2014 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting offers mix of traditional events and new activities
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2014 MRS FALL MEETING RECAP
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he Materials Research Society (MRS) 2014 Fall Meeting and Exhibit featured over 6000 presentations, including more than 3300 oral presentations and nearly 3000 poster presentations on November 30 through December 5 in Boston, Mass. The Meeting Chairs, Husam N. Alshareef (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Amit Goyal (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Gerardo Morell (University of Puerto Rico), José A. Varela (University of São Paulo State), and In Kyeong Yoo (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology), compiled 52 technical symposia organized into six topics: Biomaterials and Soft Matter; Electronics and Photonics; Energy and Sustainability; Nanomaterials and Synthesis; Theory, Characterization, and Modeling; and General Materials and Methods. To complement these sessions, tutorials were offered in several technical areas, and poster sessions were held during the evenings. The international exhibit showcased products and services of interest to the materials community. Federal agencies hosted sessions on government funding policies and practices. The Meeting also featured the Science as Art competition, science presentations, a NASA Biological Materials, Biomaterials, and Biomimetics Workshop, and sustainability events. The special talks delivered by the Society’s award recipients were well attended. MRS hosted undergraduate students from NSF’s Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) Program. This year, the invited PREM
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students not only participated in mentoring and professional development sessions, but also celebrated the PREM 10th anniversary. The Technology Innovation Forum added a new program—iMatSci– Innovation in Materials Science—that provided a demonstration platform for technology providers across all science, technology, engineering, and mathematics departments at universities and start-ups to showcase their newest materials-focused technologies. New to the Meeting this year was the Materials Hackathon. Participants made 30-second pitches of ideas for new materials-related software, formed teams around those ideas, brought the concepts to life with working code, and presented the results to a panel of judges from across the materials field. The Career Fair included on-site interviews, mentoring, workshops, resume critiques, mock interviews, and networking opportunities. Some of the related workshops included science writing, industrial careers, a technical poster design seminar, and an interactive scientific publishing session that explained the basics of the publishing process. A special feature in the Tutorial T session on optoelectronics was a presentation by Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University, on the fundamental physics of nitride-based optoelectronic devices. The Laureate of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics emphasized the need for lighting sources with greater efficiencies t
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