Website: www.mrs.org.sg/

Main Contact:

Eileen So (Ms.)
Project Executive
Materials Research Society Singapore
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
3 Research Link, Singapore 117602
Tel: (65) 6874 1176
Fax: (65) 6777 2393
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The Materials Research Society of Singapore (MRS-S) was created in 1999 as a not-for-profit organization to serve a rapidly emerging materials science community in Singapore. The founding President of the Society was Prof. Shih Choon Fong who remains its Principal Advisor. The Society is affiliated with the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS).

Since its inception, the focus of MRS-S has been to promote materials science not only to researchers in Singapore, but also to publicize the niche capabilities of local researchers throughout Asia and further a field.

To this end, the Society's major activity is the organization of a biannual event - the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT) - that is held in July and attracts more than 1,500 delegates from all over the world.

MRS-S also awards prizes on an annual basis to outstanding honor students at the National University of Singapore. As the Society matures, it plans to expand its activities through:

• organization of smaller, specialist conferences, and
• provision of scholarships to graduate students