Balazs, Hwang, Jones, and Ross to Chair MRS Spring 2000 Meeting
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Balazs, Hwang, Jones, and Ross to Chair MRS Spring 2000 Meeting
Anna C. Balazs
Robert Q. Hwang
The Materials Research Society 2000 Spring Meeting will be held April 24-28, 2000 in San Francisco, California, at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel and the Argent Hotel. It will be chaired by Anna C. Balazs (University of Pittsburgh), Robert Q. Hwang (Sandia National Laboratories), Kevin S. Jones (University of Florida), and Frances M. Ross (IBM T.J. Watson Re search Center). The meeting will include 34 symposia as well as tutorials, a plenary session and the equipment exhibit. The scientific sessions will include many new and developing areas of materials science as well as some well-established and populär topics. In the area of Silicon processing, five symposia will cover areas such as dopant-defect interactions, silicides, dielectrics, and interconnects. Thin film materials and processes will be well represented with nine sym posia including areas such as magnetoelectronics, epitaxy of oxides and semiconductors, polycrystalline films, and corrosion. Ten symposia on materials processing and devices will bring us the State of the art in flat-panel displays, wide-bandgap devices, and novel oxide-based devices. Interesting materials such as optoelectronic polymers and thermoelectrics will also be discussed, and MRS will host two new symposia on millimeter wave technology for materials characterization and on direct write technologies. The strong interest of MRS in soft materials will be continued with five sym posia in areas such as polymer nanostructures, organic/inorganic hybrids, and the granulär State. There will also be two sym posia dedicated to materials modeling. For the first time a Symposium on materials education, focusing on materials science and engineering education in the new millennium, will be held on the West Coast. Finally, a Symposium on analyzing, predicting, and preventing disasters will
Kevin S. Jones
include many good examples of when materials reaüy matter. Anna C. Balazs is a professor in the De partment of Chemical and Petroleum Engi neering at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the University in 1987, Balazs was a research associate in the Polymer Science and Engineering Depart ment at the University of Massachusetts, and guest scientist at the National Bureau of Standards. She received her PhD degree in 1981 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Balazs' research involves using Statistical mechanics and Computer simulations to model polymeric Systems. Her current research is focused on model ing the properties of polymer blends and composites, and polymer-surface interac tions. She is also interested in the role of polymers in biophysics. Balazs has won the University of Pitts burgh President's Distinguished Research Award and the Lilly Teaching Fellowship Award. Most recenüy, she was awarded a National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award. She served on the editorial boards of Macromolecules, Langmuir and Accounts of Chemical Research. In 1997, she w
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