MRS plans joint 2022 MRS Spring Meeting events with societies in South Korea, Japan, and Singapore
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MRS plans joint 2022 MRS Spring Meeting events with societies in South Korea, Japan, and Singapore By Lori A. Wilson and Gopal R. Rao
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he Materials Research Society (MRS) has strong connections with materials researchers across Asia, who form a significant portion of the MRS membership and meeting attendees. The MRS Spring Meeting has been held in Phoenix, Ariz., in recent years, but beginning in 2021, the MRS Spring Meeting enters an exciting new era of rotating venues. The 2021–2023 meetings are scheduled to be held in Seattle, Honolulu, and San Francisco, respectively. The Meeting in Honolulu, Hawai’i, presents an excellent opportunity for joint events with peer societies in Asia. With this in mind, MRS is planning several collaborative events at the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting with materials societies from South Korea, Japan, and Singapore in an effort to share and discuss research across the Pacific Rim, provide networking opportunities across our communities, and grow a higher level of support and awareness for materials research and innovation. Specifically, the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting will feature joint sessions and symposia with societies in South Korea,
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including the Korean Ceramic Society (KCS), The Korean Institute of Metals and Materials (KIM), MRS-Korea, and The Polymer Society of Korea (PSK). Joint symposia are also planned with The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), tentatively in the areas of complex states in biomimetic functionalities, carrier transport and doping in organic semiconductors, plasma processing for sustainability, and soft robotics. Additionally, MRS plans a joint symposium with MRS-Singapore at the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting. “The joint symposia between MRS and the Korean materials societies are expected to offer exciting opportunities for researchers to get exposed to both new findings on fundamental materials science and its real-world industrial applications. I believe this collaboration will benefit both parties and be a great success,” said Kisuk Kang, Seoul National University and MRS Board Director. MRS has been working with these societies to finalize signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs), which emphasize the intent of collaboration
SPRING MEETING & EXHIBIT
May 9–13 • Honolulu, Hawai’i
by promoting events and jointly hosting symposia and workshops. MoUs with JSAP and with MRS-Singapore have already been signed. MoUs with the Korean Societies will be signed in separate online ceremonies in late summer, with leaders from each of these societies as well as MRS participating. Videos of these signings will be available soon thereafter along with interviews with the principals. “Following joint symposia at the MRS Spring Meeting in 2012, MRS and JSAP have had great success in organizing the 2013 JSAP-MRS Joint Symposia in Kyoto, with more than 1000 participants,” said Takao Someya, The University of Tokyo. “Preparations for the 2022 joint symposia at the MRS Spring Meeting in Hawai’i are steadily in progress, and we anticipate further developments and exchanges b
