MST CONFERENCES: Symposia and courses on materials and surface related phenomena

MST Conferences (Materials Science and Technology Conferences) provides a service to scientists and technical professionals worldwide by sponsoring international conferences on topics of critical interest and importance to both fundamental scientific research and applied industrial applications. A primary focus of these conferences deals with surface related phenomena that profoundly affect the chemico-physico behavior of thin films and coatings. These conferences seek to bring together the leading investigators in their field from all over the world. Each conference is fully documented in either a special issue of the Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology or a bound volume. In either case all papers are peer reveiwed by at least two referees. The conference director Dr. Kash Mittal rigorously edits the contributions to each volume using the experience gained of having documented over 27 international conferences.

The conference chairman Dr. Robert H. Lacombe is a senior scientist with over 30 years experience in the field of materials science and technology ranging from thin film applications in the microelectronics industry to large scale modeling for nondestructive inspection of complex structures. Dr. Lacombe handles the technical aspects of the conferences and teaches technical courses on adhesion measurement techniques, characterization of thin film insulators and fracture mechanics of coatings.