This volume contains a collection of papers from seven symposia, related to materials characterization, computation and modeling, held at the TMS 2009 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in San Francisco, California, February 15-19, 2009. The symposia include: Global Innovations in Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics; Solar Cell Silicon - Production and Recycling; Manufacturing Issues in Fuel Cells; Applicable Computing Technologies in Heat Treating; Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics; Synergies of Computational and Experimental Materials Science; and, Progress in Computational MSE Education.