You can find out more about each topic, and how it fits into the meeting, by using the links in the session titles. The links on participant's names take you to their web pages where you can find out more about their research.

Discussion leader: Rajendra Bordia, U. of Washington

Martin Harmer, Lehigh University, "Controlled Abnormal Grain Growth for Solid State Crystal Conversion"

Amit Goyal, ORNL, "Rolling Assisted Biaxially Textured Substrates for the Growth of Single-Crystal-Like Ceramic Superconducting Wires"

Discussion leader: Sheldon Wiederhorn, NIST

A.M. Cruickshank Award Lecture:

William W. Mullins, Carnegie Mellon University, "Understanding and Controlling the Motion of Neutral and Charged Grain Boundaries During Normal and Abnormal Growth."

Doh-Yeon Kim, Seoul National University, "Coarsening of Faceted Grains Dispersed in a Liquid Matrix-Mechanism of Abnormal Grain Growth"

Discussion leader: David Clarke, UCSB

Joachim Maier, MPI, "Size Effects on Point Defect Distribution"

Xiaoqing Pan, University of Michigan, "Electronic Properties of Grain Boundaries in SnO₂ Thin Films"

Discussion leader: Rowland M. Cannon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

John W. Cahn, NIST, "Testing the Fundamentals of Grain Growth Theories with Simulations"

Lasar Shvindlerman, RWTH Aachen, "Grain Boundary and triple Junction Motion: Current Results and Current Problems"

Venkat Gopalan, Penn State, "Domain Wall Kinetics in Ferroelectrics"

Discussion leader: David Brandon, Technion

Stephen J. Bennison and Kurt R. Mikeska, DuPont, "Property Control via Grain Boundary Engineering in Alumina"

Preview of invited posters

Simone Peterson Hruda, Report from the Education Focus Group, (including Robert Snyder, OSU, Gary Fischman, UIC, Richard Riman, Rutgers, and Dunbar Birnie, Arizona)

Discussion leader: Sunggi Baik, Pohang University of Science and Technology

Manfred Rühle, MPI, "Segregation, Pre-Wetting and Wetting at Grain Boundaries in Metals and Ceramics"

Nigel Browning, UIC, "What Electronic Spectroscopy tells us about Grain Boundary Structure Property Relationships"

Open forum discussion

Discussion Topic: The choice of length scale in the study of grain boundary networks: advantages and disadvantages of the atomic and microscopic scales.

Discussion Leader, Carol Handwerker, NIST

View points provided by Wayne King, LLNL, C. Barry Carter, UMN, Alain Karma, NEU, Stephen Garofalini, Rutgers.

Controlling Texture in Ceramics

Discussion Leader, Keith Bowman, Purdue

Gary Messing, PSU, "Texturing Ceramics via Templated Grain Growth"

Desi Kovar, UT, Austin, "Is there a pay-off for texturing ceramics?"

Arun Gokhale, Georgia Tech, "Effect of Gravity on Interfacial Connectivity and 3D Coordination Number Distribution in Liquid Phase Sintered Microstructures"

Prof. Stephen Sass, Cornell University, "The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon"