The International Center for Materials Research

1
The International Center for Materials
Research ICMR-UCSB An NSF International
Materials Institute Director Anthony K.
Cheetham Materials, and Chemistry Biochemistry,
UCSB
2

• International Collaboration in Materials
  Research
• Background
• The international activities of the Materials
  Research Society are organized under the auspices
  of the International Union of Materials Research
  Societies (IUMRS, established in 1991). IUMRS
  currently has 12 national or regional
  organizations, e.g. MRS, MRS of India, European
  MRS, etc. See www.iumrs.org. The IUMRS organizes
  international meetings, sponsors awards, and so
  on.
• The Materials World Network, established in 1995,
  is an NSF-funded progran run from Northwestern
  University by R. P. H. Chang see
  www.materialsworld.net. MWN serves as a platform
  for addressing global challenges via materials
  science, education, and technology. It has held 6
  international meetings since 1995.
• NSF supports 6 International Materials Institutes
  (IMIs) at Princeton (Africa/Structural
  Materials), Univ. Tennessee (Neutrons), Iowa
  State (High Throughput Experimentation), Lehigh
  (Glasses), UC Davis (Complex Systems), and UCSB
  (International Center for Materials Research).
  NSF also provides small grants for international
  collaborations with Europe, Latin America, Asia
  etc.

3

• International Collaboration and NSFs MRSEC
  Program
• The Division of Materials Research at NSF has
  been pro-active in stimulating international
  collaborations.
• Since 1999, the larger MRSEC centers have been
  required to undertake international activities in
  addition to supporting their research programs,
  shared facilities, educational outreach,
  industrial outreach, etc.
• Many of the major international materials
  programs in the USA have their origins in MRSEC
  centers, e.g. the Materials World Network at
  Northwestern and the International Center for
  Materials Research (ICMR) at UCSB.
• The UCSB Materials Research Laboratory held 15
  overseas workshops during the period 1995-2003.
  These bilateral workshops provided the
  credibility and network for the creation of the
  ICMR in 2004.

4
Overseas Workshops under the auspices of the
Materials Research Laboratory prior to the
creation of ICMR 1995 Weizmann Institute,
Israel 1996 Max Planck Labs, Stuttgart Mainz,
Germany 1997 KAIST, Taejon, S. Korea 1998
CSIRO Melbourne and Aust. Nat. Univ., Australia
1999 CNRS (Institut Jean Rouxel), Nantes,
France 2000 IMRE, Singapore 2000 UNAM,
Sonora, Mexico 2001 ICTP/TWAS Trieste, Italy
(for developing countries) 2001 ETH Zurich,
EPFL, and the Weizmann Institute, Switzerland
2001 CNRS (CRPP), Bordeaux, France 2002 CNRS
Headquarters, Paris, France 2002 Max Planck
Society, Mainz, Germany 2002 Univ. Chile,
Santiago, Chile (with TWAS ICTP) 2003 KAIST,
Taejon, S. Korea 2003 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
There were also many reciprocal workshops at UCSB

5

• ICMR Overview
• Created at the UCSB on August 1, 2004 to provide
  an international forum that convenes scientists
  and engineers with common interests in the future
  of materials science.
• The Center is funded by the Division of
  Materials Research, the Office of International
  Science and Engineering at the National Science
  Foundation, the Materials Research Laboratory,
  and UCSB.
• Its partner institutions include the
  International Center for Theoretical Physics in
  Trieste, the Academy of Sciences for the
  Developing World (TWAS), and the International
  Center for Young Scientists (Tsukuba).
• ICMR is run by a Director, Prof. Anthony K.
  Cheetham, who is supported by a Program
  Coordinator (Jennifer Ybarra), a Steering
  Committee, and a distinguished International
  Advisory Board chaired by Prof. C.N.R. Rao.
• Programs include
• Workshops in Santa Barbara and overseas
• Summer Schools
• International conferences
• Exchange Scholars
• S.E. Asia Materials Network
• Engineers without Borders

6

• ICMR Objectives
• To stimulate international collaboration through
  a range of cutting-edge research and educational
  programs
• To provide international experience for young
  scientists that will prepare them to function in
  a global scientific environment
• To enhance the capacity of developing countries
  in the materials science area by engagement and
  network building.

