MRS-I Hosts Third Annual General Meeting
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MRS-I Hosts Third Annual General Meeting The Bangalore Local Chapter of MRS-I hosted the Third Annual General Meeting of the Materials Research Society of India at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, February 9-11,1992. The meeting was attended by 290 participants from more than 65 organizations. In his inaugural address, C.N.R. Rao, president of MRS-I, exhorted the materials community, with his customary vigor, to accept the challenge of developing new materials for engineering purposes. He pointed out that physics and chemistry became materials science only when the usefulness of a property had been demonstrated. While it was important for a scientist to publish papers, he argued that it was essential to take developments to the marketplace. He stressed the role of national laboratories, such as those of CSIR, in taking developments to the marketplace. T.R. Anantharaman, director, Thapar Corporate Research and Development Centre, Patiala, and recipient of MRS-I's Distinguished Materials Scientist of the Year Award, delivered the MRS-I honor lecture entitled "Metallic Structures: A Magnificent Obsession." Two Honorary Members of MRS-I gave special lectures. B. Uschner of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, spoke about "Chemical and Microstructural Gradients in Solid Materials," and A. Jayaraman, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, highlighted "The Role of High Pressure in Materials Research." Twenty-one MRS-I Medal recipients for the year also delivered lectures. The meeting featured three topical symposia on rapid solidification processing, advanced composites, and structural ceramics. Two poster sessions, attracting lively participation, displayed 110 poster papers covering metals and alloys; polymers; thin films; synthesis, structure, and properties; electronic materials and devices; biomaterials; composites; ceramics and glasses; and superconductivity. Best poster prizes went to six posters. The MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity Awards were presented to S.B. Ogale, University of Poona, Pune, and J. Gopalakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. P. Rama Rao General Secretary, MRS-I MRS-I Medal Lectures 1992 "Grains and Grain Boundaries in Electronic Materials," B.K. Das, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi.
MRS-I President C.N.R. Rao (left) presents the Distinguished Materials Scientist of the Year Award to T.R. Anantharaman.
"Photoquenching of EL2 in SemiInsulating GaAs," V. Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. "Technology of Bulk Synthesis and Growth of Semi-Insulating GaAs Ingots," R. Thyagarajan, Solid State Physics Laboratory, Delhi. "Nanomaterials Synthesis," D. Chakravorty, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta. "Some Novel Approaches in Ceramics Fine Powder Processing," A.D. Damo-
daran, Regional Research Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram. "Some Novel Chemical Reactions for HiTech Materials Preparation," P. Pramanik, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. "Self-Organization of Dislocations and Instabilit
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