 The increasingly cross-disciplinary worldwide activity on materials research culminates every year in the MRS Fall Meetings. Symposium organizers from around the world have created a program that addresses leading-edge research and captures the extraordinary progress in materials science and technology, featuring an exciting mix of well-established and popular topics. The technical cores of the meeting, fifty symposia, are clustered into: Information Processing and Sensing; Nanoscience and Technology; Energy and the Environment; Materials Across the Scales; and Health and Biological Materials. Tutorials will be offered in several technical areas. The international exhibit will showcase products and services of interest to the materials community, and several special events will highlight science outreach.