Tuesday, April 10 - Thursday, April 12Time varies by day
Moscone West, Level 1, Exhibit Hall, materials2 Occasionally, scientific images transcend their role as a medium for transmitting information, and contain the aesthetic qualities that transform them into objects of beauty and art. As a special feature of the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, we are continuing the popular "Science as Art" competition. Attendees are encouraged to vote for their favorite images, and winners will be announced on Thursday, April 12 at 10 am in the Moscone West Exhibit Hall.
Monday, April 99:00 am - 5:15 pm
Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Level, Salon 7Through keynote presentations and case-study panel discussions, the forum will cover broad aspects of the field of sustainable development from viewpoints outside of materials science, including industrial ecologists, resource experts, social scientists, economists, and venture capitalists. *A 2012 MRS SPRING MEETING VIRTUAL EVENT*
Monday, April 91:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Moscone West, Level 3, Room 3004This overview will present basic research opportunities and highlight DOE's fundamental scientific advances that have impacted energy technologies.
Monday, April 92:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Moscone West, Level 3, Room 3004Attendees' input will help shape the content for the BESAC report on Mesoscale Materials and Chemistry to be published in fall, 2012.
Monday, April 92:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Moscone West, Level 3, Room 3001This forum will share the vision of the The Materials Genome
Initiative of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) by 1) offering an in-depth look at the tools available, and
2) educating participants on using the Project’s ab initio computed data in their own materials research and design.
Monday, April 93:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moscone West, Level 3, Room 3000This session will explain principles of creating newsworthy stories from research discoveries. Attendees will gain hands-on experience creating news articles, television stories and practice a live media interview. This workshop is also offered on Tuesday, April 10 from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm.
Monday, April 95:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Marriott Marquis, Golden Gate Level, A This panel discussion will bring together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds to discuss how they see the field of biomaterials research evolving over the next decade.
Monday, April 95:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Marriott Marquis, 4th Floor, Pacific ALearn the tips and tricks to take your scientific presentations to the next level. By selecting the proper tools and techniques, you can effectively communicate your research to a broader audience. This seminar is also offered on Wednesday April 11 from 7:30 am - 8:30 am.
Monday, April 97:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Level, Salon 7Thomas P. Russell, University of Massachusetts Amherst, will deliver the Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience at the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting. Dr. Russell's topic is "Big Things Come in Small Packages." *A 2012 MRS SPRING MEETING VIRTUAL EVENT*
Monday, April 97:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Marriott Marquis, Golden Gate Level, C1Students are invited to join us at the Student Mixer for good food and drink while exploring interactive science activities.
Tuesday, April 107:30 am - 8:30 am
Marriott Marquis, 4th Floor, Pacific ADon’t let poor layouts and bad design interfere with communicating your work through technical posters. This session will discuss effective tools and techniques, while reviewing good and bad designs. This seminar is also offered on Wednesday, April 11 from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm.
Tuesday, April 1012:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Marriott Marquis, 4th Floor, Pacific B, CMRS 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. The GSA finalists will present their talks during special sessions on Tuesday, April 10. All finalists will then receive either a Gold or Silver Graduate Student Award at the Awards Presentation on Wednesday evening. *A 2012 MRS SPRING MEETING VIRTUAL EVENT*
Tuesday, April 1012:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Marriott Marquis, Golden Gate Level, Salon BK. Andreas Friedrich, German Aerospace Center (DLR) / University of Stuttgart, Germany, will present the Tuesday, "Symposium X" talk at the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting. *A 2012 MRS SPRING MEETING VIRTUAL EVENT*
Tuesday, April 105:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Marriott Marquis, 4th Floor, Pacific AThis session will explain principles of creating newsworthy stories from research discoveries. Attendees will gain hands-on experience creating news articles, television stories and practice a live media interview. This workshop is also offered on Monday, April 9 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm.
Tuesday, April 105:15 pm - 6:00 pm
Marriott Marquis, Golden Gate Level, BThe 2012 Innovation in Materials Characterization (IMC) Award winner is Stephen J. Pennycook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Pennycook's talk presentation is titled Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy—Seeing the Atoms More Clearly. The IMC award honors an outstanding advance in materials characterization that notably increases knowledge of the structure, composition, in situ behavior under outside stimulus, electronic behavior, or other characterization feature, of materials.
Tuesday, April 105:45 pm – 6:45 pm
Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Level, Salons 1, 2At this inaugural information session, Science Officers from private foundations will provide insight into their current activities and funding opportunities for materials researchers.
Tuesday, April 106:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Marriott Marquis, Golden Gate Level, BMarkus J. Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will receive the 2012 MRS OYI Award “for highly innovative and creative work in computational modeling of biological, bio-inspired, and synthetic materials, revealing how weakness is turned into strength through hierarchical material design.” Dr. Buehler's talk presentation is titled "From Atoms to Structures—Turning Weakness into Strength." *A 2012 MRS SPRING MEETING VIRTUAL EVENT*
Tuesday, April 106:45 pm – 7:30 pm
Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Level, Salons 3/4This overview will review the current BES research portfolio and will discuss future directions for FY2013 as defined through BES workshops, including research for clean energy, computational materials sciences, and the Early Career Research program.
