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Emerging Opportunities Sessions
![]() ACerS 110th Anniversary Symposium and Emerging Technologies Session On the special occasion of the 110th anniversary of the founding of The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and the scheduled ACerS Annual Meeting in the city where it was founded, Pittsburgh, Pa., a one-day symposium is planned in conjunction with MS&T 2008.
The symposium on Monday, October 6, will critically review major technological achievements in the field of ceramic science and engineering and also elucidate emerging technologies and challenges that will impact research, innovation, and education in the next decade.
Immediately following the afternoon Emerging Technologies session will be a discussion forum or Cafe in which the speakers, industry, labs, and academia representatives can gather to openly correspond with respect to the challenges the materials community can influence and focus on for future, make professional contacts, and stimulate the direction of research and development.
110th Anniversary Symposium Morning Session
Opening Remarks
James McCauley, Army Research Laboratory
S.K. Sundaram, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Katherine Faber, Northwestern University
L. David Pye, John Kaniuk, Katherine Faber
Emerging Technologies Afternoon Session
Introduction Brian Sundlof, IBM Microelectronics Division
J.U. Knickerbocker, IBM - T.J. Watson Research Center
Dr. Richard LeSar, Iowa State University
David Ginley, National Center for Photovoltaics, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Eric Green, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
Emerging Technologies Café Forum Brian Sundlof, IBM Microelectronics Division
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