Briant, Chason, Katz, and Shiohara to Chair 1998 MRS Fall Meeting
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Briant, Chason, Katz, and Shiohara to Chair 1998 MRS Fall Meeting
Clyde Briant
Eric Chason
The Fall 1998 Materials Research Society Meeting in Boston will be chaired by Clyde Briant (Brown University), Eric Chason (Sandia National Laboratories), Howard Katz (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies), and Yuh Shiohara (ISTEC, Japan). The 43 proposed symposia are the most ever planned for an MRS meeting. The scope of the meeting is designed to capture new and exciting developments in materials science as well as scientific progress in more established fields. The technical program will highlight the most recent advances in semiconductors and other electronic thin-film materials; nonequilibrium microstructures; materials modeling; synthesis and processing of active organic compounds and polymers; inorganic, oxide, and solid-state materials and ceramics; structural materials; and biological applications. New symposia in thin-film growth will reflect the growing interest in understanding morphological instabilities and new approaches to integrate dissimilar materials in microelectronics. A symposium focusing on advances in direct fabrication will be presented at the Fall meeting for the first time. Processing issues in compound semiconductors will be covered as well as the development of new optical materials from the infra-red to the wide bandgap nitrides. Computer modeling and calculations in materials science will be the emphasis of several symposia, and provide a forum for interaction between theorists and experimentalists. This meeting will feature the inception of symposia in several other breakthrough areas of materials science, including combinatorial materials chemistry, nonlithographic patterning, and bulk metallic glasses. One of the new symposia will highlight the achievements of the space program and consider the materials problems faced by the space program today while another will focus on the probMRS BULLETIN/JANUARY 1998
Howard Katz
lems of aging aircraft. The biological applications program will include sessions on materials such as active pharmaceutical agents as well as systems for drug delivery. Ongoing series of symposia will continue in areas such as GaN wide bandgap semiconductors, ferroelectrics, and polycrystalline thin films. Clyde Briant is a professor of engineering at Brown University. He received his Doctor of Engineering Science degree from Columbia University in 1974. Briant has performed research in a number of areas including fracture, the processing of refractory metals, grain boundary structure and chemistry, environmentally induced failures of materials, and the microstructure of high-temperature superconductors. He has published over 150 articles and has four U.S. patents. He has received numerous awards and is a Fellow of ASM International. In 1984 he was selected by Science Digest as one of the 100 Outstanding Young Scientists in the United States. Briant has co-organized several MRS symposia. Eric Chason is a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratorie
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