MRS reports election results for 2016

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MRS reports election results for 2016 www.mrs.org/governance

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embers of the Materials Research Society (MRS) have elected a vice president (who will serve as president in 2017) and five directors to join the 2016 MRS Board of Directors. In addition, the MRS Board of Directors has appointed the next MRS Treasurer. The Board is composed of the officers and 12 to 21 directors, established by Board resolution. The officers of the Society are the president (who serves as chair of the Board), the vice president (who is also the president-elect), the secretary, the treasurer (a position appointed by the Board of Directors), and the immediate past president. Terms of office expire at the end of the year indicated in parentheses. The asterisk (*) designates those who are newly elected. The annual election ended August 24, 2015. The Board of Directors is organized into the following governing committees: Audit, External Relations, Finance, Governance, Nominating, Operational Oversight, and Planning. Chairs and Members of the committees are either designated by policy or are appointed by the president.

2016 MRS Officers President Kristi S. Anseth University of Colorado Boulder Immediate Past President Oliver Kraft Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Vice President (President-Elect) * Susan Trolier-McKinstry The Pennsylvania State University Secretary Sean J. Hearne Sandia National Laboratories Treasurer * David J. Parrillo The Dow Chemical Company Executive Director Todd M. Osman Materials Research Society

2016 Board of Directors Charles T. Black (2017) Brookhaven National Laboratory Alexandra Boltasseva (2016) Purdue University C. Jeffrey Brinker (2016) Sandia National Laboratories and The University of New Mexico

* Matthew Copel (2018) IBM * Paul S. Drzaic (2018) Apple, Inc. * Yury Gogotsi (2018) Drexel University Hideo Hosono (2016) Tokyo Institute of Technology * Young-Chang Joo (2018) Seoul National University Karen L. Kavanagh (2017) Simon Fraser University Kornelius Nielsch (2016) Leibniz Institute of Solid State and Materials Research Christine Ortiz (2017) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sabrina Sartori (2017) University of Oslo * Magaly Spector (2018) The University of Texas at Dallas Loucas Tsakalakos (2016) General Electric–Global Research Center Anke Weidenkaff (2017) University of Stuttgart

2016 SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science to be held May 8–12 in the United States www.siam.org/meetings/ms16

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he 2016 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science will be held May 8–12, in Philadelphia, Pa. It is sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science. The organizing committee co-chairs are Peter Smereka of the University of Michigan and David Srolovitz of the University of Pennsylvania. This conference focuses on interdisciplinary approaches that bridge mathematical and computational methods to the science and engineering of materials, including all electronic structure, atomistic