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July 24-25, 2008

Topics: News from DOE Office of Science; News from BES; Report of the COV for CSG&B Division; Updates from Nanoscience Research Centers; New Era Subcommittee Update; Update on New Funding Opportunities - EFRCs

1)  News from DOE Office of Science

Patricia M. Dehmer, Deputy Director for Science Programs

2)  News from BES 

Harriet Kung, BES

3)  Report of the COV for BES Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences

Geri Richmond, University of Oregon

4)  NSRC Update - Center for Nanophase Materials Science

Linda Horton, ORNL

5)  NSRC Update - Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Toni Taylor, LANL

6)  NSRC Update - Molecular Foundry

Carolyn Bertozzi, LBL

7)  NSRC Update - Center for Nanoscale Materials

Stephen Streiffer, ANL

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8)  NSRC Update - Center for Functional Nanomaterials

Emilio Mendez, BNL

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9)  New Era Subcommittee Discussion

George Crabtree, ANL Marc Kastner, BNL

10)  Update on New Funding Opportunities - EFRC's, etc. 

Harriet Kung, BES

 

 

February 21-22, 2008

Topics: News from BES; Update of Upcoming COV for CSG&B Division; New Subcommittee Charge; News from DOE; BESAC Grand Challenges Report; Update on Linac Coherent Light Source; Summary of NSRC Operations Review; Update on Nanotechnology-Environmental, Health and Safety Issues

1)  News from BES 

Harriet Kung, BES

2)  Update on Upcoming COV for BES Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences

Eric Rohlfing, BES

3)  New Subcommittee Charge

John Hemminger, U of California, Irvine

4)  News from DOE

Raymond L. Orbach

Under Secretary for Science and Director, Office of Science

5)  Overview of the BESAC Grand Challenges Report

John Hemminger, U of California, Irvine

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6)  Update of the Linac Coherent Light Source

John Galayda, SLAC

7)  Summary of NSRC's Operations Review

Altaf Carim, BES

8)  Update on Nanotechnology-Envronmental, Health and Safety

Rangy Ogle, ORNL

 

 

September 20-21, 2007

Topics: Report of the BRN for Catalysis Workshop; Overview of Activities and New Structure of DMS&E Division; Overview of Activities and New Structure of CSG&B Division; Overview of  BESAC Grand Challenges Report; News from DOE; Future Science Needs for Electron Scattering Workshop

1)  Report on the BES Basic Research Needs for Catalysis for Energy 

Alex Bell, Univ of California, Berkeley

2)  Overview of Activities and New Structure of BES Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering

Harriet Kung, BES

3)  Overview of Activities and New Structure of BES Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences

Eric Rohlfing, BES

4)  Overview of the BESAC Grand Challenges Report

Graham Fleming, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Mark Ratner, Northwestern Univ.

5)  News from DOE

Raymond L. Orbach

Under Secretary for Science and Director, Office of Science

6)  Future Science Needs and Opportunities for Electron Scattering:  Next Generation Instrumentation and Beyond

Dean Miller, ANL

 

July 31-Aug 1, 2007

Topics: News from BES; Introduction of BESAC Grand Challenges Report; Reports on the Chapters of the Grand Challenges Report;  Report of the BRN for Combustion Workshop; Report of the BRN for Geosciences Workshop; Report of the BRN for Energy Storage Workshop; Report of the Committee of Visitors for the Scientific User Facilities Division; Report of the BRN for Extreme Environments Workshop; Update on BRN Workshop for Catalysis; Report of Chemistry and Physics Gender Equity Workshop

1)  News from the Office of Basic Energy  Sciences 

Patricia Dehmer, BES

2)  Introduction and Executive Summary of the BESAC Grand Challenges Report

Graham Fleming, Univ. of California, Berkeley

3)  Grand Challenges: Chapter 2 - Control of Electron in Atoms, Molecules and and Materials - Creating a New Language for the Behavior of Electrons

Philip Bucksbaum, Stanford University

4)  Grand Challenges: Chapter 3 - Basic Architecture of Matter-Director Assembly, Structure and Properties

Tobin Marks, Northwestern Univ.

5)  Grand Challenges: Chapter 4 - Emergence of Complex Phenomena--Strongly Correlated Multiparticle Systems

Leon Balents, Univ. of California, SB

6)  Grand Challenges: Chapter 5 -Nanoscale Communication - Energy, Entropy and Information

Jay Groves, LBNL

7)  Grand Challenges: Chapter 6 - Science of Matter Beyond Equilibrium

Mark Ratner, Northwestern Univ.

