“Making Connections”

October 23, 2009 — 8:30am - 5:00pm

Location: Duke University, Thomas Center, Glaxo Classroom

Program

•   8:45 Welcome
•   9:00 Celeste Rohlfing (Head, NSF/MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities)
• 10:00 How connections are made (brief reports)
  • Michael Reed
  • Jonathan Mattingly
  • Steffen Bass
• 11:00 Presentations by Center/Institutes (RENCI and others)
  • CNCS (Bob Behringer)
  • RENCI (Rob Fowler)
• 12:00 Lunch Break
•   1:00 Faculty presentations
  • Patrick Charbonneau: Outreach project
  • Nick Buchler: Biophysics
  • Dalia Patino: Environmental Science
  • Ezra Miller: Mathematics
•   2:15 CTMS: Discussion of status and strategic goals
•   3:00 Coffee Break
•   3:30 Keynote Lecture: Mark Ratner (Northwestern University):

    The Energy-Sustainability Landscape: Some Traps and some Heights

•   4:30 Closeout
•   5:00 End of Program

Last Year: CTMS Inaugural Retreat 2008