Dear early career faculty,
Have you never visited a National Lab, or Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) in particular? Are you curious about the kinds of collaborations and facilities you could access by working with researchers at Oak Ridge National Lab? Are you interested in Department of Energy funding for your research? Do you want to see how DoE researchers 3D-printed a car? If so, then consider joining a road trip to Oak Ridge National Lab for early career faculty at Georgia Tech on May 17-18. This group of 12 faculty members will depart Georgia Tech by car in the afternoon of Tuesday May 17th and return in the evening on Wednesday May 18th. Georgia Tech’s ORNL core university liaison office will pay for one night of hotel for each faculty member, per-diem meals, and mileage/gas reimbursement for drivers who allow their cars to be used for the road trip, with other faculty as passengers. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is about 200 miles from Atlanta and the drive takes about 3.5 hours from Georgia Tech.
This opportunity is limited to 12 Georgia Tech assistant/associate professor participants. Prof. Martin Mourigal (School of Physics) will lead the road trip. At ORNL, you will be hosted by Dr. Ian Anderson, Director of Graduate Education and University Partnerships. He will guide the group through a full-day schedule for May 18thconsisting of meetings with directors, group leaders, scientists, and engineers, as well as tours of facilities including the Spallation Neutron Source, the Supercomputing Center (home to the world’s second most powerful computer – at least for now!), the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, and the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility. Bring your business cards!
To register, visit:
http://rsvp.cos.gatech.edu/ornl/
Once you have registered, you will need to complete a Travel Authority Request (TAR) and confirm your hotel room in Oak Ridge using your own name and credit card. Instructions are at the website above.
Questions can be directed to Kathryn Bond (Kathryn.bond@cos.gatech.edu) who is responsible for logistical arrangements, or Julia Kubanek (julia.kubanek@biology.gatech.edu), Georgia Tech’s core university liaison representative to ORNL.
