August 11—15, 2013 Cancun, Mexico

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The XXII International Materials Research Congress (IMRC) 2013, to be held on August 11–15, 2013, in Cancun, Mexico, is a joint meeting of the Sociedad Mexicana de Materiales (SMM) and the Materials Research Society (MRS). The Meeting Chairs are Claudia Gutiérrez Wing of Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico; David Lederman of West Virginia University, USA; Xavier Mathew of Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico; and Fiona Meldrum of the University of Leeds, UK; and the chair of the Congress is Sergio Mejia Rosales of Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Mexico.

The Congress will feature 30 symposia covering nanoscience and nanotechnology, biomaterials, materials for energy, fundamental materials science, materials characterization, materials for environmental applications, and magnetic and electronic materials as well as topics on archaeological issues in materials science and on academy-industry relationships. Oral and poster presentations will be given as well as tutorials, and there will be an equipment exhibition.

Among the plenary speakers are Walter de Heer (Georgia Institute of Technology), presenting a lecture on nanostructured graphene; Ron Naaman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel), presenting a lecture on spintronics; Eric Fullerton (University of California–San Diego), on magnetic storage and memory applications; Isaac Hernández-Calderón (Cinvestav, Mexico), on semiconductors; and Shigeo Ted Oyama (University of Tokyo), on the preparation of a hydrogen-selective inorganic membrane. For additional information on the Congress, access www.mrs-mexico.org.mx/imrc2013.