2016 MRS Fall Meeting features large variety of symposia and Public Outreach offerings

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2016 MRS Fall Meeting features large variety of symposia and Public Outreach offerings www.mrs.org/fall2016

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ore than 6100 people attended the Materials Research Society (MRS) 2016 Fall Meeting and Exhibit held in Boston from November 27 through December 2. The Meeting featured 54

symposia, 247 exhibitors, and several tutorials and professional development seminars. The Meeting Chairs, Bernard Bewlay (GE Global Research), Silvija Gradečak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),

Gold Graduate Student Awards. Top row, left to right: Zakaria Al Balushi, The Pennsylvania State University; Hyeon-Ho Jeong, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems; Albert Polman, MRS Awards Committee Chair, University of Amsterdam and FOM Institute AMOLF; Peijun Guo, Northwestern University; Hao Sun, Fudan University; Christopher Rodell, University of Pennsylvania. Bottom row, left to right: Jing Li, City University of Hong Kong; Nowick award winner Claire McLellan, University of California, Santa Barbara; Xue-Li Zheng, University of Toronto; Lin Ma, Cornell University; Kristi S. Anseth, MRS Immediate Past President, University of Colorado Boulder. Missing: Dane deQuilettes, University of Washington; Shilpa Raja, University of California, Berkeley.

Silver Graduate Student Awards. Top row, left to right: Osamudiamen Omoigiade, Imperial College London; Albert Polman, MRS Awards Committee Chair, University of Amsterdam and FOM Institute AMOLF; Yu Ding, The University of Texas at Austin; Apoorv Shanker, University of Michigan; Zeqing Shen, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Jin Li, Texas A&M University; Li Na Quan, Ewha Womans University; Mervin Zhao, University of California, Berkeley; Mansa Rajagopalan, Arizona State University; Tianyu Liu, University of California, Santa Cruz; William Wong, The Australian National University; Guoqing Xin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kristi S. Anseth, MRS Immediate Past President, University of Colorado Boulder. Bottom row, left to right: Joohoon Kang, Northwestern University; Muharrem Acerce, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey; Arun Kumar Mannodi Kanakkithodi, University of Connecticut; Joshua Taillon, University of Maryland; Yu-Chuan Lin, The Pennsylvania State University; Matin Amani, University of California, Berkeley. Missing: Wonho Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Kun Wang, University of Georgia.

Sarah Heilshorn (Stanford University), Ralph Splolenak (ETH Zürich), and T. Venky Venkatesan (National University of Singapore), compiled the symposia and organized them into nine topical areas: Broader Impact; Biomaterials and Soft Materials; Electrochemistry; Electronics, Magnetics, and Photonics; Energy and Sustainability; Mechanical Behavior and Failure Mechanisms of Materials; Nanomaterials; Processing and Manufacturing; and Theory, Characterization, and Modeling. To complement these sessions, tutorials were offered in several technical areas, and poster sessions were held during the evenings. A separate symposium was held on engaged