NNCI Annual Conference 2021

NNCI Annual Conference 2021 (Virtual)

Hosted by Northwestern University (SHyNE)

Tuesday, November 2 (All Times EDT)

12:00 – 12:15 pm     Conference Welcome and Overview

12:15 – 12:30 pm     Dr. Larry Goldberg (NSF)

12:30 – 12:45 pm     Dr. Lisa Friedersdorf (NNCO)

12:45 – 1:30 pm       NNCI Coordinating Office Report

1:45 – 2:30 pm         Site Reports Group 1: RTNN, CNF, TNF, NanoEarth, SENIC, Stanford, MiNIC, NNI

Site reports answered one of the following questions:

• What was your main challenge during Year 6 and how did you overcome it?
• What new program did you introduce during Year 6?
• What impactful research emerged from your site during Year 6?
• What steps did your site take to improve on diversity and equity during Year 6?

2:30 – 3:30 pm         Breakout Session 1 

• Future of NNCI after 2025 (Debbie Senesky, Mary Tang)
• Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Matthew Hull, Yves Theriault)
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Bill Wilson)

3:45 – 4:00 pm         Breakout Session 1 Reports

4:00 – 5:00 pm         NNCI Associate Director Reports

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Matt Hull)
• Education and Outreach (Quinn Spadola)
• Computation (Azad Naeemi)
• Societal and Ethical Implication (Jameson Whetmore)

Wednesday, November 3 (All Times EDT)

12:00 – 12:15 pm      Presentation of NNCI Staff Awards

12:15 – 12:45 pm      "Methods for Forming Three Dimensional Mesostructures and for Using Them in Unusual Devices"

                                  Prof. John Rogers, Director, Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Northwestern University

12:45 – 2:00 pm        NNCI Research Communities

• Nanotechnology Convergence
• Nanoscience in the Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Nano-Enabled Internet-of-Things
• Transform Quantum
• Understanding the Rules of Life

2:15 – 3:00 pm         Site Reports Group 2: NCI-SW, SDNI, KY-Multiscale, NNF, MANTH, MONT, CNS, SHyNE

Site reports answered one of the following questions:

• What was your main challenge during Year 6 and how did you overcome it?
• What new program did you introduce during Year 6?
• What impactful research emerged from your site during Year 6?
• What steps did your site take to improve on diversity and equity during Year 6?

3:00 – 4:00 pm        Breakout Session 2

• Education and Outreach Multisite Activities (Quinn Spadola)
• Facility Management and Operations (Walter Henderson, Nasir Basit)
• Current Trends and Near Futures in Federal Science Funding (Jameson Wetmore, Mitch Ambrose (Amer. Inst. Physics))
• NNCI Advisory Board Meeting

4:15 – 4:30 pm        Breakout Session 2 Reports

4:30 – 5:00 pm        Advisory Board Oral Report