Conference in Crete
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CONFERENCE IN CRETE Phase transformations in solids
Phase transformations in solids is the subject of an MRS-sponsored symposium to be held on the Mediterranean island of Crete June 27-July 1. This is the second of the Society's symposia to be held outside the United States. Jointly sponsored by the National Technical School of Crete and Rutgers University, the symposium seeks to bring together scientists and researchers from such areas as metallury, materials science and engineering, solid state physics, chemistry and crystallography to review and discuss current knowledge and new developments in phase transformations in solid materials, according to Thomas Tsakalakos of Rutgers' Department of Mechanics and Materials Science, conference chairman. Tsakalakos said invited speakers will lecture on such subjects as general theories of phase transitions, crystallography, symmetry and morphology, diffraction methods, statistical mechanics and computer simulations, order-disorder phenomena, long-period ordered structures, properties-microstructure relations, nucleation, growth and coarsening, G.P. zones and clustering, precipitation and kinetics, martensitic transformations and semiconductor superlaticces. Invited papers will be presented by
a distinguished group of scholars, notably A. Khatachaturyan, Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., D. Watanabe, Tohoku University, Japan, and M. Hillert, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. MRS councillor Rustum Roy, a member of the symposium's organizing committee, will be on hand to gather materials for his highly successful Educational Modules for Materials Science and
Engineering, a unique journal widely utilized by academic departments of materials science to enhance teaching materials at the graduate as well as undergraduate levels. "In the last ten years," Tsakalakos said, "the study of solid-solid phase transformations has been expanded enormously because of their potential technological importance. . . . There is a consensus among researchers in both fundamental and applied areas that more basic understanding of phase transformations is required to explain the properties of materials and subsequently to provide a rational basis of materials selection. "Moreover," he said, "phase transformations are of interest because they are related to a variety of atomic processes that lead to changes in the phase structure, thus often creating new states of aggregation, whose properties differ markedly from those of the parent." Papers Invited Tsakalakos noted that contributed papers relating to the symposium's principal areas of interest are invited, and will be selected for oral or poster presentation. One-page abstracts should be sent to him at the College of Engineering, Rutgers University, P.O. Box 909, Piscataway, NJ 08854. Invited papers and accepted contributions will be published as a
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