First MRS Spring Meeting
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Vol. IX No. 1
January/February 1984
FIRST MRS SPRING MEETING Four Symposia Are Slated To Be Offered In Albuquerque, Site Of The Society's First-Ever Supplement To Boston
The Materials Research Society's first of a planned annual series of Spring Meetings is being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Feb. 27-29. The Society is extremely pleased to report that, through the efforts of Program Chairmen Gordon Pike of Sandia National Labs, Ross Lemons of Los Alamos National Lab, and Noble Johnson of Xerox's Palo Alto, Calif., Research Center, a large number of materials scientists based in Western North America, Latin America, and the Far East have a supplement to the Society's November Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, for topical symposia of particular interest at government, industry and university labs in those areas. Some 300 Expected to Attend The level of preregistrations indicates total enrollment at the Albuquerque Meeting will be about 300 scientists, engineers, and technicians. Last-minute registrations could well push the figure higher. This indicates the meeting, being held at the Albuquerque Marriott Hotel, is being well received by the materials community. "The great interest expressed in this meeting has demonstrated the MRS was correct to establish the Spring Meetings," the Chairmen report. With more than 1,600 scientists and engineers attending the most recent Annual Meeting in Boston, that conference had grown unwieldy, it was felt. In some instances limitations of space had made it impossible to offer all of the symposia that might have been organized. Also, "The MRS can better serve research topics where the predominant interest is at western universities and industries" through the West Coast meeting, the Chairmen state. "For topics of widest interest, the Spring Meeting will provide the option of site alternation with Boston and symposia repeat time of 18 months." Four Symposia Scheduled Four symposia are being offered at Albuquerque.
Symposium A is "Materials for Display and Printing Technologies," chaired by Derek B. Dove of International Business Machines Corp.'s Yorktown Heights, New York, Research Center, and Cecil E. Land of Sandia National Laboratories. Sessions have been organized on liquid crystal displays, flat panel phosphor displays and phosphor materials, PLZT materials and devices, electrophoretic and electrochromic displays, electroluminescent displays, electrophotographic printing ROSS LEMONS technologies, magnetic, ion-jet and thermal printing technologies, and ink-jet printing technology. Symposium B is "Better Ceramics Through Chemistry." The Chairmen are C. Jeff Brinker of Sandia National Labs, David E. Clark of the University of Florida, Gainesville, and D.R. Ulrich of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Sessions include the science of sol-gel processing, applications of sol-gel processing, chemical synthesis of ceramic powders, novel materials through chemical synthesis, and characterization of gels and powders. Symposium C is "Optical and Magnetic Data Storag
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