MRSEC CALENDAR OF EVENTS

E&HR Calendar 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

2006 DATE	EVENT
March 13-March 17	APS March Meeting Baltimore, MA http://www.aps.org/meet/calendar.cfm
March 26-March 30	ACS National Meeting Atlanta, GA http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetings/future.html
April 17-April 21	MRS Spring Meeting San Francisco, CA http://www.mrs.org/meetings/spring2006/
April 22-April 25	APS April Meeting Dallas, TX http://www.aps.org/meet/calendar.cfm
June 5- August 12	MRSEC Summer Research Programs
August 10	Institute of Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Expo McNamara Alumni Center, Memorial Hall 4-6:30 p.m. Event Web Site: http://www.mrsec.umn.edu/itsure.html
September 10-September 14	ACS National Meeting San Francisco, CA http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetings/future.html
2005 DATE	EVENT
January 10-13	Physics Force presents Physics Circus Northrup Auditorium, University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus Times to be announced. Evening show will be free and open to the public.
January 14	Organic and Inorganic Photovoltaic Technologies Click Here to Download Event Flyer (260 KB pdf) A MINISYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY THE MATERIALS RESEARCH SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Friday January 14, 2005 1:30pm to 5:00pm Department of Chemistry 331 Smith Hall Introductory comments Professor C. Daniel Frisbie Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of Minnesota 1:30 pm Professor Eray Aydil Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of Minnesota "ZnO nanowire-based dye-sensitized solar cells" 2:15pm Professor Uwe Kortshagen Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota "Plasma deposition of nanostructured amorphous silicon films for photovoltaics" 3:00pm - Break with refreshments 3:30pm Professor Zhenan Bao Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University "Morphology and charge transport in organic semiconductors" 4:15pm Dr. Sean Shaheen National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden Colorado "Solution processable organic and organic-inorganic nanocomposite photovoltaics"
March 1	Physics Force Original Force Folwell Middle School http://www.physics.umn.edu/outreach/pforce/
May 31-June 3	Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering (IPRIME ) 2005 Annual Meeting http://www.iprime.umn.edu/
June 6- August 13 August 11	MRSEC Summer Research Programs Institute of Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Expo McNamara Alumni Center, Memorial Hall 4-6:30 p.m. Event Web Site: http://www.mrsec.umn.edu/itsure.html
June 29	Physics Force Washburn Library http://www.physics.umn.edu/outreach/pforce/
August 28-September 1	American Chemical Society 230^th National Meeting Washington Covention Center Washington, DC
November 28-December 2	Materials Research Society 2005 Fall Meeting Boston, MA
2004
DATE	EVENT
January 9	Physics Force (The Original Force) Lakeville High School, Lakeville http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
January 12-15	Physics Force (The Original Force) Northrup Auditorium Performances for Area Schools: January 12: 10:30 a.m. January 13: 10:30 a.m. January 14: 10:20 a.m. January 15: 10:10 a.m. Performance for General Public: 7 p.m. January 15 http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
January 20	Physics Force (The Original Force) St. Charles Elementary in Minneapolis http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
January 29	Physics Force (The Next Generation) St. Croix Academy: 1:30 p.m. Brooklyn Park: 7:00 p.m. http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
February 9	Physics Force (The Original Force) Emmet Elementary in Shoreview http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
February 10	Physics Force (The Next Generation) Cottage Grove: Time TBA http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
February 16	All applications for MRSEC summer research programs due
February 18-21	2004 Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and Black Physics Students Location: Washington, DC Conference Details
February 20	Physics Force (The Original Force) St. Mary’s Elementary in Sleepy Eye http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
February 27	Physics Force (The Original Force) Rutherford Elementary in Stillwater http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
March 8	Physics Force (The Next Generation) Scandia Elementary: Time TBA http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
