Preview: 2009 MRS Spring Meeting
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Preview: 2009 MRS Spring Meeting Moscone West and San Francisco Marriott Hotel, San Francisco, Calif. Meeting: April 13–17 • Exhibit: April 14–16 www.mrs.org/S09
Meeting Chairs: Paul R. Besser CMOS Industry Peter Fratzl Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Nicola Spaldin University of California, Santa Barbara Terry M. Tritt Clemson University The 2009 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting will be held April 13–17, 2009 in San Francisco, Calif. The technical meeting and exhibits will be located at the Moscone West Convention Center, and will include 42 symposia. To complement the scientific sessions, tutorials will provide a detailed introduction to particularly exciting areas of research, Symposium X on Frontiers of Materials Research will feature topics at the forefront of materials science and engineering, and the Equipment Exhibit will showcase products of interest to the materials community. The scientific sessions will include many new and developing areas of materials research as well as some well-established and popular topics. The cluster on Electronic and Optical Materials (comprising Symposia A–K) will include amorphous and polycrystalline silicon thin films, molecular and organic electronics, chemical and mechanical planarization, multiferroics, high-throughput synthesis, as well as topics important to the integrated circuit community including junctions, memories, gate stacks, interconnects, and packaging. The cluster on Energy and the Environment (Symposia L–S) features symposia on
recent advances in photovoltaics and water purification, as well as materials for energy generation, conversion, and storage. The cluster on Nanomaterials and Devices (Symposia T–W, Y–JJ) will feature a number of talks on nanoscale heat transport, nanocrystals, nanowires, nanocomposites, metamaterials, and spintronics, as well as characterization techniques at the nanoscale. The cluster on Soft Matter, Biological and Bio-Inspired Materials (Symposia KK–PP) will address structure–property relations, architectured materials, hierarchical synthesis, active polymers, stretchable electronics, and lab-on-the-chip applications. The Spring Meeting will feature a oneday Festival on Materials for the Developing World to inform the international community of materials researchers about the needs and opportunities for materials science-related activities in the developing world. Nobel laureate Walter Kohn of the University of California, Santa Barbara will present a plenary lecture on the topic of photovoltaics and solar energy in the developing world as well as screen his documentary film, “The Power of the Sun,” on the same topic. In the Symposium X lunchtime series, Scott Lacy in the Anthropology Department at Emory University and Richard LeSar in Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University will present talks on materials engineering projects in remote developing world locations. These presentations will be complemented with exhibit booths showcasing products and activities from various companies and
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