1998 MRS Fall Meeting Preview
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1998 MRS Fall Meeting Preview November 30-December 4,1998, Boston, Massachusetts Boston Marriott/Copley Place, Westin Hotel/Copley Place, Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers Meeting Chairs: Clyde Briant (Brown University), Eric Chason (Brown University) Howard Katz (Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations), and Yuh Shiohara (ISTEC)
From liquids confined to nanometer spaces to vehicles bombarded with particles while traveling in outer space, the 1998 MRS Fall Meeting program will span the range of materials research. The meeting will be filled with a record 44 symposia with nearly 4,000 presentations scheduled, 1,600 of them posters; a packed exhibit; tutorials; special presentations and workshops; and interactive materials science displays. This promises to create a stimulating backdrop for intellectual discussions among colleagues and across disciplines. A strong emphasis on structural materials emerges in several symposia with the continuing High-Temperature-Ordered Intermetallic Alloys (Symposium KK), and the introduction of a new symposium on Aging of Engineered Systems with Focus on Aircraft, (NN). The latter Symposium will address crack detection and probabilities and risk. It concludes on Tuesday with a panel discussion. In addition, two symposia focus on structural ceramics: PP, Recent Advances in Ceramic Matrix Composites—Structural Design, Fabrication, and Long-Term Use, covering standards and test methods; and Symposium OO, Properties and Processing of VaporDeposited Coatings. This symposium includes coverage of superlattices, multilayers, and diamondlike coatings. A major portion of the materials modeling symposia (J and M) will be devoted to issues regarding structural materials and prediction of their mechanical properties. Also, in the area of modeling is Symposium K, Computation of Rates of Activated Processes. In Symposium M, Fracture and Ductile versus Brittle Behavior—Theory, Modeling and Experiment, findings will be presented on whether faulty rivets might have played a role in the sinking of the Titanic. Earlier analysis of the ship's wrought iron rivets showed that they contained too much slag, the glassy residue left behind after the smelting of ore, making them more brittle than they should have been. Faulty rivets that popped off, causing hull seams to "unzip," might have caused the ship to sink more rapidly than it would have if the rivets had kept the seams closed. MRS BULLETIN/OCTOBER 1998
A wide array of topics center around semiconductors, covering polycrystalline thin films, heteroepitaxy, surface and interface dynamics, integration of dissimilar materials in micro- and optoelectronics, film growth using hyperthermal beams, and micro- and nanocrystalline semiconductors (Symposia A-F). Symposium G, GaN and Related Alloys, one of the largest symposia of the meeting, starts on Monday with a morning plenary session of invited talks. This session provides a broad perspective on devices, properties, defects, etching, and contacts. On Wednesday afternoon, a panel discussion will address hi
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