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Spring 2000 Meeting
April 24-28, 2000
San Francisco, California

DAILY NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

From the talk by R. Stanley Williams, "Thermodynamics of self assembly:Dots and Wires", K4.4, on Tuesday, April 25.

The 2000 MRS Spring Meeting was held from April 24-28 in San Francisco. For the second year, the Meeting was held at two hotels, the Marriott and Argent. The Meeting included 34 technical symposia covering a wide range of Materials Science topics, poster sessions, an exhibit, five tutorials, special presentations including the Plenary talk, the Outstanding Young Investigator talk and the Graduate Student Award finalists talks, and several other activities. The meeting was chaired by Anna Balazs (University of Pittsburgh), Robert Hwang (Sandia National Lab), Kevin Jones (University of Florida) and Frances Ross (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center).

News and highlights from the MRS 2000 Spring Meeting were posted here directly from San Francisco each day during the meeting.

Sunday, April 23
Monday, April 24
Tuesday, April 25
Wednesday, April 26
Thursday, April 27
Friday, April 28

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An excellent description of an MRS meeting titled "The Materials Serengeti" excerpted from Ivan Amato's book "Stuff", is available.