8)  Report on the BES  Basic Research Needs for Combustion Workshop

Andy McIlroy, SNL

9)  Report on the BES  Basic Research Needs for Geosciences Workshop

Don DePaolo, UCB

Lynn Orr, Stanford U

10)  Report on the BES  Basic Research Needs for Energy Storage

Michelle Buchanan, ORNL

11)  Report of the Committee of Visitors for the Scientific User Facilities Division

Richard Osgood, Columbia University

12)  Report on the BES  Basic Research Needs for Extreme Environments

George Crabtree, ANL

13)  Report on the upcoming BES Basic Research Needs for Catalysis Workshop

Raul Miranda, BES

14)  Report of Chemistry and Physics Gender Equity Workshop

Linda Blevins, BES

 

August 3-4, 2006

Topics: News from BES; Report of the Committee of Visitors for the Materials  Sciences and Engineering  Division; Tracking Diversity in theOffice of Science; Report from the BES Superconductivity Workshop; Report from the Solid-State Lighting Workshop; Report from the Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems Workshop; News from the Office of Science; Activities of DOE Laboratory Working Group; Gramd Challenges - Moving Forward

1)  News from the Office of Basic Energy  Sciences 

Patricia Dehmer, BES

2)  Report of the Committee of Visitors for the Materials Sciences and Engineering Division

Frank DiSalvo, Cornell University

3)  Tracking Diversity in the Office of Science

Linda Blevins, BES

4)  Report on the BES  Basic Research Needs for Superconductivity Workshop

John Sarrao, LANL

5)  Report on the BES  Basic Research Needs for Solid-State Lighting Workshop

Julia Phillips, SNL

6)  Report on the BES  Basic Research Needs for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems Workshop

Jim Roberto, ORNL

Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, LLNL

7)  News from the Office of Science

Raymond Orbach, Under Secretary for Science

8)  Activites of the DOE Laboratory Working Group

George Crabtree, ANL

9)  Grand Challenges Presentation - Moving Forward

Graham Fleming, UCB/ LBNL and 

Mark Ratner, Northwestern U

 

February 16-17, 2006

Topics: Tribute to Richard Smalley; News  from BES; Planned BES Basic Research Needs Workshops; Activities of DOE Laboratory Working Group; News from the Office of Science.

1)  Tribute to Richard Smalley 

Mostafa El-Sayed, Georgia Tech

 

Walter Kohn, UCSB

2)  News from the Office of Basic Energy  Sciences

Patricia Dehmer, BES

3)  Planned BES "Basic Research Needs" Workshops

Harriet Kung, BES  

 

Eric Rohlfing, BES

4)  Activites of the DOE Laboratory Working Group

George Crabtree, ANL

5) News from the Office of Science

Raymond Orbach, SC

 

 

 

June 6-7, 2005

Topics: News from BES; Report of the Committee of Visitors for the Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division; News from the Office of Science; Report from the BES Solar Workshop; Perspective on Science Funding and Budgeting from the Office of Management and Budget; Update from the Nanoscale Science Centers; Final Report of the BESAC Subcommittee on Theory and Computation; Follow-on Discussion of BESAC Workshop on Grand Challenges.

1)  News from the Office of Basic Energy  Sciences 

Patricia Dehmer, BES

2)  Report of the Committee of Visitors for the Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division

Gordon Brown, Stanford University

3)  News from the Office of Science

Raymond Orbach, SC

4)  Report from the BES Workshop on Basic Research Needs for Effective Solar Energy Utilization

Nathan Lewis,

Cal Tech

5) Perspective on Science Funding and Budgeting from the Office of Management and Budget

Joel Parriot, OMB

6)  Update from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)

Robert Hwang, BNL

 

7)  Update from The Molecular Foundry

Paul Alivisatos, LBNL

 

8)  Update from the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)

Julia Philips, SNL Toni Taylor, LANL

 

9)  Update from the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM)

Derrick Mancini, ANL

 

10)  Update from the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)

Linda Horton, ORNL

11)  BES Reflections on the BESAC Report on Theory and Computation

Richard Hilderbrandt  and Harriet Kung, BES

 

 

 

December 6-7, 2004

Topics: News from BES; News from the Office of Science; Update on upcoming Committee of Visitors for the Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division; Administration Priorities in Sciences: Sciences Policy, Budgets and Politics:  What the Future May Hold; Follow-on Discussion of BESAC Workshop on Grand Challenges; Update on Solar Workshop; Final Report of the BESAC Subcommittee on Theory and Computation in Basic Energy Sciences.

1)  News from BES

Patricia Dehmer, BES

2)  News from the Office of Science 

Raymond Orbach, SC

3) Update on Upcoming Committee of Visitors for the Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division