B-MRS Newsletter. Coverage of the XVII B-MRS Meeting. – SBPMat – Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Materiais

Newsletter of the
Brazilian Materials
Research Society

Year 5, issue 9. October 5, 2018.

In numbers

Participants
– About 1,100 participants from 186 institutions were present at the event.
– Registrations from 25 countries in South America, North America, Europe and Asia (94% from Brazil).
– Registrations from Brazil, from 25 states of the federation, covering the 5 regions of the country.
– 44.4% women; 55.6% men.
– 38% professionals, 41% graduate students, 21% undergraduate students.

Presentations
– More than 1,600 abstracts approved for presentation in 21 symposia (335 oral presentations, 1,247 posters, 75 invited lectures).
– 76 symposium organizers.
– 562 authors involved in the approved works.
– 185 referees involved in reviewing the abstracts.
– 12 rooms for simultaneous oral presentations.
– 8 plenary lectures; 1 workshop; 1 challenge.
– 21 exhibitors.

Awards
– ACS Publications, E-MRS, IUMRS and B-MRS awarded 20 participants for the works they presented at the event.

Reporting the program sessions.
A report covering technical sessions, opening and tribute ceremonies, with texts, photos and presentation files. See here.

List of awarded works.
Find out which were the 20 authors that received the winning awards of B-MRS, ACS Publications, IUMRS, E-MRS and the Aerospace Challenge. See here.

Presentations files.
Access on B-MRS Slideshare the files of plenary lectures, memorial lecture and announcement of the next event. See here.

Album.
We have shared in Google Photos some photos that you may want to see or download (cocktail, party, awards, technological challenge, organizers, plenary speakers). See here.

Highlights of the symposia.
We asked the organizers what were the highlights of the symposia they coordinated. See the answers we received, here.

Real-time coverage.
During the event, we posted messages, images and comments of the main moments in the B-MRS Instagram. If you did not follow, you can have a look now. See here.

XVIII and XIX B-MRS Meetings.
You can now schedule the next two annual meetings of B-MRS that will be held in two wonderful Brazilian places! In 2019, it will be in Balneário Camboriú from September 22 to 26. In 2020, it will be in Foz do Iguaçú from August 30 to September 3. B-MRS is receiving suggestions from the scientific community regarding the plenary speakers and symposia themes for the next meeting. Get involved! Know more.

Call for symposia proposals for the XVIII B-MRS Meeting.
Until October 31, 2018, B-MRS is receiving proposals of thematic symposia to compose the XVIII B-MRS Meeting Program. The call is open to the international scientific community. Know more.

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