Atwater, Face, Green, and Greer to Chair 1997 MRS Fall Meeting
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Atwater, Face, Green, and Greerto Chair 1997 MRS Fall Meeting The Fall 1997 Materials Research Society Meeting in Boston, December 1-5, will be chaired by Harry A. Atwater, Dean W. Face, Peter F. Green, and A. Lindsay Greer. Comprising 41 symposia, the scope of the program reflects an increased emphasis on areas such as theory and modeling and biomaterials. New symposia in areas which MRS has previously not hosted are planned. Furthermore, the scope of some traditional symposia has been modified to reflect emerging trends. Also at this meeting, events are planned to recognize the 50th anniversary of the invention of the transistor. Overall, this program has the added dimension of providing an environment to facilitate new and exciting ideas and, moreover, attract new participants to the field. Four stand-alone symposia in the area of theory and modeling are planned. These range from a reasonably focused symposium on the use of tight binding theoretical methods to a general symposium on modeling materials processes at different length scales using a variety of theoretical methodologies. Another symposium attempts to address the issues of modeling not just the processing of semiconductor materials but also their performance. New symposia will be introduced to reflect emerging trends. For example, this is an appropriate time for MRS to host a symposium which addresses scientific and theoretical issues of thermal spray processing of materials. The scope of topics in the area of complex oxides has been expanded to include a new symposium on magnetic oxides. Topics in the area of biomaterials have also been expanded appreciably to include new areas which range from materials-science-related issues in living organisms to the use of organic polymers in orthopedics. While some symposia which MRS has hosted in previous years are planned, the
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scope of others have been modified. For example, the symposium in the area of complex fluids which is typically hosted in the Fall of each year has been expanded to include biological molecules. A new symposium in the area of phase transformations and systems driven far from equilibrium should include contributions not only from the fields of ion beam analysis and ion implantation but others interested in the general topic of phase transformations. Harry A. Atwater is Associate Professor of Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology where he has been since joining the Caltech faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1988. He was an IBM postdoctoral fellow in applied physics at Harvard University from 1987 to 1988. His research interests lie at the intersection of thin-film materials science, surface science, and semiconductor technology. Atwater's research program is focused on the synthesis and characterization of new thin-film electronic materials and development of new analytic and processing methods for electronic materials. He received his SB (1982), SM (1983), and PhD (1988) degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo
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