Tribology conference set for this month in San Francisco

Benedict Bahner
ASME NEWS

Members of the world tribology community will have the opportunity to hear about and discuss late-breaking developments in the field at this year's International Joint Tribology Conference.

The meeting, which is sponsored by ASME and the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, will take place from Oct. 21-24 at the Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco.

Highlights of the conference include sessions and panel discussions that will explore current tribology issues, including magnetic storage tribology and micro/ nanotribology; mechanical components; advances and future trends in automotive tribology; fluid film bearings; additives; contact mechanics; and tribology of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

The meeting's technical sessions will also examine topics including tribology and the environment; elastohydrodynamic lubrication; polymers and composites; research progress in manufacturing tribology; seals and solid lubrication; and third bodies.

Ali Erdemir, a staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, will give the keynote address at the event's awards luncheon on Oct. 23. Erdemir, an ASME member, will speak on "Reinventing Carbon for Superlubricity and Supermolecular Architectures."

Another special feature at this year's conference will be a magnetic media symposium, which will be held on Sunday, Oct. 21. Topics of interest to be discussed during the day-long program will include the future of magnetic recording technology, a new finite-element-based suspension model, tribology of high-density tape storage systems, kinetics and energetics of the desorption of polyether lubricants, and tribology of patterned media.

Registration for the International Joint Tribology Conference is $550 for members of ASME, STLE and cooperating societies, $650 for nonmembers. Students may register free of charge.

To find out more about the ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference, visit www.stle.org/trib_conf_2000/trib_conf_2001_call.htm; or contact Crystal Chavis, ASME Meetings Dept., (212) 591-8258.

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