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The International Center for Materials Research
ICMR-UCSB
An NSF International Materials Institute
Director: Anthony K. Cheetham
Materials, and Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCSB
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International Collaboration in Materials Research:
Background
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The international activities of the Materials Research Society are
organized under the auspices of the International Union of Materials
Research Societies (IUMRS, established in 1991). IUMRS currently has 12
national or regional organizations, e.g. MRS, MRS of India, European MRS,
etc. See www.iumrs.org. The IUMRS organizes international meetings,
sponsors awards, and so on.
The Materials World Network, established in 1995, is an NSF-funded
progran run from Northwestern University by R. P. H. Chang; see
www.materialsworld.net. MWN serves as a platform for addressing global
challenges via materials science, education, and technology. It has held 6
international meetings since 1995.
NSF supports 6 International Materials Institutes (IMIs) at Princeton
(Africa/Structural Materials), Univ. Tennessee (Neutrons), Iowa State
(High Throughput Experimentation), Lehigh (Glasses), UC Davis (Complex
Systems), and UCSB (International Center for Materials Research). NSF
also provides small grants for international collaborations with Europe,
Latin America, Asia etc.
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International Collaboration and NSF’s MRSEC Program
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The Division of Materials Research at NSF has been pro-active in
stimulating international collaborations.
Since ~1999, the larger MRSEC centers have been required to undertake
international activities in addition to supporting their research programs,
shared facilities, educational outreach, industrial outreach, etc.
Many of the major international materials programs in the USA have their
origins in MRSEC centers, e.g. the Materials World Network at
Northwestern and the International Center for Materials Research (ICMR)
at UCSB.
The UCSB Materials Research Laboratory held 15 overseas workshops
during the period 1995-2003. These bilateral workshops provided the
credibility and network for the creation of the ICMR in 2004.
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Overseas Workshops under the auspices of the Materials
Research Laboratory prior to the creation of ICMR
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Weizmann Institute, Israel
Max Planck Labs, Stuttgart & Mainz, Germany
KAIST, Taejon, S. Korea
CSIRO Melbourne and Aust. Nat. Univ., Australia
CNRS (Institut Jean Rouxel), Nantes, France
IMRE, Singapore
UNAM, Sonora, Mexico
ICTP/TWAS Trieste, Italy (for developing countries)
ETH Zurich, EPFL, and the Weizmann Institute, Switzerland
CNRS (CRPP), Bordeaux, France
CNRS Headquarters, Paris, France
Max Planck Society, Mainz, Germany
Univ. Chile, Santiago, Chile (with TWAS & ICTP)
KAIST, Taejon, S. Korea
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
There were also many reciprocal workshops at UCSB
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ICMR Overview
• Created at the UCSB on August 1, 2004 to provide an international forum
that convenes scientists and engineers with common interests in the future of
materials science.
• The Center is funded by the Division of Materials Research, the Office of
International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation,
the Materials Research Laboratory, and UCSB.
• Its partner institutions include the International Center for Theoretical
Physics in Trieste, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
(TWAS), and the International Center for Young Scientists (Tsukuba).
• ICMR is run by a Director, Prof. Anthony K. Cheetham, who is supported by a
Program Coordinator (Jennifer Ybarra), a Steering Committee, and a
distinguished International Advisory Board chaired by Prof. C.N.R. Rao.
• Programs include:
Workshops in Santa Barbara and overseas
Summer Schools
International conferences
Exchange Scholars
S.E. Asia Materials Network
Engineers without Borders
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ICMR Objectives
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To stimulate international collaboration through a range of cutting-edge
research and educational programs
To provide international experience for young scientists that will prepare
them to function in a global scientific environment
To enhance the capacity of developing countries in the materials science
area by engagement and network building.
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Steering Committee
Anthony K. Cheetham, Director of ICMR (ex officio)
Anthony G. Evans, Professor of Materials and Mech. Eng., UCSB
David Gross, Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB
(2004 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Craig Hawker, Director of UCSB MRL (ex officio)
Evelyn Hu, Director of UCSB California NanoSystems Institute (ex officio)
Fred F. Lange, Professor of Materials, UCSB (ex officio)
James S. Langer, Professor of Physics, UCSB
Matt Tirrell, Dean of Engineering, UCSB (ex officio)
The Steering Committee has been meeting monthly since the NSF funding was
announced in July 2004
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International Advisory Board
C. N. R. Rao, JNCASR Bangalore; President of the Third World Academy of
Sciences (Chair)
A. J. Heeger, UCSB (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2000)
P. G. de Gennes, ESPCI Paris (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1994)
Mahn Won Kim, President, Korea Institute for Advanced Studies, Seoul
T. Kishi, President, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba
Sir Harold Kroto, Florida State (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1996)
Fang-Hua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
M. Rühle, Director, Max Planck Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart
G. D. W. Smith, Chair, Department of Materials, University of Oxford
K. R. Sreenivasan, Director of the International Center for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste
The first meeting of the board was held in Paris on November 19, 2004 and
the second was held on September 15, 2005, in Berlin
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ICMR International Network
African collaborations are pursued through the Princeton IMI
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Exchange Programs
USA to the rest of the world:
• We have sufficient funds to send up to 40 US researchers to spend time with
overseas collaborators for periods of 1 week to 3 months. This is available for
researchers throughout the US. Since one of the objectives is to give
researchers some international experience, we do not send people to their
country of origin.
• In 2006 onwards, we started funding an undergraduate exchange program
(REU) with: Oxford, Stuttgart, Eindhoven, Bangalore, Santiago, Taejon
(KAIST), and Dublin.
