0010062  NANOMETER SCALE INDUCED STRUCTURE

BETWEEN AMORPHOUS LAYERS AND CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS

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

Experiences for students

·       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 Workshops

·       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.

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