Professional Activities: E.D. Williams
| 1996-present | Director, NSF-Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Maryland | |
| 2006-9 | Member, Materials Research Society Board of Directors | |
| 2005-7 | Member, Physics Policy Committee, American Physical Society | |
| 2004 | Co-organizer National Nanotechnology Initiative Grand Challenges Workshop on Energy (DOE) report: www.nano.gov/nni_energy_rpt.pdf | |
| 2005-7 | Member, Physics Policy Committee, American Physical Society | |
| 2004-6 | Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Physics and Applied Physics Letters | |
| 2003-present | Board of Reviewing Editors, Science Magazine | |
2003-4 |
Member, Committee on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community (NRC) | |
| 2003 | Member, Director’s Review Committee, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
| 2003 | Participant, National Nanotechnology Initiative Grand Challenges Workshop on Nanomaterials (NSF) | |
| 2003 | External Advisory Committee for Harvard University NSEC | |
| 2003 | External Advisory Committee for Cornell University NSEC | |
| 2002 | External Review Committee, Department of Physics, Rutgers University | |
| 2001-2 | Member, NNSA Advisory Committee | |
| 2001-present | Editorial Board, Nano Letters (ACS) | |
| 2001-2004 | Member Solid State Sciences Committee, Board on Physics and Astronomy (NAS) | |
2000-present |
Member, National Security Panel of University of California President’s Council | |
2001 |
Chairman of the Gordon Conference on Thin Films and Crystal Growth | |
| 2001 | Organizer of Greater Washington Nanoscience Openhouse at University of Maryland (University of Maryland, Naval Research Laboratory, and National Institute of Standards and Technology Open House series) | |
| 2001 | American Physical Society, Adler Award Selection Committee | |
| Fall 1999 | Meeting Chair, Materials Research Society |  |
| 1996; Chair 1998 | American Physical Society, Davisson Germer Prize Selection Committee Member | |
| 1997-2000 | External Advisory Committee for the University of Chicago MRSEC | |
| Spring 1998 | Co-Organizer of Materials Research Society Symposium, Mechanisms and Principles of Epitaxial Growth in Metallic Systems | |
| 1996 | External Review of the NIST Nanomanufacturing of Atom Based Standards Project, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD | |
| 1995-2001 | Editorial Board, Surface Science | |
| Fall 1996 | Co-organizer, Materials Research Society Symposium, Evolution of Thin Film and Surface Morphology | |
| 1994-1997 | Member at Large, Executive Committee of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics, American Physical Society | |
| 1991-1996 | Principal Investigator: NSF Materials Research Group | |
| Fall 1994 | Co-Organizer, Materials Research Society Symposium, Evolution of Thin Film and Surface Morphology | |
| 1994 | Forum on Science in the National Interest | |
| 1993 | Co-Organizer, Workshop on New and Emerging Techniques for Imaging Surfaces, Washington, D.C. | |
| 1991-1993 | Editorial Board, Review of Scientific Instruments | |
| 1990-1992 | American Physical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Physics | |
| 1990 | Co-Chairman, Local Arrangements Committee, Physical Electronics Conference | |
| 1989-1990 | Executive Committee, Surface Science Division of the American Vacuum Society | |
| 1986 | Local Arrangements Committee, 33rd National Symposium, American Vacuum Society, Baltimore | |
| 1984 | Rapporteur for the National Academy of Science Research Briefing on Selected Opportunities in Physics | |
| Reviewer for NSF, DOE, Surface Science, Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, Review of Scientific Instruments, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Science, Nature | ||