7:30am
Registration, Coffee, and Poster Set-up
8:30am
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Dr. Berrien Moore, Dean, College of Atmospheric & Geographic
Sciences, Chesapeake Energy Corporation Chair in Climate Studies
Col Drew Allen, USAF (Retired), Deputy Executive Director of the
Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Innovation Institute, University of
Oklahoma
Dr. John Klier, Dean, AT&T Chair, and Professor of the Gallogly College of Engineering and Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma
8:45am
Basic Research in the DoD
Dr. Bindu Nair, Director of Basic Research
9:05am
DEPSCoR Overview
Dr. Jennifer Becker, DEPSCoR Program Manager
9:30am
Tri-Service Basic Research Office Overview
Army Research Office, Wireless Communications Networks Program, Dr. Robert Ulman
Office of Naval Research, Aero Structures and Materials, Mr. Bill Nickerson
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Deputy Division Chief, Science and Engineering Division - Dr. Irina Pala
10:15am
Break
10:30am
Working with the DoD: Basic Research Program Officers Panel
Army Research Office – Wireless Communication Networks - Dr. Robert Ulman
Office of Naval Research, Marine Meteorology and Space Weather, Dr. Josh Cossuth
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Atomic and Molecular Physics - Dr. Boyan Tabakov
11:15am
Lessons Learned from DoD Awardees
Dr. Grant Biedermann, Associate Professor, Homer L. Dodge Professor of Atomic, Optical and Molecular Physics, University of Oklahoma
Dr. Steven Cavallo, Associate Professor, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma
Dr. Robert Lewis-Swan, Assistant Professor of Physics, Center for Quantum Research and Technology and Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma
Dr. David B. Parsons, President's Associates Presidential Professor and Director Emeritus, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma
Dr. Arne Schwettmann, Associate Professor, Center for Quantum Research and Technology and Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma
12:00pm
Networking Lunch
1:00pm
STEM Outreach Panel
Army Research Office - Ms. Ivory Chaney
Office of Naval Research - Mr. Bill Nickerson
Air Force Office of Scientific Research - Ms. Ellen Robinson
1:45pm
Poster Session
2:45pm
Recap and Next Steps
3:00pm
Speed Networking Session (must submit research menu in advance)
DoD Program Officers
Army Research Office
Dr. James Berry, Reactive Chemical Systems
Dr. Kate Duncan, Physical Property of Materials
Dr. Jack Edwards, Fluid Dynamics
Dr. John Hyatt, Information Processing and Fusion
Dr. Robert Lambeth, Polymer Chemistry
Dr. Tom Oder, Ultra-wide Bandgap RD Electronics Center
Dr. Robert Ulman, Wireless Communications Networks
Dr. Josh Cossuth, Marine Meteorology and Space Weather
Mr. Bill Nickerson, Aero Structures and Materials
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Dr. Warren Adams, Mathematical Optimization
Dr. Grace Metcalfe, Quantum Information Sciences
Dr. Boyan Tabakov, Atomic and Molecular Physics
Dr. Jennifer Talley, Space Bioscience
Dr. Michael Yakes, Physics of Sensing