Short-Course Instructors
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A distinguished group of scientists, including a Von Hippel Award winner, have consented to teach a total of three short course at this November's Annual Meeting in Boston. Surface Analysis The short course on surface analysis techniques, which will present the conceptual and practical aspects of modern surface and thin film analysis, will be taught by Len Feldman of Bell Labs and Jim Mayer of Cornell. LEONARD C. FELDMAN received his Ph.D. from Rutgers in 1967. Since then he has been a Member of the Technical Staff of Bell Laboratories, except forf a one-year leave of absence at Aarhus University in Demark. Throughout his scientific career he has been active in education: he is an instructor in Bell Labs' "In-hours" education program, and at Drew University and Cornell. His publications include a book, Materials
Analysis by Ion Channeling, with J.W. Mayer and S.T. Picraux, and numerous articles on materials science-related subjects. His most recent research interests include the structure and analysis of surfaces and interfaces and their interrelationship. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of Bell Labs' Distinguished Technical Staff Award. Moreover, it was Len who, as Chairman of the Society's Education Committee, organized the expansion of the shortcourse element of the Annual Meeting, which began as an experiment with a single course last year and promises to grow further in coming years. JAMES W. MAYER is Bard Professor of Materials Science at Cornell University. In 1981 he was honored with the MRS's most prestigious prize, the Von Hippel [Continued on Page 6]
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and I think that will lead to a deeper understanding of the problems which still remain." Conference organizer Tom Tsakalakos of Rutgers said, "This uncommon gathering of scientists assured a uniform representation of all aspects of phase transformations -and provides the basis for future collaboration between groups that traditionally have not established contacts before." Tsakalakos also pointed out that the location attracted a broadly international group. Soviet Couldn't Attend Sadly, the meeting's keynote speaker, Armen Khachaturyan, and his wife
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were refused permission by their government to attend. In a dramatic letter smuggled out of the Soviet Union and published in the last issue of the Bulletin, the scientist revealed that he is a refusenik, who has been denied permission to emigrate and subjected to various forms of harassment for seeking to do so. He told conference organizers he would participate in a hunger strike during the session's length. This led a score of those attending the conference to observe a limited fast in sympathy with Khachaturyan's plight. Also, a substantial majority of those who attended the meeting signed a letter of protest that was dispatched to the Soviet Academy of Science. [That letter is reprinted in these pages.]
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