Purpose of the Meeting

This meeting should give a unique opportunity to review past work, generate new ideas and work out detailed collaboration plans. There will be ample time for discussions and planning of future research.

Time and Venue

Time: 12:00 (Noon), April 21, 2004 - 11:00 AM, April 22, 2004.

Venue: SUNY at Stony Brook, College of Engineering, Wang Center 201, Stony Brook, NY

Details: The meeting will begin with lunch at noon on Thursday. The technical part will begin at 1:00 PM and finish around 6:00 PM. Group dinner at 7:30, at Printer's Devil. The meeting will continue on Friday morning, commencing at 7:30 AM with a continental breakfast and will finish by noon. Please keep this schedule in mind while making your flight reservations. No late arrivals or early departures!

Format and Program

Format: Meeting will consist of 20 minute presentations (given by students whenever possible) focusing on current status, challenges to be solved through future research and synergistic approach to solutions (identification of collaborations and information flow). A discussion and planning session will follow each block of thematically grouped presentations.

Presentations: Final program in PDF format will be available here.

Please e-mail (or provide an ftp link) your final presentation in PowerPoint format to jan_jackson@ncsu.edu by Noon EST, Wednesday, April 13, 2005. No exceptions!
Your presentation will be pre-loaded onto a computer connected to a digital projector and printed in a booklet, so no changes will be possible after your final submission.

IMPORTANT: Presentations should have no more than 12 slides. Please size all images to reasonable resolution for screen presentation and not for linotype printing (i.e.,700x400 pixels full slide, 350x400 pixels half slide). There is absolutely no reason for a presentation to be over 5M.

A NEW PowerPoint presentation template is available here. Please use it (no additions or custom backgrounds) and name your presentation file BulkMURI_YourName!

Registration

Registration: A registration fee will be charged to cover the meeting room, printing, group dinner and breakfast-lunch-breaks. Please send in your Registration Form (available in pdf or MSWord format) by Friday, April 8, 2005 with the registration fee of $140. An accurate headcount early will facilitate seamless planning of all events. Please mail your registration form and check to to, Mrs. Gertha Hollis, Assistant to the Chair, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY 11794-2275.

Travel

Lodging: A block of rooms has been reserved at Holiday Inn Express at a rate of $109 + tax per night by calling Call 631-471-8000 or 1-800-HOLIDAY and giving them the code "CGG".

The Holiday Inn will pick you up from Islip (flight arrival information must be provided) and will also provide tranportation to and from the campus.

The best way to get from Kennedy or LaGuardia is definitely the limo services. Classic allows you to pay in advance online. Spartan (the one I use personally) requires cash or check.

Important Note: You must make the hotel reservation on your own by April 7, 2005, in order to take advantage of the guaranteed block of rooms.

Directions and Maps: Here is some useful travel and beyond campus information.