9724808 Schuller This Americas Program award will support travel and related expenses for six senior researchers and six young investigators, to participate in two workshops on research of current interest in the fields of solid state physics and materials science. These workshops will be held concurrently with a Latin American Symposium of Solid State Physics (SLAFES), in Oaxaca, Mexico, January 11-16, 1998. The topics to be discussed in the two workshops will be the physical properties of heterostructures and the magnetic properties of low dimensional systems. Organizers are Dr. Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego, and Dr. Jose Luis Moran Lopez, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi. The physics and materials science of low dimensional systems is an important current subject of research worldwide, but much of the research is performed by small groups in many institutions. Therefore, there is a strong need to bring together this small group of researchers for open discussions of past research and future directions. The two workshops will meet this need, especially with the opportunity of holding them concurrently with the Latin American Symposium, which has had US participation since its inception and has played an important role for the development of American collaboration for many years. ***
