2020 Technical Program

Preliminary Technical Program Now Available

Download the Preliminary Technical Program for MS&T20 Virtual for a searchable PDF of the program or view the Session Sheets through ProgramMaster for real-time updates on individual sessions (including abstracts for individual presentations).

Navigating the Virtual Platform

View this nine-minute video to learn how to navigate the MS&T20 Virtual platform to view recorded presentations and participate in live events. 

Browse Program Plans

Approximately 85 technical symposia are planned in 13 technical tracks at MS&T20. For your convenience, the symposia have been divided into the following technical tracks. Click on a track to view a listing of related symposia. 

Topics include the following for MS&T20:

• + Additive Manufacturing
• • Additive Manufacturing Modeling and Simulation: AM Materials, Processes, and Mechanics
  • Additive Manufacturing of Ceramic-based Materials: Process Development, Materials, Process Optimization and Applications
  • Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics and Ceramic Composites: Materials Properties, Processes, and Modeling
  • Additive Manufacturing of Metals: Complex Microstructures and Architecture Design
  • Additive Manufacturing: Qualification and Certification
  • Additive Manufacturing: Alloy Design to Develop New Feedstock Materials
  • Additive Manufacturing: Equipment, Instrumentation and Measurement
  • Additive Manufacturing: Materials, Alloy Development, Microstructure and Properties
  • Additive Manufacturing: Mechanical Behavior of Lattice Structures Produced via AM
  • Additive Manufacturing: Microstructure and Material Properties of Titanium-based Materials
  • Multi-material Additive Manufacturing: Processing and Heterogeneous Materials Design
  • Naval/Maritime Applications of Additively Manufactured Parts: Design and Experimental Approaches
  • Phase Transformations in Additively Manufactured Materials
• + Artificial Intelligence
• • AI for Big Data Problems in Imaging, Modeling and Synthesis
  • Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design and Process Optimization
  • Machine Learning for Discovery of Structure-Process-Property Relations in Electronic Materials
  • Materials Design through AI Composition and Process Optimization
  • Materials Informatics and Modeling for 21st Century Ceramics Research
  • Materials Informatics for Images and Multi-dimensional Datasets
• + Biomaterials
• • Next Generation Biomaterials
  • Surface Treatments and Properties of Titanium and Titanium Alloys: A Forum on New Strategies and Processes for Biomedical and Industrial Advanced Applications
• + Ceramic and Glass Materials
• • ACerS-ECerS Joint Symposium - Emerging Ceramic Technologies; Challenges and Future Prospects
  • Ceramic and Crystal Materials for Optics and Photonics
  • Ceramic Matrix Composites
  • Ceramics and Glasses Simulations and Machine Learning
  • Engineering Ceramics: Microstructures, Properties, and Applications
  • Glasses, Optical Materials, and their Functional Applications: Current Issues in Science & Technology
  • Innovations in Refractory Ceramic Technology for Iron and Steel Applications
  • Manufacturing and Processing of Advanced Ceramic Materials
  • Phase Transformations in Ceramics: Science and Applications
• + Electronic and Magnetic Materials
• • Advances in Dielectric Materials and Electronic Devices
  • Functional Defects in Electroceramic Materials
• + Energy
• • Advanced Characterization of Materials for Nuclear, Radiation, and Extreme Environments
  • Ceramics in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
• + Fundamentals and Characterization
• • Bulk and Sheet Thermal-Deformation Processing and Microstructure Development in Metals – Characterization, Experiments and Modeling
  • Emergent Materials under Extremes and Decisive In Situ Characterizations
  • Engineered Phase Transformations
  • Grain Boundaries, Interfaces, and Surfaces in Functional Materials: Fundamental Structure-Property-Performance Relationships
  • High Entropy Materials: Concentrated Solid Solution, Intermetallics, Ceramics, Functional Materials and Beyond
