XV International Materials Research Congress 2006 Held in Cancun
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INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETIES
XV International Materials Research Congress 2006 Held in Cancun www.imrc2006.buap.mx The XV International Materials Research Congress 2006 (IMRC 2006) and the V National Engineers NACE International Section Mexico Congress were held in Cancun, Mexico, at the Gran Meliá Cancún August 20–24, 2006. Pedro Hugo Hernández Tajeda (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico), president of the Mexican Materials Research Society, served as the general chair of the joint conference. In the welcoming address, he announced that over 1200 talks were scheduled, consisting of 174 invited talks, 415 oral presentations, and 657 posters from 40 countries. The technical sessions included 22 symposia covering a range of topical areas, including nanostructured materials and nanotechnology, photovoltaics and solar energy materials, archaeology and art, ferro- and piezoelectricity, trends in polymer chemistry, building materials and technologies, biomaterials, ecomaterials, corrosion, and non-molecular solids. The conference also featured plenary lectures, tutorials, poster sessions and awards; roundtables on materials education and technological innovation; and an exhibit area for the display of equipment, instruments, products, software, publications, and services. The conference also featured a special “Women in Science” networking luncheon. During the Luncheon, Karen Lozano of the University of Texas Pan American, USA and Noemi Elisabeth Walsöe de Reca, director of CINSO-CONICET-CITEFA, Argentina, were specially honored. Lozano and Walsöe de Reca talked about their difficult, though vastly different, paths en route to their success. Support for IMRC 2006 was received from a number of institutions: the Secretaría de Educación Pública; the Vicerrectoría de Investigatión y Estudios de Posgrado; the Centro Universitario de Vinculación; Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla; the Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM; the Office of Naval Research International Field Office; JEOL; the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; the Centro de Investigación y de Estudions Avanzados, IPN; the Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo; the Office of Basic Energy Sciences; PONA, S.A. de C.V.; and the Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICyT). Additional highlights of the events and research reported at IMRC 2006 are available online under “Materials Connections” on the Materials Research Society Web site at www.mrs.org. 914
Pedro Hugo Hernández Tajeda (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico), president of the Mexican Materials Research Society, welcomed attendees to the XV International Materials Research Congress 2006 (IMRC 2006) and the V National Engineers NACE International Section Mexico Congress. The joint conference was held in Cancun, Mexico, at the Gran Meliá Cancún August 20–24, 2006.
Plenary Sessions Address Energy, Catalysis, Nanomaterials, and Fractals In the first plenary lecture of the conference, e
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