Today's Events
Registration Desks
Time: 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Locations: San Diego Convention Center, Hall G Lobby, and Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Indigo Lobby Light Wall
Technical Programming Sessions
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Locations: San Diego Convention Center and Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel
Please note that technical sessions begin 30 minutes earlier today.
Lunch: Concession Area
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Hall F
Lunch: Food Trucks
Time: Noon to 2:30 p.m.
Location: Gull Street, between the ground level entrance of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel and the parking garage
All-Conference Plenary
Time: Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Room 20 ABC
TMS2023 Exhibition
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Hall G
Exhibit Hall Happy Hour & Poster Session II Presentations
Time: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Hall G
Extraction & Processing Division/Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (EPD/MPMD) Luncheon
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Room 20D
Emerging Professionals Tutorial Lecture & Luncheon
Time: 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Indigo A
Student Career Forum
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Indigo A
“Ace the Job Hunt” Workshop
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Indigo A
Asian/Pacific Islander (API) Workshop and Reception
Time: 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Indigo E
Professor Patrick R. Taylor Honorary Symposium Dinner Location
If you purchased a ticket to attend this evening's dinner in honor of Professor Patrick R. Taylor, please note that the location for the dinner is
The Pointe, located on the Promenade level of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, which is the ground level right below Indigo. The event will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Food Trucks Arrive at Noon
Six food trucks will once again be parked on Gull Street near the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel for TMS2023 attendees. The trucks will arrive today at noon. Seating will be available at The Pointe on the Ground Level of the Hilton Bayfront next to Starbucks. A concession area will also be serving lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Hall F of the San Diego Convention Center. If you didn't use it yesterday, please remember that you can use the
$10 lunch voucher you received in your registration packet at either of these locations. The voucher should be attached to the name badge you received at registration.
Bladesmithing Symposium Today
In the
Star Wars universe, there is no metal or alloy that compares to Beskar, the legendary "iron" of the Mandalorian tribes. In "This is the Way—Discovering the Secrets of Beskar Metallurgy,"
Suveen Mathaudhu of the Colorado School of Mines will take listeners to a galaxy far, far away to learn about the history of Beskar metalworking and contemplate some real-world metal-processing discoveries that may explain the seemingly magical behaviors of Beskar and its alloys—a topic that he explored in the December issue of
JOM: The Magazine. This presentation will take place at 3:35 p.m. as part of today's Bladesmithing Symposium, to be held at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, Sapphire 1. The two-session symposium will also feature talks by student bladesmithing teams and will open with the keynote presentation, "Reverse Engineering of Historical Swords" by
David Sapiro, Schonpiro Materials.
Exhibit Opening Reception and Poster Session I
On Monday evening, the TMS2023 Exhibit Hall hosted an opening reception for all attendees. The reception offered an opportunity to network, visit exhibitor displays, and meet with poster presenters sharing their work in a range of topics. A second event, the Exhibit Hall Happy Hour and Poster Session II, will be held this evening. A new display of posters will be available in the following topic areas: Advanced Materials, Biomaterials, Characterization, Materials Design, Materials Processing, and Nuclear Materials. Visit Hall G from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. to meet with new poster presenters, explore more exhibits, and enjoy drinks and appetizers with colleagues.
Light Metals Keynote Session
Eight invited speakers gave presentations at Monday morning's Light Metals Keynote session. Speakers included, from left to right:
Matthew Krane, Purdue University;
Marlen Bertram, International Aluminium Institute;
Arild Hakonsen, Hycast AS; symposium organizer
Dmitry Eskin, Brunel University;
Andre-Felipe Schneider, Hatch Ltd.;
Nancy Holt, Hydro Aluminium AS;
Markus Apel, Access RWTH-Aachen; and
Jayson Tessier, Alcoa Corporation. Not pictured is the final speaker of the morning,
Elsa Olivetti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Light Metals keynote session kicked off light metals programming for the week; view the TMS2023 app for additional light metals-related technical programming happening today.
Additive Manufacturing Keynote Session
LEGO® building blocks were one of the best analogies that
Matteo Seita could think of to describe his work in metal additive manufacturing. "Additive manufacturing is like play," he told the audience at Monday's Additive Manufacturing Keynote Session, "because you design materials by assembling different pieces." Seita, who is Granta Design Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, gave his talk, "Microstructure Design Freedom in Metal AM: A LEGO® Analogy" as part of the Additive Manufacturing Keynote Symposium held on Monday afternoon. Seita (pictured, far left) delivered his talk as the recipient of the 2023 TMS Young Innovator in the Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing Award.
This well-attended session also featured talks by (pictured from left to right)
Moataz Attallah, University of Birmingham;
Melanie Lang, Formalloy; and
Mohsen Seifi, ASTM International and Case Western Reserve University. Additive Manufacturing technical programming continues today. See the TMS2023 app for session details.
Magnesium Technology 2023 Keynote Session
Four presenters delivered invited talks at Monday's Magnesium Technology 2023 Keynote Symposium. Speakers included:
Andrew Sherman, Terves LLC;
Aaron Palumbo (pictured, speaking), Big Blue Technologies;
Norbert Hort, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon; and
Carolyn Woldring, Magsorbeo Biomedical. In addition, the Magnesium Committee presented several of its awards during the morning session.
Sherman opened the session with the talk, "Sustainable Domestic Manufacturing and Protecting Intellectual Property in a Post-America Invents Act World," which looked at efforts to bring magnesium manufacturing back to the United States and the importance of protecting patents, particularly for small businesses. "I believe there's a lot of opportunity for magnesium," said Sherman. "I'm pretty heavily invested."
Structural Materials Division/Functional Materials Division Luncheon
Members of the TMS Structural Materials Division (SMD) and Functional Materials Division (FMD) came together Monday afternoon to recognize their scholarship and award recipients, enjoy lunch together, and hear from invited speaker
Roger Narayan (pictured, right), University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. Narayan's talk, "Additive Manufacturing of Medical Devices: Past, Present, and Future," began with a look at the early innovators in biomaterials—who were largely surgeons, rather than materials scientists—before talking about more current developments, such as wearable devices and 3D printed microneedles.
Today, the Extraction & Processing Division (EPD) and Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD) will hold their luncheon, featuring speaker
Paramita Das of Rio Tinto, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. following the plenary session. The EPD/MPMD luncheon will take place in the San Diego Convention Center, Room 20D.
Three Frontiers of Materials Symposia Planned this Week
This week, three Frontiers of Materials Symposia will look at hot or emerging technical topics in materials. Drop in to one of these sessions throughout the week or plan to hear the following keynote presentations from the individuals who organized the symposia. Each of these keynote speakers was selected to organize a symposium through TMS's competitive Frontiers of Materials awards program.
Ultra-Wide Bandgap Materials and Heterostructures for Next Generation Power, RF, and Quantum Applications Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Yuji Zhao, Rice University
Keynote Presentation: Tuesday, March 21, 2:30 p.m.
Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Aqua Level, Room 309
Functional Composition Control of Surface Mechanics in Soft, Water-Swollen Gels Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Alison Dunn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Keynote Presentation: Wednesday, March 22, 2:00 p.m.
Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront, Sapphire Level, Ballroom D
Intermetallic Alloys at the Edge of Complexity: Structural and Kinetic Aspects Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Ashwin Shahani, University of Michigan
Keynote Presentation: Wednesday, March 22, 2:00 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Room 28C
Find details on additional presentations as part of this symposium in the TMS2023 App.