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About Us at the NECF Workgroup
Our goal is to encourage collaboration among researchers from industry and academe in the New England area studying Soft Condensed Matter. We hold one day workshops four times a year which offer the opportunity for discussion and exchange of ideas. An additional objective of our meetings is to help the career development of students and post-docs by introducing them to the local academic and industrial research community. The location of the workshop rotates among the member institutions. Our first meeting was in December 1999 and meetings have been held at Boston University, Brandeis University, Brown University, Clark University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, University of Connecticut, and the Universities of Massachusetts at Amherst and Boston. Workshops typically consist of four longer talks, each about 30 minutes long, but with 45 minutes allotted per speaker to allow for lots of discussion. In addition, everyone who attends is encouraged to give a five minute update (soundbite) of their current work. Equally important is ample time scheduled for coffee and lunch breaks for informal discussion. The Fall meeting is held mid-September at Brandeis,
and the Winter meeting mid-December at Harvard. The Spring and
Summer meetings occur in March and July and rotate among the
member institutions. To host a meeting contact the workshop organizers.
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