The TAPPI Coating Fundamentals Committee sponsors and organizes the Advanced Coating Symposium, a bi-annual conference held both stateside and abroad. The symposium, now in its 16th year, will be held in Zurich, Switzerland. The committee was formed to share knowledge related to Coating Fundamentals such as fluid dynamics, chemistry and process problems of high technology coatings, fluid metering, colloidal systems, rheology, thin film instabilities, coating and structure relationships, drying and other topics essential for current and new coating technologies of the future.