Agenda

2011 NSF EFRI Grantees Conference

Mar 23, 2011 - Mar 25, 2011

Key Bridge Marriott , Arlington, VA

As of April 26, 2011

Objectives

To share highlights of Grantees’ research which inspire Grantees to think transformatively and continue to do "high risk" work
To provide Grantees with opportunities to dig deeper into each other’s research
To foster interdisciplinary interaction within each program and encourage appropriate cross-topic collaborations
To provide an update on the EFRI program
To afford attendees an opportunity to meet one another and renew acquaintances

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Registration Check-In and Poster Assembly (also available on Thursday morning starting at 7:00am)

Potomac Ballroom (Lobby Level) and Capital View Ballroom (14th Floor)

7:00 pm

Optional Workshop for EFRI Grantees

“Moving Fundamental Research to the Marketplace via the Small Business Programs”
Joe Hennessey, Senior Advisor, ENG / IIP, NSF, Presenter

An overview of the NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the NSF Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs will demonstrate how to take university research to the market place via small businesses. This session will provide history of the SBIR / STTR programs, the eligibility to participate, and examples of NSF basic research that moved from the research lab to commercialization

Potomac Salon A, Lobby Level

Thursday, March 24, 2011

7:00 am	Poster Assembly and Coffee (unless your poster is already assembled; in that case, just go to breakfast)	Capital View Ballroom Foyers, 14th Floor
7:00 am	Breakfast and Registration Check-in	Potomac Ballroom Foyer, Lobby Level
8:30 am	General Session I- Welcome and Opening Remarks Sohi Rastegar, Director, Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research & Innovation (ENG/EFRI), NSF Tom Peterson, Assistant Director, Directorate for Engineering (ENG/OAD), NSF Ann Becker, President, Ann Becker and Associates, Inc.	Potomac Ballroom, Lobby Level
9:00 am	Introducing the Class of 2010 Sohi Rastegar, Facilitator Renewable Energy Storage (RESTOR) Geoff Prentice, Program Director (1) Novel Ceramic Glass Composites for Improved Electrical Energy Storage, Douglas Chrisey, Rensselaer (2) Thermochemical Routes to Efficient and Rapid Production of Solar Fuels, Sossina Haile, Cal Tech (3) Novel Compressed Air Approach for Off Shore Wind Energy Storage, Perry Li, University of Minnesota (4) Regenerative Hydrogen-Bromine Fuel Cell System for Energy Storage, Trung Van Nguyen, University of Kansas Science in Energy and Environmental Design: Engineering Sustainable Buildings (SEED) Rick Fragaszy, Program Director (5) Risk Conscious Design and Retrofit of Buildings for Low Energy, Godfried Augenbroe, Georgia Tech (6) BUILD - Barriers, Understanding, Integration - Life Cycle Development, Melissa Bilec, University of Pittsburgh (7) Framework for Advanced Sustainable Building Design: Smart Micro-grid Enabled Buildings Interacting with Utility-Side-of-the-Meter Electricity Markets, Michael Caramanis, Boston University (8) Design for Autonomous Net-Zero Water Buildings, James Englehardt, University of Miami (9) Solar Optics-based Active Pasteurization (SOAP) for Greywater Reuse and Integrated Thermal (GRIT) Building Control, Maria-Paz Gutierrez, University of California - Berkeley (10) Thermochemical Routes to Efficient and Rapid Production of Solar Fuels, Jelena Srebric, Penn State (11) Occupant Oriented Heating and Cooling, Minoru Taya, University of Washington (12) Occupant Oriented Heating and Cooling, Cameron (Kamin) Whitehouse, University of Virginia (13) Energy Minimization via Multi-Scaler Architectures from Cell Contractility to Sensing Materials to Adaptive Building Skins, Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania (14) Living Wall Materials and Systems for Automatic Building Thermo-Regulation, Zhiqiang Zhai, University of Colorado - Boulder	Potomac Ballroom, Lobby Level
9:45 am	Poster Sessions	Capital View Ballroom Foyers, 14th Floor
11:45 am	Buffet Lunch	Capital View Ballroom, 14th Floor
1:00 pm	Breakout Session I Eight concurrent breakout sessions by topic area Class of 2007 ARES - Kishan Baheti, Christos Cassandras, and Abhi Deshmukh CBE - Alex Simonian and Jimmy Hsia Class of 2008 COPN - Paul Werbos and Ganesh Venayagamoorthy RESIN - Bruce Hamilton, Kevin Lansey, Lamine Mili, and Joy Pauschke Class of 2009 BSBA - Shih-Chi Liu and Chang Liu HyBi - George Antos and Brent Peyton Class of 2010 All meet in Jefferson first RESTOR - Geoff Prentice and Bill Bentley SEED - Rick Fragaszy and Bill Bentley	Potomac D, Lobby Level Madison, 3rd Floor Monroe, 3rd Floor Lincoln, 3rd Floor Potomac B, Lobby Level Potomac C, Lobby Level Jackson, 3rd Floor Jefferson, 3rd Floor
4:30 pm	General Session II - Broadening Your Reach: Sending Targeted Messages to a Diffuse Audience Josh Chamot, Public Affairs Specialist with NSF’s Media and Public Affairs Section of the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA) The session will highlight the continuing evolution of the media and communications and how researchers can best navigate the changing landscape. Topics will include best practices for communicating frontier research, how to take advantage of the growing presence of science and engineering news on the web and in social media, and opportunities for publicizing research through NSF (from Highlights to Innovation Nation) OLPA for PIs Tips for Communicating Science	Potomac Ballroom, Lobby Level
5:30 pm	Reception	Capital View Ballroom, 14th Floor
	SEED Reception and Dinner at the Finnish Embassy "Green Building: Envisioning the Next Generation of Market Transformation" Chris Pyke, Vice President for Research, U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)

