Welcome to the 1985 MRS Spring Meeting
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n behalf of the Materials Research Society, I would like to welcome you. Many of you have received this issue of the BULLETIN in your meeting registration folder at the second annual Spring Meeting of the MRS in San Francisco. Many others have found it in the registration material of the third annual Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society in Strasbourg. And so this is a dual welcome to attendees on both sides of the Atlantic. That such a duality exists in 1985 says a lot about the dynamic growth and ever broadening acceptance of the MRS and its unique forums for the practioners of interdisciplinary research. I am happy you have joined us and look forward to your continued participation in the U.S. and in Europe. Welcome to San Francisco
In San Francisco we are seeing a meeting which is twice the size and scope as the first such meeting just one year ago. This is largely attributable to two factors. The need for such a forum in the Spring in the West is present. And, we have benefited from the skillful and indefatigable talents of our meeting chairpersons and our symposium chairpersons. Meeting chairpersons, Susan M. Kelso of Xerox PARC, A. Wayne Johnson of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, and K. S. SreeHarsha of San Jose State University, have identified topics and organizers appropriate to the technical p r o g r a m and w o r k e d w i t h the organizers of each symposium to insure that a technically excellent and smooth running meeting occurs. As a result of their efforts, you will find almost 400 technical presentations among the seven topical symposia offered over the four days of the meeting. The individual symposium chairpersons are to be commended for a job very well done. Also, the ever popular Symposium X which has become a tradition at our Fall Meeting in Boston has now, for the first time, been transplanted to the West Coast. Unlike in Boston however, this lunchtime symposium will concentrate on a single topical area, that of the preparation and characterization of thin films. Another first for an MRS meeting to be seen in San Francisco is the participation of a Local Section of
the Society. On Sunday evening, the Northern California Section of MRS will provide a combination of refreshments and lectures which are intended to prepare the serious meeting participant for the week to come by offering less-than-serious welcoming festivities. The city of San Francisco gives us an excellent locale for a meeting such as ours. Of course for tourism, it presents opportunities with sites, character, culture and charm unique to the Bay Area. The technical environment is also most conducive to a materials research gathering. It can boast of prestigious universities, government research laboratories, and a panoply of industrial research and development centers which spills out of the Silicon Valley into the entire Bay Area. To ensure that our first meeting in this venue truly serves not only national and international researchers, but also the particular interests of the local comm
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