Opening the 1st KAIST Emerging Materials e-Symposium
President Sung-Chul Shin welcomed participants to the 1st KAIST Emerging Materials e-Symposium on September 21.
President Shin said in his opening address, “I am very honored to welcome leading scientists in the field of materials science to this symposium, from an editor-in-chief of a globally recognized journal to a Nobel Prize laureate.” He thanked both the domestic and international participants as well as the chair of the symposium, Professor Il-Doo Kim of the KAIST Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
“Innovation in materials science will become an important driving force to change our way of life,” President Shin emphasized. “I hope today’s symposium will be a valuable opportunity to discuss the new big ideas in the field, and look at various technologies in which we may apply those ideas,” he added.
The 1st KAIST Emerging Materials e-Symposium was held over five days from the 21st through the 25th of September on Zoom and YouTube. Participants discussed key issues in three main categories: 1) nanostructures for next-generation applications, 2) chemistry and biotechnology for applications in the fields of environment and industry, and 3) material innovation for technological applications.
On Day 1, international speakers including Professor John A. Rogers of Northwestern University and Professor Zhenan Bao of Stanford University led the program online.
In later sessions, other globally recognized scholars participated through online meetings. These included 2010 Nobel Prize laureate and professor at Manchester University Andre Geim, editor-in-chief of ACS Nano and professor at UCLA Paul S. Weiss, Professor Paul Alivisatos of UC Berkeley, Professor William Chueh of Stanford University, and Professor Mircea Dinca of MIT.
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