Founded in 1969, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is the world’s foremost event for the development of offshore resources in the fields of drilling, exploration, production, and environmental protection. Technical topics to be addressed at OTC .10 include alternative energy, drilling technology, facilities and production operations, marine geoscience and geohazards, materials technology, ocean engineering resources, offshore pipelines, public policy, and more.
Contact: Offshore Technology Conference; 222 Palisades Creek Drive, Richardson, Texas, USA 75080-2040. Phone: 972.952.9494. E-mail: service@otcnet.org.

LIA’s 2nd Laser Additive Manufacturing Workshop (LAM) will bring industry specialists, executives, users and researchers from around the world to show how cladding and rapid manufacturing can be applied effectively and affordably to today's manufacturing challenges. This workshop will have a significant impact on the widespread industrial implementations of laser additive manufacturing. Topics will include: Laser Cladding for Aerospace, Automotive, DOD, Heavy Equipment, Oil & Gas, and Power Generation; New Cladding Techniques for Component Repair and General Manufacturing; Research, Development, and International Applications of Additive Manufacturing .
Contact: Laser Institute of America; 13501 Ingenuity Drive, Suite 128, Orlando, FL 32826. Phone: (407) 380-1553. E-mail: lam@laserinstitute.org.

The conference follows the tradition of the previous conferences most recently held in Maui, Hawaii, USA (2004); Miyazaki, Japan (2006); and Metz, France (2008). The objectives are to provide a forum for the latest advances in science, technology, and applications of MOVPE and to bring together researchers from around the world to discuss and share experiences in the growth, characterization, and device applications of metal organic vapor phase epitaxy.
Contact: Meeting Services; TMS; 184 Thorn Hill Road, Warrendale, PA 15086. Phone: (724) 776-9000, ext. 243. E-mail: mtgserv@tms.org.

The theme of the Copper 2010 Conference is Copper - Indicator of the Progress of Civilization. Copper 2010 is an important technical event for engineers, scientists, fabricators, and users of copper. Recently copper has become an important factor in the developing economies of East Asian countries and can be seen as an indicator of the progress of civilization in each country. All relevant areas of copper production and application and their surroundings like energy savings, process optimization, health and safety issues, cost and commerce, recycling and new developments will be presented in a series of parallel sessions. The program will include such topics as mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, electrowinning, electrometallurgy and refining, recycling, economics, process control and optimization, and others, as well as plenary sessions of general interest.
Contact: Dr. Mickael Kopke; Aurubis AG; Hoverstrasse 50, 20539 Hamburg, Germany. Phone: +49-10-78-83-38-01. E-mail: cu2010@gdmb.de.

Electronic materials are defined as relating to, produced, or operated by the controlled flow of electrons through a semiconductor, gas, or free space along with those relating to devices, systems, or circuits that employ components such as vacuum tubes, integrated circuits, or transistors in their design. The TMS Electronic Materials Conference is the premier annual forum on the preparation and characterization of electronic materials. Attendees include individuals actively engaged or interested in electronic materials R&D. This conference presents both invited and contributed oral presentations, an exhibition, and related activities
Contact: Meeting Services; TMS; 184 Thorn Hill Road, Warrendale, PA 15086. Phone: (724) 776-9000, ext. 243. E-mail: mtgserv@tms.org.

Held in conjunction with 65th Annual Congress of ABM (Brazilian Metallurgical and Materials Association) and the 18th IFHTSE Congress, this inaugural congress will feature seven proposed symposia covering important contemporary issues in materials science and engineering. This congress builds on the TMS Alliance of the Americas initiative to work together with Society partners in South America and Canada.

Technical symposia themes include:

• Characterization and Application of Biomaterials: This symposium offers an opportunity to the international community involved with biomaterials research to present and discuss their scientific and technological achievements.
• Dynamic Behavior of Materials: This symposium will cover the dynamic behavior of materials encompasses a broad range of phenomena with important technological applications in transportation, energy generation, fabrication and defense industries.
• Composite Materials: Composite materials and the variety of usages in transportation, electronic packaging and nature will be covered in this symposium.
• Light Weight Materials for Transportation: This symposium will examine the development and uses of both conventional and new materials for all applications in the transportation industry.
• Materials and Society: The correlation between materials technology and society, along with the major impact materials technology has had on society, will be presented at this symposium.
• Mechanical Properties of Materials with Emphasis on Grain-Size Effects: This symposium will include the mechanical behavior of structural materials with emphasis on the grain size effects.
• Computational Modeling and Advanced Characterization: This symposium is aimed at researchers who will share their results in the field of modeling and simulation of materials, from ab-initio calculation to computational thermodynamics as well as process simulation and modern characterization techniques, highlighting the synergistic effects between these tools.

This Conference is the 7th in a series of international conferences devoted to advanced materials and processing. The Conference, which is held every three years, is jointly sponsored by the Chinese Society for Metals (CSM), The Japan Institute of Metals (JIM), The Korean Institute of Metals and Materials (KIM), Materials Australia (MA), and The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) and organised in rotation. The purpose of PRICM is to provide an attractive forum for the exchange of scientific and technological information on materials and processing. The symposia will cover such topic as advanced steels and processing, light metals and alloys, bulk metallic glasses and nanomaterials, advanced ceramics, energy generation harvesting and storage materials and others.
Contact: Ms. Helen Woodall; Materials Australia; Suite 205, 21 Bedford Street, North Melbourne, Victoria 3111, Australia. Phone: +61-9326-7266. E-mail: helen@materialsaustralia.com.au.

