Preview: 1999 MRS Fall Meeting
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Preview: 1999 MRS Fall Meeting Hynes Convention Center and Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts NOVEMBER 2 9 - D E C E M B E R 3 , 1 9 9 9 Meeting Chairs: Paul D. Bristowe (Cambridge University), David G. Grier (University of Chicago) Fernando A. Ponce (Arizona State University), Ellen D. Williams (University of Maryland) The 1999 MRS Fall Meeting expands into the Hynes Convention Center while retaining use of the Boston Marriott, thus occupying two sites instead of the three used in recent years. This move allows the meeting, with its 43 technical symposia and nearly 3,900 oral and poster presentations to be more consolidated, with both the exhibit and poster sessions held in the H y n e s , a n d technical sessions split between the two locations. The meeting has several focus areas including soft materials, modeling, thin film materials, and devices. Topics in well-established areas will continue to be represented including nitride semiconductors, ferroelectrics, n a n o p h a s e materials, a n d nuclear waste management. This meeting provides food for thought, both figuratively and literally. In the area of soft materials, food (Symposium AA) is a component for study of processing-structureproperty relationships. Gels and powders are not just scientific curiosities, but important materials systems for the edible world. Proteins, starch, and even potatoes and chocolate come into play in this symposium. Another important component of soft materials is self-assembled systems. This theme runs the gamut from biomineralization (Symposium DD) and phospholipid assemblies (Symposium EE) to nanocomposite and nanostructured materials (Symposia F and G), including sol-gel processing, nanowires, and ceramic and selfassembled semiconducting structures. Nonlithographic approaches include printing and molding. Self-assembly even plays a role in the newest nanolithographic processes (Symposium J). Naturally, selfassembly is a recurring theme in the biological and complex fluid systems emphasized in Symposium CC. The materials research community is finding many ways of convincing systems to organize themselves into complex materials a n d is actively learning from nature how to do this. In a joint session between Symposia CC and G, a talk covers nanoscale assembly of rechargeable battery components. Engineering of bone tissue and drug and gene delivery represent some of the biological areas represented. Soft materials and small materials join forces with electronics in new areas such
as Molecular Electronics (Symposium H), plus Electroactive Polymers (Symposium FF), Self-Organized Processes in Semiconductor Alloys—Spontaneous Ordering, Composition Modulation, and 3-D Islanding (Symposium I), and Electrical, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Organic SolidState Materials V (Symposium BB). Symposium BB has an all-invited joint session with Symposium PP (Materials for Optical Limiting III) on Two-Photon Absorption and Applications and another joint session with Symposium PP on organic photorefractives. Also, an ex
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