2018 MRS Spring Meeting features materials developments across disciplines
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2018 MRS Spring Meeting features materials developments across disciplines www.mrs.org/spring2018
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he Materials Research Society (MRS) held its Spring Meeting in Phoenix, Ariz., on April 2–6, attracting an interdisciplinary and international audience. The Meeting Chairs, Edward Botchwey (Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University); Catherine Dubourdieu (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin/Freie Universität Berlin), Quanxi Jia (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York); Shane Kennett (Exponent Failure Analysis Associates); and Cheolmin Park (Yonsei University) organized 63 symposia, grouped into seven topic clusters, which comprised the technical core of the Meeting: Characterization, Modeling, and Theory; Electronic and Photonic Materials; Energy Materials and Technologies; Late News–Hot Topics; Manufacturing; Nanomaterials; and Soft Materials and Biomaterials.
MRS Awards Several MRS awards were presented. David G. Cahill (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) received the Innovation in Materials Characterization Award; David Mooney (Harvard University) received the Mid-Career Researcher Award; William Chueh (Stanford
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University) and Vanessa Wood (ETH Zürich) received the Outstanding Young Investigator Awards; Michael Falk (Johns Hopkins University) received the MRS Impact Award; Arnab Banerjee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Jie Xu (Stanford University) received the MRS Postdoctoral Awards; and Arvind R. Kalidindi and Christopher A. Schuh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) won the 2017 Journal of Materials Research Paper of the Year Award for their article, “Phase transitions in stable nanocrystalline alloys.” Ramamoorthy Ramesh of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, delivered the plenary talk as the recipient of The Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Materials Science. He presented an overview of research into ultralow-energy electric-field manipulation of magnetism as the backbone for the next generation of electronics. Clara Santato, Polytechnique Montréal, was selected for the 2018 MRS Communications Lecture and presented “The Wonderful World of Melanins.” The MRS Awards Program strives to acknowledge outstanding contributors to the progress of materials research and to recognize their accomplishments.
Nominate a colleague for one of the many MRS Awards to be presented at the 2019 MRS Spring Meeting. The deadline is August 1, and additional information can be found online at www.mrs.org/awards.
Meeting features Special sessions and “hot topics” symposia have proven to be well-attended events at recent MRS meetings. Following an extremely successful special session on Quantum Materials at the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, where it was standing-room only, the 2018 MRS Spring Meeting featured a special symposium on Materials Science to Empower Quantum Information Technologies. Another hot topic session was the Artificial Intelligence [AI] for Materials Development Forum, which introduced concepts and terminology of AI a
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