Annual Conference 2020
NNCI Annual Conference 2020 (Virtual)
Monday, October 26 (12:00-4:30 PM)
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm Conference Welcome and Overview
12:15 pm – 12:30 pm Dr. Larry Goldberg (NSF)
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Dr. Lisa Friedersdorf (NNCO)
12:45 pm – 1:15 pm NNCI Coordinating Office Report (Oliver Brand)
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm Site Reports 1: New Programs in NNCI Years 6-10
MANTH, SDNI, TNF, NNF, RTNN, MONT, CNS, SHyNE
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm "Creating NNCI Inclusion – From Ideas to Action"
Dr. Christine Grant
Associate Dean of Faculty Advancement, College of Engineering and
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NC State University
3:00 pm – 3:30pm NNCI Associate Director Reports
- Societal and Ethical Implications (Jamey Wetmore)
- Education and Outreach (Quinn Spadola)
- Computation (Azad Naeemi)
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Breakout Session 1
- Measuring NNCI’s Impact (Jan Youtie, David Berube)
- Operations during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned (Mary Tang, Ron Olson)
- Ideas for International Collaborations and Interactions/AccelNet (Steve Koester, Vinayak Dravid)
Tuesday, October 27 (12:00-4:30 PM)
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm Presentation of NNCI Staff Awards
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm Site Reports 2: New Programs in NNCI Years 6-10
CNF, Stanford, SENIC, NNI, NCI-SW, MINIC, KY-Multiscale, NanoEarth
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm "The Nano-Quantum Superposition"
Dr. Celia Merzbacher
Deputy Director, Quantum Economic Development Consortium, SRI International
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Breakout Session 2
- NNCI Beyond 2025 (Trevor Thornton, Mark Allen)
- Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (Liney Arnadottir, Chris Ober, Heather Rauser)
- Staff Professional Education and Training (Angela Hwang, Maria Huffman)
- NNCI Advisory Board Meeting
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Plans for NNCI Research Communities
- Nanotechnology Convergence
- Nano Earth Systems
- Nano-Enabled Internet-of-Things
- Quantum Leap
- Understanding the Rules of Life
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Advisory Board Oral Report