1987 Highlights
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1987 Highlights Kathleen C. Taylor MRS President This issue of the MRS BULLETIN is the last issue to be published in 1987 and as such marks the end of my year as MRS President. Throughout 1987 the Materials Research Society continued its trend of astonishing growth. We can put the label "largest ever" on almost every activity the Society sponsored this year. I owe tremendous thanks to many persons through w h o s e efforts this g r o w t h w a s accomplished. To name them all would number in the hundreds. A special thanks go out to our committee chairs (Dave Campbell, Clif Draper, Carol Jantzen, Elton Kaufmann, Julia Phillips, Gordon Pike, Rod Quinn, Mike Quick, Jim Roberto, Al Romig, and Gary Tibbetts), our 1987 meeting chairs (Russ Chianelli, Graham Hubler, and Greg Olson who ran the Spring MRS Meeting and Murray Gibson, Tom Picraux, and Barry Scheetz who ran the Fall MRS Meeting), and the many symposium chairs. MRS membership reached 5,952 in 1987. The MRS BULLETIN under the leadership of editor Elton Kaufmann expanded to 8 issues. A full-time technical editor will join the MRS BULLETIN staff in 1988. Walter Brown assumed the duties of Editor in Chief of Journal of Materials Research at the first of the year. JMR experienced an ever increasing copy flow and expanded its circulation during 1987. The topical coverage in JMR has grown, but we have more work to do to reach the wide topical distribution characteristic of our meetings. In 1987 MRS published 27 books, including 25 meeting proceedings. The MRS Headquarters staff has grown overall from 10 to 15 persons during 1987 in order to handle the growth of the Society, mostly in its publications. The size of MRS meetings grew by 19% based on the number of papers presented, and poster sessions have achieved a growing popularity. We demonstrated tremen-
d o u s flexibility in accommodating two large symposia on high temperature superconductors at the Spring and Fall MRS Meetings. The s y m p o s i u m held at t h e
MRS membership reached 5,952 in 1987.
Spring Meeting was added after the initial program announcement. A video tape of this symposium was offered for sale after the meeting. The Fall Meeting symposium on high t e m p e r a t u r e s u p e r c o n d u c t o r s offered a late abstract submission date and a late program announcement.
The opportunity for meeting attendees to meet with equipment manufacturers at our meetings was expanded. At the MRS S p r i n g M e e t i n g in A n a h e i m an MRS Equipment Show was held for the first time at an MRS Spring Meeting. An extension was added to our Equipment Show at the Fall MRS Meeting after the 120 booths originally available sold out several months before the meeting. The MRS Short Course program at MRS m e e t i n g s e x p a n d e d from 39 c o u r s e s offered in 1986 to 50 courses offered in 1987. Several courses were offered apart from the MRS meeting as part of the OnSite Short Course Program. During 1987 an organizational meeting of the International Materials Research Committee took place at the
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