The XIII Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Materiais (SBPMAT) 2014 Meeting will be held September 28–October 2, 2014, in João Pessoa, Brazil. It is chaired by Iêda Maria Garcia dos Santos and Severino Jackson Guedes de Lima, both of the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil.

The Meeting features 19 symposia dedicated to recent advances and perspectives in materials science and technology. During the opening ceremony, José Arana Varela (São Paulo State University, Brazil) will present a memorial lecture on Joaquim Costa Ribeiro.

There are six plenary lecturers: Alberto Salleo (Stanford University, USA) will speak on organic electronic devices; Roberto Dovesi (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy) will address theoretical calculations applied to materials; Luís Antonio F.M. Dias Carlos (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal) will talk about luminescence applied to nanomedicine; Jean Marie Dubois (Institut Jean Lamour, France) will lecture on quasicrystal materials; Sir Colin Humphreys (University of Cambridge, England) will speak on GaN and microscopy; and Karl Leo (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology—KAUST, Saudi Arabia) will address KAUST’s Solar and Photovoltaics Engineering Research Center.

Best works presented in each symposium, oral or poster, may be published as open access papers in a proceedings volume in the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. The best student works may apply for the Bernhard Gross Award.

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