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E-MRS & MRS discuss educational and scientific collaboration
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New IUMRS Executive Committee E-MRS Member, Peter Glasow, elected as 1st Vice President o f new Executive Committee to take IUMRS into the new Millennium
The IUMRS General Assembly has elected a new executive committee to take IUMRS into the 21st Centu~ The executive committee from January 1999 now comprises: Professor Hengde Li, President; Dr. P. Glasow, i st Vice president; Professor J. Williams, 2nd Vice president; Professor Lichung Lee, Secretary; Professor R. Yamamoto, Treasurer; Professor Bob Chang, General Secretary The next meeting of the IUMRS general assembly will be in Beijing, China during the IUMRS-ICAM conference. Further information can be found at the IUMRS web site: http://www.iumrs.org.
E-MRS & MRS Discuss Educational and Scientific Collaboration The European Union and the United States signed an EU-US Science and Technology cooperation Agreement in Washington on 5th December 1997. This agreement now comes into force from 1999 for an initial period of five years. In light of the above agreement both E-MRS and MRS thought it opportune to hold a first meeting to discuss the elaboration of a joint new Initiative on EU-US Materials Science Education and Scientific Collaboration. A high level meeting was organised in Boston in December 1998, attended by Professors Neminach (President MRS) and Hull (Immediate Past President MRS) from MRS and Crean
(Immediate Past President E-MRS), Siffert (General Secretary E-MRS) and Glasow (Past president E-MRS) from E-MRS. Amongst the first tentative ideas to be elaborated are the stimulation of EU-US scientific exchange programmes in materials science at the postgraduate level, the elaboration of an EU-US postgraduate research positions directory and the organisation of topical EU-US workshops jointly organised by the E-MRS and MRS. Once again we welcome suggestions from our members on what activities or services they would like to see developed by E-MRS and MRS within the context of the EU-US collaboration agreement that will come into place this year. Please email Gabriel Crean, email [email protected] or Paul Siffert, email [email protected], with your suggestions before end March 1999.
IUMRS - ICAM 99 The fifth IUMRS International Conference on Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICAM'99), 0rganised by the Chinese MRS (C-MRS) will be held on June 13 to 18, 1999 in the Beijing International Convention Centre, Beijing, China. 36 scientific symposia coverin~ all the fields of materials science are scheduled with the 2 na circular containing full details available at the following web site address http://www.chimeb.edu.cn (go to meetings and then 2nd circular for details). The abstract deadline is March I st 1999 and abstracts can be emailed to [email protected] In addition, four IUMRS forums are planned: The role of Advanced Materials in Social and Economic Sustainable Development; Global Networks on Materials Research and Development; Materials Education and finally International Materials Assessment and Application. Dr. Yafang Han, C-MRS
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Up-date on Formation of new E-MRS Board of Delegates In the last issue of E-MRS News (Vol 1. Issue 4) the E-MRS executive committee presented its proposals to broaden the base of active people within the society infrastructure; namely its Board of Delegates and its Executive committee. The first stage in this process, the formation of a new Board of Delegates is now under was All past chairmen of E-MRS symposia over the past three years will have received, in January 1999, an invitation from the office of our General Secretary, Paul Siffert, to join a new enlarged Board of
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Delegates in line with the proposed new organisation structure. First enthusiastic replies have already been received; the changes described in our last issue are under way!
E-MRS Helps Establish New European Society forApplied Superconductivity (ESAS) The goals of ESAS are to support the advancement of Applied Superconductivi~, to represent Applied Superconductivity in social, scientific, political, and industrial forums and to stimulate the communication in the area of Applied Superconductivi~ It is
ional Relations
New IUMRS Executive Committee E-MRS Member, Peter Glasow, elected as 1st Vice President o f new Executive Committee to take IUMRS into the new Millennium
The IUMRS General Assembly has elected a new executive committee to take IUMRS into the 21st Centu~ The executive committee from January 1999 now comprises: Professor Hengde Li, President; Dr. P. Glasow, i st Vice president; Professor J. Williams, 2nd Vice president; Professor Lichung Lee, Secretary; Professor R. Yamamoto, Treasurer; Professor Bob Chang, General Secretary The next meeting of the IUMRS general assembly will be in Beijing, China during the IUMRS-ICAM conference. Further information can be found at the IUMRS web site: http://www.iumrs.org.
E-MRS & MRS Discuss Educational and Scientific Collaboration The European Union and the United States signed an EU-US Science and Technology cooperation Agreement in Washington on 5th December 1997. This agreement now comes into force from 1999 for an initial period of five years. In light of the above agreement both E-MRS and MRS thought it opportune to hold a first meeting to discuss the elaboration of a joint new Initiative on EU-US Materials Science Education and Scientific Collaboration. A high level meeting was organised in Boston in December 1998, attended by Professors Neminach (President MRS) and Hull (Immediate Past President MRS) from MRS and Crean
(Immediate Past President E-MRS), Siffert (General Secretary E-MRS) and Glasow (Past president E-MRS) from E-MRS. Amongst the first tentative ideas to be elaborated are the stimulation of EU-US scientific exchange programmes in materials science at the postgraduate level, the elaboration of an EU-US postgraduate research positions directory and the organisation of topical EU-US workshops jointly organised by the E-MRS and MRS. Once again we welcome suggestions from our members on what activities or services they would like to see developed by E-MRS and MRS within the context of the EU-US collaboration agreement that will come into place this year. Please email Gabriel Crean, email [email protected] or Paul Siffert, email [email protected], with your suggestions before end March 1999.
IUMRS - ICAM 99 The fifth IUMRS International Conference on Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICAM'99), 0rganised by the Chinese MRS (C-MRS) will be held on June 13 to 18, 1999 in the Beijing International Convention Centre, Beijing, China. 36 scientific symposia coverin~ all the fields of materials science are scheduled with the 2 na circular containing full details available at the following web site address http://www.chimeb.edu.cn (go to meetings and then 2nd circular for details). The abstract deadline is March I st 1999 and abstracts can be emailed to [email protected] In addition, four IUMRS forums are planned: The role of Advanced Materials in Social and Economic Sustainable Development; Global Networks on Materials Research and Development; Materials Education and finally International Materials Assessment and Application. Dr. Yafang Han, C-MRS
News from the Society .
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.
.
.
.
Up-date on Formation of new E-MRS Board of Delegates In the last issue of E-MRS News (Vol 1. Issue 4) the E-MRS executive committee presented its proposals to broaden the base of active people within the society infrastructure; namely its Board of Delegates and its Executive committee. The first stage in this process, the formation of a new Board of Delegates is now under was All past chairmen of E-MRS symposia over the past three years will have received, in January 1999, an invitation from the office of our General Secretary, Paul Siffert, to join a new enlarged Board of
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Delegates in line with the proposed new organisation structure. First enthusiastic replies have already been received; the changes described in our last issue are under way!
E-MRS Helps Establish New European Society forApplied Superconductivity (ESAS) The goals of ESAS are to support the advancement of Applied Superconductivi~, to represent Applied Superconductivity in social, scientific, political, and industrial forums and to stimulate the communication in the area of Applied Superconductivi~ It is