TMS 2010 Annual Meeting & Exhibition
February 14-18, 2010 • Washington State Convention Center • Seattle, WA

Nearly 4,000 business leaders, engineers, scientists and other materials professionals travel from around the globe to attend the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition each year. The 2010 meeting will offer cutting-edge symposia presentations, outstanding technical exchanges, career-enhancing short courses, and countless opportunities to network with fellow professionals.

Attention authors and presenters! Submit your abstract by the July 15 deadline, using ProgramMaster.

2010 MEETING NEWS

TMS 2010 Annual Meeting Symposium Spotlight: Alternative Energy Resources for Metals and Materials Production Posted on: 7/2/2009... Symposium organizers were invited to share some insights on programming for the TMS 2010 Annual Meeting by answering a few simple questions. This Symposium Spotlight focuses on Alternative Energy Resources for Metals and Materials Production. The symposium is organized by Ann M. Hagni, Geoscience Consultant; Neale R. Neelameggham, U.S. Magnesium, LLC; and Robert Palumbo, Valparaiso University. The following are our questions and the organizers’ responses. Q: In laymen’s terms, why is your symposium important to MSE? A: Energy is always of great concern to processing engineers due to it being a major cost in processing of materials. Alternative energy is of increasing importance. The Alternative Energy Resources for Metals and Materials Production Symposium is of utmost importance to highly trained engineers and scientists, as well as to the young and inexperienced engineers and scientists. Ideas of new sources of energy, studies of known alternative energy resources, and successes and failures of processing techniques utilizing different energy resources are expected to be presented. Q: Why should someone plan to present at your symposium, at this meeting? A: Presenting your current work as either completed research or works-in-progress are encouraged to facilitate communication and collaboration with your colleagues toward improvements and new ideas for alternative energy in processing of metals and materials. This is an urgent and up-and-coming field that will not be going away any time soon. Abstracts in all fields of alternative energy are welcomed. Abstracts are being accepted through July 15. Click here for further symposium details and to submit an abstract. ... TMS 2010 Annual Meeting & Exhibition TMS Establishes an Exhibitor’s Council Businesses Collaborate to Strengthen Annual Conference Posted on: 7/2/2009... TMS recently created an Exhibitor’s Council as a way to give the Society’s business partners a platform to voice insights, vet ideas, and collaborate. The council was established as a way to strengthen the TMS 2010 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, to be held February 14–18 in Seattle, Washington, to benefit both attendees and exhibitors. Current or past exhibitors of the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition make up the council and represent diverse demographic and industry focuses. The organizations are: Fives Solios, Pyrotek, Wagstaff, Claudis Peters, Aluminum Consulting Technologies, Rex Materials Group, Murlin Chemicals, Thermo-Calc Software, Life Cycle Engineering, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The council met via teleconference on June 18 to discuss some of the key areas in which TMS can strengthen its exhibit. Topics ranged from increasing the number of visitors to the exhibit hall to encouraging companies to display and demonstrate their new products and services on the show floor. While some action items are longer-term or need additional investigation, a number of suggestions will be acted upon immediately. Those include increasing the amount of promotional exposure in JOM, developing more synergy between the exhibit and technical sessions, and development of an exhibit-focused e-newsletter. ... TMS 2010 Annual Meeting & Exhibition Page:  1 2 3 4 5

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