Nemanich Leads Executive Committee in 1998
- PDF / 2,643,101 Bytes
- 2 Pages / 576 x 777.6 pts Page_size
- 89 Downloads / 176 Views
Nemanich Leads Executive Committee in 1998
Robert J. Nemanich (North ( .II State University) automatically .issumi". the position of the 1998 M.IUTI.IK Research Society president from hi1- position as Vice President (President-Elect) in 1997. He succeeds Robert Hull from the University of Virginia who now serves MRS as immediate past president. Beginning with the 1998 election, MRS members elect a Vice President (PresidentElect). The first elected Vice President is Ronald Gibala (University of Michigan). Chuang Chuang Tsai (Applied Komatsu Technology) has been elected for a twoyear term as secretary and Alan J. Hurd (Sandia National Laboratories) enters the second year of his two-year term as Treasurer. MRS Council has elected two councillors to serve one-year terms on the executive committee: Harry A. Atwater (California Institute of Technology) and Martin L. Green (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies). The newly elected MRS councillors for 1998 are Michael Aziz, Harvard University; Katayun Barmak, Lehigh University; David J. Eaglesham, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies; Alexander H. King, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Karen Maex, IMEC, Belgium; and Alan I. Taub, Ford Motor Company (re-elected). They join the following current members of council: Cammy R. Abernathy, University of Florida; Harry A. Atwater; Theodore M. Besmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Martin L. Green; Amy J. Moll,
MRS BULLETIN/JANUARY 1998
Harry A. Atwater Hewlett Packard; Virginia M. Oversby, Stockholm, Sweden; Timothy D. Sands, University of California—Berkeley; Lyle H. Schwartz, Associated Universities Inc.; and James S. Williams, Australian National University. Robert J. Nemanich President
Robert J. Nemanich, professor of physics and an associate member of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University, coordinates an interdisciplinary research program involving postdoctoral research associates and undergraduate and graduate students from the departments of materials science, physics, and electrical engineering. With his main research interest area in electronic materials, Nemanich's current research topics include diamond and other wide-bandgap semiconductor surfaces and interfaces, heteroepitaxy on Si, semiconductor surface cleaning and preparation, and amorphous and microcrystalline semiconductors. After receiving his BS degree in physics
Martin L. Green from Northern Illinois University in 1969 and his PhD degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 1976, Nemanich worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from 1976 to 1986. He was involved with research, development, and research management in the Integrated Circuit and General Science Laboratories. Within MRS, Nemanich served as vice president (president-elect) (1997), second vice president (1996), and, prior to that, as chair of the Continuing Education Committee for three years. He has served on the Publications and Program Committees, co-organized five MRS symposia, and co-chaired the 1989 MRS Fall Meetin
Data Loading...
