Invited Speakers & Topics

The following is a tentative list of invited speakers and the proposed titles that will be covered at the conference.

• John Cahn (NIST) "If motion of most solid-solid interfaces results in shear, what are the conquences?"
• Mats Hillert ( Sweden) "Treatments of deviation from local equilibrium",
• Gary Purdy (McMaster) "The role of interfacial diffusion in solid-solid phase transformations"
• John Morrall ( Ohio State) "Phase changes in multiphase diffusion couples: a comparison of DICTRA and phase field predictions"
• Brent Fultz (CalTech) "Entropy of solid-solid phase transformations: contributions from internal dynamics"
• Armen Khachaturyan ( Rutgers) "Self-assembling of structure in phase transformations: theory and modeling"
• Georges Martin (Saclay) "Reconciling the classical theory of nucleation and atomic-scale observations and modeling"
• SanBoh Lee (NTHU) "Effect of chemical stress on diffusion"
• Roger Doherty (Drexel) "Nucleation processes in recrystallization: their history and current status"
• David Seidman (Northwestern) "Temporal evolution of microstructures on a nanoscale: experiments and simulation"

Nucleation

• David Wu (Yale) "Nucleation rate, kinetic potential, and the interfacial free energy"
• Alfred Cerezo ( Oxford) "Atomic-scale experimental and modeling studies of the early stages of precipitation"
• Tadashi Furahara ( Kyoto) "Nucleation on irrational interphase boundaries in diffusional phase transformations of steels"
• Barry Muddle (Monash) - "Heterogeneous nucleation and precipitation in aluminium alloys"
• Toru Miyazaki ( Nagoya) "Precipitate nucleation near the edge of the miscibility gap"

Growth and Interphase Boundary Structure

• Masato Enomoto ( Ibaraki) "Calculation of interfacial energy between alpha and gamma iron with near rational orientation relationship"
• Wenzheng Zhang (Tsinghua) "The role of interphase boundary structure in phase transformations"
• John Agren ( Sweden) "Phase-field modelling of phase transformations and surface-energy driven processes"

Order-Disorder

• W. Pfeiler ( Vienna) "Atom jumps in intermetallics: from bulk to thin films."
• David Morris ( Madrid) "Thermal and mechanical disordering of ordered alloys"

Spinodal and Ordering

• Bill Soffa (UVA) "Diffusional pathways in the decomposition of alloys"
• Harald Reichert (MPI Stuttgart) "X-ray diffraction studies of alloy decomposition"
• Valentin Vaks (Kurchatov Institute) "Studies of phase separation in alloys using the stochastic statistical approach''
• Gernot Kostorz (ETH Zurich) "Phase separation in alloys - experimental studies"

Precipitation

• Bob Hackenburg (LANL) "Influence of crystallography and solute partitioning on ferrite growth in steels"
• Srikumar Banerjee (BARC) "Phase transformations in Zr and Ti alloys"
• Alexis Deschamps ( Grenoble) "Characterization and modeling of non-isothermal precipitation in aluminum and steel"
• Erik Lauridsen (Risoe) "3D/4D investigations of sigma phase precipitation in superaustenitic stainless steel"
• J.-F. Nie (Monash) "Crystallography of precipitates in Mg-Al-Zn alloys"
• Helio Goldstein ( Sao Paulo) "Non classic eutectoid decomposition products morphologies in Fe-Cr-C and Fe-Cr-Mo-C steels"
• Guillermo Solorzano (PUC-Rio) "On the structural stability of grain boundary diffusion-controlled precipitation products"

Diffusional-Displacive Transformations

• Sridhar Seetharaman (CMU) "Confocal scanning laser microscopy studies of austenite formation and decomposition in steels"
• Hub Aaronson (CMU) "Diffusional-displacive transformations: the anatomy of a confusing idea"
• T. Y. Hsu ( Shanghai) "Bainite formation under stress"
• Harry Bhadeshia ( Cambridge) "Low-temperature bainite"

Massive Transformation

• Eric Mittemeijer (MPI Stuttgart) "Kinetics of the massive transformation"
• Guenter Gottstein (Achen) "Transformation and recrystallization textures"
• Vijay Vasudevan (Cincinatti) "Overview of the massive transformation"

Recrystallization and Grain Boundaries

• Mikhail Mendelev (Ames Lab) "Computer simulation of grain boundary migration in impure systems"
• Doh-Yeon Kim ( Seoul) "Alternative mechanism of secondary recrystallization: solid-state wetting along grain boundaries or triple junctions"
• Soren Schmidt (Risoe) "Bulk investigations of grain boundary migration during recrystallization utilizing the 3DXRD microscope"
• Alex King (Purdue) "Roles of interfacial junctions in nucleation and growth processes"

Discontinuous (or Cellular) Reaction

• Pawel Zieba ( Krakow) "Fundamentals of interface migration during solid-state discontinuous reactions"

Pearlite Formation

• Gray Shiflet (UVA) "The role of crystallography in pearlite formation"

Coarsening

• Peter Voorhees (Northwestern) "Coarsening in topologically complex systems"

Driven Systems

• Pascal Bellon (UIUC) "Nanoscale self-organization of chemical order and composition in driven alloy systems"
• Frederic Soissen (CEA Saclay) "Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of radiation induced segregation and precipitation phenomena"

