Chairs

Thomas F. Kuech, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Clifford L. Renschler, Sandia National Laboratories
Chuang Chuang Tsai, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

This symposium is the Society's principal vehicle to maintain the interdisciplinary and integrative nature of its mission within the materials community with invited reviews presented over the lunch hour.

Leaders in various specialties represented by the topical symposia present (didactic) reviews designed for materials researchers who are NOT specialists in the reviewed field.

SESSION X1:
Chairs: T.F. Kuech, C.L. Renschler and C.C. Tsai
Monday Afternoon, April 8
Presidio Ballroom

12:05 P.M. *X1.1
MATERIAL CHALLENGES IN THIN FILM SPUTTERED MEDIA FOR HARD DISK DRIVE TECHNOLOGY, Rajiv Ranjan, Komag, Inc., Milpitas, CA.

12:45 P.M. *X1.2
SENSORS FOR HIGH DENSITY MAGNETIC STORAGES, Robert White, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

SESSION X2:
Chairs: T.F. Kuech, C.L. Renschler and C.C. Tsai
Tuesday Afternoon, April 9
Presidio Ballroom

12:15 P.M. *X2.1
PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES, James Rodgers, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY.

SESSION X3:
Chairs: T.F. Kuech, C.L. Renschler and C.C. Tsai
Wednesday Afternoon, April 10
Presidio Ballroom

12:15 P.M. *X3.1
OPTICAL RECORDING: TRENDS, TECHNOLOGY, CHALLENGES, William Mitchell, 3M Corporation, St. Paul, MN.

SESSION X4:
Chairs: T.F. Kuech, C.L. Renschler and C.C. Tsai
Thursday Afternoon, April 11
Presidio Ballroom

12:15 P.M. *X4.1
MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORIES, Dimetri Psaltis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.



BOX LUNCHES AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR.