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October 2015 VCAT Meeting Agenda
AGENDA
VISITING COMMITTEE ON ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Webinar Meeting
October 6, 2015
| Overview and Safety | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Call to Order Roberto Padovani, VCAT Chair |
| 9:40 a.m. | NIST Update and Agenda Review Willie E. May, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director |
| 11:00 a.m. | Safety Update Richard Kayser, Chief Safety Officer |
| 11:20 a.m. | Break |
| NIST Partnerships | |
| 11:30 a.m. | Context Setting and Follow-up on Bio and IT Research Portfolios |
| 12:00 p.m. | Evolution of NIST Partnerships |
| 12:15 p.m. | Partnership Model: Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology (JIMB), Marc Salit, Leader, Genome-Scale measurements Group, MML and Drew Endy, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford (invited) |
| 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Partnership Model: Centers of Excellence, Jason Boehm, Director, Program Coordination Office, Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMad), Eric Lin, Chief, Materials Science and Engineering Division, MML and Peter Voorhees, Co-Director CHiMad |
| 2:15 p.m. | Partnership Model: NIST Labs working with the National Network of Manufacturing Institutes, Richard Cavanagh, Acting Associate Director for Laboratory Programs (ADLP) |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:10 p.m. | Partnership Models: JILA & Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), James Olthoff, Director, Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) |
| 3:55 p.m. | VCAT Administrative Business |
| 4:15 p.m. | Meeting Adjourn |