March 19	Physics Force (The Original Force) Chippewa Middle School in North Oaks http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
March 22-26	APS 2004 March Meeting Montreal, Canada http://www.aps.org
March 28-April 1	ACS National Meeting Anaheim, CA http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetings/future.html
March 31	Physics Force (The Original Force) Stonebridge Elementary in Stillwater http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
April 12-16	MRS 2004 Spring Meeting San Francisco, CA http://www.mrs.org/meetings/spring2004/
April 14	Physics Force (The Original Force) Jackson Middle School in Champlin http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
April 18-21	106th Annual Meeting & Exposition of The American Ceramic Society Marriott and Hyatt Regency Hotels Indianapolis, Indiana http://www.ceramics.org/meetings/AM2004/default.asp
April 19	Physics Force (The Next Generation) Hopkins Junior High North and West: Time TBA http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
April 29	Physics Force (The Original Force) Orono Middle School in Orono http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
April 30	Annual Upper Midwest MRSEC Student Symposium 2004: Organic Thin Films Location: University of Wisconsin - Madison Participating Institutions: University of Chicago MRSEC University of Minnesota MRSEC Northwestern University MRSEC University of Wisconsin MRSEC
May 1-4	APS 2004 April Meeting Denver, CO http://www.aps.org
May 19	Physics Force (The Original Force) Big Lake High School in Big Lake http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
May 21	Physics Force (The Original Force) Centennial Middle School in Lino Lakes http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
May 28	Physics Force (The Original Force) Wayzata West Middle School in Wayzata http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/meet.html
June 1-4	Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering (IPRIME ) 2004 Annual Meeting http://www.iprime.umn.edu/
June 7-10	Rheological Measurements Short Course UMN EE 3-115
June 7-August 14	2004 MRSEC SUMMER PROGRAMS For the 2004 Summer Schedule (in process) Go To http://www.mrsec.umn.edu/ehr/2004summercalendar.pdf For the complete 2003 Summer Schedule Go To http://www.mrsec.umn.edu/ehr/2003calendar.shtml
June 10-12 August 12	Frontiers in Liquid Crystals and Molecular Self Assembly The Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center (an NSF MRSEC) at the University of Colorado’s 5th Boulder Workshop The workshop topics to be discussed are: *New LC Molecular Architectures Steve Regen (Lehigh University) "Glued Langmuir-Blodgett Bilayers" Rudolf Zentel (University of Mainz) "LC-Polymers and Spatial Confinement" Virgil Percec (University of Pennsylvania) "Dendrimer Self-Assembly" *Macromolecular Self-Assembly Tim Lodge (University of Minnesota) "Controlling Intra- and Inter- Micellar Structure in Block Copolymer Solutions" Richard Register (Princeton University) "Block Copolymer Thin Films:  Patterns and Patterning" Stefan Hecht (Free University of Berlin) "Helical Scaffolds: Intramolecular Crosslinking and Self-Assembly" *New Applications of Self-Assembly Joe Zasadzinski (Univ. of California - Santa Barbara) "Vesosomes for Drug Delivery - or - Once you go eukaryote, you'll never go back" Joel Schnur (Naval Research Lab) "Molecular Self-Assembly of Lipid Tubules and Applications" You can visit our workshop website for more information and registration:   http://flcmrc.colorado.edu/Workshops.html Early registration for the workshop closes May 5.   Institute of Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Expo Memorial Hall, McNamara Center 4-7 p.m. Event Web Site: http://www.mrsec.umn.edu/itsure.html Participating REU programs: Bioinformatics Chemistry IGERT MRSEC MSI Supercomputing Institute National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics Physics
August 22-26 September 5 September 20-24	ACS National Meeting Philadelphia, PA http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetings/future.html Physics Force, The Original Force Minnesota State Fair University of Minnesota Stage Three shows. Times to be announced. Mathematics of Materials Institute for Mathematics (IMA) Tutorial Free registration at www.ima.umn.edu Energy Minimization and Microstructure Modeling of Gels Mathematical Models of Superconductivity Variational Approaches in Complex Fluids Multiscale Modeling of Materials: The Quasicontinuum Method Speakers: Kaushik Battacharya – Caltech Masao Doi – Tokyo University Qiang Du – Penn State Chun Liu – Penn State Ellad Tadmor - Technion

