NSF Site Visit and Annual Review 2009

Preparation Meeting will be held on June 16, 2009

Site Visit

June 16 - 18, 2009

This year's site visit will be held in MRGN 121. The agenda for this meeting will be forwarded to the NCN faculty and staff ahead of time (and also posted here).

Please have each individual attending the Site Visit complete the online registration form for meal planning, etc..

If you have any problems or concerns please contact Vicki Johnson () .

Agenda

Tuesday, June 16, 2009, Burton Morgan Room 121
All day NCN Student Leadership Councils’ Nanotechnology Workshop and
All-NCN-Nodes Student Leadership Council Meeting
Afternoon NSF Site Visit Team arrives at Hilton Garden Inn, West Lafayette
 4:00 pm SVT Tour of Birck Nanotechnology Center (BNC) facility
 6:00 pm Dinner Meeting for SVT
Wednesday, June 17, 2009, Burton Morgan Room 121
 7:00 am Continental breakfast in Burton D. Morgan Venture Café
 8:00 Opening Remarks by France Córdova, President, Purdue University
 8:15 Dr. Rajinder Khosla, Deputy Division Director, NSF
 8:25 NCN Chairman’s Introduction – Mark Lundstrom
 8:50 NCN Director’s Overview – Gerhard Klimeck
 9:45 NCN Simulation-Driven Research Initiatives – Initiative PIs
10:15 Break and Site Visit Team Executive Session
10:45 NCN@U Programs – Ale Strachan and George Schatz
11:30 NCN Education – Suely Black and Deb Newberry, Director, Nano-Link
Noon NCN Student Poster Pitch – NCN Students
12:15 pm LUNCH and Student Poster Session in Birck Nanotechnology Center
 1:45 Site Visit Team Meeting with NCN Students
 2:15 nanoHUB.org/HUBzero Demo – Gerhard Klimeck, Michael McLennan
 3:00 Break
 3:30 NCN Assessment – Diane Beaudoin
 4:15 NCN Infrastructure – George Adams
 5:00 Site Visit Team meets
 5:45 VT Feedback to NCN: Key Issues and Questions
 6:00 Adjourn
 7:00 pm Site Visit Team private dinner
 7:00 pm Dinner for NCN PIs, Leadership Team
Thursday, June 18, 2009
 8:00 am Breakfast in the Sagamore Room, Purdue Memorial Union for Site Visit Team, University Administrators, and NCN Directors
 9:00 NCN Leadership Team and Site Visit Team meet
10:00 Site Visit Team work session begins
 4:30 pm Site Visit Team departure to Indianapolis Airport