Planning Grant Meeting

Day 1, August 19, 2009
	7:30am	Participant Registration
7:30	8:15am	Breakfast and social time
8:15	8:35am	Welcome remarks: Don Leo, Virginia Tech; Bruce Gnade, UT Dallas
8:35	9:15am	Vision and Capabilities of the Center Dan Inman, Stephen Foulger, Bruce Gnade
9:15	10:00am	NSF I/UCRC presentation: I/UCRC Program Director
10:00	10:15am	Break
10:15	12:15pm	Project Presentations (Virginia Tech) Mechanical Energy Harvesting: Modeling and Experiments – Alper Erturk Multimodal Energy Harvesting – Shashank Priya Multimodal electrical interfaces – Dong Ha Novel materials for photovoltaics and thermoelectrics – Louis Guido / Scott Huxtable Electrical Energy Storage – Victoria Soghomonian
12:15	1:00pm	Lunch
1:00	3:45pm	Project Presentations (UT Dallas) Low resistance contacts to BiTe Efficient energy harvesting from multiple sources – Dinesh Bhatia New molecules for organic photovoltaics – Mihaela Iovu Project Presentations (Clemson University) Synthesis of Light-Harvesting Elements for Organic Electronics – Rhett C. Smith New synthetic routes to photo-voltaic and light emissive polymers and composites – Dennis W. Smith Device Designs and electrical properties in printed displays – Sung-O Kim Developing multifunctional colloids and their conversion into devices, Stephen Foulger Viability of commercial printing technology for functional device production, Chip Tonkin
3:45	4:00pm	Break
4:15	5:15pm	Industry Workshop (involves discussion of projects & company needs NOT addressed in the above Project Presentations)
5:15	6:00pm	Review of evening and Day 2 activities (Dan Inman)

6:30 pm Technical Forum and Social: Poster session, reception, etc.

Day 2, August 20, 2009
7:30	8:00am	Arrival and Breakfast
8:00	9:30am	Feedback from Industry Workshop (Industry Moderated)
9:30	11:00am	LIFE FORM review and Discussion – NSF moderated
11:00	11:30am	NSF Closed Session with Industry
11:30	12:00pm	Summary & Closing Remarks (Virginia Tech, UT Dallas, Clemson)