{"id":6086,"date":"2017-09-29T18:09:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T21:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbpmat.org.br\/?p=6086"},"modified":"2017-10-03T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:37:05","slug":"xvi-encontro-da-sbpmat-relatorio-multimidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sbpmat.org.br\/en\/xvi-encontro-da-sbpmat-relatorio-multimidia\/","title":{"rendered":"XVI B-MRS Meeting: multimedia report."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday. Tutorial, opening, memorial lecture and welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe made it.\u201d With those words the president of B-MRS opened the sixteenth annual meeting of the\u00a0society on Sunday, September 10, 2017,\u00a0at around 7pm. Professor Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Junior (IFSC-USP) was referring\u00a0to the difficulties experienced not only by the\u00a0event organizers but also by all the Brazilian scientific\u00a0community, in a year which recorded the lowest budget for science and technology\u00a0in the history of\u00a0the country.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0contrast to this situation, the room that held the opening of the XVI B-MRS\u00a0Meeting, at the FAURGS event center in the city of Gramado (RS),\u00a0was nearly\u00a0full. Close to 900 people were there to celebrate the ceremony. The opening panel assembled on the main stage the\u00a0representatives of Materials Societies from Latin America, Asia\u00a0and Europe, as well as\u00a0the International Union of Materials Research Societies. The composition of the panel table anticipated a point that would be emphasized shortly afterwards in the opening speech and throughout the event in several plenary sessions \u2013 the importance of scientific collaboration, not only between different areas, but also between countries, as a source of ideas, resources and skills.<\/p>\n

\"abertura\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Opening session table. From the left, Robert Chang (general secretary of IUMRS), Hyeongtag Jeon (President of the Materials Research Society of Korea), Claudia Guti\u00e9rrez (President of the Mexican Materials Society, SMM), Daniel Eduardo Weibel (Chairman of the\u00a0event), Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Jr (President of B-MRS), Soo Wohn Lee (President of the International Union of Materials Research Societies, IUMRS), Roberto Arce (President of the Argentine Materials Society, SAM), Luis da Cunha Lamb (Vice Provost for Research from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS) and Rodrigo Martins (Representative of the European Materials Research Society, E-MRS).<\/em><\/p>\n

After the welcome greetings and wishes for a good event given by the chair of the meeting, Professor Daniel Weibel (IQ-UFRGS), it was time for\u00a0the\u00a0traditional\u00a0Memorial Lecture \u201cJoaquim da Costa Ribeiro\u201d, which name honors\u00a0and keeps alive the memory of\u00a0one of the pioneers of Brazilian materials research. The lecture is also a recognition given by B-MRS to\u00a0researcher every year,\u00a0highlighting his\/her\u00a0trajectory\u00a0in the\u00a0area.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Jornada (center) with the meeting Chair (left) and B-MRS President.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The awarded and speaker\u00a0of the night, Jo\u00e3o Alziro Herz da Jornada, was then called to the stage. Jornada, among many other positions, is a retired professor from UFRGS and former president of\u00a0Inmetro (Brazilian\u00a0Institute of Metrology Standardization and Industrial Quality). The renowned Brazilian scientist touched on a subject of significant importance in times of funding cuts to science and\u00a0technology,\u00a0the relationship between science and innovation and better quality of life. Through news articles recently published in some of the most renowned journals and magazines\u00a0in\u00a0the world, Jornada highlighted\u00a0that this discussion is already\u00a0the\u00a0subject of intense and in-depth debate. The Professor presented some models that depict this\u00a0relationship, either in a simplified, or in a more complex and realistic\u00a0manner. The honored scientist highlighted some important extra scientific factors for technological innovation: society\u2019s knowledge absorptive capacity,\u00a0the \u201clearn by doing<\/em>\u201d practical knowledge entrepreneurial approach, the possibility for entrepreneurs to easily access knowledge, communication\u00a0and interaction\u00a0between different agents. To conclude, Jornada asked all researchers to make an effort to systematically and objectively\u00a0understand the relationship between science and\u00a0the welfare of society, and\u00a0thus,\u00a0to prepare to the discussion on the social and economic impact of science, which\u00a0is already taking place among the general public.
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