Preview: 2002 MRS Fall Meeting
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Preview: 2002 MRS Fall Meeting Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel • Boston, Massachusetts Meeting: December 2–6 • Exhibit: December 3–5 Meeting Chairs: Marie-Isabelle Baraton University of Limoges Eric L. Garfunkel Rutgers University David C. Martin University of Michigan Stuart S.P. Parkin IBM Almaden Research Center The Materials Research Society (MRS) will hold its 2002 Fall Meeting at the Hynes Convention Center and the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, December 2–6, 2002. The meeting will include a technical program, tutorials, a plenary session, an awards ceremony, an equipment exhibit, poster sessions, a career center, funding seminars on international collaborations, and other special activities. Symposium proceedings will be published on the MRS Web site, and are available free to MRS members. The technical program captures several areas of continued and emerging interest in materials science and engineering. Included are new areas of activity such as flexible electronics, nanoengineered assemblies, and magnetic materials, as well as established research topics and issues of continued concern to researchers such as nuclear-waste management. The 38 symposia are arranged into seven clusters that reflect consistent themes. As several of the symposia will have a significant molecular-electronics component, a “virtual symposium” has been arranged to help guide conference attendees interested in this multidisciplinary area toward these sessions. The Polymers and Biomaterials cluster (Symposia A–D) includes symposia on defect-mediated phenomena, polymer/ metal interfaces, bio-inspired hybrids, and electronics on flexible substrates. Symposium A on defect-mediated phenomena in ordered polymers will feature many invited speakers, including E.L. Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and M. Muthukumar (University of Massachusetts). Symposium B on polymer/metal interfaces opens with a tutorial. Symposium C begins on Monday with two joint sessions with the “virtual symposium” on arrays, essays, and diagnostics in bio-inspired nanoscale hybrid systems. Quantum dots, nanocrystalline semiconductors, nanomaterials, and molecular 786
machines are the focus of the Nanomaterials and Technology cluster (Symposia E–J). Symposium I will conclude on Friday morning with a panel discussion on the global view of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies and ways to enhance interactions and applications in these areas. Symposium H, featuring up to 29 invited speakers, and Symposium J will both be preceded by tutorials on lithographic and nonlithographic methods for 3D nanofabrication, and on various aspects of nano- and microelectromechanical systems, respectively. Symposium J will conclude with joint sessions with Symposium Y on surface-engineering issues. The Electronic and Photonic Materials cluster (Symposia K–O) addresses SiN, GaN, materials for advanced complementary metal oxide semiconductors, and microphotonics. On Wednesday, Symposium N will join sessions with Symposium T to present
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