Workshop on Funding Science Research with Central Asia and Caucasus Institutes

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 4500N, Room D-1

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

August 22-23, 2002

 

Thursday, August 22, 2002

 

8:30 a.m.               Badge Pick up                                     ORNL Visitor Center

 

9:00 a.m.               Welcome                                              Dr. Lee Riedinger, Deputy Director

                                                                                                  for Science & Technology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

                                                                                                M. Kay Thompson

Senior Policy Advisor for Central Asia

  and the Caucasus, Office of International Policy

                                                                                                U.S. Department of Energy

                                                                                                               

Workshop Chairman & Moderator                                   Dr. Robert Shelton

 

[Presentations by Funding Programs:  descriptions of criteria, priorities, and proposal review*]

 

9:30 a.m.               Science and Technology Center of Ukraine (STCU)                 Andy Hood

 

10:00 a.m.             Coffee Break  &  Travel to Room K-122

 

10:30 a.m.             Office of Naval Research                                                                  Mark Taylor

(VTC briefing from London—4500N, K-122)

 

11:00 a.m.             International Science and Technology Center (ISTC)               Andy Hood

 

11:30 a.m.             Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF)       David Lindeman

 

12:00 p.m.            Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP)                                    Ken Williams

 

12:30 p.m.             Lunch—4500N, Room 246

 

1:45 p.m.               Office of NonProliferation Policy/NNSA                                          Joe Bassi

 

2:15 p.m.              Kazakhstan's Research Priorities                                                    Timurkhan Zhanabergenov

Head, International Affairs Department

Kazakhstan National Academy of Sciences 

2:45 p.m.               Afternoon Break                                                  

                                               

3:00 p.m.               Question and Answer Period for all Panelists

 

5:30-7:00 p.m.      Reception                                                                                             Garden Plaza Hotel

 

 

Friday, August 23, 2002

 

(Session begins at 7:00 a.m. EDT to accommodate participation from scientists in the region)

 

Chat Room Question and Answer Period

 

Workshop concludes when all questions answered.

 

Optional Tour of the Laboratory

 

*  Information on these programs will be posted on the Black and Caspian Sea Environmental Information Center web site http://pims.ed.ornl.gov/ prior to the workshop so that scientists from the region can send questions through the "Chat" section.  At 7:00 a.m. on Friday, August 23, 2002, an online (real time) chat with scientists from the region will be conducted to answer questions. The "Chat" section is located in the Black Sea section of the web site. Simply "log-on" to participate.

 

Proposals submitted for discussions from the following organizations (click on organization name to view proposal):

 

1. Institute of Plant Physiology, Genetics and Bioengineering, Department of Photosynthesis, Almaty, Kazakhstan

2. Institute of Power Engineering and Automation, Academy of Sciences, Republic of Uzbekistan

3-5. al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

6-14. Institute of Physics and Technology, Ministry of Education and Science, Kazakhstan

15-16. Laboratory of Root Nutrition, Institute of Plant Physiology, Genetics and Bioengineering, Almaty, Kazakhstan

17. Ukrainian Scientific Centre of the Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES), Odessa, Ukraine

18. Institute of Space Science, Academy of Sciences, Almaty, Kazakhstan

19. Center of Remote Sensing and GIS, Almaty, Kazakhstan

20. Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey

21-24. Institute of Botany and Phytointroduction, Academny of Sciences, Almaty, Kazakhstan

 

World Bank Info

Flyer 1, Flyer 2 (English)

Flyer 1, Flyer 2 (Russian)

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