The Forum had several activities at both the March and April Meetings in 2019. These activities were organised to promote or encourage early career scientists to think outside the box and recognise the opportunities in front of them. Here I will highlight the March meeting events.

In March, we started off the week with the 2019 Energy Research Workshop, sponsored by GERA and FECS. This DOE supported meeting was held in Boston on Sunday, March 3, 2019. The workshop consisted of a series of talks by leading experts in the field, informal discussions during lunch and coffee breaks, and a panel discussion. Over 100 participants attended the daylong event, and every year we get great reviews.

On Wednesday the 6th at 8am, we co-sponsored a session entitled “Topology Matters: Structure-Property relationships on different length scales” with the Forum on International Physics (FIP). This session was in room 258A and our past-chair, to name one speaker, explained her work on STM and nanowires. This was an outstanding session highlighting a variety of science from around the world, with work at national laboratories and universities.