Recipient William A. Oates

Lecture Title: Entropies of Formation and Mixing in Alloys

Biography: William A. Oates is the Honorary Visiting Professor at the Institute for Materials Research at the University of Salford in the United Kingdom. He spent nearly 35 years of his career at The University of Newcastle in Australia, and has been a Fellow at the Institute of Metals, Mining and Materials in London since 1978.

Dr. Oates’ interests recently are in developing a higher order approximation which is suitable for multicomponent alloys and in the thermodynamic modeling of intermetallic compounds.