Colleagues: I'd like to thank the many people who attended today, as well as provide some follow through. Today, David and I spent the time describing (our viewpoints) on both Center efforts / proposals and MRSEC specific efforts / proposals. I've attached the slides from that discussion. For those of you unable to attend, you can see that at this point we are in 'discovery': a period where we are trying to provide a forum for groups to provide at least nascent descriptions of ideas that they feel may fit into an IRG (Integrated Research Group) within the MRSEC framework. If you have an idea that you would like to air out / talk through in the upcoming weeks, please let David or I know: if you cannot attend because of other obligations, this should be OK as other members of your group should also be able to articulate the ideas. Again, thank you for your time today, and I look forward to seeing how we can develop a process that leads to (perhaps multiple) successful Center proposals. Eric (and David)