The International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) is seeking nominations for the Sōmiya Award, which recognizes research on real materials conducted by a research team whose members are drawn from at least two continents. The submission deadline is February 29, 2012.
Sōmiya Award recipients are selected by the IUMRS Commission on Awards. The recipients receive an award commemorating the occasion. Next year, the ceremony will be held at the 12th IUMRS International Conference on Electronic Materials (IUMRS-ICEM 2012), September 24–28, 2012 in Yokohama, Japan.
The following criteria are used for selection:
■ The team to be honored must have collaborated across at least two continents (e.g., North America, Europe, Asia, Australia) some time during the last decade.
■ The collaborative work must be of the highest quality and well recognized by the international materials community.
■ The impact on technology or society is also a major factor.
The annual award is named in honor of Shigeyuki Sōmiya, emeritus professor of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and later dean at Teikyo University of Science and Engineering. Sōmiya spent his post-graduate years in the United States and embarked on a series of collaborative research and exchange visits in many countries. Among his honors are the MRS Medal and the Japanese Scientific Academic Award.
Information about the award and nomination forms are available at www.iumrs.org.
