Tentative Schedule

8:00-8:45 a.m.	Breakfast
Session I	Session chair: Mark Hersam, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of chemistry
8:45 a.m.	Welcome and Introduction
9:00 a.m.	Jan Achenbach, Northwestern University “Ultrasonics for Materials Characterization and Structural Health Monitoring”
9:40 a.m.	Grigory Barenblatt, University of California, Berkeley “Mechanics: The Phoenix of Science”
10:20-10:50 a.m.	Break
Session II	Session chair: Zdenek Bazant, McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
10:50 a.m.	Sia Nemat-Nasser, University of California, San Diego “Multifunctional Composites”
11:30 a.m.	Thomas Hughes, University of Texas, Austin “Isogeometric Analysis: Progress and Challenges”
12:10-1:30 p.m.	Lunch
Session III	Session chair: Robert Chang, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
1:30 p.m.	Tobin Marks, Northwestern University “Materials and Interface Engineering in Organic, Organometallic, and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Electronic Circuitry”
2:10 p.m.	Robert Grubbs, California Institute of Technology “Catalysis, Metathesis, and Materials”
2:50-3:20 p.m.	Break
Session IV	Session chair: Mark Ratner, Lawrence B. Dumas Distinguished University Professor, Morrison Professor of Chemistry
3:20 p.m.	Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University “Bioinspired Materials Synthesis”
4:00 p.m.	Malcolm Chisholm, The Ohio State University “New Generation Polymers from Renewable Resources: Opportunities and Challenges in Catalysis”
4:40 p.m.	Arden Bement, Jr., National Science Foundation “Science and Technology in the 21st Century: How will America Continue to Compete?”
5:20 p.m.	Adjourn