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the new millennium comes a few changes from the traditional carbon meetings.
These departures are not being made for the sake of change only, but are
an attempt to keep the meeting vibrant and of interest to regular attendees
as well as potential new attendees. Of note: |
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The
meeting will begin on Saturday night, July 14th with a welcoming reception,
and the first full day of sessions beginning Sunday. It will end on Thursday,
the 19th instead of Friday. |
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Technical
sessions are grouped by field of application, rather than categories of
carbon to align more closely with industrial fields of interest. |
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A
single poster session will be held on Monday night as part of "Kentucky
Spirits Night." This new event will allow posters to be viewed in an
informal setting, with refreshments and a sampling of Kentucky's famous
bourbons! |
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The
organizers are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for this meeting
will be Nobel Prize winner Sir Harold Kroto, University of Sussex, United
Kingdom. |
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There
will not be an awards session this year. Instead, all other awards (besides
those mentioned above) will be given at the Awards Banquet on Wednesday
night. |
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This meeting
is in part a tribute to Frank Derbyshire, former director of the University
of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), who died unexpectedly
in August, 1999. To honor his many contributions to carbon science, there
will be a symposium held in his honor on Monday, July 16th.
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Virtual exhibits.
With cyberspace comes new communications tools. In this web site you will
find "virtual exhibit booths." It will allow you to see which companies
will be exhibiting at the meeting, as well as those not physically there,
but who want to be associated with the meeting by sponsoring a display
only on our web site. Check it out! (It won't make your feet hurt.)
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Extending
the Carbon 2001 meeting will be a Sunday symposium entitled "Carbon
in Biomaterials." The purpose of this symposium is to enhance the
field of Biomedical Materials engineering by bringing together engineers
from both the biomedical and carbon-based materials fields.
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