Conference Venue Holiday Inn 2460 Eisenhower Ave. Alexandria, VA 22314

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)

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

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

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

The National Academy of Sciences Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium will host Nanomaterials in Biology and Medicine: Promises and Perils April 10-11, 2007 in Washington, D.C. The colloquium will be structured to include researchers, postdoctoral fellows, directors of public granting agencies, and policy makers considering the societal and ethical outcomes of recent nanomaterials development.

Pancoe–ENH Life Sciences PavilionAbbott Auditorium 2200 Campus DriveEvanston, ILSession I: Synergistic Linear and Nonlinear Phenomena in Multifunctional Oxide Ceramic Systems 8:30 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. Session II: Novel Methods for Nanostructured Polymer Blends and Composites 10:50 a.m. - 11:55 a.m. Session III: Biomaterials 11:55 a.m. - 1:25 p.m. (Lunch break from 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m.)

The technical topic of the meeting: Computational Challenges in Materials Science. AGENDA 8:55 Remarks by Dr. Ulrich Strom, DMR Executive Officer 9:30 Dr. Dan Atkins, Director NSF Office of Cyber Infrastructure ???An Overview of CyberInfrastructure Programs??? Download this presentation (.pdf) 10:10 Break 10:40 Dr. C. Bouldin, DMR Instrumentation Program Director, ???What the Cyber Discovery and Innovation Program means to the Centers??? Download this presentation (.pdf)

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.

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).