Plans Underway for MRS-Asia Formation
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Background In January of this year, a new MRS activity on International Relations was formedto foster communications between MRS and the international community of materials scientists. R. P. H. Chang was appointed Chairman, International Relations by MRS President Elton N. Kaufmann. Chang, a member of the technical staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New jersey, is an active member of MRS and has international contacts and maintains personal awareness of materials research endeavors around the globe.
Bob Chang
In making the appointment, President Kaufmann stated, "Bob Chang's past participation in MRS activities and his enthusiastic espousal of greater worldwide communication among materials researchers makes him the right man for this role in the growth of our Society. Bob is a frequent traveler to Europe and Asia and is well known on three continents. He is also well acquainted with many research leaders throughout the world." The creation of Chang's position, according to Kaufmann, recognizes MRS's growing involvement and interest in European and Asian membership, and the manifest need for a single point of contact through which communication with MRS can be maintained. The following article summarizes Chang's first trip to Asia as emissary for the Society. His discussions with research communities in Japan and China demonstrate a growing enthusiasm by the Asian materials profession for extending MRS-style meetings and programs in this area of the world.
The first meeting of the MRS-Asia Committee convened in April in Tokyo to formulate plans for development of MRS activities in this geographical region. R. P. H. (Bob) Chang, newly appointed Chairman, International Relations, participated in the meeting on behalf of the Society, during the first leg of his two-week trip to Asia to confer with materials research leaders regarding the role of MRS in Asian science. Table I: Attendees at the First MRS-Asia Committee Meeting T. Tokuyama (Hitachi) T. Takeishi (Toshiba) H.-L. Hwang (Tsing Hwa University) S. Miyazaw (MIT) S. Namba (Osaka University) M. Doyama (University of Tokyo) T. Sugano (University of Tokyo) S. Somiya (Tokyo Institute of Technology) I. Ohdomari (Waseda Univerity) R. P. H. Chang (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
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The purpose of the recent Asia trip, according to Chang, was to "offer information, advice, and assistance on behalf of the Society to groups within Asia that had expressed interest in the Society." Chang arrived in Japan on March 30 and attended the MRS-Asia Committee meeting in Tokyo on the following day. The gathering, which Chang helped to organize, was arranged to coincide with the meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, which brought many of the MRS-Asia Committee participants to the city (see Table I). At the meeting, MRS was introduced, its philosophy and purpose reviewed, and the operational details attendant to past meetings in both the United States and Europe were outlined. The committee also heard how the European MRS organiz
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