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Special Lectures

A listing of special lectures planned during MS&T19 are listed below, by day. Please browse the selections below and add relevant events to your conference itinerary.

Monday, September 30

ACerS Navrotsky Award for Experimental Thermodynamics of Solids
Time: 8:10 – 8:55 a.m.
Location: Oregon Convention Center, B119
Alexander Beutl, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry-Functional Materials, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse, Austria
A Novel Apparatus for Coulometric Titrations in Lithium Containing Systems

ACerS Richard M. Fulrath Award Session
Time: 2:00 – 4:40 p.m.
Location: Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 253
Manabu Fukushima, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Engineering Cellular Ceramics with Modulated Pore Configurations

Keigo Suzuki, Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Japan
Fabrication and Characterization of Nanoscale Dielectrics for the Design of Advanced Ceramic Capacitors

Ronald Polcawich, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), USA
Piezoelectric Thin Film Processing, PiezoMEMS Devices, and an Overview of PRIGM, SHRIMP, & AMEBA Programs

Koichiro Morita, Taiyo Yuden Co. Ltd., Japan
Dielectric Material Design and Lifetime Prediction for Highly Reliable MLCCs

Vilas Pol, Purdue University, USA
Engineered Ceramic Materials for Energy Storage

Alpha Sigma Mu Lecture
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 254
Diana Lados, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
A Comparative Study of Ti-6Al-4V Alloys Fabricated by Three Powder-based Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Integrative Design for Fatigue Performance and New Methods for Rapid Material/Part Qualification

Tuesday, October 1

MS&T19 Plenary Session
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.
Location: Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 251/257/258

TMS/ASM Distinguished Lectureship in Materials and Society
Carolyn Hansson, Professor of Materials Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
The Challenge of 100 Year Service-life Requirement

ACerS Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture
Minoru Tomozawa, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Glass and Water: Fast Surface Relaxation

AIST Adolf Martens Memorial Steel Lecture
Wolfgang Bleck, Chair, Department of Ferrous Metallurgy, IEHK Steel Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
The Fascinating Variety of New Manganese Alloyed Steels

ASM Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lecture
Time: 12:45 – 1:45 p.m.
Location: Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 254
Katherine Faber, California Institute of Technology, USA
Breaking Old Barriers: New Opportunities in Brittle Fracture

ACerS Frontiers of Science and Society – Rustum Roy Lecture
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 253
Jennifer Lewis, Harvard University, USA
Printing Architected Matter in Three Dimensions

ASM-IMS Henry Clifton Sorby Lecture
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Oregon Convention Center, F152
Helmut Clemens, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria
Development and Characterization of High-performance Materials by Means of Cross-scale Metallography and Complementary Methods

ACerS GOMD Alfred R. Cooper Award Session
Time: 2:00 – 4:40 p.m.
Location: Oregon Convention Center, A106

Cooper Distinguished Lecture
Kathleen Richardson, University of Central Florida, USA
Function-tailoring Strategies for Broadband Infrared Glasses

2019 Alfred R. Cooper Young Scholar Award Presentation
Wataru Takeda, Coe College, USA
Topological Constraint Model of High Lithium Content Borate Glasses

Wednesday, October 2

ACerS Basic Science Division Robert B. Sosman Lecture
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 253
Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University, USA
Nanomaterials Born from Ceramics: Transformative Synthesis of Carbons, Carbides and Nitrides