Barmak, Calvert, Speck, and Tung to Chair 1999 MRS Spring Meeting
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Barmak, Calvert, Speck, and Tung to Chair 1999 MRS Spring Meeting
Katayun Barmak
Paul Calvert
James S. Speck
The 1999 Spring Meeting of the Materials Materials Science and Engineering, also from Lehigh University. Research Society will be held April 5-9 in San Francisco, and will be chaired by Barmak has co-organized two MRS techKatayun Barmak, Paul Calvert, James S. nical symposia in 1994 and 1997. She Speck, and Raymond T. Tung. The meeting became chair of the MRS Membership comprises 34 symposia covering a range of Committee in 1996, after having served as a topics including traditional and new, along member and a subcommittee chair in the with five potential tutorials. New symposia previous two years. She currently serves on will be presented in such areas as magnet- MRS Council. ic, semiconducting, insulating, and bioPaul Calvert, is a professor in the Departmedical materials. An exhibit of products ment of Materials Science and Engineering and services will be offered April 6-8. at the University of Arizona—Tucson along with a continuing collaboration with Sandia Katayun Barmak has been an associate professor of materials science and engineer- National Laboratories. He received his PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of ing at Lehigh University since 1992. She received her PhD degree in materials sci- Technology in 1971. ence (1989) from the Massachusetts Research on polymer crystallization led Institute of Technology. During her doctor- to an interest in the redistribution of addial work, she was the recipient of an AT&T tives in crystallizing polymers and thence Foundation Fellowship. to studies of crystallization of additives in Barmak's research interests include exper- polymers. From this he went on to study imental and theoretical studies of reactions mineralization of biological tissues, initially and phase transformations in thin films, working on gout. From this it was natural to attempt to make biomimetic materials magnetic thin films, composite and layered coatings, sputter deposition, electrodeposi- by the growth of inorganic particles in synthetic polymers. Currently much of his tion, transmission and analytical electron microscopy, differential scanning calorime- work is on extrusion freeform fabrication in an effort to build solid objects from these try, and x-ray diffraction. Her work on thin films has recently focused on the evolution biomimetic materials. of grain structure in the reaction of multilayIn addition to numerous research papers ers, while her studies on coatings have cen- and a co-authored book on crystals in joint tered on developing electrochemical methdiseases, he has written on polymers for the ods for the fabrication of thermal barrier News and Views section of Nature over the coating structures. last 20 years. Barmak has co-authored 82 papers, James S. Speck received his PhD degree including a review article on the investiga- from the Massachusetts Institute of Techtion of thermodynamics and kinetics of nology. After a brief postdoc at MIT, Speck thin-film react
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