Organizers:

R.P.H. Chang, Northwestern University (USA)
Lih J. Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Masao Doyama, Teikyo University of Science and Technology, Japan
Minhua Jiang, Shandong University, China
Hyeong Joon Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
Nikolai Lyakhov, Siberian Materials Research Association, Russia
Jim Williams, The Australian National University, Australia

Sponsors: 

National Science Foundation, United States

Support was also provided by the scientific agencies of the participating countries.

Theme:

The first US-Asian workshop in Materials Research, Technology and Education was held at the Turtle Bay Hilton in Turtle Bay, Hawaii, from Sunday, November 1 to Wednesday, November 4, 1998. 

Workshop goals included:

• To identify possible areas of joint research, networking, and cooperation among individual research groups, centers, and institutions in the Pan Pacific countries

• To stimulate collaboration and investigate the possibility of exchange programs
• To foster future technologies
• To identify mechanisms for making materials education relevant for future needs
• To promote and enhance the exchange of materials information
• To identify funding opportunities for cooperation

Workshop participants, who numbered 72 total, were from Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States. Observers from South Africa and the United States, along with representatives from the National Science Foundation and other national agencies, also attended. A total of 81 people attended the workshop.

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