AGENDA
COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMS AND PLANS
NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD
National Science Foundation
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Room 1235
Open Session: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Approval of Minutes for March 2008
- Committee Chairman's Remarks
- Status Reports:
- Subcommittee on Polar Issues
- Task Force on Sustainable Energy
- NSB Information Item: National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and National Solar
Observatory (NSO) - Future Action Item on a 5-year Cooperative Agreement Proposal from the
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
- NSB Information Item: Protein Data Bank
- Discussion Item: Update on Review of MREFC Process
- Discussion Item: Report to Congress on Interdisciplinary Research
- Science Presentation: Dr. David Lightfoot, Assistant Director, SBE
Title: "The Intertwinement of Fundamental Work in the SBE and Natural
Sciences"
Closed Session: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
- Committee Chairman's Remarks
- NSB Action Item: Track-2 High-Performance Computing
- NSB Action Item: Competition for the Management and Operation of the National Center
for Atmospheric Research
Sonya Mallinoff Executive Secretary
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