USA PIs (to be supported by NSF)
W. Craig Carter Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
Yet-Ming Chiang Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge MA
Wai-Yim Ching Physics, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
Dawn Bonnell Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Roger H. French Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania and
CR&D, Dupont, Philadelphia, PA
Stephen H. Garofalini Interfacial Molecular Science Laboratory, Ceramic and Materials Engineering,
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
USA Group Members (not supported by NSF)
Paul F. Becher Structural Ceramics Group, Metals & Ceramics Division, ORNL,
Oak Ridge, TN
Rowland M. Cannon Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley, CA
Thomas M. Shaw, IBM, T.J. Watson Laboratory, Yorktown, NY
European PIs (to be supported by EU: NANOAM GROW 200005,1)
David J.H. Cockayne Materials, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Martine Gautier-Soyer DSM - DRECAM SRSIM, CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
Michael J. Hoffmann University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Manfred Rühle, Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
Adrian P. Sutton, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
· In adjusting their budget, greater emphasis was given to graduate students over post-doctoral fellows.
· Plans are in place to send several talented students for research visits (for up to 3 months) particularly around the time of the USA-EC meetings in Europe and in coordination with EC-only meetings. Students will be invited to the workshops and encouraged to form international networks and collaboration. Furthermore, they will be encouraged to post their research developments on the group web-site to encourage constructive critique.
· Students will participate in strategic decisions on correction and implementation of research direction.
· Annual meetings are planned to bring together the European and American groups in addition to smaller separate American (and European) meetings between these times.
· The first meeting is being scheduled for Oxford this fall. This event will serve as a kick-off meeting and thus should take place as soon as possible after the start of the program.
· The second meeting will be in the US. It would serve as a midterm evaluation meeting to assess progress and re-define directions as appropriate. The location will be chosen so that a plant tour of an industrial laboratory can be part of the program.
· The 3rd meeting will take place in Europe, possibly France, 6 to 9 months before the project. Part of the exercise will be to explore avenues to enable collaborations to continue beyond the end of the program.
· A follow-up meeting will take place in the US, perhaps Berkeley or MIT, involving the normal program review and planning exercise as a result of the deliberations at the joint European meeting.