Proceedings of the June 1996 conference, which sought to break down barriers to communication across disciplines and to promote a unified approach to the study of materials properties, placing emphasis on specific properties and demonstrating that materials scientists, mineralogists, and others who work with alloys have much to teach each other. Sixty papers are divided into four sections: characterization and phase stability, electronic structure and transport, mechanical properties, and multiple scattering theory and applications. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
