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February 2014 VCAT Meeting Agenda
AGENDA
Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
February 5-6, 2014
Administration Building, Portrait Room
ALL VISITORS MUST PRE-REGISTER TO BE ADMITTED
Contact stephanie.shaw [at] nist.gov (Stephanie Shaw) by January 23, 2014
| Wednesday, February 5, 2014 | |
| Session I - Overview and Safety | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Call to Order Alan Taub, VCAT Chair |
| 8:40 a.m. | NIST Update and Agenda Review Patrick Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director |
| 9:35 a.m. | Discussion |
| 9:50 a.m. | Safety Update Richard Kayser, Chief Safety Officer |
| 10:05 a.m. | Discussion |
| 10:20 a.m. | Break |
| Session II – NIST's User Facilities and Other Examples of Ways in which NIST Partners with Others | |
| 10:35 a.m. | Context Setting Willie May, Associate Director for Laboratory Programs and Principal Deputy |
| 10:45 a.m. | NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) Rob Dimeo, Director, NCNR |
| 11:05 a.m. | Discussion |
| 11:20 a.m. | NIST's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) |
| 11:40 a.m. | Discussion |
| 11:55 a.m. | Other Unique NIST Capabilities Available for Partnership Note: Due to delayed NIST opening, this session was cancelled. |
| 12:15 p.m. | Discussion |
| 12:30 p.m. | Adjourn Day 1 |
| Thursday, February 6, 2014* | |
| Session III – Disaster Resilience | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Reconvene VCAT Meeting Alan Taub, VCAT Chair |
| 9:45 a.m. | NIST Resilience Initiative Steve Cauffman, Lead, Disaster Resilience, Materials and Structural Systems Division, Engineering Laboratory |
| 10:15 a.m. | Discussion |
| Session IV – Wrap Up | |
| 10:30 a.m. | VCAT Subcommittee on Manufacturing Recommendations and Discussion Sujeet Chand, Chair, VCAT Subcommittee on Manufacturing |
| 11:00 a.m. | VCAT Subcommittee on Cybersecurity Recommendations and Discussion Roberto Padovani, Chair, VCAT Subcommittee on Cybersecurity |
| 11:30 a.m. | Working Lunch - VCAT Elections and Deliberations and Presentation on Initial Observations, Findings, and Recommendations of 2013 Annual Report Alan Taub, VCAT Chair |
| 1:30 p.m. | Adjourn |
*Public comments will be inserted in the morning of February 6 if needed.