RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

    June 7-10, 1998

Organizers

R.P.H. Chang, Northwestern University (USA)

Dr. Guillermo González, University of Chile and Chilean Council for Science and Technology (CONICYT) (Chile)

Prof. Guillermo Solórzano, PUC-Rio (Brazil)

Dr. Kathleen C. Taylor, General Motors (USA)

Dr. Edgar Dutra Zanotto

Dr. Miguel A. Blesa, Argentinean Commission for Nuclear Energy, Secretary of Science and Technology (SECYT) and the Council for Science and Technology (CONICET) (Argentina)

Sponsors

Overview

The Workshop on Frontiers in Materials Research, Technology, and Education was designed to stimulate enhanced collaboration among materials researchers and create networks linking the participating countries including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the United States. 

Workshop participants were charged with identifying areas for fruitful cooperation among the individual research groups, centers, institutions and funding agencies of the Pan American countries, in the interdisciplinary field of materials research. Other goals of the Workshop were to identify means to stimulate collaboration, to foster future technologies, and to promote and enhance the exchange of materials information. A final goal was to identify mechanisms for optimizing the effectiveness of materials education, and for assuring its relevance to current and future needs.  Workshop invitations went out to all North, Central, and South American countries.

As the outcome of the meeting, the workshop participants made recommendations to the group of sponsoring agencies about steps to be taken to develop increased Pan American collaboration in materials research, technology, and education. Hopefully, the sponsoring agencies will view the workshop as the model for growing cooperation in these areas throughout the Pan American region. This initiative arises from the increasing globalization of the scientific enterprise and the wish to enhance the mutual resources and considerable strengths of the Pan American community.

Leading Participants

Dr. José Galizia Tundisi, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) (Brazil)

Dr. Lourival Carmo Monaco, Brazilian Granting Agency for Scientific and Technological Projects (FINEP) (Brazil)

Ambassador Carlos Alberto de Azevedo Pimentel, Department for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Brazil)

Dr. Alvaro Albuquerque Júnior, Special Secretary for Economic Development, Science and Technology for City of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Pe. Jesus Hortal Sanchez, S.J., Rector of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Dr. Robert Eisenstein, National Science Foundation (USA)

Dr. Guillermo González, University of Chile and Chilean Council for Science and Technology (CONICYT)

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