Agenda

7:30 a.m. Registration, Poster Set-up, (8:00 am) Breakfast
8:30 a.m.

Welcome & Opening Remarks                                                                                                                                                                                      Mr. Austin Yamada, President and CEO, UA-ARC                            
8:45 a.m.

Overview and Doing Business with AFOSR
AFOSR Panel
9:15 a.m.

Life-Cycle of Special Programs

  • STEM - preK-16 outreach and DURIP-lending library
  • ASSURE - Awards to Stimulate and Support Undergraduate Research Experience (collaboration with NSF)
  • SFFP  - Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (for faculty and grad students)
  • AFRL Scholars - project based summer internships for high school to undergrad students work with postdocs and faculty
  • FoE - Frontiers of Engineering (engineering symposium)

Dr. Kim Jacoby-Morris
9:45 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. Life-Cycle of Special Programs
  • STFP – Science and Technology Fellowship Program (postdocs and sr. research associates)
  • NDSEG – National Defense and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (grad students masters to PhD)
  • YIP – Young Investigator Program (early career faculty within 7 years of PhD)

Mrs. Ellen Robinson
10:30 a.m.

Life-Cycle of Special Programs

  • HBCU/MSI/Tribal Colleges
  • DEPSCoR

Mr. Edward Lee
11:00 a.m.

Life-Cycle of Special Programs

  • DURIP – instrumentation
  • MURI – Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative

Ms. Katie Wisecarver
11:30 a.m.

Life-Cycle of Special Programs

  • SBIR/STTR – Small Business Tech Transfer

Capt. Renee Allen 
12:00p.m.  Lunch with Poster Session, Showcase pf AFOSR Research Efforts of Interest / Networking Lunch. 

1:00 p.m. 

Tips and Tricks for partnering with AFOSR

Best way to contact POs, white paper or no white paper, proposal, ect
1:45 p.m.

Engagement and Brainstorming Ideas with Program Managers

Tentative list of program managers with expertise in the following subjects will be represented:

Dr. Sarah Popkin, Hypersonics (virtual), Directed Energy (virtual), Dr. Erik Blasch, Future of Data and Computing (In-person), Dr. Boyan Tabakov and Dr. Grace Metcalfe, Quantum Networking (Virtual), Tristan Nguyen, Cyber (virtual), Dr. Yakes, Space Domain Awareness (virtual).

3:00 p.m. Transition to Tour (for those interested)
3:10 p.m. Tours: Hypersonics Wind Tunnel
4:00 p.m. Transition back from Tour
3:00 p.m.

Networking Reception
Location in Bear Down Gym,

1428 E University Blvd Tucson, AZ 85721                                                                                                                                                                                                  
5:00 p.m. End of Symposium