5th Brazilian Materials Research Society Meeting Addresses Academia and Industry Interests
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5th Brazilian Materials Research Society Meeting Addresses Academia and Industry Interests http://www.sbpmat.org.br/5meeting/ The 5th Brazilian Materials Research Society Meeting (SBPMat), chaired by Aloisio Nelmo Klein (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis), was held in Florianópolis, Brazil, October 8–12, 2006. The technical sessions included 13 symposia covering a range of materials research topics, including surface engineering, powder technology, high-temperature materials, photodevices, hybrid materials, electron microscopy, synchrotron radiation, electroceramics, nanostructured biological materials, forensic science, microscopy for industry, advances in microscopy for materials characterization, and computational techniques for materials design. Plenary speakers delivered overviews of specific materials research areas and opportunities for international collaborations. The meeting also featured poster sessions and a roundtable discussion on “Industrial Development versus Academic Research in Brazil: New Trends.” The meeting opened with a lecture by Peter F. Green (Univ. of Michigan), the 2006 president of the Materials Research Society. In his lecture, “The Last 100 Years in Materials Research and New Challenges,” Green showed how the field of materials science and engineering (MS&E), with its roots in metallurgy, has evolved during the last 50 years, initially due to the influence of physics and chemistry, and now increasingly with biology. Among the exciting possibilities for the future, Green said, is the development of materials by design based on specific functionalities. Green described several grand challenges in the field, including the interface between medicine and materials, biomolecular materials, Moore’s law, and nanotechnology. With these developments in the field come changes in materials research education. Green said in many universities around the world, significant materials research is conducted not only in MS&E departments but also in other areas of engineering as well as in the natural sciences and medicine. Similar trends exist in corporate laboratories. Green said that the community has to be aware of and tackle the associated issues and challenges to ensure the continued health of the field of MS&E.
Plenary Lectures Address Quantum Computing, Bioceramics, Instrumentation, and International Collaborations The development of quantum computers is generating much interest among 64
researchers in fields such as quantum physics, computer science, engineering, and materials science. Luis Davidovich (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), in his plenary address, explained two major motivations for this interest: the tremendous recent progress in quantum manipulation of atoms, and the limits on classical computational techniques. Materials research aspects to this field involve what Davidovich called “entangled states,” including photonic entangled states. Davidovich gave an overview of papers that have been published on atom–photon entanglement, entanglement of trapped
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