Please join us for the following symposia, to be held at TMS2023, which will honor distinguished TMS members who have contributed to all aspects of minerals, metals, and materials science and engineering. The work of five individuals will be highlighted at this year’s meeting.
60 Years of Taking Aluminum Smelting Research and Development from New Zealand to the World: An LMD Symposium in Honor of Barry J. Welch
Barry Welch will be honored in special sessions of the Aluminum Reduction Technology symposium held at the TMS 2023 Annual Meeting & Exhibition (TMS2023).
About the Symposium About the Honoree
Barry Welch will be honored in special sessions of the Aluminum Reduction Technology symposium held at the TMS 2023 Annual Meeting & Exhibition (TMS2023). One session will be held jointly with Alumina & Bauxite and one with Electrode Technology. In addition to a talk by the honoree, these sessions will include additional presentations by invited speakers outlining Welch’s achievements related to alumina and electrodes, as well as other presentations by invited or selected speakers. Presentations by invited speakers with a regional focus—talks from each of the regions/companies where the honoree has had a deep involvement and impact—will also be featured.
Barry J. Welch has been involved in molten salt electrochemistry and electrowinning for more than 65 years. His aluminum smelting contributions started at the 1962 TMS-AIME symposia, the catalyst for establishing TMS’s annual Light Metals proceedings series. After a brief period in industry, he accepted an academic appointment at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he established the research group for molten salt metal extraction. In 1981, he returned to New Zealand, heading the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering where he established a second collaborating research center focusing on the aluminum industry, which he led until his formal retirement in 1998. The move enabled him to contribute to the annual Light Metals Division program, co-authoring or presenting more than 40 papers during that period, of which ten received best paper awards. He simultaneously served on a range of TMS and Light Metals Division (LMD) committees.
His early “retirement” enabled him focus on the aluminum industries’ need to integrate the science and physics of the smelting process with the industrial cell design and work-practices for minimizing energy consumption and the industry’s carbon footprint. He continues contributing to the annual LMD program and serving as a course instructor at every installment of the TMS Industrial Aluminum Electrolysis course.
In 2014, Welch’s service to TMS was recognized by the Alexander R. Scott Distinguished Service Award, while his professional contributions were also recognized by the James Douglas Gold Medal, awarded by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). In 2015, he was elected a TMS Fellow.
Besides publishing more than 150 technical papers on molten salt electrochemistry and aluminum electrowinning, Welch has co-authored two texts on aluminum smelting and co-edited five international conference proceedings.
Symposium Organizers
Mark M. Dorreen, Independent Consultant
Alan D. Tomsett, Rio Tinto Pacific Operations
David Sydney Wong, Atmolite Consulting Pty Ltd
Linus M. Perander, Yara International
Barry Sadler, Net Carbon Consulting Pty Ltd
Stephan Broek, Boston Metal
Symposium Sponsors
TMS Light Metals Division
TMS Aluminum Committee
Alloy Behavior and Design Across Length-Scales: An SMD Symposium Honoring Easo George
Easo George is currently Emeritus Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee (UT) and Apl. Professor (Adjunct), Institute for Materials, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
About the Symposium About the Honoree
Through his creativity and scientific excellence, Easo George has made seminal contributions to metallic materials research. During his long tenure at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Alloy Behavior and Design Group, most recently as Governor’s Chair, he has led the nation’s most active alloy development research activities. His expertise in phase transformations and alloy processing has enabled innovations in intermetallics, refractory alloys, and high entropy alloys. His group’s research has provided insights in the wide-ranging topics of ductility and fracture behavior in intermetallics, deformation behavior of refractory metals, and compositional effects in high entropy alloys. In addition, his innovative work on the solidification of eutectic single-crystal microstructures provided a unique pathway for creating small material volumes for exploring size effects in mechanical behavior. In addition to the impact of his group’s own research, he also generously enabled the research efforts of many collaborators by providing alloys with highly controlled chemistries and microstructures.
This symposium will provide a forum for presentation of topical advances in:
- Principles of alloy behavior and design
- Strategies for defeating the strength-ductility “trade-off”
- Compositionally complex (high entropy) alloys
- Small-scale mechanical behavior
- Links between deformation mechanisms and mechanical behavior
- Advanced metallic alloys and intermetallics for high temperature structural applications
Easo George is currently Emeritus Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee (UT) and Apl. Professor (Adjunct), Institute for Materials, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Before retiring, he was the UT-ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Governor’s Chair for Advanced Alloy Theory and Development. Prior to that, he was Professor of Materials Design and Director of the Center for Interface Dominated High Performance Materials at Ruhr University. And before that, he was a Distinguished Staff Member and led the Alloy Behavior and Design Group comprising multiple ORNL scientists and technicians, students, postdocs, and visiting scholars/scientists/professors from across the world. George earned his BTech in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1981 and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985.
