Strasbourg Hosts 950 at E-MRS Spring Meeting
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Strasbourg Hosts 950 at E-MRS Spring Meeting
The European Parliament complex on the canal edge, just a 15-minute stroll from the ancient cathedral of Strasbourg, was host to the biggest European Materials Research Society meeting yet with about 950 attendees. Five parallel symposia were held from May 29 to June 1,1990. The symposium on high Tc superconductor materials, the largest symposium, was co-sponsored by the European Physical Society. Four other symposia covered métal matrix composites, magnetic thin films, multilayers and superlattices, metallurgical coatings and materials surface modifications, and surface processing and laser chemistry. The plenary session was introduced by J.R Massue from the Higher Education and Research Office of the Council of Europe. Massue discussed récent trends and future plans in this area within and outside Europe, also mentioning future interaction with Eastern European countries. J.G. Wurm discussed the latest funding structures within the BRITE/EURAM program administered by the European Community in Brussels. He also described the initial stages and proposed budgetary levels of the new Framework plan to be initiated in 1991/1992.
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Several new developments surfaced during the conférence. One of thèse was the announcement of some 10 E-MRS student awards, presented in front of a large congratulatory audience to students whose work was deemed to be of exceptional quality. The plenary session featured two worldrenowned speakers. Nobel lauréate K.A. Millier, from IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland described some wide-ranging perspectives in the field of high Tc superconductors. Prof. A. Mortensen, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, talked about interfacial phenomena in solidification processing of métal matrix composites. For the first rime, an officiai equipment exhibition ran in conjunction with the meeting. About 30 companies attended, and the overall response from both attendees and exhibitors was very positive. Similar shows are planned for future E-MRS meetings, also to be held in Strasbourg. As usual, attendees joyfully sampled the région's gastronomie delights. The now legendary "Parliamentary lunches" were supplemented once again with a conférence banquet and trip to an Alsace wine
producer in Barr, just outside Strasbourg. The proceedings of symposia A and E hâve already been published by Elsevier North-Holland, Symposium A in cameraready form and Symposium E the journal, Applied Surface Science. Proceedings from the three remaining symposia will be published in early to mid-1991. The upcoming E-MRS Spring meeting (May 27-31) will feature five symposia. Running concurrently and at the same Strasbourg venue with the E-MRS Spring Meeting will be the International Conférence on Advanced Materials, co-sponsored by E-MRS, MRS, the Materials Research Society of India, the Materials Research Society of Japan, and the International Union of Materials Research Societies. For more détails about thèse
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