7
Steering Committee Anthony K. Cheetham,
Director of ICMR (ex officio) Anthony G. Evans,
Professor of Materials and Mech. Eng., UCSB
David Gross, Director of the Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics, UCSB (2004 Nobel Prize in
Physics) Craig Hawker, Director of UCSB MRL (ex
officio) Evelyn Hu, Director of UCSB California
NanoSystems Institute (ex officio) Fred F.
Lange, Professor of Materials, UCSB (ex officio)
James S. Langer, Professor of Physics, UCSB
Matt Tirrell, Dean of Engineering, UCSB (ex
officio) The Steering Committee has been
meeting monthly since the NSF funding was
announced in July 2004

8
International Advisory Board C. N. R. Rao,
JNCASR Bangalore President of the Third World
Academy of Sciences (Chair) A. J. Heeger, UCSB
(Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2000) P. G. de
Gennes, ESPCI Paris (Nobel Prize in Physics,
1994) Mahn Won Kim, President, Korea Institute
for Advanced Studies, Seoul T. Kishi, President,
National Institute for Materials Science,
Tsukuba Sir Harold Kroto, Florida State (Nobel
Prize in Chemistry, 1996) Fang-Hua Li, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing M. Rühle, Director,
Max Planck Institut für Metallforschung,
Stuttgart G. D. W. Smith, Chair, Department of
Materials, University of Oxford K. R.
Sreenivasan, Director of the International Center
for Theoretical Physics, Trieste The first
meeting of the board was held in Paris on
November 19, 2004 and the second was held on
September 15, 2005, in Berlin
9
ICMR International Network
African collaborations are pursued through the
Princeton IMI
10

• Exchange Programs
• USA to the rest of the world
• We have sufficient funds to send up to 40 US
  researchers to spend time with overseas
  collaborators for periods of 1 week to 3 months.
  This is available for researchers throughout the
  US. Since one of the objectives is to give
  researchers some international experience, we do
  not send people to their country of origin.
• In 2006 onwards, we started funding an
  undergraduate exchange program (REU) with
  Oxford, Stuttgart, Eindhoven, Bangalore,
  Santiago, Taejon (KAIST), and Dublin.
• Rest of the world to the USA
• Funds for visitors to the US are more limited.
  We have sufficient to support 12 visits per year
  to UCSB only

11
Workshops under auspices of ICMR since August
2004 Oxford, England September 2004 (Host
George Smith) 20 faculty from UCSB
participated Pune (NCL), India December 19-21,
2004 22 faculty from USA traveled Kyoto, Japan
April 25 27, 2005 (in partnership with Kyoto
University) 18 faculty from across the
USA Beijing, China March 23-26, 2005 (in
partnership with the NSFC, CAS) 19 faculty and
10 students from across the USA Buenos Aires,
Argentina July 2005 (Winter School in
Physics) 6 faculty from USA participated as
speakers Berlin, Germany Sept. 12-14, 2005 (with
the Max Planck Society) 20 faculty from UCSB,
An MOU was signed with the MPG Singapore,
November 14-16, 2005 (hosted by IMRE) S. E. Asia
Materials Network meeting. Brought together 40
scientists from 18 countries to discuss the
creation of a network to give scientists from
developing countries access to major facilities
in the region Marrakech, Morocco, December 7-9,
2005 (with the African MRS) ICMR organized a
session on Materials from the 21st Century and
provide scholarships for young scientists from
Africa ICTP Trieste, Italy January 16-20, 2006
(with ICTP and NIMS/ICYS) Advanced Workshop on
Recent Developments in Inorganic
Materials (Chairs Cheetham, Rao and
Rühle) Mishima, Japan Feb. 27-March 1,
2006 International Advanced Materials Forum for
young scientists (with ICYS, Tsukuba) Tel Aviv,
Israel Feb. 27-28, 2006 8 faculty from UCSB
participated in the Israel Chemical Society
meeting

12
Three Summer Schools in 2005 Topics in
Bio-Materials Dates August 7 August
20 Organizers Phil Pincus, Ram Seshadri,
Joan-Emma Shea (UCSB) Stereochemical Aspects of
Novel Materials Dates August 14 27 Organizer
Fred Wudl, Miguel Garcia-Garibay (Chemistry,
UCLA) First Principles Calculations for
Condensed Matter and Nanoscience Dates August 21
September 3 Organizers Michel Coté (U. of
Montréal), Xavier Gonze (Louvain), Nicola
Spaldin (UCSB), Gilles Zerah (CEA, Paris)

