PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPER

International Symposium and Exhibition on
Advanced Packaging Materials
Processes, Properties and Interfaces

Stone Mountain, Georgia, March 4 - 6, 2002
Evergreen Marriott Conference Resort at Stone Mountain Park
Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA

Sponsors:
IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT)
Fraunhofer IZM, Germany
Packaging Research Center at Georgia Tech (GT PRC)

General Chair:
Dr. Rajen Chanchani
Sandia National Lab, USA

General Chair Elect:
Dr. Andreas Schubert
Fraunhofer IZM, Germany

Technical Chair:
Professor Jianmin Qu
Georgia Tech, USA

Technical Chair Elect:
Dr. Petri Savolainen
Nokia, Finland

Technical Sessions (Session Chairs):
Adhesives (Jim Morris and Ken Gilleo)
Underfills (Quinn Tong and CP Wong)
Encapsulants and Coatings (Ray Pearson and Dan Baldwin)
Bumping (Rolf Aschenbrenner, Dan Scheck and Andrew Strandjord)
Solders (Li Li and Rajen Chanchani)
Substrates, HDI and New Base Substrate Materials incl. Ceramic and Polymer Dielectrics (Petri Savolainen and Daizo Ando)
Reliability (Andreas Schubert and Suresh Sitaraman)
Passive Materials (Larry Mann and Swapan Bhattacharya)
New Topics:Nano Materials, Optical and RF materials (Jianmin Qu and Jim Morris)
Posters (Phil Garrou and CP Wong)

Attendees:
Attendees of this symposium in the past have been comprised of researchers, developers, producers and users of materials for single and multichip packages, interconnections, substrates, microwaves applications, optoelectronic packages and display panels.

Abstracts:
If you are interested in presenting a paper at this symposium, please send an abstract (~ 300 words) to either a session chair or to Professor Jianmin Qu via e-mail at jianmin.qu@me.gatech.edu. Please include your affiliation, mailing address, phone number and e-mail address in your submission. The deadline to receive the abstract is October 10, 2001.

For more information, please contact the technical chair of the symposium

Professor Jianmin Qu
School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0405
Phone: 404-894-5687
E-Mail: jianmin.qu@me.gatech.edu