Meeting Chairs Appointed for 1988 MRS Spring Meeting
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CT. Liu
D.E. Clark
C.W. Draper
David E. Clark, Clifton W. Draper, and Chain T. Liu have been appointed Meeting Chairs for the 1988 MRS Spring Meeting, scheduled April 4-9, 1988 in Reno, Nevada. The meeting program features 15 technical symposia highlighting new horizons as well as covering recent advances in fundamental materials research topics. "The Meeting Chairs for the 1988 MRS Spring Meeting were charged by the program committee to diversify the topical coverage of the symposia," said Clif Draper. "I think you will agree that we have produced the most diversified topical symposia coverage to date," continued Draper, citing Symposium B on Materials for Controlled Release Environments, Symposium C on Process Diagnostics, and Symposium L on Materials Issues in Art and Archeology. While the populär and "hot news" areas will be thoroughly examined, this meeting will also offer a selection of interesting specialty topics never before offered at an MRS annual meeting. David E. Clark is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He directs a research program consisting of both basic science and applied engineering, teaches several undergraduate and graduate courses in ceramics, and is Co-director of the Advanced Materials Research Center. His areas of specialization include materials engineering, ceramics, composites, glass, environmental degradation of glass and ceramics, coatings, and nuclear waste materials. His current research involves the chemical synthesis of ceramic coatings and composites (sponsored by General Motors and AFOSR) and glass corrosion (sponsored by Savannah River Laboratory). Clark, a Licensed Professional Engineer in Florida and a member of several honor
societies, is chair of the Florida Section of the American Ceramics Society (ACerS). He is vice chair of the Engineering Ceramics Division of ACerS, program chair for the division's 89th Annual Meeting, and has been chair of the Symposium on Nuclear Waste Management sponsored by ACerS. A member of the Materials Research Society, Clark was a Symposium Organizer for the 1986 MRS Spring Meeting Symposium on Better Cermics Through Chemistry. Clif Draper is Supervisor of the Optica! Materials Group at AT&T Engineering Research Center, Princeton, NJ. His earliest research interests were in energy transfer at solid surfaces; and in thermal emission, thermal conduction, and gas-surface energy exchange at the surface of metals and group V semimetals. His later activities involved research and development of laser methods used in surface modification, the application of these methods to the discovery of new materials (stainless copper alloys, diffused precious metals, metallic glasses, and alloyed amorphous submicron particles). He holds two U.S. patents as a result of these activities. Draper's most recent research is materials research in support of optical materials activity and also includes the high temperature diffusion of dopants and impurities, and flame synthesized metallic
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