Preview: 1988 MRS Spring Meeting: Bally's ∎ Reno, Nevada Events Scheduled April 4-10

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
David E. Clark ◽  
Clifton W. Draper ◽  
C.T. Liu
Keyword(s):  
Service Life ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Research Society ◽  
Degradation Mechanisms ◽  
Spring Meeting ◽  
Optical Cable ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Short Courses ◽  
Preliminary Program ◽  
Selection Of

The 1988 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society will be held at Bally's in Reno, Nevada, with events spanning April 4-10. Program Chairs David Clark, Clif Draper, and Chain T. Liu have planned the most diversified topical symposia coverage to date. In addition to a thorough examination of the popular and “hot news” areas, the meeting will also offer a selection of intriguing specialty topics never before offered at an MRS meeting. This year's Spring meeting will feature 16 topical symposia, a program of 23 short courses, and an equipment show. Highlights of the symposia are described below. The names of the short courses and equipment exhibitors are listed elsewhere in this issue. For details see the 1988 MRS Spring Meeting Preliminary Program mailed to all MRS members.During the Plenary and Student Awards session, Raymond D. Tuminaro of AT&T Bell Laboratories will present the Plenary Address on “Materials Aspects of the SL Undersea Optical Cable Design.” Tuminaro will focus on the fiber and cable materials, review their vulnerabilities to degradation mechanisms, and explore methods currently being used to assure acceptable performance levels for the projected 25-year service life of these systems.A special feature is being planned for the 1988 MRS Spring Meeting. A major photomicrography exhibition—Microscapes: The Hidden Art of High Technology—will focus on the seldom-seen world of advanced developments in microelectronics and lightwave communications.

Preview: 1987 MRS Spring Meeting

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Society ◽  
Job Placement ◽  
Spring Meeting ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Convention Center ◽  
Short Courses ◽  
Placement Center

The 1987 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society will be held Tuesday-Saturday, April 21-25,1987 at the Marriott Hotel and Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California. The meeting will feature 13 topical symposia, 21 short courses, an equipment exhibit, and a job placement center. Please review the program and register in advance using the registration forms in this issue of the MRS BULLETIN.Preregistration is strongly encouraged to speed check-in at the meeting. Deadline for preregistration is April 1, 1987. All late registrations will be charged at-meeting registration fees.

scholarly journals Preview: 1989 MRS Spring Meeting

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-55
Keyword(s):  
Optical Materials ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Magnetic Films ◽  
Research Society ◽  
Joint Session ◽  
Linus Pauling ◽  
Spring Meeting ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
The Town

The 1989 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society will be held at the Town and County Hotel in San Diego, with events spanning April 22-29. Meeting Chairs Robin Farrow, Dick Siegel and Angelica Stacy have developed a program of 16 technical symposia that reflect the continuing key role of materials science in the development of both mature and emerging technologies.Several new topics will reflect emerging areas, including materials for optical storage of information (Symposium F), ultrathin magnetic films (Symposium G), and materials problems of infrastructure (Symposium P). A special workshop will provide a technology update on diamond films (Symposium P) and will feature a joint session with Symposium H, Optical Materials: Processing and Science.Plenary speaker Linus Pauling, research professor at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, will discuss quasicrystals, materials whose atomic structure displays perfect five-fold symmetry, but whose atomic pattern is never exactly repeated as it would be in conventional crystals. During the Plenary Session MRS will also recognize graduate students who have made outstanding contributions as authors or co-authors of papers presented at the 1989 Spring Meeting.

The Intersection of Biology and Materials Science

MRS Bulletin ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
George M. Whitesides ◽  
Amy P. Wong
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Research Society ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Spring Meeting ◽  
Materials Research

AbstractThis article is based on the plenary address given by George M. Whitesides of Harvard University on March 30, 2005, at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco. Materials science and biomedicine are arguably two of the most exciting fields in science today. Research at the border between them will inevitably be a major focus, and the applications of materials science to problems in biomedicine—that is, biomaterials science—will bud into an important new branch of materials science. Accelerating the growth of this area requires an understanding of two very different fields, and being both thoughtful and entrepreneurial in considering “Why?” “How?” and “Where?” to put them together. In this fusion, biomedicine will, we believe, set the agenda; materials science will follow, and materials scientists must learn biology to be effective.

Silicon Nanomembranes

MRS Bulletin ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max G. Lagally
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Dots ◽  
Single Crystals ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Research Society ◽  
Strained Silicon ◽  
Spring Meeting ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Silicon Nanomembranes

AbstractThis article is based on the presentation given by Max G. Lagally (University of Wisconsin–Madison) as part of Symposium X: Frontiers of Materials Research on April 18, 2006, at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco.Structures with nanoscale dimensions are the essence of nanotechnology. Beginning with quantum dots and buckyballs, nanostructures now include nanotubes, rods, wires, and most recently, nanomembranes: very thin, large, freestanding or freefloating strain-engineered single crystals that can variously be made into tubes or other shapes, cut into millions of identical wires, or used as conformal sheets. This article provides a brief overview of the fabrication and properties of strained-silicon nanomembranes.

Participants Debate Cold Fusion During MRS Spring Meeting Panel Session

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 66-68
Author(s):  
R.W. Siegel
Keyword(s):  
San Diego ◽  
Cold Fusion ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Research Society ◽  
Plenary Lecture ◽  
Linus Pauling ◽  
Spring Meeting ◽  
The Press ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Wednesday Evening

Capping an exciting day at the 1989 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society in San Diego, a special three-hour session on “cold fusion” was held Wednesday evening, April 26, following the plenary lecture by two-time Nobel laureate Prof. Linus Pauling. (See “Linus Pauling Addresses MRS in San Diego” elsewhere in this issue.)The session, the largest session in MRS history with over 1,700 participants, was sponsored by the Society to provide MRS meeting attendees with an unbiased scientific forum for the presentation and discussion of results and issues regarding recent “cold fusion” announcements in the press. The announcements had captivated the world's interest the preceding month while being met with a healthy amount of scientific skepticism. Such skepticism was not lost on the nation's cartoonists, many of whose works on “cold fusion” were shown during the evening's proceedings.The special session was organized and moderated by Meeting Cochair Richard W. Siegel, with the help of Angelica M. Stacy and Robin F.C. Farrow (also Meeting Co-chairs) and MRS President R.P.H. Chang. A distinguished panel of invited speakers from the nuclear fusion and materials research communities was assembled to discuss the purported fusion of deuterium nuclei dissolved in palladium or titanium at or near room temperatures.

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