[LaSiGMA-funded] Louisiana Industry –Academia Collaborative Workshop

[Randall Hall]

Dear LA-SiGMA Collegues,
A followup and clarification of previous email messages...

We have been asked (see the note below) to help identify LA-SiGMA members and other colleagues to attend and participate in the first Louisiana Industry –Academia Collaborative Workshop.  This workshop will focus on Materials and Energy (note that this is close to the theme of the expected upcoming national initiative on computational science coming out of the White House).  Please let us know if you would like to participate in the workshop, perhaps present a poster, and help us to identify other colleagues who might attend and participate.

If you are willing to participate or present, please send us a sentence describing your expertise or the title and content of your poster.  If you would like to suggest a colleague, please send us his/her contact information together with a sentence describing their expertise in energy materials.

Please send this information to us no later than COB (5:00) tomorrow evening since we will convey the list to the LA EPSCoR committee shortly thereafter.

thank you and best regards,
Randy Hall and Mark Jarrell


Note:  Excerpt from call for participation from LA EPSCoR/BOR

We believe that it is very important to engage the LaSigma research team with industry from the inception of the new NSF EPSCoR RII project.  Therefore, we are pleased to invite the LaSigma research team to the first Louisiana Industry –Academia Collaborative Workshop.  Louisiana EPSCoR and Board of Regents plan to host a series of these workshops with this first one focused on Materials and Energy. The purpose of the workshop is to foster interactions between  some of Louisiana’s leading researchers and representatives of Louisiana’s industrial R&D community. We also hope to identify and begin to address policies and mechanisms that may impede fruitful synergisms between academia and industry.  
 
The Materials and Energy workshop is scheduled for October 15, 2010, from noon to 5:30 PM with a reception following in the Marriott in Baton Rouge, LA. Faculty should take this opportunity to showcase their research by Poster Presentation immediately follows from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.  

This workshop will feature:
Speakers from industry representatives who will provide insights into their research needs and challenges;
University intellectual property officers who will describe research innovations that could be particularly relevant to Louisiana's business and industry; and 
University researchers will have posters that describe some of their research programs and related innovations. 




Randall W. Hall
Professor of Chemistry
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1804
Email: rhall at lsu.edu  Web: http://chemistry.lsu.edu/hall
Phone: 225-578-3472 Fax: 225-578-3458 AIM: rwhneauxs

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