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June 2015 VCAT Meeting Agenda
AGENDA
VISITING COMMITTEE ON ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Administration Building, Portrait Room
Gaithersburg, MD
June 9-10, 2015
ALL VISITORS MUST PRE-REGISTER.
Contact stephanie.shaw [at] nist.gov (Stephanie Shaw) by June 2, 2015
| Tuesday, June 9, 2015 | |
Overview and Safety | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Call to Order Tony Haymet, VCAT Chair |
| 8:40 a.m. | NIST Update and Agenda Review Willie E. May, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director |
| 9:50 a.m. | Discussion |
| 10:00 a.m. | Safety Update Richard Kayser, Chief Safety Officer |
| 10:10 a.m. | Discussion |
| 10:20 a.m. | Break |
| NIST Planning Activities and Studies | |
10:30 a.m. | NIST Wide Planning Activities and Workforce Study Needs and Trends |
10:45 a.m. | Discussion |
| 11:00 a.m. | Panel Discussion with NIST Post-Docs |
| 11:45 a.m. | Lunch |
| Bioscience Review | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Context Setting Willie May, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director |
| 12:40 p.m. | Review of NIST Bioscience Research Programs and Activities Laurie Locascio, Director, Materials Measurement Laboratory |
| 1:10 p.m. | Discussion |
| 1:20 p.m. | Panel of Internal NIST speakers Protein Therapies - Mike Tarlov, Chief Biomolecular Measurement Division, MML Cell measurements - Anne Plant, Program Director, Biosciences, MML Synthetic biology - Marc Salit, Leader, Genome-Scale Measurements Group, MML |
| 1:50 p.m. | Discussion |
| 2:00 p.m. | Break |
| 2:10 p.m. | Bioscience Industry: Future Direction & Trends in Therapeutics Christine Colvis, Director for Drug Development Partnership Programs, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH Robert Deans, Executive Vice President for Regenerative Medicine, Athersys Scott Koenig, President & CEO, MacroGenics |
| 3:00 p.m. | Discussion |
| Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) & National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) | |
| 3:15 p.m. | Context Setting Willie May, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director |
| 3:25 p.m. | Break & Depart for Tours of IBBR & NCCoE |
| 5:30 p.m. | Adjourn Day 1 |
| Wednesday, June 10, 2015 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Call to Order Tony Haymet, VCAT Chair |
| Information Technology/Cybersecurity Review | |
| 8:40 a.m. | Context Setting Willie E. May, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director |
| 8:50 a.m. | Review of NIST Research Programs and Activities Chuck Romine, Director, Information Technology Laboratory |
| 9:15 a.m. | Discussion |
| 9:30 a.m. | Panel of Internal NIST speakers Metrology for Scientific Computing- Andrew Dienstfrey, Manager, Virtual Measurement Systems Program, ITL Big Data – Mark Przybocki, Leader, Mulitmodal Information Group, ITL Software Quality- Paul Black, Acting Leader, Software Quality Group, ITL |
| 10:20 a.m. | Future Direction & Trends in Information Technology Daniel A. Reed, Vice President for Research and Economic Development and the Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Medicine at the University of Iowas Paul Ammann, Associate Professor, Software Engineering, George Mason University |
| 11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. | Discussion |
| 11:30 a.m. | VCAT Elections and Administrative Business |
| 12:00 p.m. | Meeting Adjourn |