Rest of the world to the USA
• Funds for visitors to the US are more limited. We have sufficient to support
~12 visits per year to UCSB only
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Workshops under auspices of ICMR since August 2004:
Oxford, England: September 2004 (Host: George Smith)
20 faculty from UCSB participated
Pune (NCL), India: December 19-21, 2004
22 faculty from USA traveled
Kyoto, Japan: April 25 – 27, 2005 (in partnership with Kyoto University)
18 faculty from across the USA
Beijing, China: March 23-26, 2005 (in partnership with the NSFC, CAS)
19 faculty and 10 students from across the USA
Buenos Aires, Argentina: July 2005 (Winter School in Physics)
6 faculty from USA participated as speakers
Berlin, Germany: Sept. 12-14, 2005 (with the Max Planck Society)
20 faculty from UCSB, An MOU was signed with the MPG
Singapore, November 14-16, 2005 (hosted by IMRE)
S. E. Asia Materials Network meeting. Brought together 40 scientists from 18 countries to discuss the
creation of a network to give scientists from developing countries access to major facilities in the
region
Marrakech, Morocco, December 7-9, 2005 (with the African MRS)
ICMR organized a session on “Materials from the 21st Century” and provide scholarships for young
scientists from Africa
ICTP Trieste, Italy: January 16-20, 2006 (with ICTP and NIMS/ICYS)
Advanced Workshop on “Recent Developments in Inorganic Materials”
(Chairs: Cheetham, Rao and Rühle)
Mishima, Japan: Feb. 27-March 1, 2006
International Advanced Materials Forum for young scientists (with ICYS, Tsukuba)
Tel Aviv, Israel: Feb. 27-28, 2006
8 faculty from UCSB participated in the Israel Chemical Society meeting
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Three Summer Schools in 2005:
Topics in Bio-Materials
Dates:
August 7 – August 20
Organizers: Phil Pincus, Ram Seshadri, Joan-Emma Shea (UCSB)
Stereochemical Aspects of Novel Materials
Dates: August 14 – 27
Organizer: Fred Wudl, Miguel Garcia-Garibay (Chemistry, UCLA)
First Principles Calculations for Condensed Matter and Nanoscience
Dates: August 21 – September 3
Organizers:
Michel Coté (U. of Montréal),
Xavier Gonze (Louvain),
Nicola Spaldin (UCSB),
Gilles Zerah (CEA, Paris)
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ICMR Summer Schools August 2005
Total Number of Participants: 130
Total Number of Lecturers: 35
Represented Countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, China, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan,
Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, United States
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Summer Schools being planned for 2006:
Nanomaterials (with the International Center for Young Scientists, ICYS)
Dates: 21-28 July 2006
Location: Tsukuba
Organizers: Yoshio Bando and Tadashi Ozawa (ICYS), Tony Cheetham (UCSB)
Porous Solids
Dates: 30 July-Aug. 12
Location: UC Santa Barbara
Organizers: Ram Seshadri (UCSB), Matt Rosseinsky and Andy Cooper
(Liverpool)
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Dates: 13-26 Aug, 2006
Location: UC Santa Barbara
Organizer: Alec Wodtke (UCSB), Horia Metiu (UCSB), Can Li (Dalian)
High Temperature Materials
Dates: 6-20 August, 2006
Location: UC Santa Barbara
Organizers: Tony Evans (UCSB), Carlos Levi (UCSB)
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Workshops planned for the rest of 2006 and early 2007:
Santa Barbara: Aug 20-26, 2006
International workshop on Hydrogen Generation and Storage
Viña de Mar, Chile: September, 2006, With CIAM, CIMAT
Latin America/Pacific Rim Workshop on Frontiers of Materials
Florianópolis, Brazil, October 15-19, 2006, with the Brazilian MRS
Workshop on Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Materials
Halong Bay, Vietnam, December 3-10, 2006,
International Workshop on Materials Research
Bangalore, India, Dec. 12-19, 2006
ICMR-JNCASR Regional Winter School on Chemistry of Materials
Trieste, Italy, January 15-19, 2007
ICMR-ICTP Advanced Workshop on Nanomaterials
Taipei, Taiwan-China, January 4-6, 2007
US-Taiwan Workshop on Soft Condensed Matter
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Why are International Activities so Important ?
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The leadership that the USA currently enjoys in most areas of science
and technology cannot be taken for granted in an increasingly
competitive world.
The continuance of that leadership, however, is essential for the success
of our knowledge-based economy in the 21st century
In order to remain competitive, it is essential that we are engaged with
our peers elsewhere and fully conversant with the latest developments in
other countries.
It is also essential that our young scientists should gain the international
experience that will enable them to function effectively in the global
S&T business.
The existence of major centers of excellence, such as the MRSECs, is an
essential element of the national strategy for remaining competitive in
the face of stiff competition from other nations.
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ICMR Partner Institutions
NSF’s International Materials Institutes at: Princeton (Africa), Rensselaer (Combinatorial
sciences), Tennessee (Neutrons), Lehigh (Glass), UC/LANL (Complex matter), USA
The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Trieste, Italy
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
The Max Planck Society, and institutes thereof, Germany
Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI), Paris, France
Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland
Department of Materials, University of Oxford, England
Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (Bombay), India
Institute for Advanced Materials, Fudan University, China
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
International Center for Young Scientists, Tsukuba, Japan
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST), Taejon, Korea
Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Seoul, Korea
Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology (K-JIST), Kwangiu, Korea
Institute of Materials Research & Engineering (IMRE), Singapore
National University, Singapore
Institute of Materials Science, Hanoi, Vietnam
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Advanced Materials Department, IPICyT, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research in Materials, Santiago, Chile
CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology Division, Melbourne, Australia
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