Emerson, Gibala, Ross, and Schowalter to Chair 1998 MRS Spring Meeting
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Emerson, Gibala, Ross, and Schowalter to Chair 1998 MRS Spring Meeting
John A. Emerson
Ronald Gibala
The 1998 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society will be held in San Francisco on April 13-17 1998, and will be chaired by John A. Emerson, Ronald Gibala, Caroline A. Ross, and Leo J. Schowalter. The meeting will include 32 symposia covering a range of topics in materials science, including both wellestablished symposium series and new topics. Several new symposia on microelectronic device materials include Materials Issues in Vacuum Microelectronics, Organic Electroluminescent Devices, Reliability of Photonic Materials, and Chemical-Mechanical Polishing. There will also be new symposia in exciting areas such as Microelectromechanical Structures for Materials Research, Nanoindentation and Nanotribology, Scanning Microprobes, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Magneto-Optical Materials, and Materials for High-Density Magnetic Storage. Polymer/Ceramic Microstructures, Organometallics, Biomaterials, and Porous and Cellular Materials will each have a dedicated symposium. There will be symposia on Epitaxial Growth in Metallic Systems, Epitaxy in Silicon-Based Heterostructures, and Diffusion Mechanisms in Crystalline Materials. Several tutorial sessions will provide a detailed introduction to particular symposium subject areas. There will be an exhibit of products and services of interest to the materials community. The popular Symposium X will provide lunchtime talks on historical topics regarding the development of the semiconductor industry. John A. Emerson is a senior member of technical staff in the Organic Materials Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He received a PhD degree from
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Caroline A. Ross
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on the subject of gas phase chemical kinetics, then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at AeroChem with Arthur Fontijn on hightemperature gas-phase reactions. He spent 22 years at Bell Laboratories' Engineering Research Center in Princeton conducting research on relating polymer properties to their structure for several large-scale production processes. His work included the use of manufacturing engineering science to enhance production processes for organic materials such as polymers and their interfaces. In the last five years his work at Sandia has dealt with science of adhesion between polymers and metal surfaces, understanding the physics of the flow of highly-filled polymers in thin gaps, and technology for encapsulating microelectronic devices. Ronald Gibala is a professor in and former chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He directs the Center for High Temperature Structural Metallic Materials. His current research interests are in the area of mechanical behavior of materials, particularly intermetallic alloys and related quasi-brittle materials. After receiving his PhD degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Gibala taught at Case Weste
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