Venue & Time: ============ Room 357 Building E6A, Macquarie University 13:00 Facilitating Research Collaborations in Asia and Australia Lt. Col. Bill Nace Technical Director, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Tokyo, Japan ABSTRACT The Air Force Research Lab supercharges its research efforts through collaborations with researchers outside the lab. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is well known as the organizer of contact with basic research happening at Universities throughout America. Less well known is the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD), which carries AFOSR's mission overseas. AOARD seeks out researchers of the highest quality in Asia and Australia to interact with the Air Force Research Lab and jumpstarts collaboration through conference sponsorships, travel grants and R&D project grants. This talk will showcase the efforts of AOARD over the past several years and discuss the new portfolio emphasis on information technology and computer science. BIOGRAPHY Lt. Col. Bill Nace is the Technical Director of the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development in Tokyo, Japan. In that role, he seeks out high quality researchers in Asia and Australia who are doing work of interest to the Air Force Research Lab. Prior Air Force assignments have included 2 tours as a professor at the US Air Force Academy, running a test group at a DoD semiconductor fab, program manager for the software interface to the Fortezza crypto PC-card and as a graphical systems expert for Air Force command center development. The Air Force also gave him 3 years to study at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his doctorate doing research entitled "Automatic Graceful Degradation for Distributed Embedded Systems."