Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials Solicits Submissions

The 24th Annual Rio Grande Sym­po­sium on Advanced Mate­ri­als will be held on Mon­day, Oct. 22, 2012 at the Hotel Albu­querque.  Orga­niz­ers are cur­rently solic­it­ing abstracts in all areas of mate­ri­als sci­ence and engi­neer­ing including

Mate­ri­als for Energy Stor­age and Conversion

Bio­ma­te­ri­als and Biomechanics

Ceram­ics and Composites

Advanced Char­ac­ter­i­za­tion Techniques

Thin Films, Coat­ings and Sur­face Engineering

Cor­ro­sion and Electrochemistry

Elec­tri­cal, Opti­cal and Mag­netic Materials

Mate­ri­als for Radioac­tive and Harsh Environments

Mate­ri­als Modeling

Mate­ri­als Processing

Mechan­i­cal Behav­ior of Materials

Micro­elec­tron­ics, Micro and Nano Systems

Nano-structured Mate­ri­als, Inter­faces, Fab­ri­ca­tion and Assembly

Mate­ri­als Reli­a­bil­ity and Aging

Abstracts should be sub­mit­ted by Sept. 10, 2012.  There will be prizes for posters pre­sent­ing by under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate tech­nol­o­gists, and a $250 award for the best stu­dent talk.

The 2012 Kreidl Memo­r­ial Lec­ture will be given by Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor of Mate­ri­als Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Direc­tor of the Mate­ri­als Research Insti­tute at Penn­syl­va­nia State Uni­ver­sity Carlo Pan­tero.  His topic is “Glass Sur­faces and Coat­ings for New Func­tion­al­ity and Sustainability.”

The con­fer­ence will be held at Hotel Albu­querque near his­toric Old Town. For more infor­ma­tion or sub­mit abstracts, please visit http://www.nm-materials.org/RGSAM.  Ques­tions can be answered by San­dra Jiron, sljiron@sandia.gov or (505) 844‑6447.