George is best known for his research on phase stability and deformation mechanisms of high-entropy alloys; elementary mechanisms of nanoscale mechanical behavior; environmental embrittlement, alloying effects, and vacancy-induced anomalous strengthening in intermetallics; and the hierarchy of creep cavity nucleation sites in iron and low-alloy steels. He has received numerous awards including: The Energy Secretary’s Award for the Mars Rover Radioisotope Power Systems Team (2022) and the NASA Group Achievement Award for the Cassini (Saturn) RTG team (1999); Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher Award (2021); Eminent Scholar Visitation Award, University of New South Wales (2019); Invitation Fellowship of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (2013); Fellow TMS (2010) and ASM (1999); Humboldt Prize (2000); Sustained Outstanding Research Award, Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy (1998); Ranked 8th in the world by ISI (Web of Science) among highly cited materials scientists (1995); and Beuhler Award for best paper in the Materials Characterization journal (1995).
Symposium Organizers
Michael J. Mills, Ohio State University
George M. Pharr, Texas A&M University
Robert O. Ritchie, University of California, Berkeley
Muralidharan Govindarajan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Symposium Sponsors
TMS Structural Materials Division
TMS High Temperature Alloys Committee
TMS Mechanical Behavior of Materials Committee
Frontiers in Solidification: An MPMD Symposium Honoring Jonathan A. Dantzig
The ninth edition of the Frontiers in Solidification symposium series is dedicated to Jonathan A. Dantzig, a recognized world leader in the field of solidification, casting, and computational modelling of materials processing and microstructure development.
About the Symposium About the Honoree
The ninth edition of the Frontiers in Solidification symposium series is dedicated to Jonathan A. Dantzig, a recognized world leader in the field of solidification, casting, and computational modelling of materials processing and microstructure development. Starting his career in process modelling, he later tackled more fundamental aspects of solidification modeling at the microstructure level. Therefore, this edition is particularly focused on process and microstructure modeling, even though contributions across the entire field of solidification are welcome.
These include:
- Fundamental aspects of solidification which advance our understanding of how microstructures develop and evolve during solidification experiments or processes
- Contributions which put forward original interpretations, observations of novel phenomena, and outstanding challenges from both fundamental and applied perspectives, as well as transfer of fundamental knowledge to practical applications
- Investigation methods including theory, experiments, characterization, modeling across all relevant length and time scales, as well as data-driven approaches
- Contributions that combine novel characterization techniques, challenging property measurements, and computational simulations across scales are especially encouraged
Jonathan “Jon” Dantzig received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at The Johns Hopkins University, culminating in a Ph.D. in 1977. His thesis co-advisors, Stephen Davis and Robert Pond, Sr., taught him the importance of modeling and experimental verification that served as the cornerstones of his career. His first post-graduate job was at Olin Metals Research Laboratories, where he applied both of these skills to the study of degassing of Al alloys and DC casting with rotating magnetic fields. He is co-inventor on 20 U.S. patents derived from that work.
In 1982, he moved to the University of Illinois, where he studied solidification processing of aluminum, cast iron, steel, and other alloys, at scales ranging from nanometers to meters. Most of his Masters and Ph.D. students have gone on to work in the ground vehicle industry, including Ford, GM, Cummins, and Caterpillar, among others. In 2008, he retired as W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor of Mechanical Engineering, after which he continued his career as both research professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and invited professor at EPFL in Switzerland.
Dantzig has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching and research, including the Bruce Chalmers Award and Distinguished Educator Award from TMS and the Brimacombe Prize. He has co-authored about 100 journal articles and two textbooks. He continues to teach in an annual short course on solidification for industrial and academic researchers, and to engage in research with colleagues in academia and industry.
Symposium Organizers
Andre B. Phillion, McMaster University
Michel Rappaz, EPFL
Melis Şerefoğlu, Marmara University
Damien Tourret, IMDEA Materials Institute
Symposium Sponsors
TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division
TMS Functional Materials Division
TMS Light Metals Division
TMS Structural Materials Division
TMS Aluminum Committee
TMS Chemistry and Physics of Materials Committee
TMS Process Technology and Modeling Committee
TMS Solidification Committee
Materials Genome, CALPHAD, and a Career over the Span of 20, 50, and 60 Years: An FMD/SMD Symposium in Honor of Zi-Kui Liu
This symposium is to celebrate the impact of Professor Zi-Kui Liu on the fields of computational materials science and materials design on the occasion of his 60th birthday, the 20th anniversary of Professor Liu coining the term “Materials Genome,” and the progress of computational thermodynamics (CALPHAD) in the last 50 years as the foundation of materials design.
