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NSF MRSEC Facilities Satellite & MRFN Workshop 2018

​Workshop Overview

One of the outcomes of the Facilities Workshop held in March was the identified need to learn and do more in regards to data. With the help of Dr. Eva Campo from the NSF, MRSEC Directors and Facilities Managers reached out to Robert Hanisch with NIST who talked about initiatives there, as well as the key outcomes of a recent NSF workshop on data for materials science. In addition, Dana Vanderwall from the Alltrope Foundation discussed the sizable effort that the organization are making with regard to data. 
 
The workshop was held Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 14:30 to 17:30
 

Venue
Holiday Inn
2460 Eisenhower Ave.
Alexandria, VA 22314

Agenda

2.30-2.40 p.m. Ram Seshadri, University of California, Santa Barbara Welcome and Outline 
2.40-3 p.m.
Program Director, NSF, Division of Materials Research. Crosscutting Activities in Materials Research (XC); Partnerships between Science and Engineering Fields and the NSF TRIPODS Institutes
 Cross-Program Efforts on Materials Research Data at the NSF
3-3.45 p.m.
Director, Office of Data and Informatics https://www.nist.gov/people/robert-hanisch
 Data Management, Curation, and Dissemination Strategies for Materials Science
3.45-4 p.m. Break  
4-4.45 p.m. Dana Vanderwall, Bristol-Myers Squibb Director of Biology and Preclinical IT and Chair, Allotrope Foundation: https://www.allotrope.org A Community and Framework to Harmonize the Scientific Data Landscape
4.45-5.15 p.m. Divya Abhat and Ashish Tonse, KZN Consulting The MRFN Website
5.15-5.30 p.m.
Jerry Hunter, University of Wisconsin,
Director of Research Facilities, College of Engineering
 A New Reporting Tool for Facilities Online Manager (FOM)