This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the November 8-10, 1982 Conference on EMERGENT PROCESS METHODS FOR HIGH TECHNOLOGY CERAMICS, held at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. It was the nineteenth in a series of "University Conferences on Ceramic Sci ence" initiated in 1964 by four institutions of which North Carolina State University is a charter member, along with the University of California at Berkeley, Notre Dame University, and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. More recently, ceramic oriented faculty in departments at the Pennsylvania State University and Case-Western Reserve University have joined the four initial institutions as permanent members of the consortium. These research oriented conferences, each uniquely concerned with a timely ceramic theme, have been well attended by audiences which typically were both international and interdisciplinary in character; their published Proceedings have been well received and are frequently cited. This three day conference addressed the fundamental scientific background as well as the technological state-of-the-art of several novel methods which are beginning to influence present and future directions for non-traditional ceramic processing, thus affecting many of the advanced ceramic materials needed for a wide variety of research and industrial applications. The number, the importance and the application of new ceramic processing techniques have expanded considerably during the last ten years."

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the Sixth University Conference on Ceramic Science which was held at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, December 7-9, 1970. Previous host institutions and resultant publications in this ongoing series have been: 1. North Carolina State University, November 16-18, 1964. W. W. K:r>iegeZ and H. PaZmour III~ Eds. ~ The RoZe of Grain Boundaries and Surfaaes in Ceramias. 631 pp.~ Mater'iaZs Saienae Researah~ Vol-. 3~ PZenwn P1'eSs~ New York~ 1966 . * 2. University of Notre Dame, June 21-23, 1965. G. C. Kuazynski~ N. A. Hooten and C. F. Gibbon~ Eds.~ Sintering and ReZated Phenomena~ 894 pp. Gordon and Breaah Saienae PubZishers~ Ina.~ New York~ 1967. 3. University of California at Berkeley, June 13-16, 1966. R. M. FuZrath and J. A. Pask~ Eds.~ Ceramia ~arostruatures- Their AnaZysis~ Signifiaanae and Produatidn. 1008 pp. John WiZey & Sons~ Ina.~ New York~ 1968. 4. State University of New York, College of Ceramics at Alfred University, June 18-23, 1967. T. J. Gray and V. D. Freahette~ Eds.~ Kinetias of Reaations in Ionia SoZids. 571 pp. MateriaZs Saienae Researah~ VoZ. 4~ PZenwn Press~ New York~ 1969. 5. University of Florida, Novem1:>er 10-14, 1969. L. L. Henah and D. B. Dove~ Eds.~ Physias of EZeatronia Ceramias. M. Dekker~ Ina. (In Press).

This volume contains the edited Proceedings of the Sixth World Round Table Conference on Sintering, held in Herceg-Novi, Yugoslavia on September 2-6, 1985. It was organized by the International Institute for the Science of Sintering (IISS), headquartered in Beograd. Every fourth year since 1969, the Institute has organized such a Round Table Conference on Sintering, each has taken place at some selected lo cation within Yugoslavia. A separate series of IISS Summer Schools have also been held at four year intervals, but they have been offset by about two years, so they occur between the main Conferences. As a rule, the Summer Schools have been devoted to more specific topics and they also take place in different countries. The aim of these Conferences and their related Summer Schools has been to bring together scientists from allover the world who work in various fields of science and technology concerned with sinter ing and sintered materials. A total of six IISS Conferences have been held over the period 1969-1985, and they have been supplemented by the three Summer Schools held in Yugoslavia, Poland and India (in 1975, 1979 and 1983, respectively). This most recent five day Conference addressed the fundamental scien tific background as well as the technological state-of-the-art in sintering and sintered materials. It encompassed many of the high technology sintered materials needed for a wide variety of research and industrial applications."