MEERCAT All Hands Meeting Agenda
Day 1: Building Collaboration and Strategic Alignment
8:00 AM – 8:20 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Speaker: Co-Chair of the Leadership Council (LC)
- Overview of MEERCAT’s mission, goals, and progress
- Objectives for the annual meeting
8:20 AM – 9:00 AM: Project Highlights: MEERCAT Research Updates
- Presentations from each of the eight MEERCAT projects
9:35 AM – 10:15 AM: Highlight Panel: Industry Trends in Microelectronics
- Speaker: Industry Advisory Council Representatives
Insights into industry needs, challenges, and opportunities for collaboration
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM: Break
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Project Highlights: MEERCAT Research Updates (cont.)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch at the Argonne Guest House
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM: Working Group Breakout Sessions (Round 1)
- WG1: Materials and Device Development
- WG2: Heterogeneous Integration and Characterization
- WG3: Methodologies, Architectures, Intelligent Sensing, and Advanced Computing
- WG4: Workforce Development
- Goals:
- Participation from IAC members one each of WG Breakouts
- Identify synergies between projects
- Discuss challenges and opportunities for collaboration
- Develop actionable plans for joint activities
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM: Break
3:15 PM – 4:45 PM: Working Group Breakout Sessions (Round 2)
- Focus on actionable plans and milestones for the next year
- Develop proposals for joint workshops, publications, and resource sharing
4:45 PM: Day 1 Wrap-up
- Summary of key outcomes from Day 1
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Networking Dinner
- Informal discussions and relationship building
Day 2: Driving Innovation and Impact
8:00 AM – 8:20 AM: Welcome and Recap of Day 1
- Speaker: Co-Chairs of the Leadership Council
- Objectives for Day 2
8:10 AM – 8:50 AM: Collaborative Prototyping and Testbed Development, Open Hardware Technologies
- Presentations on shared testbeds and physical sample sharing initiatives
- Open-source hardware design capabilities,open chiplet ecosystem
- Discussion on leveraging DOE resources for validation pipelines
8:50 AM – 9:50 AM: Research Synergies and Cross-Center Collaboration
- Presentations on cross-center collaborations with other DOE initiatives
- Opportunities for joint funding proposals and technology transfer
9:50 AM – 10:15 AM: Break
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM: Working Group Reports
- Leads and Co-Leads from each WG present outcomes and proposed plans
- Discussion and feedback from LC and IAC
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM: Technology Transfer and Industry Engagement
- Discussions with IAC members on aligning MEERCAT research with commercial applications
- Strategies for lab-to-fab transitions and workforce development
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch at the Argonne Guest House
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM: Roundtable on CHIPS Opportunities beyond MSRC
- DOE Genesis Mission
- DoW Microelectronics Commons
- DoC CRDO
- NSF Chip Design Hub
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM: Closing Remarks and Next Steps
- Speakers: Chairs of the Leadership Council and Committees
- Summary of meeting outcomes and action items
2:30 PM: Leadership Council Strategic Wrap-Up Session
- LC members discuss long-term goals, priorities, and alignment with DOE initiatives
- Topics for follow-up meetings
- Define next steps for MEERCAT projects and collaborations