European Ceramic Society Holds First Meeting
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European Ceramic Society Holds First Meeting The European Ceramic Society held its first meeting June 19-23, 1989 at the new Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Center (MECC), the Netherlands. More than 1,000 participants from 38 countries attended technical symposia and poster sessions covering basic science aspects of ceramics, engineering ceramics, electronic ceramics, traditional ceramics, bioceramics, ceramic superconductors, and standardization. Contributing to an auspicious first meeting were over 450 paper présentations and an exhibit featuring 90 companies from 12 countries. The proceecÛngs are being published by NorthHolland Physiçs Publishing, Amsterdam. Among the meeting highlights were the présentation of several awards, the installation of the new ECerS président, and the foundation of an International Ceramic Fédération (see below). The first A.L. Stuijts Mémorial Award was presented to British scientist Richard J. Brook, director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, for his contributions to ceramic science and éducation. Brook, who studied at the University of Leeds and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has held positions in the United States, United Kingdom, and West Germany. Stuijts (1922-1982) is noted for his contributions to the development of magneto-ceramic and electro-ceramic materials, and especially to a better understanding of the relationship between microstructure and properties. He was one of the inventors of hexaferrite. Awards for student posters were presented to J.B. \feyret (France) for a paper on "Gaseous Corrosion of Some Silicon Nitrides in Sulfur Dioxide-Air Mixtures at High Température" and to M. Prostavec (Yugoslavia) for a paper on "A TEM Study of Antimony-Doped PZT Ceramics." In conjunction with the awards cérémonies, Hans Hausner, président of the Deutsche Keramische Gesellschaft DKG, was installed at the second ECerS président. A professor of ceramics at the Institute for Nonmetallic Materials of the Technical University of Berlin and a member of the American, British and German ceramic societies, he was elected by the ECerS Council to serve a two-year term.
MRS BULLETIN/SEPTEMBER1989
tives of 10 countries signed the "Objectives The first président of ECerS was Rudi and Constitution of the International CeMetselaar, professor of solid state chemisramic Fédération." try and materials at Eindhoven University of Technology, director of the Centre for The Fédération will serve as an internaTechnical Ceramics, Eindhoven, and also tional center for the exchange of information, promote an understanding of ceramic président of the Netherlands Ceramic Somaterials, maintain a world calendar of ciety. meetings on ceramics, provide a clearingECerS was founded in 1987 fojlowing house for coordinating international meetdiscussions among several national ceings on ceramics, prépare reports and ramic societies which currently include surveys of an international character, and those from Belgium, France, Italy, the improve and facilitate communication Net
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