May 2012 - Vol 91 No. 4

Lou Mattos
A group of glass researchers, manufacturers and users have been working painstakingly to
forge a coalition that will support fundamental research into the causes of flaws and crack growth.

Martin Richardson and Romain Gaume
New methods of fabricating doped transparent ceramic laser materials are leading to a transformation
in advanced laser technology.

Mathieu Bauchy
The winner of the Norbert J. Kreidl Award for Young Scholars demonstrates how molecular
dynamics simulations and topological constraint theory can be combined to study the glassy state.

Program overview . . . . . . . . 39
Hotel information . . . . . . . . 39

Program overview and call for abstracts . . . . . . . . 40
Tentative schedule . . . . . . . . 40
Hotel information . . . . . . . . 40

Keynote and plenary speakers . . . . . . . . 41
Preliminary program schedule . . . . . . . . 42
Invited speakers and 3rd Ceramic Leadership Summit Track . . . . . . . . 43

Interactive technology forum and Exhibit . . . . . . . . 44
Short course: Sintering of Ceramics . . . . . . . . 45

Invitation from program chairs . . . . . . . . 47
Award winners and sponsors . . . . . . . . 47
Schedule at-a-glance . . . . . . . . 47

Symposia schedule . . . . . . . . 47
Short course: Fundamentals of Glass Science and Technology . . . . . . . . 48
Poster session and student poster competition . . . . . . . . 50

• What are the ‘Grand Challenges’ for ceramic research?
• Flood of ‘big data’ announcements, awards coincide with federal webcast
• Workshop on improved access to ceramics property data in June
• Mix of forces eases Chinese rare-earth tensions for now

• Welcome to our newest Corporate Member

• Nominations open for Cooper Award

• Pittsburgh Section plans annual golf outing — 4 person scramble

• Successful student contests at MCARE 2012

• MacChesney, Zanotto selected for 2012 Stookey, Morey GOMD awards

• Goyal named Fellow of MRS; Du elected SPIE Fellow; mourning Babini

• Alfred U. researchers participating in solid oxide fuel cell interconnects, GaN-on-diamond substrate projects

• Better metrics for comparing new energy storage technologies?

• Magnetic tongue stud and sensor system for steering wheelchairs

• U Mich researchers closer to producing piezo-powered pacemaker

• New way to tune band gaps in metal oxide films

• New era in electronics with single oxide p-n junction?

• Pump-and-probe laser method shines new light on rapid phase transitions

• Removing distortion from thin ceramics with shot peening

• Water-cleaning CNT ‘nanobrushes’/nanocatalysts system

John Mauro
Convergence of ceramics and semiconductor physics: A review of Bonds and Bands in
Semiconductors (Second Edition)
Mauro reviews this recent update of the 1973 first edition. Major additions to the book
include chapters on interfaces, amorphous semiconductors and more.