To honor the broad range of Professor Liu’s research on metals, ceramics, battery materials, and 2D materials, the symposium will highlight work that integrates theory with computational and experimental investigations and that utilizes a multidisciplinary approach. The symposium will focus on thermodynamics with internal processes in terms of theory, prediction, modeling, and applications. Consequently, this symposium welcomes contributions from all these aspects, including but not limited to the following topics:
- Theory of reversible and irreversible thermodynamics
- Development of computational tools for thermodynamics
- Determination of thermodynamic properties through density functional theory, machine learning models, ab initio molecular dynamic simulations, and experiments
- Thermodynamic modeling through the CALPHAD method and statistical mechanics
- Applications of thermodynamics for rational and inverse design of chemistry and synthesis of materials, simulation of kinetic processes and deformation, and understanding of complex phenomena
Zi-Kui Liu is the Dorothy Pate Enright professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He obtained his B.S. from Central South University (China), M.S. from University of Science and Technology Beijing (China), and Ph.D. from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden). He was a research associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison and a senior research scientist at Questek Innovation, LLC. He has been at the Pennsylvania State University since 1999, the editor-in-chief of CALPHAD journal since 2001, and the president of CALPHAD, Inc. since 2013. He co-founded the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for Computational Materials Design and served as its director from 2005 to 2014. Liu coined the term “Materials Genome®” in 2002.
Liu is a Fellow of TMS and ASM International. He served as a member of the TMS Board of Directors, as the president of ASM International, and as a member of the ASM International Board of Trustees. He received the TMS William Hume-Rothery Award, the ASM J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award, the American Ceramic Society Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award, the Wilson Award for Excellence in Research from the Pennsylvania State University, and the Lee Hsun Award from the Institute of Metals Research, Chinese Academy of Science. Liu’s current research activities are centered on first-principles calculations, machine learning, modeling of thermodynamic, kinetic, and other properties including statistical mechanics and their integration for understanding defects, phase stability, and phase transformations, and designing and tailoring materials processing and properties. He has graduated 31 Ph.D. students and published more than 590 papers collected in Web of Science and in Google Scholar. He was the lead author of a textbook on computational thermodynamics of materials published by Cambridge University Press.
Symposium Organizers
Yu Zhong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Richard A. Otis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Bi-Cheng Zhou, University of Virginia
Chelsey Z. Hargather, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
James Edward Saal, Citrine Informatics
Carelyn E. Campbell, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Symposium Sponsors
TMS Functional Materials Division
TMS Structural Materials Division
TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division
TMS Alloy Phases Committee
TMS Integrated Computational Materials Engineering Committee
New Directions in Mineral Processing, Extractive Metallurgy, Recycling, and Waste Minimization: An Extraction & Processing Division Symposium in Honor of Patrick R. Taylor
This symposium is intended to address new research and/or technology for increased efficiency, energy reduction, and/or waste minimization in mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, and recycling.
About the Symposium About the Honoree
This symposium is intended to address new research and/or technology for increased efficiency, energy reduction, and/or waste minimization in mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, and recycling. These are topics that Professor Taylor and his students have been studying for the past 45 years.
Technical sessions may include new directions in:
- Mineral Processing
- Hydrometallurgy
- Pyrometallurgy
- Electrometallurgy
- Metals and E waste recycling
- Waste minimization (including by-product recovery)
- Innovations in metallurgical engineering education and curriculum development
Patrick R. Taylor , Emeritus Ansell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Metallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), is a registered professional engineer with more than 45 years of experience in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy engineering, research, teaching, and consulting. He is experienced and trained in pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, and mineral processing. He has been responsible for lab work, pilot plant work, research, and process development for mineral processing and extractive metallurgy processes related to a wide variety of metals. He has authored or co-authored numerous papers and presentations. He has served as a consultant for more than 20 companies and has been an expert witness several times. He has directed research for more than 100 graduate students and post-docs. He has taught extractive metallurgy and mineral processing university courses for the past 45 years.
He is active in many professional organizations, including participation in the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME), TMS, ASM International, and the Mining & Metallurgical Society of America. He has received many awards and honors. In 1996, he was named Fellow of ASM International. In 2003, he received the Milton E. Wadsworth Award from SME. In 2004, he was the TMS Extraction & Processing Division (EPD) Luncheon Speaker. In 2006, he was the TMS EPD Distinguished Lecturer. In 2008, he was named a Fellow of SME. In 2010, he received the TMS EPD Distinguished Service Award. He received the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) James Douglas Gold Medal in 2013. He was interviewed for the AIME Oral Histories program in 2018. He received the Arthur F. Taggart award from the SME Mineral & Metallurgical Processing Division in 2022. He was named Emeritus Ansell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Metallurgy at CSM in 2022.
Symposium Organizers
Ramana G. Reddy, University of Alabama
Corby G. Anderson, Colorado School of Mines
Erik D. Spiller, Colorado School of Mines
Edgar E. Vidal, NobelClad
Camille Fleuriault, Eramet Norway
Alexandra E. Anderson, Gopher Resource
Mingming Zhang, Wood Mackenzie
Christina Meskers, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Symposium Sponsors
Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
TMS Extraction & Processing Division
TMS Pyrometallurgy Committee
TMS Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy Committee
TMS Materials Characterization Committee
TMS Energy Committee
TMS Recycling and Environmental Technologies Committee