The Bilateral Energy Conference, held jointly by the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS,) will be included as part of the 2014 E-MRS Spring Meeting in Lille, France, on May 26–30. The conference chairs are Hans Richter of Gesellschaft zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft, Germany, and William Tumas of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA.

The symposia topics are:

■ Materials research for group IV semiconductors: growth, characterization and technological developments

■ Advanced materials and characterization techniques for solar cells II

■ Materials development for solar fuel production and energy conversion

■ Organic/polymer and hybrid photo-voltaics

■ Materials by design for energy applications through theory and experiment

■ Materials for electrochemical energy conversion—from modular to large-scale energy generation and storage

■ Crystals for energy conversion and storage (jointly organized with the International Organization for Crystal Growth)

The abstract deadline is January 16, 2014.

The E-MRS Spring Meeting also includes topics on materials for energy and environment; nanomaterials; materials and light; hybrid, organic, and biomaterials; and crystal growth in materials science (with symposia jointly organized with the International Organization for Crystal Growth), with the January 16, 2014 deadline for abstracts. This Meeting—chaired by Ian W. Boyd (University of Brunel, UK), Gilles Dennler (IMRA Europe, France), Roberto M. Faria (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Roberto Fornari (University of Parma, Italy), and Elvira Fortunato (FCT-UNL, Portugal)—also features a workshop on grand challenges in materials and a tutorial, on May 25, about analysis of radioactive nuclear materials.

For more information, access the E-MRS website www.emrs-strasbourg.com.