MRSEC Events index

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

“The Interface Between Biology and Materials”.

Location:
The Donald E. Petersen Room
482 Allen Library, 4th floor, Room 485
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA 91895

AGENDA

Thursday May 1 - Scientific Session

12:00 Lunch, Executive Committee Meeting (UW Faculty Club)

1:00 p.m. Opening Comments (Bill Curtin)

1:15-2:00 Lee Hartwell, Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle

“Challenges in Personalized Medicine” (Dr. Hartwell is the 2001 Nobel Laureate in Medicine/Physiology)

2:00-2:40 Dan Hammer, Chem. Eng., Univ of Pennsylvania

“Designed, Programmable Membranes”

2:40-3:00 Coffee Break

3:00-3:40 Huajian Gao, Div. of Engineering, Brown University, Providence

“Bridging single molecule and continuum mechanics descriptions of cell adhesion”

3:40-4:20 Babak Parviz, Co-Director, Microscale Life Sciences Center, U. Washington

“Technology Development for Low-Cost Single-Cell Biology”

4:20-4:35 Dan Steinberg, Princeton University,

“Update on Education and Outreach”

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

9:30  Irina Zaks, mrsec.org webmaster,  Stanford University,

“MRSEC  - from  Funding Opportunity  to  Scientific Network”

9:45 Committee Deliberations

10:00 Committee Reports

12:00 Lunch at UW Faculty Club

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Partnership for Research & Education in Materials

Palmas del Mar, Humacao, Puerto Rico

Featuring the following Faculty from the University of Pennsylvania:
I-Wei Chen, Materials Science and Engineering
Russell Composto, Materials Science and Engineering
John E. Fischer, Materials Science and Engineering
Alan T. Johnson, Physics & Astronomy
Cherie R. Kagan, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Christopher B. Murray, Materials Science and Engineering

Conference Location
Four Points By Sheraton
170 Candelero Drive
Humacao, 00791 PR
Ph. 787-850-6000

In order to overcome the fundamental challenges facing fuel cell developers, the Cornell Fuel Cell Institute (CFCI) is engaged in a broad-based materials discovery and development program that occurs in collaboration with our industrial partners.

The Fuel Cell Symposium showcases the research and development projects underway at Cornell and in the labs of our industrial and academic partners. Furthermore, it brings together researchers from across the fuel cell technology spectrum to better plan for and meet the ever-evolving requirements of a commercially viable fuel cells.

May 19th and 20th

“Polymer materials for a sustainable future”

This 2008 program reflects an increasing interest for green materials and combines the two symposia held in 2007 by the CCMR: POP and Green Materials.

Polymer Outreach — Green Materials Program

This year’s symposium “Polymer materials for a sustainable future” hosted by Professors Margaret Frey, Fiber Science and Apparel Design, and Uli Wiesner, Materials Science and Engineering, will include presentations covering the latest advances in polymer research at Cornell, industry presentations and the ever-popular poster session highlighting our entire research portfolio and graduate students and postdocs.

Learn about cutting-edge research at Cornell and network with colleagues in academia and industry at our beautiful campus in Ithaca, New York. We look forward to you joining us.

May 20th and 21st