Website: http://www.mrs.org/

Main Contact:

Materials Research Society
506 Keystone Drive
Warrendale, PA
15086-7573
Phone: 724-779-3003
Fax: 724-779-8313
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The Materials Research Society is a not-for-profit organization that brings together scientists, engineers, and research managers from industry, government, academia, and research laboratories to share findings in the research and development of new materials of technological importance.

Founded: 1973

Purpose: To promote goal-oriented basic and applied research on advanced materials

Members: 13,600

Among MRS priorities:

• Increase intersociety and international cooperation
• Maintain vital communication between basic and applied research
• Facilitate technology transfer

General MRS Meeting Information

Meeting programming has been instrumental in MRS's success. We carefully design symposia to meet the widest possible range of interests and expertise -- without duplicating the offerings of other societies. We make it easy for you to get in-depth information by clustering related topics. You get breadth as well -- through joint sessions furnishing a broad view of theory and applications.

Speed and flexibility are our trademarks. MRS has responded whenever research communities have needed to communicate rapidly about late-breaking scientific developments involving advanced materials. This, more than anything, explains the growth of MRS meetings and membership.

First MRS Symposium: 1973, "PhaseTransitions"

Topics in MRS:

Symposia in our technical meetings represent the current trends in interdisciplinary materials research and include a blend of new areas as well as established fields. Meetings highlight advances in the synthesis, characterization, simulation and applications of materials, from understanding fundamentals to fabrication of devices. Electronic and electo-optic materials, nanostructured and molecular materials, biological and hybrid materials, and energy and the environment are just a sampling of featured symposia.

Recent MRS "Late News" sessions: High Temperature Superconductors, Fullerenes, Porous Silicon

Symposia held annually: ~75-80

MRS Spring Meetings:

Held in San Francisco, symposia clusters include: microelectronic device processing and fabrication; photonics, electronics, magnetics and sensors; complex and biological nanoscale materials and systems; energy and environment; and education in nanoscience and engineering.

MRS Fall Meetings:

Held in Boston, symposia clusters include: soft matter—active materials, hybrids and sensors; electronics, photonics and magnetics; energy storage and utilization; microstructure, mechanics and modeling; characterization tools and techniques; and scientific basis for nuclear waste management.

MRS membership complimentary with registration or by direct-pay:

Consult the MRS web site for upcoming symposia.

MRS Publications:

Since its debut in 1986, Journal of Materials Research (JMR) has become the premier archival journal dedicated to interdisciplinary materials research. Published monthly, JMR is devoted to reports of original research and review articles, and covers all aspects of materials research. The Journal is found widely in technical libraries and is available to current MRS Members at a special subscription rate. All subscriptions to the JMR also include FREE online Web access.

The MRS Bulletin, a monthly news magazine focuses on news and trends in the materials community, and offers technical overviews of emerging and developing topics. Membership in MRS includes a FREE print subscription to the MRS Bulletin, with FREE online access as well.

MRS books include over 900 proceedings volumes from its meetings, as well as proceedings from special conferences. Topics range from electronic materials and ceramics to composites, catalysts, nuclear waste management, metals and alloys, and general issues in materials characterization and processing. MRS members receive special low prices on the Society's books, videotapes, and other publications. Membership in MRS also includes FREE access to the MRS Online Proceedings Library—over 15,500 proceedings papers published from the 2000 MRS Spring Meeting to the present, with more added daily.

Selected topics from the MRS Bulletin:

Topical overviews for 2006 include: imicro- and nanofluidics; hydrogen purification; materials for optical and magnetic data storage; biomembrane materials science; ultrafast lasers; and more.

New symposium proceedings annually: ~25 PRINT volumes

Other publications of note:

• Handbook of Modern Ion Beam Materials Analysis
• Theoretical Materials Science—Tracing the Electronic Origins of Materials Behavior
• Proceedings of the 12 th International Zeolite Conference
• Advanced Metallization Conference Series (published annually)

What MRS members say about MRS

"The environment provided by MRS meetings leads to brutally honest and extremely rapid evaluation of the validity and importance of research results."
Tom Picraux, Division Manager, Sandia National Laboratories

"I believe that people are most creative when they venture outside the imagined constraints of their profession. MRS, by its very nature, encourages this."
June D. Passaretti, Research Chemist, Minerals Technologies Inc.

"My interaction with the Society has allowed me to communicate the importance of inorganic materials to the scientific community."
Dale L. Perry, Senior Scientist, Inorganic Chemistry and Materials, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

"The interdisciplinary flavor of MRS meetings and publications is unmatched. It is what will give you the edge as you step out to meet the challenges ahead."
Daryush Ila, Professor and Director, Center for Irradiation of Materials, Alabama AandM University

"MRS pioneered the concept of interdisciplinarity in materials science, and nobody does it better."
Russell R. Chianelli, Section Head, Environmental Sciences, Exxon Research and Engineering