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Behind the scenes of a big hybrid conference

The 2021 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting was a hybrid event for the first time, featuring both an in-person meeting in Boston and a virtual meeting held separately. Nature Reviews Materials speaks to Gopal Rao, Chief Editor of Technical Content for MRS and Editor of MRS Bulletin, to find out what pandemic-era conference planning is like.

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Vartanian, A. Behind the scenes of a big hybrid conference. Nat Rev Mater 7, 153–154 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-022-00414-3

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