Meetings & Exhibits

• MRS Spring Meetings & Exhibits
• MRS Fall Meetings & Exhibits
  • 2012 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
  • 2013 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
    • 2013 MRS Fall Meeting Chairs
  • 2011 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
  • Past Fall Meetings & Exhibits
  • International Travel Information
• MRS Joint Meetings
• MRS Workshop Series
• Additional Meeting Activities
• Meetings Calendar
• The Meeting Scene

2013 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

Fall 2013

December 1 - 6, 2013 Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA

Meeting Chairs: Charles Black, Elisabetta Comini, Gitti Frey, Kristi Kiick, Loucas Tsakalakos

Symposium Proposals Sought for 2013 MRS Fall Meeting

As part of the early stages of planning the technical program for the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting, we are interested in your input on future symposium topics. Our goal is to plan a meeting that includes both new, rapidly developing areas in Materials Science as well as topics within the traditional core scope of the Fall Meeting.

Please send your suggestions for symposium topics, along with the names and affiliations of possible symposium organizers, via e-mail to the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting Chairs.  (For your convenience, individual email address are provided below, but please use this link to submit your proposal.)

• Charles Black (ctblack@bnl.gov)
• Elisabetta Comini (comini@ing.unibs.it)
• Gitti Frey (gitti@tx.technion.ac.il)
• Kristi Kiick (kiick@udel.edu)
• Loucas Tsakalakos (tsakalakos@ge.com).

Please include any comments you think are relevant regarding the topic’s importance to the materials science community and its history, if any, at previous MRS events. Finally, please include a short justification of why you and your proposed co-organizers are qualified to organize the proposed symposium. Additional detail about preparing a proposal can be found at http://www.mrs.org/organize-symposium.

To expedite the review and approval process, symposium proposals should be submitted in the form of a preliminary Call for Papers (CFP). A sample CFP is attached, as is a simple Word Template to help you organize your submission. Additional samples can be viewed on the Meetings portion of the MRS website.

If you have co-organized an earlier MRS symposium about your proposed topic, please note that the MRS Program Development Subcommittee (PDSC) requires a turnover of at least two co-organizers from the most recent symposium. Previous organizers who step aside may still serve the program in the important role of invited speaker. Also, PDSC considers a diversified group of four co-organizers to be the optimal size. If you are recommending more than four co-organizers, please include a brief explanation of why you consider the larger number important to the success of your proposed symposium.

Your input is extremely valuable in helping assure both the breadth and topicality of the MRS meeting. Although proposals were requested by May 1, we will also do our best to consider any suggestions we receive later in the meeting planning process.  

Thank you.

Charles, Elisabetta, Gitti, Kristi and Loucas
2013 MRS Fall Meeting Chairs