Thermodynamics, Mechanism and Kinetics of Martensite Formation

• Alec Roytburd ( Maryland) "Modern state of our understanding of displacive phase transformations"
• Trevor Finlayson (Monash) "Martensite transformation at surfaces and interfaces"
• Tadashi Maki ( Kyoto) "Morphology and crystallography of martensite in ferrous alloys"
• Bob Pond ( Liverpool) "Comparison of the phenomenological and dislocation models of martensitic transformation"
• Julia Slutsker (NIST) "Diffusionless transformations in constrained films: theory, modeling, experiment"
• Nick Schryvers ( Antwerp) "TEM of martensitic transformations"
• Manfred Ahlers ( Argentina) "The martensitic transformation: mechanisms and stabilities"

Shape Memory Materials

• Manfred Wuttig (UMD) "Overview of shape memory alloys"
• Graeme Ackland ( Edinburgh) "Atomistic modelling of the shape memory effect",
• Qing-Ping Sun ( Hong Kong)) "Instabilities and pattern formation in NiTi shape memory alloy under mechanical loading"
• Peter Mullner ( Boise State) "Micromechanics of magnetic-field-induced twin boundary motion in Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape-memory alloys"
• R. Portier (ENSCP Paris) "Characterization and properties of shape memory alloys elaborated by non-conventional techniques"
• Tomoyuki Kakeshita ( Osaka) "Effect of magnetic field on conversion of martensite variants in ferromagnetic shape memory alloys"

Tempering, Aging and Stabilization

• Sung-Joon Kim (KIMM) "Precipitation behavior in high nitrogen austenitic stainless steels"
• Setsuo Takaki ( Kyushu) "Phase stabilization by ultra grain refinement in metastable austenite"
• Kaneaki Tsuzaki (NIMS) "Crystallography and hydrogen trapping of alloy carbides in steel"

• David Williams (Lehigh) "Nanometer-scale microanalysis in the electron microscope and its role in phase transformations"
• Suresh Babu (ORNL) "Application of in-situ diffraction experiments to understand nonequilibrium phase transformations in structural alloys"
• Kevin Moore (LLNL) "The actinides"
• Masatomo Yashima (Tokyo IT) "Precise structural analysis and phase transformation of inorganic materials through high-temperature neutron and synchrotron powder diffractometry"
• David Prior ( Liverpool) "In-situ SEM of bcc-hcp transformations in Ti"
• George Spanos (NRL) "Three dimensional analysis of phase transformations in ferrous alloys"
• Vaclav Paidar (Czech) "Grain boundary migration observed in situ by synchrotron radiation"

• Emmanuel Clouet (CEA Saclay), "Precipitation in Al-Zr and Al-Sc alloys: a comparison between kinetic Monte Carlo, cluster dynamics and classical nucleation theory"
• Duane Johnson (UIUC) " Reliable first-principles alloy thermodynamics for predicting and understanding characterization data"
• Tetsuo Mohri ( Hokkaido) "First-principles approach to ordering transformation"
• Kees Bos (MPI Stuttgart) "Computer simulation of massive transformation interfaces"

Nano- and Constrained Systems

• Hirotaro Mori ( Osaka) "Alloy phase formation in isolated nanometer-sized particles"
• G. Brian Stephenson ( Argonne) "X-ray studies of the ferroelectric transition in ultrathin lead titanate"
• H. Fraser ( Ohio State) "Prediction of phase stabilities in nano-scale metallic multilayers"
• Jeff De Hosson ( Groningen) "In-situ high resolution transmission electron microscopy of phase transformations of nano-sized metal clusters"
• Thomas Waitz ( Vienna) "Martensitic phase transformations in nanocrystals of NiTi"
• Dilip Kanhere (Pune) "Thermodynamics of small clusters: ab initio studies on sodium, tin and gallium clusters"

Amorphous Alloys and Quasicrystals

• Kazuhiro Hono (NIMS) "Nanocrystallization and phase separation in metallic glasses"
• Joe Poon (UVA) " Phase transformations in amorphous steel"
• Do-Hyang Kim (Yonsei) "Formation of two glassy phases by phase separation in Zr-Y-Al-Co metallic glasses"
• Ken Kelton, "The importance of local structure and chemistry on glass formation and crystallization"
• John Perepezko (Wisconsin) "Nucleation in aluminum glasses"
• Srinivasa Ranganathan (Bangalore) "Quasicrystal and glass forming ability in early transition metal-late transition metal alloys"

Magnetic and Ferroic Materials

• Yasukazu Murakami (Tohoku) "Electron holography studies of magnetic domains near phase transformation temperatures"
• Long-Qing Chen (Penn) "Ferroelectric phase transitions and domain structures under strain"

Semiconductor Materials

• Haruyuki Inui ( Kyoto) "Phase transformations and defect structures in some semiconducting silicides"
• Bob Sinclair (Stanford) "Phase transformations in semiconductor thin films"
• Subhash Mahajan (Arizona) "Phase separation and atomic ordering in mixed III-V layers"

Ceramic and Compound Materials

• Yuichi Ikuhara ( Tokyo) "Grain boundary atomic structures and properties in oxide ceramics"
• Daniel Caillard, ( Toulouse) "Nucleation and growth of titanium hydride in titanium"
• T. Sakuma ( Tokyo) "The cubic-to-tetragonal phase transformation and microstructure evolution in zirconia alloys"
• Mick Feuerbacher (Julich) "Complex metallic alloys and metadislocations"
• Trudy Kriven (Illinois) "In-situ, in air, high temperature study of phase transformations in ceramics"

Soft Materials

• Mehmet Sarikaya (UW) "Molecular biomimetics: formation of inorganics using proteins"
• Marc Descamps ( Lille) "Transformations of pharmaceutical compounds by mechanical activation"
• Tony Tomsia (LBNL) – "Title forthcoming"

• D. Laughlin (CMU) "History of magnetic transformations"