Friday, March 25, 2011

7:30 am	Breakfast and Attendee Services	Potomac Ballroom Foyer, Lobby Level
8:30 am	General Session III Sohi Rastegar, Director, Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research & Innovation (ENG/EFRI), NSF	Potomac Ballroom, Lobby Level
8:45 am	Introducing a New NSF Funding Opportunity Sciences, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) Linda Sapochak, Program Director, ENG / EFRI and MPS / DMR, NSF	Potomac Ballroom, Lobby Level
9:15 am	Nine Concurrent Breakout Sessions: 8 by Topic Area with NSF PDs, and 1 for Students with Sohi Rastegar
	Student Session: What, in your experience, is "transformative research"? A conversation with Sohi Rastegar	Potomac A, Lobby Level
	Class of 2007 - ARES, Kishan Baheti, Christos Cassandras, and Abhi Deshmukh	Potomac D, Lobby Level
	Class of 2007 - CBE, Alex Simonian and Jimmy Hsia	Madison, 3rd Floor
	Class of 2008 - COPN, Paul Werbos and Ganesh Venayagamoorthy	Monroe, 3rd Floor
	Class of 2008 - RESIN, Joy Pauschke and Bruce Hamilton	Lincoln, 3rd Floor
	Class of 2009 - BSBA, Shih-Chi Liu and Chang Liu	Potomac B, Lobby Level
	Class of 2009 - HyBi, George Antos and Brent Peyton	Potomac C, Lobby Level
	Class of 2010 - RESTOR, Geoff Prentice	Jackson, 3rd Floor
	Class of 2010 - SEED, Rick Fragaszy	Jefferson, 3rd Floor
10:30 am	Break and Check-out
11:00 am	Closing General Session Sohi Rastegar, Moderator Update on EFRI Office and some highlights of an externally conducted evaluation of EFRI Office	Potomac Ballroom, Lobby Level
11:30 am	Adjournment