TV series on materials, ‘Making Stuff with David Pogue,’ which will run every Wednesday evening on public television stations at 9:00 pm starting on January 19, 2011. The Science Cafés, which are science talks for laymen about materials-related topic of current interest, will take place at 8:00 pm at Stoney’s British Pub, 3007 Concord Pike, Wilmington DE. These programs are free and anyone who is interested is invited to attend. No purchase is necessary.