13
ICMR Summer Schools August 2005 Total Number of
Participants 130 Total Number of Lecturers
35 Represented Countries Argentina, Australia,
Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China,
Estonia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland,
Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan,
Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, United
States
14
Summer Schools being planned for
2006 Nanomaterials (with the International
Center for Young Scientists, ICYS) Dates 21-28
July 2006 Location Tsukuba Organizers Yoshio
Bando and Tadashi Ozawa (ICYS), Tony Cheetham
(UCSB) Porous Solids Dates 30 July-Aug.
12 Location UC Santa Barbara Organizers Ram
Seshadri (UCSB), Matt Rosseinsky and Andy Cooper
(Liverpool) Heterogeneous Catalysis Dates 13-26
Aug, 2006 Location UC Santa Barbara Organizer
Alec Wodtke (UCSB), Horia Metiu (UCSB), Can Li
(Dalian) High Temperature Materials Dates 6-20
August, 2006 Location UC Santa
Barbara Organizers Tony Evans (UCSB), Carlos
Levi (UCSB)
15
Workshops planned for the rest of 2006 and early
2007 Santa Barbara Aug 20-26,
2006 International workshop on Hydrogen
Generation and Storage Viña de Mar, Chile
September, 2006, With CIAM, CIMAT Latin
America/Pacific Rim Workshop on Frontiers of
Materials Florianópolis, Brazil, October 15-19,
2006, with the Brazilian MRS Workshop on Hybrid
Inorganic-Organic Materials Halong Bay, Vietnam,
December 3-10, 2006, International Workshop on
Materials Research Bangalore, India, Dec. 12-19,
2006 ICMR-JNCASR Regional Winter School on
Chemistry of Materials Trieste, Italy, January
15-19, 2007 ICMR-ICTP Advanced Workshop on
Nanomaterials Taipei, Taiwan-China, January 4-6,
2007 US-Taiwan Workshop on Soft Condensed
Matter

16

• Why are International Activities so Important ?
• The leadership that the USA currently enjoys in
  most areas of science and technology cannot be
  taken for granted in an increasingly competitive
  world.
• The continuance of that leadership, however, is
  essential for the success of our knowledge-based
  economy in the 21st century
• In order to remain competitive, it is essential
  that we are engaged with our peers elsewhere and
  fully conversant with the latest developments in
  other countries.
• It is also essential that our young scientists
  should gain the international experience that
  will enable them to function effectively in the
  global ST business.
• The existence of major centers of excellence,
  such as the MRSECs, is an essential element of
  the national strategy for remaining competitive
  in the face of stiff competition from other
  nations.

17
ICMR Partner Institutions NSFs International
Materials Institutes at Princeton (Africa),
Rensselaer (Combinatorial sciences), Tennessee
(Neutrons), Lehigh (Glass), UC/LANL (Complex
matter), USA The Academy of Sciences for the
Developing World (TWAS), Trieste, Italy The
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste, Italy The Max Planck Society,
and institutes thereof, Germany Ecole Supérieure
de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI),
Paris, France Eidgenossische Technische
Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland Department of
Materials, University of Oxford,
England Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced
Scientific Research, Bangalore, India Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Indian
Institute of Technology, Mumbai (Bombay),
India Institute for Advanced Materials, Fudan
University, China Institute of Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China National
Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba,
Japan International Center for Young Scientists,
Tsukuba, Japan Institute of Materials Science and
Engineering, National Taiwan University,
Taiwan Korean Advanced Institute for Science and
Technology (KAIST), Taejon, Korea Korea
Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Seoul,
Korea Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology
(K-JIST), Kwangiu, Korea Institute of Materials
Research Engineering (IMRE), Singapore
National University, Singapore Institute of
Materials Science, Hanoi, Vietnam Weizmann
Institute, Rehovot, Israel Advanced Materials
Department, IPICyT, San Luis Potosi,
Mexico Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary
Research in Materials, Santiago, Chile CSIRO
Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology
Division, Melbourne, Australia