Tuesday, April 107:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Marriott Marquis, Level 2, Foothill DA re-training session for evaluators for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET). This meeting is also open to anyone who wants to learn more about the process, is preparing for an upcoming accreditation visit, or wants to ask questions about how to prepare your materials department for an accreditation visit.
Tuesday, April 107:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Level, Salons 1/2The Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative’s mission is to develop solar energy technologies through a collaborative national push to make solar Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) energy technologies cost-competitive with fossil-fuel-based energy by reducing the cost of solar energy systems by ~ 75 percent before 2020.
Wednesday, April 117:00 am – 8:30 am
Marriott Marquis, 2nd Floor, Club RoomMen and women of materials science are invited to attend this discussion and complimentary breakfast. Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado, Boulder will speak.
Wednesday, April 117:30 am - 8:30 am
Marriott Marquis, 4th Floor, Pacific ALearn the tips and tricks to take your scientific presentations to the next level. By selecting the proper tools and techniques, you can effectively communicate your research to a broader audience. This seminar is also offered on Monday April 9 from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm. *A 2012 MRS SPRING MEETING VIRTUAL EVENT*
Wednesday, April 118:30 am – 12:15 pm
Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Level, Nob Hill B/CThe Forum provides a stage for innovators, industry leaders and venture capitalists to discuss their strategic goals, technology needs, market philosophies, funding processes and lessons learned, with the intent of finding a “materials match” for future fixed and portable energy needs.
Wednesday, April 1112:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Marriott Marquis, 2nd Floor, Club RoomChapter officers and faculty advisors gather to attend a meeting of MRS University Chapter representatives. University Chapters are a vital part of MRS, providing discussion between students and faculty and promoting student interest in materials science.
Wednesday, April 1112:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Marriott Marquis, Golden Gate Level, Salon BYounan Xia, Georgia Institute of Technology, will present the Wednesday "Symposium X" talk at the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting. *A 2012 MRS SPRING MEETING VIRTUAL EVENT*
Wednesday, April 112:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Moscone West, Level 1, Exhibit Hall, materials²Created for general public audiences at the Museum of Science Boston, “Cleaning Our Water with Nanotechnology” is a presentation about our drinking water and how we can make contaminated water safe to drink using a variety of technologies – including 3 new nanotechnologies for water purification.
Wednesday, April 115:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Marriott Marquis, 4th Floor, Pacific ADon’t let poor layouts and bad design interfere with communicating your work through technical posters. This session will discuss effective tools and techniques, while reviewing good and bad designs. This seminar is also offered on Tuesday, April 10 from 7:30 am - 8:30 am.
Wednesday, April 116:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Level, Salon 7Koichi Kitazawa - Japan Science and Technology Agency will deliver the 2011 MRS Fall Meeting Plenary Address on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 in the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Dr. Kitazawa's presentation is titled "Fukushima and the Role of Nanotechnology Research in Japan." Prior to Dr. Kitazawa's address, the Outstanding Young Investigator, Innovation in Materials Characterization, Mid-Career Researcher and Graduate Student Awards will be presented.
Wednesday, April 116:30 pm
Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Level, Salon 7Kristi S. Anseth of the University of Colorado–Boulder will receive the inaugural Mid-Career Researcher Award during the Plenary/Awards Session for her “exceptional achievement at the interface of materials and biology enabling new, functional biomaterials that answer fundamental questions in biology and yield advances in regenerative medicine, stem-cell differentiation, and cancer treatment.” There will be no talk session associated with this award -- the time listed here is for the award presentation. *A 2012 MRS SPRING MEETING VIRTUAL EVENT*
Thursday, April 1212:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Marriott Marquis, Golden Gate Level, Salon BHod Lipson, Cornell University, will deliver the Thursday "Symposium X" talk at the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting.
Thursday, April 126:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Level, Salons 1, 2Materials research activities extend across many divisions and directorates at the National Science Foundation. A brief overview of the materials activities, with special attention given to those activities within the Division of Materials Research, will be presented.
Thursday, April 126:45 pm – 7:30 pm
Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Level, Salons 3, 4AFOSR sponsors cutting-edge basic science to provide transformational opportunities for the future Air Force. For 60 years, AFOSR has forged the foundations of science in every mission critical area for today’s Air Force, from integrated circuits, lasers, and stealth to anti-missile defense systems, hypersonics, and space travel.
Thursday, April 127:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Level, Salons 1, 2What are the next crucial material and processing innovations that will transform over the next decade aerospace science fiction to science fact? The Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory is driving this development through in-house research and strategic partnerships with industry and academia