Boston Meeting Attracts Worldwide Audience
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Boston Meeting Attracts Worldwide Audience
Opposite Page—Top left: Plenary speaker Robert Noyce speaks frankly about the technical challenge facing the U.S. semiconductor industry. Top center: Participants continue their discussions at the equipment exhibit. Top right: Von Hippel Award récipient John B. Goodenough discusses the "Molecular Engineering of Oxides." Center left: G.G. Bentini (left), CNR-LAMEL, Italy, accepts a plaque commemorating the establishment of the International Materials Research Committee from C.W. White. Fbrty-six scientists from 12 countries attended the inaugural meeting of the IMRC, hosted by MRS on November 30,1989. An article on the inaugural meeting will be published in the March issue of the MRS Bulletin. Center right: Poster sessions continue to offer an excellent opportunity for in-depth discussions. Bottom: Panelists and participants discuss stratégies for implementing the MS&E Study's recommendations during a spécial session at the Fall Meeting. See the article by Paul Peercy on p. 6 of the January 1990 MRS Bulletin. This Page—Top: 1989 MRS Président R.P.H. Chang (right) congratulâtes the Fall Meeting Chairs (L to R) Robert Nemanich, James Mikkelsen Jr. and GaryMcVacy Bottom: Graduate Student Award Récipients. See the article on p. 61.
MRS BULLETIN/FEBRUARY1990
Participants at the 1989 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston found a strong core of familiar subjects intermixed with topics not previously covered at MRS meetings. Superconductiviry, fractals, nuclear waste management, and a broad mix of forefront semiconductor and electronics topics received the enthusiastic attention of approximately 3,900 attendees, as did such areas as optical fibers, polymer-based molecular composites, multifunctional materials, neutron scartering, materials synthesis using biological processes, and more. The stimulating array of 24 technical symposia and some 2,400 oral and poster papers was organized by Meeting Chairs Gary L. McVay of Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Robert J. Nemanich of North Carolina State University, and James C. Mikkelsen Jr. of Xerox with the volunteer help of 75 symposium organizers. Live video broadcasts of two symposia allowed attendees to remain in one hôtel while viewing ongoing présentations in
the other. The symposia participating in this venture were those on High Température Superconductors and on Diamond, Boron Nitride, Silicon Carbide and Related Wîde Bandgap Semiconductors. In another first-time venture, a 90-minute segment of Symposium X—Frontiers in Materials Research was broadcast as a live, interactive vidéoconférence through the PBS and National Technical University satellite services. Complementing the symposia were 22 short courses scheduled throughout the week. Several poster sessions, a major equipment exhibit, and a job place
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