NSF Broader Impacts for Research and Discovery Summit

Monday June 21

5:00pm-6:00pm: Free wine reception at Palomar (optional)
7:00pm-9:00pm: Reception dinner, introductions, and keynote speaker.

Keynote speaker: Jim Shelton, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement at the Department of Education

Tuesday June 22

7:30am-8:30am: Breakfast provided at the Waterview conference center
8:00am-9:00am: Opening session, logistics, expectations

Welcome: Jeannette Wing Assistant Director, CISE, NSF

The Importance of Broader Impacts at NSF

9:00am-10:15am: Focus on Broader Impact areas #1 and #2
10:15am-10:30am: Break
10:30am-11:45am: Focus on Broader Impact areas #3 and #4
11:45am-1:30pm: Lunch, keynote speaker

Keynote speaker: Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT

How To Make (almost) Anything

1:30pm-2:15pm: Focus on Broader Impact area #5 and working group tasks
2:15pm-2:30pm: Break and separate into 10 working groups (two for each Broader Impact area)
2:30pm-5:00pm: 10 working groups meet
5:00pm-6:00pm: Short reports on status from 5 working groups
6:00pm-7:00pm: Free wine reception at Palomar (optional)
Dinner on own in Georgetown (save receipt for reimbursement)

Working groups are encouraged to continue discussion over dinner.

Wednesday June 23

7:30am-8:30am: Breakfast provided at the Waterview conference center
8:30am-10:00am: Short reports on status from 5 working groups, keynote speaker

Keynote speaker: Deborah Estrin, Director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA

Participatory Sensing: citizen science, scientific citizens, computational thinking

10:00am-10:15am: Break and separate into 5 working groups (one for each broader impact area)
10:15am-1:30pm: Lunch (boxed) and 5 working groups meet
1:30pm-1:45pm: Break
1:45pm-3:15pm: Reports on outcome of each working group
3:15pm-3:30pm: Break
3:30pm-5:00pm: Development of reviewing guidelines