1987 Spring Meeting Continues Some Traditions, Offers New Activities
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1987 Spring Meeting Continues Some Traditions, Offers New Activities Kathleen C. Taylor MRS President The 1987 MRS Spring Meeting to be held April 21-25 in Anaheim, California is designed to provide participants with the opportunity for informed discussion and debate of research findings in the frontier areas of materials research. The primary focus of the meeting is 13 technical symposia organized by meeting chairs Russ Chianelli of Exxon Research and Engineering C o m p a n y , G r a h a m H u b l e r of the Naval Research Laboratory, a n d Greg Olson of Hughes Research Labs. The meeting chairs have worked for more than a year to prepare their program. During this time they have selected the symposia topics, identified a group of outstanding symposia organizers, and worked with these symposia organizers to ensure the technical excellence of the entire program. The symposia they have selected certainly fulfill the MRS mission to highlight multidisciplinary research topics at the forefront of materials research. The 1987 Spring program spans a wide range of materials from electronic materials, magnetic materials, and catalytic materials to superconductors. Research findings in materials synthesis, modification, and processing will be highlighted in these 13 symposia. The meeting chairs give careful attention to the current urgency for technical communication when selecting symposia topics. The symposium on superconductors was added late in the planning because the very recent developments (even since the 1986 MRS Fall Meeting symposium on superconductors) pointed to the urgent need for communication and exchange of information on this topic. The meeting chairs responded to requests from the membership and added the symposium on Superconductors with Tc over 30 K. The very popular noontime Symposium X, Frontiers of Materials Research, organized by Rustum Roy will once again be featured at the MRS Spring Meeting. These authoritative reviews by leaders in a field are designed to give nonspecialists an overview of frontier areas of materials research which are featured at the meeting. On Wednesday evening the Society will host an Awards Ceremony as part of the Plenary Session. The 1987 Spring Meeting Graduate Student Awards will recognize the contributions of students conducting research on topics addressed in symposia at the meeting. The Plenary Address at the 1987 MRS Spring Meeting will be given by Dr. Bonnie Dunbar of NASA, w h o will
speak on materials processing in space. The size of the MRS meeting is intentionally limited to allow and encourage participants to "take in" and "experience" a large part of the program. Exchange of scientific information is an integral p a r t of the research process, and the MRS meeting format is designed to optimize the effectiveness of this exchange. Invited talks are spread throughout the week, and symposia are encouraged to run joint poster sessions. In addition, MRS will host daily coffee breaks and a reception following the Plenary Address on Wednesday evening. Twenty-one sho
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