Spring has Sprung in Telluride... and at the Telluride Science Research Center
John Straub, President of TSRC, Kenneth Jordan, President-Elect, and Nana Naisbitt, Executive Director, hope you find our semi-annual newsletter about the TSRC community exciting and informative as we enter our 24th year at TSRC with the most workshops in our history (18) and an expected record number of participants (450).
Early Bird Registration Saves You $100
Register now, before March 31st, at telluridescience.org for 2008 workshops to get the early-bird registration special of $250. After March 31, registration fees rise to $350. And airfares are rising, book your tickets now.
New! The Peter Salamon Scholarship Fund for Young Scientists
 TSRC has established a scholarship program for young scientists in the name of Peter Salamon, San Diego State University Professor, to honor his part in co-founding TSRC and fostering its growth since 1984. Beginning this year, TSRC will offer up to 16 scholarships of $125 each in the form of reduced registration fees for graduate students and postdoctoral scientists. We hope this scholarship will help preserve the original spirit of the TSRC workshops, bringing scientists of all levels and ages together in an informal setting conducive to inspired collaboration. Workshop leaders may contact Nana if they have eligible candidates.
New! Jack Simons' Heads “Telluride Summer School on Theoretical Chemistry”
Beginning in the summer of 2009, TSRC will host students and faculty in a weeklong “Telluride Summer School on Theoretical Chemistry.” Areas of study will include electronic structure, dynamics, and statistical mechanics (plus an application topic that will vary year to year). Jack has generously donated $150,000 of his own money to endow the school, and has secured additional funding from the Dreyfus Foundation for the first two Schools (2009 and 2011). TSRC is looking for funding to subsidize registration fees.
Mark Ratner Chosen as 2008 R. Stephen Berry Lecturer
The TSRC board unanimously selected Mark Ratner, distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University, to give the 2008 Berry lecture on Tuesday, July 8th at the Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village. Mark's talk, entitled: “Energy and Nanoscience: A Marriage of Convenience,” is part of the Pinhead Town Talk lecture series. Admission is free and open to the public.
Town Talks Receive $42,600 in Support
The Town of Mountain Village Homeowners Association (TMVOA) generously awarded TSRC a $42,600 grant in the form of cash and in-kind contributions for 12 Pinhead Town Talks in 2008. This generous grant enables TSRC to host the talks at the comfortable Conference Center with a cash bar, provide staff, tech support, video taping for local TV broadcast, webcasting, administration, PR, advertisements, and more.
 Thank You to Steve & Carla Berry
With TSRC’s new IRS status as a charitable 501c3 non-profit, Steve and Carla Berry made a sizable and very generous contribution to TSRC. See below on how you can also support TSRC's mission.
Your Donations Support Our Mission
Your contributions move the TSRC mission along. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support one of the items on our funding wish list:
• Endowment for the Peter Salamon Scholarship Fund for Young Scientists
• Collaborative science outreach programs, including the annual R. Stephen Berry Lecture as part of the Pinhead Town Talks and Pinhead Punk Science
• Registration fees for summer schools, including Jack Simons' “Telluride Summer School on Theoretical Chemistry”
• Funding for a physical campus
To help TSRC meet these goals, mail a tax-deductible check to TSRC, PO Box 2429, Telluride, CO 81435. Or call Nana to make other arrangements at: 970-708-0004
TSRC Board Meeting – Wednesday, July 9th
The 2008 board meeting will take place on Wednesday, July 9th at noon, Mountain time. For those board members and past presidents who are not in Telluride, you will be able to call in via conference calls. Details will be emailed in June.
Welcome New Board Members:
Millard Alexander, University of Maryland at College Park
David Coker, Boston University
Tom Kleyman, University of Pittsburgh
Joan Shea, UC Santa Barbara
Doug Tobias, UC Irvine
A Big “Thank You” to Outgoing Board Members:
Joel Bowman
Jeff Krause
David Leitner
Mary Jo Ondrechen
David Tannor
Help Needed to Archive TSRC History
With the help of past presidents, Nana is collecting archived materials about TSRC which will be posted on the website in the coming year. If you have any electronic or typed files with workshop names, participant names, workshop descriptions, old photos, etc, please send them ASAP to Nana. Via UPS or FedEx, please send to 239 N. Aspen, Telluride CO 81435. Via US mail, please send to PO Box 2429, Telluride CO 81435. Contact Nana by phone at 970-708-004 or email her at nana@telluridescience.org if you have any questions.
Check out the Press on Winter Town Talks!
“The Big Deal with Nanoscience” Telluride Daily Planet, February 5, 2009, by Pat Healy
“Pinhead Town Talk on the Magical World of Nanoscience” Telluride Watch, February 1, 2008, by Nana Naisbitt
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