Preview: 2001 MRS Spring Meeting
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Preview: 2001 MRS Spring Meeting San Francisco Marriott and Argent Hotels • San Francisco, California Technical Meeting: April 16–20 • Exhibit: April 16–18 Meeting Chairs: Nicholas Cowern Philips Research Laboratories Tomas Diaz de la Rubia Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Chad A. Mirkin Northwestern University Cynthia Volkert Max-Planck-Institute—Stuttgart The 2001 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting will be held April 16–20, 2001, in San Francisco, California, at the San Francisco Marriott and Argent Hotels. The technical session will begin on Tuesday and will include 32 symposia, divided into six clusters, that highlight advances in the understanding, synthesis, and application of materials in fields ranging from advanced integrated circuits to biomaterials. Symposia proceedings will be published electronically on the MRS Web site, available free to MRS members. Symposium GG on materials science and engineering (MSE) education, which made its Spring Meeting debut last year, will be presented again this year with an emphasis on MSE’s impact on society. The Symposium offers an afternoon of panel discussions on Wednesday. A one-day symposium on nuclear waste containment, held in previous MRS Fall Meetings, will be held for the first time at the Spring Meeting as Symposium CC. The symposium will conclude with an in-room poster session. In a cluster of symposia on data storage will be a new symposium on optical data storage (V). The Meeting will also feature a Plenary and Awards Ceremony on Wednesday evening, an Equipment Exhibit on April 16-18 (starting with a reception on Monday evening), and nine tutorials on Monday (see page 133). While nanostructures and nanocompositions are addressed in various symposia, Symposia W and Y within the cluster on Nano- and Biomaterials specifically look at nanostructured carbon materials and unifying themes in nanostructured materials research such as synthesis, characterization, and applications. The application of nanoparticles for advanced drug delivery and other biomedical uses ties these symposia to Symposium Z on Patterning Soft Materials, rounding out the cluster. Researchers will present nonconventional methods for patterning soft materials and describe the use of these methods to pre-
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pare novel and emerging devices. In typical interdisciplinary fashion, Symposium U on Ferromagnetic Materials, within the cluster on data storage, will hold one joint session with Symposium Y on nanostructures and another with Symposium T on Materials for Magnetic Devices; the joint sessions will cover hard ferrites and colossal magnetoresistance materials and magnetic properties of nanomaterials. Symposium U will also cover general topics of advancements in the preparation, characterization, and theoretical understanding of the materials aspects of ferromagnets. The new Symposium on optical data storage offers one day of presentations emphasizing the relationship between material properties and the time required to write/erase information. The Symposium will highl
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