WEDNESDAY - MAY 19, 2004
6:00-8:00 pm	Hosted reception with hors d’oeuvres, sponsored by MTS Systems Corp. PI’s of the Equipment Sites and the SI projects were available to discuss usage of NEES with potential researchers.
THURSDAY - MAY 20, 2004
7:15-8:15 am	Continental Breakfast & Meeting check-in
8:15-8:30	Opening of Meeting and Agenda Overview: Ian Buckle, President, NEES Consortium
8:30-8:45	Welcome by NEES Consortium, Inc. Executive Director: Cliff Roblee
8:45-9:15	Welcome from NSF: Joy Pauschke, NSF NEES Program Director
9:15-9:45	The Shared Cyberinfrastructure Program: Sangtae Kim, Director, Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure, Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, NSF
9:45-10:15	NEES Research Solicitations: Steven McCabe, NEESR Program Manager, NSF
10;15-10:30	NIED E-Defense: Toru Hayama, Executive Director, National Research Institute of Earth Science and Disaster Prevention
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-noon	NEES Equipment Site “Travelogue,” Part I: Shake Tables (UB-SUNY, U.Nevada-Reno, UCSD); Mobile and Field (BYU/UCSB, UCLA. U of Texas - Austin [see lunch speaker below.] )
noon-1:30 pm	Lunch: Speaker, Kenneth Stokoe, University of Texas at Austin
1:30-2:30	NEES Committee Updates and Live Wireless Polling of Members: Andrew Neitlich -- Education, Outreach, and Training: Thalia Anagnos, Chair -- Finance: Craig Comartin, Chair -- Data Sharing and Archiving: Andrei Reinhorn, Chair -- IT: Cherri Pancake, Chair -- Site Operations: Roberto Leon, Chair
2:30-3:00	Break
3:00-5:00	NEES Committee Meetings
6:00-7:30	Banquet Guest Speaker: Luis Esteva, President, International Assoc. for Earthquake Engineering
FRIDAY - MAY 21, 2004
7:30-8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:30	NEES Equipment Site “Travelogue,” Part II: Tsunami (OSU); Large-Scale Structures (U. Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, Lehigh, U. Minnesota, UC-Berkeley, U. Colorado - Boulder); Large-Scale Lifelines and Geotechnical (Cornell); Centrifuges (RPI, UC-Davis)
9:30-10:30	Early Research Usage of NEES Equipment Sites -- Cathy French -- Roberto Leon -- John Wallace -- Sharon Wood
10:30-11:00	Break (w/ group photo)
11:00-11:45	Committee Reports -- Education, Outreach, and Training: Thalia Anagnos, Chair -- Data Sharing and Archiving: Andrei Reinhorn, Chair -- IT: Cherri Pancake, Chair -- Site Operations: Roberto Leon, Chair
11:45-1:15 pm	Lunch: Speaker, James Malley, President of SEAOC and Principal Engineer with Degenkolb Engineers -- Keiichi Ohtani, NIED E-Defense Update
1:15-1:50	Community Input: Andrew Neitlich Discussion and live wireless polling of the audience: Prioritization of NEES Consortium membership services, reactions to the first round of NEESR Solicitations/proposals, evaluation of this annual meeting, preferences for future meetings
1:50-2:30	Demonstration of New NEES IT Capabilities -- Bill Spencer, System Integration Project -- Tarek Abdoun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2:30-3:00	Break
3:00-4:00	Building Bridges Between NEES and the Geoscience Community -- Chaitan Baru, SDSC and GEON -- Thomas Jordan, SCEC -- William Leith, USGS and ANSS -- David Simpson, IRIS and EarthScope
4:00-4:15	Closing: Ian Buckle, NEES Consortium, President
SATURDAY - MAY 22, 2004
8:30 am	Depart Hotel for Field Trip to UC San Diego Equipment Site