Interim Report 5-18-08 AwardNum0653570

Participants

		Tony Forest	   Principal Investigator	Yes
		Julian Salamanca	   Graduate student	No
		Tamar Didberidze	   Graduate student	Yes

Activities and Findings

This section will serve as your report to your program officer of your project's activities and findings. Please describe what you have done and what you have learned, broken down into four categories:

Describe the major research and education activities of the project.

Describe the major findings resulting from these activities.

Describe the opportunities for training and development provided by your project.

Describe outreach activities your project has undertaken.

could click "Nothing Yet to report"

Publications and Products

In this section, you will be asked to describe the tangible products coming out of your project. Specifically:

What have you published as a result of this work? Journal publications

Books or other non-periodical, one-time publications

What Web site or other Internet site have you created?

What other specific products (databases, physical collections, educational aids, software, instruments, or the like) have you developed?

Contributions

Now we invite you to explain ways in which your work, your findings, and specific products of your project are significant. Describe the unique contributions, major accomplishments, innovations and successes of your project relative to :

the principal discipline(s) of the project;

other disciplines of science or engineering;

the development of human resources;

the physical, institutional, or information resources that form the infrastructure for research and education; and

other aspects of public welfare beyond science and engineering, such as commercial technology, the economy, cost-efficient environmental protection, or solutions to social problems.