1. Michael Khonsari Louisiana EPSCoR Project Director Associate Commissioner for Sponsored Programs Research & Development, Louisiana Board of Regents Professor and Dow Chemical Endowed Chair in Rotating Machinery LSU College of Engineering Welcome to 2013 LA EPSCoR Symposium

2. NSF RII Award (2010-2015) Statewide Research Focus

3. National Science Foundation Sean Kennan NSF EPSCoR Program Director William Lester UC Berkeley Susan Sinnott University of Florida Vincent McKoy Caltech James Hoehn EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation Harold Silverman SUNY (retired) External Review Board

4. Diversity Advisory Council William Lester University of California, Berkeley Stephanie Adams Virginia Commonwealth University DiOnetta Jones Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sheila Edwards Lange University of Washington Betsy Willis Southern Methodist University Zakiya Wilson Louisiana State University Janet Ruscher Tulane University Jenna Carpenter Louisiana Tech University

5. LA-SiGMA Vision

6. Participants in LA-SiGMA: 205 65Graduate 8Post-Doc 62Under-graduate

7. Partnering Institutions RUSTONRUSTON BATON ROUGE NEW ORLEANS

8. COMMON COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS Monte Carlo Methods Density Functional Theory Molecular Dynamics Shared Experimental Facilities Advanced Materials Research Institute Center for Advanced Microstructures & Devices Institute For Micromanufacturing AMRI UNO IfM LA Tech CAMD LSU Common Computational Challenges and Barriers Multiple length & time scales, multiscale interactions & correlations Science Drivers 1.Electronic & Magnetic Materials 2.Energy Materials 3.Biomolecular Materials

9. Traveling the STEM Pipeline and Strengthening Workforce Development Undergrad Faculty Graduates Post Docs K-12 Industry Community College National Labs Speaking of Science Open houses SURE REU Planning Grants Pfund TGEF LINK OPT-IN SBIR/STTR Industry-Academia Workshops REU RET Workshops HS & Middle School Teachers LINK Internship Mentoring Retreat Distance Learning

10. LA RII Enterprise Participating Campuses: Pfund Program SURE Program OPT-IN Program LINK Program TGEF ProgramRUSTONRUSTON BATON ROUGE LAKE CHARLES MONROEMONROE NEW ORLEANS HAMMONDHAMMOND LAFAYETTELAFAYETTE THIBODAUXTHIBODAUX

11. Materials & EnergyBiosciences Software Development & Digital Media Next Generation Energy Technology Industry-Academia Collaborative Workshops

12. “Our success has now brought us to the formation of Nikola Tech, a company that represents the spirit of multidisciplinary collaboration between medical and physical sciences.” - Eric Simms, Tulane General Surgery Resident Opportunities for Partnership in Technology with OPT-IN

13. Partnerships Baton Rouge Community College Bossier Parish Community College Louisiana Delta Community College Louisiana School for Math, Science & the Arts South Arkansas Community College Brookhaven National Lab Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland Göttingen University, Germany Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan Pacific Northwest National Lab Sandia National Lab Shodor Education Foundation S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India Technischen Universität Dortmund, Germany Texas A&M University University of Hertfordshire, Great Britain Universität Würzburg, Germany Karlsruhe Institute, Germany Neel Institut, Grenoble, France Argonne Nat. Lab, IIlinois SciDAC Institutes

14. RII - Track 1: Management Michael Khonsari Project Director Michael Khonsari Project Director External Review Board (ERB) & External Evaluator State EPSCoR Committee Project Execution Team (PET) Science Driver and Computational Teams Faculty, Students, and Postdocs Science Driver and Computational Teams Faculty, Students, and Postdocs Diversity Advisory Council (DAC) Project Execution Team (PET) Co PIs Representatives from each participating campus External Evaluator Project Execution Team (PET) Co PIs Representatives from each participating campus External Evaluator LA EPSCoR Staff Outreach Coordinator Communication Manager

15. Thank you for your attention.

16. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Dr. Sean Kennan NSF EPSCoR Program Director

17. Agenda

20. EPSCoR Video Karthik will insert EPSCoR Video