Schedule

Day 1

June 24, 2024

9:45 - 10: 15

Registration 

10:15 - 10: 30

Opening Remarks Matteo Seita ; Mengying Liu

Extreme Materials 

10:30 - 11: 30

Under Pressure – The Lasting Impact of Percy Bridgman on Processing in Extreme Conditions

Speaker:  Suveen Mathaudhu, Colorado School of Mines

Past Metallurgist:  Percy Bridgman 

11:30 - 12:30

Let There Be Light!  Learning from Tungsten’s Bright Past to Enable Fusion Energy

Speaker: Jason Trelewicz, Stony Brook University

Past metallurgist: William Coolidge

12: 30- 1:45 PM Lunch Break 

Alloy Design (Composition) 

1:45 - 2:45

Anchors Away! CALPHAD-Designed Joints for Dissimilar Alloys

Speaker: Ian McCue, Northwestern University 

Past metallurgist: Thomas Eagar

2:45 - 3:45

From CALculation of PHAse Diagrams to Modern Digital Metallurgy: The (R)Evolution in Alloy Design

Speaker: Kathy Christofidou, University of Sheffield 

Past metallurgist: Scientists developed CALPHAD

3:45 - 4:30 PM Coffee Break 

Alloy Design (Microstructure) 

4:30 - 5:30

Designing alloys from their liquid structure

Speaker: Marie Charpagne, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Past metallurgist: Frederick Charles Frank

5:30 - 6:30

Microstructure design via additive manufacturing: What can we learn from traditional metallurgy

Speaker:  Nima Haghdadi, Imperial College London

Past Metallurgist:  Max Hatherly

7:15 - 9:30 PM Formal Dinner  (speakers only)

Day 2

June 25, 2024

Materials Characterization 

9:00 - 10:00

How we started to look at mountains through a microscope

Speaker: Matteo Seita, University of Cambridge 

Past metallurgist: Henry Clifton Sorby

10:00 - 10:30 AM Coffee Break 

10:30 - 11:30

Seeing is believing!

Speaker:  Maria Teresa Perez-Prado, IMDEA Materials Institute

Past Metallurgist:  Max von Laue and Seishi Kikuchi

11:30 - 12:30

From Liberty Ships to Hydrogen Bubbles: Understanding Environmental Degradation of Metals through Microstructures

Speaker: Mengying Liu, Washington and Lee University  

Past metallurgist: Constance Tipper 

12:30 - 1:45 PM Lunch Break 

Materials Mechanics 

1:45 - 2:45

Beyond the Atmosphere: Exploring Mechanics in Modern Metallurgy

Speaker: David Collins, University of Cambridge 

Past Metallurgist: Sir Alan Cottrell

2:45 - 3:45

Metals in Motion: Celebrating the Scientific Legacy of Prof. R.W. Armstrong

Speaker: Liliana Romero Resendiz, National Autonomous University of Mexico 

Past metallurgist: Ronald W. Armstrong

3:45 - 4:00 PM Group Picture

4:00 - 5:00

(No streaming)

Breaking bonds and making them: How Tony Evans changed the world and had fun along the way

Speaker: Zachary Cordero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Past metallurgist: Tony Evans

Closing Remarks