Agenda for the NSF CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop

November 13-14, 2004

Radisson Hotel Maingate-Anaheim, CA

Room: President A

November 13, 2004, Saturday

13:00 – 15:30	· Presentation by Dr. Jian Cao and Dr. George Hazelrigg (NSF Program directors) on NSF CAREER proposal Guidelines · Presentation by Dr. Mark Lewis (U. of Michigan, 2002 CAREER and PECASE Awardee) · Presentation by Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei (North Carolina State U., 2003 CAREER Awardee) · Questions and answers
15:30 – 16:00	· Break
16:00 – 18:15	· Presentation by Dr. Tony Schmitz (U. of Florida, 2003 CAREER Awardee) · Presentation by Dr. Teresa Wu (Arizona State U., 2003 CAREER Awardee) · Presentation by Dr. Z.J. Pei (Kansas State U., 2004 CAREER Awardee) · Questions and answers
18:15 – 18:30	· Break
18:30 – 20:30	· Working dinner of reception type. Participants can freely walk around to talk to others, asking more questions, sharing what they have learned, etc.

November 14, 2004, Sunday

7:00 – 8:00	· Continental breakfast. Participants can have more interactions with each other.
8:00 – 10:30	· Dr. Cao and Dr. Hazelrigg describe procedures for a typical CAREER proposal panel meeting · Dividing into 3 groups for mock panel review, every panel will be led by an NSF program director. (Several proposals have been sent to workshop participants three weeks before the workshop.) · Present and discuss the original reviewers’ comments and ratings on these proposals
10:30 – 11:00	· Break
11:00 – 12:00	· In small groups of 4-5 people, brainstorm the characteristics of successful CAREER proposals · As one big group, summarize these characteristics · Workshop evaluations