  • Integration between Modeling and Experiments for Crystalline Metals: From Atomistic to Macroscopic Scales II
  • Interfaces and Phase Transformations
  • Metallurgy and Magnetism
  • Micro- and Nano-Mechanical Behavior of Materials
  • Microstructure and Physical Property Optimization in High Entropy Alloys
  • Thermodynamic Properties, Structure and Phase Stabilities of Special Alloys
• + Iron and Steel (Ferrous Alloys)
• • Advanced Steel Metallurgy
  • Advancements in Steel Structural Refinement
  • Advances in Zinc-coated Sheet Steel Processing and Properties
  • Applications of Modern Characterization Techniques to Ferrous Alloys and Steel Products
  • New Frontiers in Physical Metallurgy of Steels
• + Materials-Environment Interactions
• • Advanced Coatings for Wear and Corrosion Protection
  • Advanced Materials for Harsh Environments
  • Coating and Thin Film Materials for Energy, Aerospace, Environment and Biological Applications
  • Coatings to Protect Materials from Extreme Environments
  • Computation Assisted Materials Development for Improved Corrosion Resistance
  • Environmentally Assisted Cracking: Theory and Practice
  • High Temperature Corrosion and Degradation of Structural Materials
  • Light Metal and Composites Technology
  • Substrate Protection for Corrosion Prevention
  • Thermodynamics of Materials in Extreme Environments
• + Modeling
• • Multiscale Modeling of Microstructure Deformation in Material Processing
  • Probabilistic Life Prediction of Materials in Aging Systems
• + Nanomaterials
• • Advances in Synthesis and Integration Methods for Enhanced Properties, and Applications in Emerging Nanomaterials
  • Controlled Synthesis, Processing, and Applications of Structural and Functional Nanomaterials
  • Nanotechnology for Energy, Environment, Electronics, Healthcare and Industry
• + Processing and Manufacturing
• • 12th International Symposium on Green and Sustainable Technologies for Materials Manufacturing and Processing
  • Advanced Manufacturing, Processing, Characterization and Modeling of Functional Materials
  • Advances in Surface Engineering
  • Innovative Process Design and Processing for Advanced Structural Materials
  • Joining and Integration of Advanced and Specialty Materials
  • Low Density Advanced Composite Materials
  • Materials vs Minerals: Bridging the Gap between Materials Science and Earth and Planetary Science
  • Powder Metallurgy of Light, Reactive and Other Non-ferrous Metals
  • Processing and Performance of Materials Using Microwaves, Electric and Magnetic Fields, Ultrasound, Lasers, and Mechanical Work – Rustum Roy Symposium
  • Sintering and Related Powder Processing Science and Technologies
  • Solid State Processing of Metals and Composites
  • Synthesis, Characterization and Application of 3D Graphene
  • Synthesis, Characterization, Modeling and Applications of Functional Porous Materials
• + Special Topics
• • ACerS Richard M. Fulrath Award Session
  • ACerS Robert B. Sosman Award Symposium
  • Art and Cultural Heritage: Discoveries and Education
  • BSD/PCSA: Humanitarian Engineering Symposium
  • Curricular Innovations and Continuous Improvement of Academic Programs (and Satisfying ABET along the Way): The Elizabeth Judson Memorial Symposium
  • Journal of the American Ceramic Society Awards Symposium

PLEASE NOTE: The conference proceedings publication for MS&T20 has been cancelled. Authors have been advised to consider publication through journals published by the organizing societies. For publication information about a specific presentation, please contact the author.
ADVISORY: A solicitation is circulating for presenters to participate in a symposium titled “Bulk Metallic Glass Matrix Composites III.” This symposium is not approved for presentation at MS&T20 and no abstracts are being collected for it by event organizers. Any direction or requests to the contrary are incorrect.

MS&T20 Program Coordinating Committee

Chair and AIST Representative

Chirag Mahimkar, Big River Steel

ACerS Representative

Shen Dillon, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

TMS Representative 

Carl Cady, Los Alamos National Laboratory