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• 2011 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

• November 28 - December 2, 2011
• Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
• Meeting Chairs: Cammy R. Abernathy, Paul V. Braun, Masashi Kawasaki, Kathryn J. Wahl

2011 MRS Fall Meeting Award Presentations

The Von Hippel, Turnbull Lecturer, MRS Medal, Materials Theory, and Graduate Student Awards will be presented in the Sheraton Hotel Grand Ballroom on Wednesday, November 30 at 6:30 pm. 

Von Hippel Award
The Materials Research Society's highest honor, the Von Hippel Award, is conferred annually to an individual in recognition of the recipient's outstanding contribution to interdisciplinary research on materials.

A. Paul Alivisatos
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, November 30, 6:30 pm
Sheraton Hotel, Level 2, Grand Ballroom

Materials Theory Award
The Materials Theory Award recognizes exceptional advances made by materials theory to the fundamental understanding of the structure and behavior of materials. This Award is intended to honor both those who have pioneered the development of a new theoretical approach and those who have used existing approaches to provide significant new insight into materials behavior.

Alex Zunger
University of Colorado, Boulder
For his development of the Inverse Band Structure approach to materials by design and the foundational developments of methods of First-Principles theory of solids, leading to innovative and transformative studies of renewable-energy materials and nanostructures. 

MRS Medal Award
The MRS Medal is awarded for a specific outstanding recent discovery or advancement which has a major impact on the progress of a materials-related field.

Peidong Yang
University of California, Berkeley

ZL Wang
Georgia Institute of Technology

David Turnbull Lectureship
The David Turnbull Lectureship recognizes the career of a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to understanding materials phenomena and properties through research, writing, and lecturing, as exemplified by David Turnbull.

Phaedon Avouris
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Graduate Student Awards
MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. MRS seeks to recognize students of exceptional ability who show promise for significant future achievement in materials research.  Finalists for 2011 MRS Fall Meeting Graduate Student Awards will be notified in mid-October.

Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience
The Kavli Foundation supports scientific research, honors scientific achievement, and promotes public understanding of scientists and their work. Its particular focuses are astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience.

Mark E. Davis
California Institute of Technology