The Materials Science Summer Institute, MASSI, program was established in 1996 as a continuing education course by the LRSM, University of Pennsylvania, the Princeton Center for Complex Materials at Princeton University, and the Materials Research program at Rutgers University. This course is open to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, industrial and government scientists and faculty from non-research institutions. The course is funded jointly by the National Science Foundation and industrial organizations.

Goals:

• To offer courses in interdisciplinary materials science education.
  
• To provide a stable and neutral meeting ground for researchers from industry and academia and increase the level of cooperation between the participating institutions.
  
• To provide a series of computer based proceedings that summarize the lectures on advanced topics.
  

Course Steering Committee:

Giacinto Scoles, Chair, Princeton University
(609) 258-5570 gscoles@princeton.edu

Hai-Lung Dai, University of Pennsylvania
(215) 898-5077 dai@chem.upenn.edu

Theodore E. Madey Rutgers University
(908) 445-5185 madey@physics.rutgers.edu

No. of Students- 60-80
Number fo Lecturers- approx. 11
Seminar speakers- approx. 5
Course length-10 days

The registration fee for the course is $500 which includes room and board. Some Student Fellowships will be available to defray the cost of attending this course. Fellowship applications should be addressed to the course director.

The First MASSI on 'Intelligent Manufacturing of Nanostructured Ceramics' was held at Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ from June 2-12, 1996 and the course director was Lisa Klein, Rutgers University.

The Second MASSI on 'Complex Fluids' was held at the Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ from July 27 - August 7, 1998. It was co-directed by Prof. William Russel, Princeton University and David Weitz, University of Pennsylvania. There were approximately 60 attendees. For further information, check the Princeton Materials Institute webpage or their Materials Science Summer Institute (MASSI) Program flyer.

Details of the Third MASSI have yet to be determined but please check back to this page soon.