Nobel Laureate Stormer to Give Plenary Talk on Fractional Quantum Numbers
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A w a r d presentations on Monday and Wednesday, S y m p o s i u m X talks will include prospects for molecular scale electronics, controlling the interactions of cells with materials, the materials science of food, two-photon absorbing materials and applications in three-dimensional technologies, superplasticity, and materials insights from biomineralization. Poster Sessions will be held Monday through Thursday, 8:00 p.m.-ll:00 p.m. in Exhibition Hall D of the Hynes Convention Center. The Meeting Chairs will sponsor a Best Poster Award competition at which a prize of $500 will be awarded to the presenting author(s) of the winning paper(s). Award recipients will be selected on the basis of the poster's technical content, appearance, graphic excellence, and presentation quality. Seven Symposium Tutorial sessions by leading experts will be given on Sunday and Monday. See page 78 for more information. For the first time, the Hynes Convention Center will house the MRS Equipment Exhibit featuring more than 200 international exhibitors from all sectors of the global materials science and engineering communities. The exhibit will contain a full spectrum of equipment, instrumentation, products, software, publications, and services. Set for Tuesday, November 30,
through Thursday, December 2, on the Second Level of the Hynes Convention Center, the exhibit is convenient to the technical session rooms and scheduled to coincide w i t h the p r o g r a m . C o m p l i mentary coffee will be available during m o r n i n g and afternoon breaks in the exhibit hall. Materials MicroWorld, a program of Interactive Traveling D i s p l a y s a n d Educational Programs, is now in development. Prototype exhibits along with the concept drawings for the future exhibit will be d i s p l a y e d S u n d a y t h r o u g h Wednesday on the second floor of the Hynes Convention Center. Activities associated with these displays will consist of collecting and developing ideas for educational programs and demonstrations that would accompany a full-scale traveling science exhibit.
Student Opportunities and Employment The Society will present Gold and Silver Graduate Student Awards to graduate students who authored or co-authored symposium papers which exemplified significant and timely research. On Wednesday evening, all finalists will be honored at the Awards Ceremony. Graduate students who are interested in assisting in the symposium rooms are
encouraged to apply for a Symposium, Assistant position. Symposium assistants deliver essential meeting materials to and from the technical sessions, operate audiovisual equipment and room lighting, and perform other tasks requested by their session chairs. Symposium Assistants wilk receive a complimentary student registration, a one-year MRS student membership commencing J a n u a r y 1, 2000, and a stipend to help defray expenses. Graduate students and members of MRS University Chapters are invited to attend the Student Mixer reception. Also, Chapter officers and faculty advisors are invited to a t t e n
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