Our second External Advisory Board (EAB) Meeting was on 09/21/2017. CoMET faculty members and trainees met with the External Advisory Board (EAB) members. The EAB members participating at this meeting were:

• Dr. Mark Asta, University of California Berkeley
• Dr. Jayanth Banavar, University of Maryland
• Dr. Bill Goddard, California Institute of Technology
• Dr. Graeme Henkelman, University of Texas at Austin
• Dr. Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University
• Dr. David Pérez II, External Evaluator, Miami University – Ohio
• Dr. John Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University.

• Dr. Douglas Irving, North Carolina State University
• Dr. Karl Johnson, University of Pittsburg

• Dr. Alejandro Strachan, Purdue University.

As the previous year, after this meeting CoMET trainees had an opportunity to give the elevator pitches to invite all listeners to a poster session. The poster session was a great place for research discuss and networking with the Board members.

Our first External Advisory Board (EAB) Meeting was successfully held on 09/21/2016. In this meeting, CoMET faculty members, trainees and external advisory board met on campus.  The external advisory board members who participated at the meeting are as following:

• Dr. Bruce Garrett, Advisory Board, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Dr. Bill Goddard, Advisory Board, California Institute of Technology
• Dr. Matthias Scheffler, Advisory Board, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
• Dr. David Pérez II, External Evaluator, Miami University – Ohio

Following the EAB meeting, CoMET trainees gave brief elevator pitches to the Board members to invite them to the poster session.  At the poster session, CoMET trainees had the opportunity to share their research with the Board members, engage in dialogue about the work they have been doing, discuss their future research plans, and network with the Board members.