1999 MRS Fall Meeting Symposia Topics Interweave Experiments and Theory/Modeling
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1999 MRS Fall Meeting Symposia Topics Interweave Experiments and Theory/Modeling The annual Materials Research Society Fall Meeting in Boston was held November 28–December 3, 1999. For the first time, the meeting was held at the Hynes Convention Center, in addition to the traditional Boston Marriott at Copley Place. Chaired by Paul D. Bristowe (Cambridge University), David G. Grier (University of Chicago), Fernando A. Ponce (Arizona State University), and Ellen D. Williams (University of Maryland), the meeting, incorporating 43 technical symposia, was attended by close to 4,500 materials researchers and included nearly 3,900 oral and poster papers. In a marked departure from recent years, all poster sessions were held in one place at the Hynes Convention Center, instead of being spread out among two or three different venues. The equipment exhibit was also located solely at the Hynes. Meeting highlights included the plenary session with a talk by Nobel Laureate Horst Stormer; the awards ceremony, including a talk by Von Hippel Award recipient Richard Stein; the David Turnbull lecture given by Joseph Greene; special seminars on materials research support by DOE, NSF, and NIST; a student mixer; and a panel discussion on Alternative Careers in Science.
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The Materials Research Society moved its Fall Meeting into the Hynes Convention Center in Boston in 1999.
Technical Symposia Soft Materials In the area of soft materials, Symposium AA explored various materials science aspects of food. An introduction was given by R. Jones (Sheffield, UK) during a Symposium X talk in which he illustrated how, despite the complexity of many foodstuffs, the same basic physical principles govern behavior as for traditional “materials.” This same message was reinforced by P. Fryer (Cadbury Ltd., UK) who cast the production of chocolate in the language of metallurgical processing, namely, casting and
solidification. A. Smith (John Innes Center, UK) drew attention to the role of biology in controlling the starting material—in this case, starch. As plant biochemists learn more about the enzymes that control starch synthesis, researchers should be able to tailor starches to suit different niche markets, a point also covered by M. Gidley (Unilever Research). The materials science of phospholipid assemblies was the subject of Symposium EE. Phospholipids are ubiquitous biological molecules which self-assemble into lamellar bilayers and other three-dimenMRS BULLETIN/MARCH 2000
1999 MRS Fall Meeting Symposia Topics Interweave Experiments and Theory/Modeling
sional constructs which have been extensively utilized for materials synthesis, as models of biological systems, and in biomedical and biotechnological applications. Several papers described research on fundamental properties of lipids, such as selfassembly, structure, dynamics, mechanical properties, polymerization, and biophysical properties of lipid monolayers and bilayers. On the applications side, several contributions described developments in the utilization of lipid assemblies f
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