MRS-India 13th Annual General Meeting Held in February
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INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETIES
MRS-India 13th Annual General Meeting Held in February The 13th Annual General Meeting of the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI–13th AGM) was held at Hyderabad on February 7–9, 2002. In addition to the Meeting, that comprised of award lectures, medal lectures, poster presentations, and the business meeting, a theme symposium on Perspectives in Materials Characterization was hosted by MRS-I. The theme symposium was sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, the Department of Atomic Energy, the Defence Research and Development Organization, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and the Indian Space Research Organisation. MRS-I–13th AGM attracted ~300 attendees in the area of materials science and technology. The inaugural session opened at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) with introductory remarks by the vice president–general secretary of MRS-I, S.V. Subramanyam (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore). K.V. Raghavan, director of IICT, welcomed the gathering. Founding president of MRS-I and Linus Pauling Research Professor C.N.R. Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore) delivered a keynote address on “Phase Segregation and Phase Separation.” This was followed by a lecture by the guest of honor, R. Chidambaram, principal scientific advisor to the government of India. The president of MRS-I, D. Chakravorty (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science), gave the presidential address. D. Banerjee, convener of the MRS-I–13th AGM and director of the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, concluded the session with a vote of thanks. The opening program was followed by the technical sessions. The first session was devoted to MRS-I–International Conference on Superconductivity lectures, discussing developments in the area of materials science and superconductivity. The invited lecturers were ■ M.S. Valiathan (Manipal Academy of Higher Education), Biomaterials: From Inert Substitutes to Active Scaffolds of Organs; ■ P. Ramachandra Rao (National Metallurgical Laboratory), Thermodynamics of Metastable Systems; and ■ A.K. Raychaudhuri (Indian Institute of Science), Colossal Magnetoresistive Oxides: Physics, Materials, and Devices. K.J. Rao delivered the Honor Lecture on “A Physical Chemist’s Homage to Materials Science.”
MRS BULLETIN/AUGUST 2002
Award recipients and delegates to the MRS-India 13th Annual General Meeting: (front row, left to right) G.S. Bhuvaneshwar, S.C. Chaplot, A.K. Raychaudhuri, K.J. Rao, D. Chakravorty, Ashok Misra, P. Ramachandra Rao, N. Ramakrishnan, and V. Damodara Das; (back row, left to right) S.V. Subramanyam, S.V. Joshi, S. Ramakrishnan, T. Pradeep, S.H. Pawar, S.D. Majumdar, Shobhana Narasimhan, P.N. Subramanian, and Devendra Kumar.
S. Biswas (Indian Institute of Science), D.N. Bose (formerly Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), P. Hing (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), and S. Radhakrishnan (National Chemical Laboratory) gave invited
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