News and Highlights Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel Boston, Massachusetts, USA November 27 - December 1, 2000 Welcome to the 2000 MRS Fall Meeting Web-Site! Daily news reports and highlights were posted from the meeting site in Boston. [Click on the photographs to get a larger version] The 2000 MRS Fall Meeting was held in Boston from November 26 - December 1. In the tradition of the MRS fall meetings, this meeting was another exceptional one. The meeting was held at the Hynes Convention Center and the Sheraton Boston hotel making it convenient for attendees to get to talks and events at either location due to their proximity. The 41 technical symposia that comprised the technical part of the meeting covered a wide range of interdisciplinary materials research topics. The symposia were categorized into 8 clusters, each encompassing a specific broad area of materials research, apart from Symposium X "Frontiers of materials research"which included seven talks by experts in specific fields. A number of symposia included poster sessions which were held at the Hynes from Monday-Thursday in the evenings. The thread of nanotechnology ran through a number of symposia. Special events included the plenary session on Monday, Nov. 27 evening. The Plenary talk was given by Prof. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Laureate in Physics on Soft Matter. The awards ceremony took place on Nov. 29, Wednesday evening. The Von Hippel award, the Turnbull lectureship, the MRS Medals and the graduate student awards were presented. The Von Hippel presentation was given by Prof. George Whitesides (Harvard Univ.) as part of the awards ceremony on Organic Materials Science. The MRS Medal lectures by Dr. Dieter Gruen (Argonne National Lab.) and Prof. Samuel Stupp (Northwestern Univ.) formed part of symposium X on Tuesday, Nov. 28 at noon. The Turnbull Lecture was presented by Prof. Anthony Evans (Princeton) on Thursday at 12:05 pm on Multifunctional Materials. A new series titled "Research Tools Seminars" was introduced at the meeting in conjunction with the Exhibit. A number of presentations were given focusing on presenting the scientific basis and practical applications of commercially available state-of-the-art tools for materials research. The exhibition itself featured more than 225 exhibitors from around the planet displaying a wide range of equipment, services, products, publications and software. Students form a crucial part of MRS meetings. There was a student mixer on Sunday evening from 7:00-8:30 pm (206, Hynes). Graduate student award finalists gave their presentations on Monday at noon in the Sheraton hotel. The final awards were presented at the awards ceremony. [Please contact the Web Editor, Gopal Rao, if you have comments or suggestions. e-mail: rao@mrs.org ]

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