Public Agenda
Committee on Programs and Plans - NSB Meeting
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National Science Foundation
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Room 1235
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Open Session: (2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
- Approval of Minutes for February 2008
- Committee Chairman's Remarks
- Status Report: Subcommittee on Polar Issues
- Approval of SOPI Minutes for February 2008
- NSB Information Item: DataNet
- NSB Information Item: Science of Learning Centers (SLC) Programmatic Update
- NSB Information Item: General Social Survey (GSS)
- NSB Information Item: Competition for the Management and Operation of the National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- Discussion Item: Follow up to the NSB Report to Congress on Pre-construction Funding and
Maintenance and Operations Costs Associated with Major Research Equipment and Facilities at the
National Science Foundation
Closed Session: (3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
- NSB Information Item: High Performance Computing (HPC) Program Updates
- NSB Action Item: Request for Proposal and Award of a Support Contract for the United
States Antarctic Program
- NSB Action Items: LIGO Operations and Maintenance/AdvLIGO Construction
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Open Session: (10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
- Status Report: Task Force on Sustainable Energy
- NSF Update on the Working Group on Facilitating Transformative and Interdisciplinary
Research (FacTIR)
- Discussion Item: Report to Congress on Interdisciplinary Research
- Science Presentation: "The Breadth of NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences"
Sonya Mallinoff
Executive Secretary