Saturday November 1 - Agenda

Location: Athens/Berlin room on the mezzanine floor of the O'Hare Hilton

• 8:00 am: bagels, coffee, juice
• 9:00 - Welcome (Urry and Marvel)
• 9:10 - 10:30 - view from the NSF, including OIR system review (Knezek and Ulvestad)
• 10:30 - 11:00 - break
• 11:00 - 12:00 - view from the AAS President, including education and old but still relevant AAS report http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v29n5/edrpt.html (Urry)
• 12:00 - 1:00 - lunch
• 1:00 - 2:15 - Discussion - undergraduate and graduate education - goals, connections to industry, curricula and programs addressing new trends (e.g. computation)
• 2:15 - 2:45 - break
• 2:45 - 2:50 - Date, location, and chair of next meeting
• 2:50 - 4:00 - Discussion - concerns and interests of chairs, e.g. searches, startup, reintegrating inactive faculty