2003

DATE	EVENT
January 14-16	Physics Force (The Original Force) Northrup Auditorium, Four Shows
February 12-14	2003 Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and Black Physics Students Location: Atlanta, Georgia
February 15	All applications for MRSEC summer research programs due
April 3	Physics Force Sitting Bull College
April 4	Physics Force Bismarck, North Dakota
May 2	IGERT – MRSEC Nanoparticle Seminar Speaker: Taeghwan Hyeon Time: 12:30 Location: B75 Amundson Hall, UMN Seminar and Speaker Details
May 2-3	Annual Upper Midwest MRSEC Student Symposium 2003: Frontiers in Polymer Science Location: University of Chicago Participating Institutions: University of Chicago MRSEC University of Minnesota MRSEC Northwestern University MRSEC University of Wisconsin MRSEC Event Details Photos
May 27-30	Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering (IPRIME ) 2003 Annual Meeting Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Building, UMN For Complete Details Go To http://www.iprime.umn.edu WORKSHOPS: Photonics David Norris Tuesday, May 27, 1-5 PM Functionalized Polymers Frank Bates and Marc Hillmyer Tuesday, May 27, 1-5 PM and Wednesday, May 28, 8:30 AM-11:30 Organic Thin Field Electronics: Materials, Devices and Applications Dan Frisbie Tuesday, May 27, 1-5 PM and Wednesday, May 28, 8:30 AM-11:30 Materials Characterization With Near-Field Nanoprobes Greg Haugstad and Michael Ward Wednesday, May 28, 8:30 AM-11:30 WORKING SHOP: Solidifying Coatings: Drying, Curing, Structure, Properties Tuesday, May 27, 1-5PM and Wednesday, May 28, 8:30 AM-11:30
June 2 – August 9	2003 MRSEC SUMMER PROGRAMS For a Complete Summer Schedule Go To http://www.mrsec.umn.edu/ehr/2003calendar.shtml
June 6-7	Midwest Organic Solid-State Chemistry Symposium XIV Event Details
June 20	Soudan Mine Tour E&HR Summer Program Participants
July 2	RET 2003 Program Begins
July 11	Professor Jim Kakalios Physics in Comic Books Amundson Hall B-75 3 p.m.
July 25-27	CIC Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) Annual Conference University of Minnesota Event Web Site
August 7	Institute of Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Expo Memorial Hall, McNamara Center Participating REU programs: MRSEC Chemistry IGERT Biomedical Engineering CEMS 4-7 p.m.
August 27	3M Technologies Poster Session For IPRIME and other UMN interested faculty and students Gateway Center, Johnson Great Room 1-3 p.m.
October 10-11	Midwest Association of Chemistry Teachers in Liberal Arts Colleges Annual Meeting University of Evansville Evansville, IN
October 16-18	INSPIREpmb (Interstate Network of Science Programs Integrating Research and Education (polymers, materials, biomaterials) Spotlight on Excellence in Undergraduate Research Location: University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg campus Activities: job fair, poster sessions, panel discussions, mentor talks, etc. Event Web Site
October 16-19	National Science Foundation Materials Chemistry Workshop Tempe, Arizona Presentation applications due May 12, 2003. Workshop is limited to 30 participants. For more information, see http://www.mrsec.umn.edu/NSFMCW.pdf
November 13-14	MRSEC Directors Meeting and Education/Outreach Forum University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
November 20-22	American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Conference Albuquerque, NM http://www.aises.org/

2002

DATE	EVENT
February 9-12	American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Annual Winter Board Meeting http://www.aihec.org Washington Court Hotel 525 New Jersey Ave NW Washington, DC 20001
February 15	All applications for MRSEC summer programs due
March 15	Deadline for accepting offer to participate MRSEC summer programs
March 20-27	American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Annual Spring Board Meeting and Student Conference Rapid City, SD 57701
April 1-5	Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting San Francisco Marriott and Argent Hotels San Francisco, California
April 7-11	223^rd American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting Orlando, Florida
April 18-20	Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) National Conference San Francisco, California BRISC Bringing Research Into Science Classrooms For further information, visit the conference web site http://www.retnetwork.org or contact Marni Goldman conference@retnetwork.org (650) 725-3351
April 20-23	American Physical Society (APS) Annual Meeting Albuquerque Convention Center Albuquerque, New Mexico
April 28 - May 1	American Ceramic Society (ACS) Annual Meeting American’s Center 701 Convention Plaza St. Louis, Missouri 63102
May 12-17	Magnetic Nanostructures – Gordon Research Conference
May 28-30	35^th Middle Atlantic Regional American Chemical Society (ACS) Meeting George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia
May 28-31	IPRIME 2002 Annual Meetings Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Building University of Minnesota Go to http://www.iprime.umn.edu/ for registration, schedules and more WORKSHOPS: Photonics: Science and Applications David Norris 1-5 PM, Tuesday, May 28 8-11:30 AM, Wednesday, May 29 Polymer Processing for Nanostructure Control Chris Macosko and Frank Bates 1-5 PM, Tuesday, May 28 8-11:30 AM, Wednesday, May 29 Characterization of Coatings, Substrates, Interactions Offline and Online – a Coating Workshop L.E. Scriven 1-5 PM, Tuesday, May 28 8-11:30 AM, Wednesday, May 29 Introduction to the Tissue Mechanics Lab Jac