C-MRS Meets in Beijing
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C-MRS Meets in Beijing The week of June 17, 1990 saw the Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS) holding its first International Advanced Materials Meeting in Beijing, China. Fburteen separate parallel symposia, analogous to those found at most MRS meetings, covered a multiplicity of materials research topics. Each symposium was limited to about 60 participants to enhance opportunities for individual exchanges and to best fit the meeting's accommodations. On three successive mornings, a plenary symposium (Symposium N) was the sole session. Plenary talks by 14 invited distinguished materials scholars provided overviews on a wide variety of research areas and contributed strongly to the meeting's multidisciplinary character. Of the 800 participants, about 114 were from 20 foreign countries. The meeting's venue, the Jing Feng Hôtel, is located in the Southwest part of Beijing some distance from the city's center. This somewhat sequestered environment provided an opportunity for participants to interact more intimately throughout the week. Nearly ail the participants stayed at the conférence hôtel, where the sessions were held. AU meeting logistics, from the attendees' arrivai to their departure, from program planning to constructing poster boards, were handled by conférence volunteers. In addition to the technical sessions, the C-MRS meeting offered several social opportunities—a béer party the evening of June 18, a réception the evening of June 19, and a banquet the evening of June 21. The banquet filled the largest restaurant/ ballroom of the Beijing Hôtel in downtown Beijing. The meeting chairs also created opportunities to acknowledge contributions to the meeting's organization by members of the International Advisory Committee and by several symposium chairs.
Symposium G chairs: (top, L-R) Guoliang Chen, Donglian Lin, C.T. Liu; (bottom, L-R) G. Sautoff, Zengyong Zhong.
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One evening, an acrobaties troupe performed for participants and their guests in an auditorium adjoining the conférence hôtel grounds. C-MRS, a conglomerate of some 30 societies, had meetings in 1986 and 1988, although not international ones. The success of those meetings, however, led to this first international meeting. This year's meeting was endorsed by cooperating societies from Japan (AMSES), Europe (E-MRS), and the United States (MRS). Submitted papers numbered 623, most presented in oral sessions and 163 as posters. Accepted papers will appear in several proceedings volumes to be published by the Elsevier North-Holland Publishing Company (Amsterdam). In the opening plenary session, Guangshao Zhou, président of the Academia Sinica of Beijing, addressed attendees. This reflected the importance of the CMRS meeting to the scientific and académie community in China. In addition, the cérémonial part of the June 21 banquet got brief coverage on Chinese television's evening news.
Président Zhou described the Chinese environment in which the meeting was held, particularly the social and économie issues that concern China today. He indicate
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