The plenary session will discuss: The Next Generation of Nuclear Power; Uranium Resources - Exploration and New Mines; Uranium Processing - Milling, Refining, Conversion and Enrichment; and Regulatory and Public Issues. The technical sesisons will include papers on mining, uranium processing, refining/conversion/fuel fabrication, reactor designs and decommissioning, radiation safety and advances and various other topics.
Contact: Brigitte Farah; Metallurgical Society of CIM; 3400 de Maisonneuve West, Suite 855, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3Z 3B8. Phone: (514) 939-2710 ext. 1317. E-mail: bfarah@cim.org.

The theme of the 10th ICSR is "Rolling the Fugure: Process, Products, and Environment," with the aim of showing the progress and development in the field of steel rolling (technology, process, and products) in the past four years. The scope includes: New process, technology, and facilities for flat products, long products, and pipes; special rolling technology and products; equipment and maintenance; clean rolling; and others.
Contact: Bin Gao; Chinese Society for Metals; 46 Dongsixi Dajie, Beijing 100711, China. Phone: +86-10-65133925. E-mail: icsr10@csm.org.cn.

Lead-Zinc 2010 is the fifth decennial symposium by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) that is devoted to the theory and practice of the extractive metallurgy of Lead and Zinc. This TMS Fall Extraction & Process Metallurgy Meeting is held in conjunction with the 2010 Conference of Metallurgists, the premier annual event of the Metallurgical Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (MetSoc) from October 3 to 6, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Lead-Zinc 2010 symposium builds on the successes of the original 1970 meeting, the subsequent conferences held in 1980, 1990, and 2000, the Zinc–Lead symposia in Japan organized by MMIJ in 1995 and 2005, as well as the Canadian Lead-Zinc conferences organized by MetSoc in 1998 and 2008. It will provide an international forum for the lead and zinc processing industries bringing together operators, engineers, and researchers to exchange information about all aspects of current processing technologies for primary and secondary lead and zinc, as well as emerging technologies for both metals. The symposium scope extends from process fundamentals to operational practices, and also includes the important aspect of environmental issues. At the operations level, comprehensive reviews of the major applications of both metals will be outlined. Emphasis will be placed on recent commercial developments with less energy-intensive technologies that are in harmony with environmental conservation. At the research level, the emphasis is placed on the better understanding of existing technologies and the development of new processing ocncepts. Environmental concerns, associated with the processing of both metal, are considered along with acceptable treatmetn and handling of by-products, wastes, and bleed streams by the industry. A highlight of the conference will be a series of plenary lectures by industry leaders. Various social events are scheduled and these will allow informal discussions and networking among the delegates. A short course on lead and zinc processing will be presnted before the symposium. After the symposium, industrial tours are planned to various North Americal lead and zinc processing operations.
Contact: Brigitte Farah; Metallurgical Society of CIM; 3400 de Maisonneuve West, Suite 855, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3Z 3B8. Phone: (514) 939-2710, ext. 1317. E-mail: metsoc@cim.org.

This symposium will address recent innovations in material processing and understanding of superalloys, including alloy 718 and related compositions.

This technical meeting will cover the general class of Superalloys and Alloy 718, along with all aspects of alloy and process development, production, products, trends and the application of advanced modeling tools to industry challenges.

• Alloy 718, 706, 625, 282™, 718Plus™, and derivatives
• Alloys in the Waspaloy, 720, and Rene 41 family of superalloys
• Cast, wrought and powder processing methods
• Experimental and modeling investigations

MS&T annual conferences are hosted by four leading materials societies: ACerS, AIST, ASM and TMS. This partnership brings together scientists, engineers, students and suppliers to discuss current research & applications, and to shape the future of materials science and technology. Since corrosion has become a very relevant topic to materials, NACE International will co-sponsor MS&T’10.

Present your paper at this leading forum addressing structure, properties, processing and performance across the materials community. MS&T’10 addresses eight diverse themes to cover the breadth of materials science and engineering:

• Biomaterial Technology
• Ceramic and Glass Materials
• Corrosion Control and Sustainability
• Electronic and Magnetic Materials
• Environmental and Energy Issues
• Fundamentals and Characterization
• Iron and Steel
• Materials Performance
• Nanotechnology
• Processing and Product Manufacturing
• Special Topics

Abstracts Due: 5/31/2010
ICAS 2010, the merging of two international conferences (the International Symposium on Ultrafine Grained Structures - ISUGS, and the International Conference on Advanced Structural Steels - ICASS), will promote the development of advanced steels and cover almost every aspect of steels, physical metallurgy, steel grades, processing and fabrication, simulation, porperties and applications, etc.
Contact: Su Liu; Central Iron and Steel Research Institute; 76 Xue Yuan Nan Lu, Beijing 100081, China. Phone: +86-10-6218-5204. E-mail: icas2010@nercast.com.