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IAS08 / NMC Conference Agenda

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Gerald Thomas Hall Auditorium, NMSU

Noon - 1:30 PM: Registration. Sandwich bar lunch

1:30 PM: Welcome

Michael Martin, President of New Mexico State University

1:40 PM: Keynote: High Performance Computing and New Mexico’s Future

Tom Bowles, Governor Richardson’s Science Advisor

2:10 PM: NMCAC and Education

Reed Dasenbrock, NM Secretary of Higher Education

2:40 PM: IAS and NMC One Year On: New Research and Educational Opportunities

Rob Duncan, Director, IAS; C.O.O. of the NMC

2:55 PM: Break

3:10 PM: Identifying, Evaluating, and Forecasting Infectious disease Threats

Scott P. Layne, MD, UCLA School of Public Health

3:40 PM: Future of Research Enabled by High Performance Computation

Salman Habib, Los Alamos National Laboratory and IAS ACCent Leader

4:10 PM: New Mexico Interconnectivity

Tom Davis, Dean of Instruction, Navajo Tech

4:40 PM: Panel: Research and Education at Gateways Across New Mexico: The search to identify those few outstanding applications that will take New Mexico to the Next Level

Lorie Liebrock, New Mexico Tech and NMCAC Executive Committee

CIOs from each university or their designees

ChecsNet and IDEAL New Mexico, Max Baca, New Mexico Highlands University

5:20 PM: Adjourn

Stan Fulton Center, NMSU

5:30 PM: Reception

6:00 PM: Banquet at the Stadium

7:00 PM: Banquet Speaker, Industrial Advancement and HPC

Jami Grindatto, New Mexico Corporate Affairs, Intel Corporation

Friday, May 23, 2008

Gerald Thomas Hall Auditorium, NMSU

8:00 AM: Light breakfast / Registration

8:30 AM: Keynote: Economic Development, Innovation, and New Mexico's Future

Fred Mondragon, NM Secretary of Economic Development

9:00 AM: NMCAC Business Structure and Function

Lenny Martinez, Office of the Governor, former Vice President of Sandia National Laboratories

9:30 AM: Venture Funding: An Introduction

David Blivin, Managing Director, Lighthouse Partners, LLC

10:00 AM: Major Research and Economic Development Directions Panel - What are the most outstanding applications of the NMCAC capabilities?

  1. Aerospace (Casey DeRaad, Air Force Research Laboratory; Don Weinkauf, New Mexico Tech and IAS Leader)
  2. Bioscience (Scott Burchiel, UNM and IAS Leader; Annie Sobel, Sandia National Laboratories)
  3. Energy, Environment, and Water (Pete Lammers, NMSU; Reed Jensen, Sundrop Fuels)
  4. Information Technology (Lorie Liebrock, NM Tech; Desh Ranjan, NMSU)
  5. Nanoscience and Bio-nanotechnology (Rob Duncan, NMC and IAS Director)

11:00 AM: Break

11:20 AM: Introduction of, and Charge to, the Breakout Sessions

  1. Identify opportunities for education, funding, & economic growth
  2. Recommend State infrastructure needs to excel nationally
  3. Form teams to pursue these identified opportunities systematically

11:30 AM: Break-out Sessions (Coordinators in parentheses)

  1. Aerospace (Don Weinkauf, New Mexico Tech and IAS Leader)
  2. Bioscience (Scott Burchiel, University of New Mexico and IAS Leader)

    Simpson, Gary - Infectious Disease Databases

    Sobel, Annie - Operational Needs for Biodefense

    Burchiel (UNM) - Nuclear imaging reconstruction and quantitation

    Tartis, Micahel Ann (NMT) - Imaging applications for drug studies

    He, Jing (NMSU) - image processing of 3D protein density data parallel algorithms in protein folding protein contact energy function development and protein fragment assembly process data mining in protein structure

    Reiss (NMT) - High Performance Computing Needs for High Throughput Sequencing

    Atlas, Susan (UNM) - UNM Genomics applications and computing needs

    Koch, Steve (UNM) - Cellular and molecular biophysics

  3. Energy, Environment, and Water (Peter Lammers, NMSU and IAS Leader)

    Solar Thermal Splitting of CO2: Reed Jenson, SunDrop Fuels

    Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Organic Framework: Shuguang Deng, Chemical Engineering Department, NMSU

    Technical Challenges and Opportunities for Algal Biofuels: Peter Lammers, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, NMSU

    Algae--Hope or Hype? Is there a future for algae based transportation fuel, an economic perspective: Meghan Starbuck, Department of Economics and International Business, New Mexico State University

    Diesel: A Comprehensive Regional Development Opportunity: Joel Diemer, Department of Agricultural Economics, NMSU

  4. Information Technology (Desh Ranjan, New Mexico State University and Salman Habib, LANL and IAS ACCent Center Leader)
  5. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Rob Duncan, IAS, NMC, and UNM)

    11:30 – 11:45 Welcome, and Summary of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Efforts State-Wide R. V. Duncan, IAS, NMC, and UNM

    11:45 – 12:30 New Mexico EPSCoR - Nanoscience effort Heinz Nakotte, Department of Physics, NMSU

    12:30 – 1:15 Continue discussions over a working lunch concerning nanoscience / nanotechnology contributions to the three goals of the conference

    1:15 – 1:45 Synthesis, characterization and applications of photon up-converting nanoparticles Peng Zhang, Department of Chemistry, New Mexico Tech

    1:45 – 2:30 Bio-nano, Molecular Tags, and Applications to Medical Science Keith Lidke, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNM Diane Lidke, Health Science Center, UNM

    2:30 – 2:45 Open discussion, finalize nano’s contribution to the three conference goals

  6. Short-Pulsed Laser Science and Applications and Cross-cutting:Economic and Community Development (Wynn Egginton, NMSU Assoc. VPR; Stephan Helgesen, Director of S&T, NM EDD)

    Researchers from LANL, UNM, and NMSU will discuss their innovative efforts to identify new applications for the ultra short-pulse laser. Stephan Helgesen, NMEDD, will speak about the EDD's role in promoting technology based economic development and how his division, Science and Technology, interacts with the broader S&T community. He will also talk about the need for a Technology Innovation Center which could coordinate and manage the various State programs and activities that affect TBED and in particular, the ultra short pulse laser program.

12:10 or so, per each break-out plan: Working Lunch, continue breakout discussions over lunch around the pond or picnic tables

2:45 PM: Afternoon Break & Snack

3:00 PM: Reports from Breakout Leaders and the Path Ahead

3:30 PM: Close

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