The 36th Annual RGSAM will be held on November 2, 2026
Location coming soon. Last year, the RGSAM was at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town, 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104
Symposium Registration – CLICK HERE!
The Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials (RGSAM) is a general technical meeting of materials researchers in the Rio Grande geographic region. It is an outgrowth of the Joint Technical Meetings of the New Mexico Section of the American Ceramic Society and the New Mexico Section of the Materials Research Society initiated in 1989. These meetings, sub-titled “Ceramics and Advanced Materials: Symposia and Poster Session,” proved to be quite popular among materials researchers in the Rio Grande geographic region. Attendance typically ranged between 75 and 150 people presenting 30 to 50 presentations, which were frequently used as a local warm-up for national meetings. An important aspect of this symposium is that it has been, and continues to be a venue for presentations by students from regional universities. In 1997, the Albuquerque Chapter of ASM International joined with the NM Section of the American Ceramics Society to host the meeting which began its new name, “The Rio Grande Regional Symposium on Advanced Materials.” Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of materials research presented at RGSAM, other societies soon joined to host the symposium. The New Mexico Chapter of the American Vacuum Society organized the RGSAM in 2013, followed by the Central New Mexico Local Section of the American Chemical Society in 2015. In 2018, the Albuquerque Chapter of ASM organized. This meeting hopes to reach out to a broad base of support among local materials societies and will be a focal point for the exchange of technical information in the Rio Grande geographic region well into the 21st century.
Kreidl Lecture
At the core of this meeting is the Kreidl Memorial Lecture, honoring the career achievements of
Norbert Kreidl, a remarkable and indefatigable glass scientist who spent his final years as a consultant based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Kreidl Lecture has featured several prominent ceramists and glass scientists.
Kreidl Lecturer: Seth Co-Sullivan
Title: Coming Soon.
Abstract: Coming Soon.
Speaker Biography:
Coming Soon.
Prior Kreidl Lecturers:
1992 William D. Kingery, University of Arizona
- 1993
- Delbert E. Day, University of Missouri – Rolla
- 1994
- Arthur H. Heuer, Case Western Reserve University
- 1995
- Don L. Kendall, University of New Mexico
- 1996
- David A. Payne, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
- 1997
- Joseph H. Simmons, University of Florida
- 1998
- Robert E. Newnham, Penn State University
- 1999
- Anthony F. Giamei, United Technologies Research Center
- 2000
- Gary Messing, Penn State University
- 2001
- Anthony G. Evans, Princeton University
- 2002
- Zhigang Suo, Princeton University
- 2003
- Nathan S. Lewis, California Institute of Technology
- 2004
- Subra Suresh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2005
- Robert O. Ritchie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 2006
- David R. Clarke, University of California at Santa Barbara
- 2007
- Steve Brueck, University of New Mexico
- 2008
- John Parise, SUNY Stony Brook
- 2009
- Kurt Sickafus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 2010
- Richard LeSar, Iowa State University
- 2011
- Uzi Landman, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2012
- Carlo Pantano, Penn State University
- 2013
- Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology
- 2014
- Diana Farkas, Virginia Tech
- 2015
- Michael J. Cima, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2016
- Ray Baughman, University of Texas at Dallas
- 2017
- Carol Handwerker, Purdue University
- 2018
- Paul S. Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2019
- Mark C. Hersam, Northwestern University
- 2020, 2021 Cancelled due to Covid-19 2022 Rajendra K. Bordia, Clemson University
- 2023
- Ramana G. Reddy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
- 2024
- Daniel B Miracle, Air Force Research Laboratory
2025
Thomas N. Ackerson, Blue Origin
2026
Seth Co-Sullivan
