C ondensed Matter Science plays a major role in the development of the advanced technologies that propel our modern economy. Our science is an intellectual powerhouse that greatly contributes to the creation of new concepts at the Frontiers of Physics. We feel that this is a good time to bring together a group of established leaders and up-and-coming young people in the field of Condensed Matter Science to discuss and reflect on its future. To this end, we have organized a two-day symposium on "The Advancing Frontiers of Condensed Matter Science", to be held at the University of Pennsylvania on October 13 and 14, 1997. The primary focus of this symposium will be on recent major developments condensed matter science. We have invited scientists who have made key breakthroughs in their areas of research, to discuss their work, focusing on the underlying concepts that are the "driving force" for their research and to share their views about perspectives for future developments. We are also inviting key scientists to serve as chairmen, and discussion leaders. We encourage the attendance of advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
T he Symposium will also include a session that will focus on issues raised by the changes in industrial research and development at major industrial laboratories around the world. It will feature talks by William E. Brinkman and by Paul M. Horn about the changes in philosophy and policy regarding basic research that have taken place at their institutions and the implications of these changes for university research and graduate student training. In addition Prof. Venkatesh Narayanamurti, who is the Chairman of the NRC Committee which is carrying out an assessment of the future of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, will give an overview of the conclusions that are contained in the Final Report of the Committee, that is to appear in the fall of 1997.
T he Proceedings of the Symposium will be published in a Special Issue of Solid State Communications, Pergamon Press, which will make it readily accessible to the Condensed Matter Science Community.

Special Session

"Status of Basic Research in Industrial Laboratories And Its Implication for Universities"
W.E. Brinkman, Physical Sciences Research Vice President, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Paul M. Horn, Senior Vice-President Research, IBM

Special Report

"The State of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics"
Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Dean of Engineering, UCSB

Organizing Commitee

Elias Burstein, Chair, University of Pennsylvania
James A. Krumhansl, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Tom Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania
Aron Pinczuk, Bell-Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
J. Robert Schrieffer, Florida State University

For further information about the Symposium
         and schedule of talks please contact:

Eli Burstein
Physics Department
2C13 David Rittenhouse Laboratory,
University of Pennsyslvania
by phone:     (215) 898-8160 (office)
by FAX:       (215) 898-8512
by e-mail:     burstein@dept.physics.upenn.edu

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Schedule of Talks

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MONDAY October 13, 1997

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8:30	Ralph Amado, Vice Provost for Research Michael Klein, Director LRSM Eli Burstein, Physics Dept. U. of P.	“Welcome, Introductory Remarks”
	SPECIAL SESSION
	Chair: Judy Franz (APS)
9:00 - 10:30	W.F. Brinkman, Physical Sciences Research V-P, Bell Labs, Lucent Paul M. Horn, Senior V-P, Research , IBM	“Status of Basic Research in Industrial Laboratories And Its Implication for Universities”
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
	Chair: Praveen Chaudhari (IBM, Watson)
11:00 - 11:45	Bertram Batlogg (Bell Labs, Lucent)	“Cuprate superconductors: new science beyond high TC”
11:45 - 12:30	Laura Greene (Univ. of Illinois)	“Tunneling into Andreev bound states in YBCO: observation of broken time reversal symmetry”
12:30 - 2:00	Box Lunch
	Chair: Millie Dresselhaus (MIT)
2:00 - 2:45	Richard Smalley (Rice Univ.)	“The future of fullerenes”
2:45 - 3:30	Marvin Cohen (UC, Berkeley)	“Predicting new materials and their properties”
3:30 - 4:15	Alan Heeger (UC, Santa Barbara)	“Light emission from semiconducting polymers: LEDs, LASERs and white light for the future”
4:15 - 4:45	Refreshments break
	Chair: Dung-Hai Lee (UC Berkeley)
4:45 - 5:30	Horst Stormer (Bell-Labs, Lucent)	“Correlated electrons in two dimensions: composite Fermions and beyond.”
5:30 - 6:15	Steve Girvin (Univ. of Indiana)	“Exotic order parameters in strongly correlated quantum systems”
7:00 - 8:30	Dinner	at the Faculty Club, 36th and Walnut Streets
	SPECIAL REPORT	OPEN to the GENERAL SCIENCE COMMUNITY
	Chair: Jim Krumhansl (Univ. of Massachusetts)	Lecture Hall 102, Chemistry Building
9:00 - 10:00	Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Dean of Eng., UCSB, Santa Barbara Chairman, NRC Committee on Condensed Matter and Materials Physics.	“The State of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics”

TUESDAY October 14, 1997

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	Chair: Jene Golovchenko (Harvard)
9:00 - 9:45	Don Eigler (IBM, Almaden)	“Atomic scale perspectives of Condensed Matter Science; A new view from cold STM”
945 - 10:30	Harold Hess (Bell-Labs, Lucent)	“The scanning single electron electrometer: imaging individual charges”
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
	Chair: Isaac Silvera (Harvard)
11:00 - 11:45	David Awschalom (UC, Santa Barbara)	“Electron precession and coherence in magnetic quantum structures: room-temperature spin memory”
11:45 - 12:30	Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)	“Matter made of matter waves: Bose-Einstein condensation and the atom laser”
12:30 - 1:30	Box Lunch
	Chair: Cherry Murray (Bell-Labs, Lucent)
1:30 - 2:15	Uzi Landman (Georgia Tech)	“From electrons to nanotribology: hard and soft junctions”
2:15 - 3:00	David Nelson (Harvard)	“Localization and population biology”
3:00 - 3:45	Ellen Williams (Maryland)	“Nanostructure evolution and electromigration on silicon: experimental applications of length-scaling predictions”
3:45 - 4:15	Coffee break
	Chair: Louis Brus (Columbia Univ.)
4:15 - 5:00	Moungi Bawendi (MIT)	“Nanocrystallites: building blocks for quantum dot heterostructures”
5:00 - 5:45	Charles Lieber (Harvard)	“One-dimensional nanostructures: chemistry, physics and applications”
5:45 - 6:00	Aron Pinczuk (Bell-Labs Lucent)	“Closing Remarks”

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To REGISTER for the symposium (NO fee required):

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   You can register by e-mailing or phoning:

   Kathy Kramer at kramer@lrsm.upenn.edu    (215) 898-5425

     please supply your:

• name
• address
• phone
• fax number

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