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CONFERENCE REPORTS
Fifth International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science Highlights Latest Research Developments www.aps.anl.gov/News/Conferences/2006/SRMS/ More than 250 scientists from 22 countries gathered at the Drake Hotel in downtown Chicago from July 30 to August 2, 2006, to participate in the Fifth International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science (SRMS-5). The SRMS conference is held every two years, bringing together leading-edge researchers in the materials sciences making use of synchrotron radiation. The conference, which was organized and hosted this year by Argonne National Laboratory and the Advanced Photon Source, provided an overview of the latest research developments in a broad range of areas such as polymers and biomaterials, magnetic and superconducting materials, glasses and ceramics, engineering materials, materials under extreme conditions, complex oxides, innovative instrumentation, membranes, and thin films. The aim of SRMS-5 was to highlight recent breakthroughs in materials science using synchrotron radiation and to open doors to future innovation and discovery. The meeting was divided into plenary sessions—with lectures across a broad range of topics—and breakout sessions that were generally more focused on a particular area of research. Poster presen-
A. Manceau (CNRS) delivers an invited lecture on the defects and chemistry of environmental nanoparticles.
tations followed along the lines of the breakout sessions of each day. In all, there were 35 plenary and invited talks, 37 contributed talks, and 134 poster presentations at SRMS-5. The conference opened with a plenary lecture by J.C. Campuzano (Argonne Natl. Lab; Univ. of Illinois at Chicago), in which he laid out many details of the elec-
R. Barabash (ORNL) explains her poster on the arrangement of dislocations in shockrecovered Al single crystals.
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tronic structure of high-temperature superconductors determined by angleresolved photoemission. Attempts to explain these structures by means of band theory, Landau–Fermi liquid theory, or Bardeen–Cooper–Schriefer (BCS) theory have not thus far succeeded, leaving this challenge open for the future. Next, H. Dosch (Max Planck Inst., Stuttgart, Germany) spoke on the challenges in understanding phase behavior of metallic alloys and its relation to physical properties in nanoconfined geometries, where he speculated that some of the results may be understood in terms of misfit strains. T.P. Russell (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) and E.E. Fullerton (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose) spoke on orienting domains in block copolymer thin films and on magnetic reversal in antiferromagnetically coupled films, respectively. On the second day, C.S. Yoo (Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, Livermore) presented the challenge of understanding the exotic states of matter that can be created in extreme environments. High pressure, coupled with high temperature, can induce non-molecular phases in simple molecular
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