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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The 2012 IGERT Annual PI Conference held in Washington, D.C. on May 30th - June 1st is being video streamed live on igert.org and on Twitter. IGERT trainees, associates, and faculty are now able to participate in the discussions and engage with IGERT colleagues in the various events held throught the conference.
Thursday, May 31st
8:30 - 9:00 AM: Welcome and Agenda Overview
9:00 - 10:00 AM: Keynote Address - Creating an Innovating Ecosystem. C. Daniel Mote, Jr., Regents Professor & Glenn L. Martin, Institute Professor of Engineering, Former President of University of Maryland, College Park
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM: PI Technical Session Presentations - Nanoscience & Materials Science, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering: Climate, the Environment, and Ecology
1:15 - 2:15 PM: Broadening Participation: Effective Practices from successful IGERT PIs
2:15 - 3:15 PM: Annual reporting and managing your IGERT, Career Development, Part 1 plenary with IGERT alumni
3:15 - 5:15 PM: Communicating Science Workshop for trainees
Friday, June 1st
8:15 - 9:15 AM: Keynote Address - Collaboration Networks. Griffin Webber, CTO Harvard Medical School
9:30 - 11:30 AM: PI Technical Session Presentations - Energy and Sustainable Development & Cognitive, Social and Economic Science; Computation, the Environment, and Ecology
1:00 - 2:00 PM: Institutionalizing your IGERT, Career Development, Part 2 Federal Post-Doctoral Opportunities for trainees
2:00 - 3:00 PM: IGERT of the Future
