The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Program Review

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is pleased to host the Department of Energy Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Program Review on July 22-24, 2008, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The meeting is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

A primary goal of this meeting is to identify strategic, innovative partnerships to advance the nation as a world leader in research and development. This meeting is open to and encourages the participation of faculty, researchers, staff and students from colleges and universities; researchers and user-facility coordinators from national laboratories; EPSCoR representatives; and policy and industry leaders. Participants will learn tools for implementing successful state-national laboratory collaborative projects and creating student training opportunities. The meeting will span the breadth of EPSCoR research areas—sessions will range from basic energy sciences, to nanoscience, to bioenergy/biofuels, to partnering with the National Laboratories. All efforts are invited to bring poster(s) for display during the poster session.

Principal investigators; state and facility directors; postdoctoral researchers; and undergraduate and graduate students involved with EPSCoR grants are invited to submit one extended abstract per project. Recipients of implementation grants are welcome and encouraged to bring more than one poster.

Meeting Registration Deadline is 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone, Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Abstract Deadline is 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, July 1, 2008

All attendees and speakers should register for the workshop.

Lodging for the meeting is available at the Oak Ridge Doubletree Hotel, the Jameson Inn, Oak Ridge, and the Marriott Springhill Suites, Knoxville, Turkey Creek area. To make reservations, please contact the hotel directly.

Facility Tours

The EPSCoR program includes opportunities to tour the following facilities:

Spallation Neutron Source and Center for Nanophase Materials Science
National Center for Computational Sciences
High Temperature Materials Laboratory and Shared Research Equipment User Facility
Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility
High Flux Isotope Reactor

Tour dates and times will be posted on the meeting agenda.

NOTE: Due to DOE requirements, requests from Foreign Nationals with a citizenship from, a birthplace of, or sponsored or employed by a country that is a state sponsor of terrorism cannot be processed for a tour of the ORNL facilities. Please take this into consideration as you plan your visit to ORNL. Countries that are State Sponsors of Terrorism: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/c14151.htm (defined by the U.S. Department of State)

ATTENTION FOREIGN NATIONALS
ORNL security procedures require that if you are not a United States citizen, you must, in addition to your on-line registration, provide the following information by 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone) on Thursday, June 19, 2008:

Country of Citizenship
Date of Birth
Country of Birth.

Please call either Barbara Cohen: 865-576-3717 or Tammy Click: 865-576-9600 at your earliest convenience.