Dear LA-SIGMA Colleagues,<div class="im"><br>
Although we have yet to receive the official notice of the EPSCoR award,
as<br>
you know we have received the unofficial notice from the program manager
that <br>our project will be fully funded. We
expect that the start date may be as early <br>as July 1, 2010 (retroactive), so we
need
to have a kickoff meeting as soon as <br>possible. Fortunately, a
meeting that Mike Khonsari was
hosting has been <br>canceled and we can use the reservations to gain access to Regent's facilities<br></div>
afternoon of August 17 from 1:00-5:00 PM in the Claiborne Building, 1201
<br>North Third
Street. So we propose to have the meeting on that date.Further <br>details will follow, including an itinerary.<br><div class="im"><br></div><div class="im">Before the proposal was submitted we asked each of you
in an email sent on<br>
10/10/09 to review the proposal and to be sure that you are comfortable
with <br>your role as described. We ask you to re-familiarize
yourselves
with your roles <br>in the science driver, computational, and
cyberinfrastructure teams. <br><br></div><div class="im"><a href="http://www.phys.lsu.edu/%7Ejarrell/EPSCoR/LA-SiGMA.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~jarrell/EPSCoR/LA-SiGMA.pdf</a><br><br></div><div class="im">
This
grant is a cooperative agreement with NSF, with direct NSF involvement <br>
at all stages, and annual reviews by an External Review Board.
Therefore, we <br>will be expected to hold ourselves accountable to
achieving the goals we have <br></div>set for ourselves. In
addition to the computational and science driver sections <br>directly
relevant to you,please also review the sections on
Diversity, External <br><div class="im">Engagement, and Workforce
Development, and
Sustainability. In order for this <br>project to succeed, i.e., in order
to
bring about trans-formative changes to <br>materials science research
and
education in the State, all funded participants <br>will need to
contribute
to activities beyond research, including teaching, recruiting,
<br>outreach, administration, etc.<br><br></div>We look
forward to seeing you on the 17th!<br>
<br>
best regards,<br>
Mark, Randy, Ramu<br><br><br>-- <br>*****************************************************************<br>* Mark Jarrell, Professor | <a href="http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~jarrell">www.phys.lsu.edu/~jarrell</a> *<br>* Dept. of Physics & Astron. | e-mail: <a href="mailto:jarrellphysics@gmail.com">jarrellphysics@gmail.com</a> *<br>
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