Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society 

Ordered Fluids and Liquid Crystals was the focus of the two-day symposium on April 5 and 6 in Anaheim, California that was sponsored by the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, during the Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society. The organizers were 5. Rananavare of the Oregon Graduate Institute and R. Shashidhar of the Naval Research Laboratory who did a magnificent job in arranging a program that was faithful to the title and addressed issues on nearly all topics of liquid crystals research and technology. Both days were packed with presentations that covered lyotropics, ferroelectrics, liquid crystal polymers, molecular theory, new materials, and, of course, applications.