Preview: 2003 MRS Fall Meeting
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Preview: 2003 MRS Fall Meeting Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel • Boston, Massachusetts Meeting: December 1–5 • Exhibit: December 2–4 Meeting Chairs: Paula Hammond Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rommel Noufi National Renewable Energy Laboratory Fred Roozeboom Philips Research Susan Trolier-McKinstry The Pennsylvania State University The Materials Research Society (MRS) will hold its 2003 Fall Meeting at the Hynes Convention Center and the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Mass., December 1–5, 2003. The meeting will include a technical program; tutorials; a plenary session; an awards ceremony; an equipment exhibit, including a Research Tools Seminar; poster sessions; a career center; funding seminars; and other special activities. Symposia proceedings will be published, and they will be made available free on-line to MRS members. The meeting will capture areas of growth in the materials community as well as new and emerging fields in materials science and engineering. Among the topics are the quickly growing areas of biomaterials for tissue engineering or drug delivery, nanoscale order and structure in materials systems, and microbattery and micropower systems. Traditional areas such as oxide and semiconductor materials systems will also be well represented. The 38 technical symposium topics included in the meeting are grouped into clusters that represent specific themes or categories in materials research. The Integrated Device Technology cluster will include integrated microsystems and nanosystems, ferroelectrics, materials for smart systems, and a symposium focused on the fundamentals of novel oxide/semiconductor interfaces. In the Organic, Soft, and Biological Materials cluster, biomaterials for drug delivery, tissue engineering, and bio-inspired materials assembly for a range of applications will be examined, as well as molecular imprinting and a long-standing symposium on organic electronic and photonic materials. Nano- to Microstructured Materials includes both inorganic and organic continuous nanophase materials and nanoscale objects such as quantum dots and nanowires, novel patterning techniques, and dynamics in confined 752
systems. The Inorganic Materials and Films cluster encompasses stresses and mechanical behavior, radiation effects and ion-beam processing, thermoelectrics, and self-organized processes in semiconductor epitaxial layers. The Photonics cluster examines the electro-optical properties of a range of materials from silicon to GaN and alloys and compound semiconductor materials, with symposia that address the basic properties and applications as well as the effects of engineered porosity and critical interfaces in thin films. Issues of energy and power are addressed in the Energy Storage, Generation, and Transport cluster, which includes symposia on hydrogen-based fuels, energetic and reactive nanomaterials, and the investigation of actinides and superconducting materials, along with microbattery and micropower systems. Information Storage Materials has sympo
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