“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