MRS Seeks Nominees for Outstanding Young Investigator Award, 2000
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performance polymers, and polymers in nonlinear optical applications.
Characterization and Modeling
Between sessions, attendees take the opportunity to review research presentations at the 5th International Union ofMateriab Research Societies International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA), held in Bangalore, India,October 13-16,1998.
Symposium J on Polymers covered a wide ränge of topics including frontier areas of organic materials science such as fabrication of complex surfaces, patterns, conducting polymers, polymer surfaces, light-emitting materials, polymer electrolytes, electrical and dielectric proper ties of materials, polymer blends, high-
Symposium W, Computer-Aided Design of Materials, showed state-of-the-art calculations, for instance, using multimillion atom molecular dynamics simulations and ab initio materials design using supercomputing technology. These and other approaches were used to examine dislocations and fraction, dynamics of stick-slip in frictional sliding, as well as Simulation of field-effect solar cells. Symposium V, Characterization of Ma terials, covered an array of techniques including nuclear magnetic resonance, high-resolution electron microscopy, convergent beam electron diffraction, electron energy loss spectroscopy, Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, and electron probe microanalyzer. The techniques were examined in detail, and fheir use for understanding composites, defect structures, quasicrystals, and superconducting materials were elucidated. Phase transformation studies in titanium base alloys, chemistry associated with Li 2 B 8 0i 3 and sinterability of U 0 2 and other problems associated with süica aerogels were some of the other important topics.
assessed the needs for the future. The need for interdisciplinarity seems to be established, with agreement that this must continue. Also, the notion that research is global has a strong foothold in the Indian Community, so the level of education and research efforts allows global collaboration and competition. Much of the focus, however, was on the need for a stronger connection to industry. Students tend to learn theory at the expense of more practical skills, bringing a large disconnect between Student education and industry needs. An additional problem in India arises: Because the materials industry in certain areas may not yet exist locally, such as a semiconductor industry, industrial connections are difficult to achieve. Offen, participants said, what the universities think is good for industry conflicts with what industry thinks it needs. This makes employability of graduates a problem. The Indian Academy of Sciences will publish a special issue of the Bulletin of Materials Sciences containing the invited talks presented at the IUMRS-ICA-98 Conference. The contributed papers have also been forwarded to the Journal for publicarion consideration. Contributions made by S.V. SUBRAMANYAM GENERAL SECRETARY OF MRS-I
Materials Education A panel discussion in Symposium X, Materials Education, looked at the Status of mat
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