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Provides information on several conferences and symposiums to be held by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) in the U.S. from March 2004 to February 2005. 2004 Electronic Materials Conference in Notre Dame, Indiana; The Accelerated Implementation of Materials and Processes Symposium; Effects of Microstructure and Property Homogeneity/Variability on Product Performance conference; 2005 TMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California; 12th International Conference on Metal-Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy.

Presents information on programs offered by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Foundation to assist young professional members in the U.S. in attending technical conferences abroad. Young Leader International Scholar Program; Young Leader Intern Program.

The article provides information on the conferences sponsored by The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) in the U.S. in 2006. The features of the TMS Annual Meeting are enumerated. The attendees to the Electronic Materials Conference are listed. Details about the Materials Science and Technology 2006 are also given.

Presents an overview of the Seventeenth General Assembly of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) held on June 15, 2003 in New York. Attendees; Success of the meeting; Information on the next conference of ESPE.

This article comments on the history and accomplishments of the American Sociological Association. The most astonishing activity of the ASA is an annual production, the extravaganza called the national meetings. In the 1940s and 1950s the national convention was sometimes criticized for being a market fair at which young academics were forced to kowtow to the mighty for jobs, rather than being able to take delight in truly intellectual discourse. Over the decades, the business meetings of the ASA have remained unchanged in one important way. They always have been poorly attended, except for a few times in the late 1960s. This intense apathy is characteristic of a well run learned society. First it shows the good sense of sociologists, for there is little worth capturing at the business meeting. Second, most of the time the Council and the national staff have succeeded in attaining harmony with the vibrations of their constituents, and thus, they often have made entirely independent decisions that pleased the others anyway. Even in the high drama of business meetings in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it should be noted, established sociology was the main target. In response to the sociologist's usual preference for egalitarian policy, the 1960's charges of elitism, and the sheer growth of research money, the number of papers or presentations has grown, certainly faster than the membership.

Presents information on several meetings to be sponsored by the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society from September 2005 to March 2007. The 2007 TMS Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida; International Symposium on Superalloys 718, 625, 706, and Derivatives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; European Mettalurgical Conference 2005 in Dresden, Germany.

The article offers information on the symposium conducted by the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) which focused on several dimensions influencing interactions between primary care physicians and specialists, improvement in primary care, and physician–patient relationships. It mentions the need for preplanning educational and practice strategies. It presents information on managed care.

Provides information on conferences and meetings to be held by the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society in the U.S. and in other countries from February 2005 to August 2006, including the 12th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Systems-Water Reactors.

Reports on the meeting of American Society of Microbiology in Los Angeles, California on bacterial biocatalyst containing a chimeric gene as of July 18, 2000. Presentation of the genetic information by Enchira Biotechnology; Control of biocatalytic reaction in biodesulfurization of diesel fuel through the gene.

The article presents a calendar of events concerning The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). The Materials Science & Technology conference will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 15-19, 2006. The 2008 TMS annual meeting will be held in New Orleans, Los Angeles on March 9-13. The Superalloys 2008 conference will be held in Champion, Pennsylvania on September 14-18.

Presents updates on the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc. (SEM) in the U.S. as of February 2004. Organizations that supported the SEM 2004 Congress; Responsibilities of the project team assembled by SEM and The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); Members of the SEM 2003-2004 Executive Board.