The 2006 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting will be held April 17 to 21 in San Francisco, California. The technical meeting and exhibits will be located at the Moscone West Convention Center, including 35 symposia and three technical forums. Two of these forums will focus on Nanotechnology Education and Risk Assessment. The Meeting will highlight advances in microelectronic device processing and fabrication; materials research for photonics, electronics, magnetics, and sensors; complex and biological nanoscale materials and systems; and materials for energy and environmental applications. To complement the scientific sessions, tutorials will provide a detailed introduction to particularly exciting areas of research, and the Exhibit will showcase products of interest to the materials community.

The scientific sessions will include many new and developing areas of materials research as well as some well-established and popular topics. Topics in the microelectronics symposia range from amorphous and polycrystalline silicon thin films to chalcogenide phase-change materials. Symposia on electronic, magnetic, and optoelectronic materials will bring forth the state-of-the-art from organic, inorganic, and hybrid materials systems, as well as the latest breakthroughs in nanowires and nanostructured materials systems. Complex materials behavior and biological nanoscale systems will be explored in symposia with topics ranging from nanomanufacturing to mechanics of nanoscale systems to biological machines and nanoscale probes for molecular bio-imaging. An additional focus will be placed during the Meeting on materials research impacting energy and environmental applications such as hydrogen storage materials and materials used in water purification.

Symposium X, "Frontiers of Materials Research," will feature topics at the forefront of materials science and engineering. In addition, a science-and-art contest is planned in which artwork related to materials science and aesthetic scientific pieces of art, e.g., micrographs, will be exhibited and judged for awards.

Meeting Chairs:
J. Charles Barbour, Paul Drzaic , Gregg Higashi, and Viola Vogel
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