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EXPERT OFFERS TECHNICAL ADVICE ON SUPERALLOYS
Technical Questions@TMS Web Site Features New Superalloys Resource

TMS PLANS PART TWO OF SUCCESSFUL ALUMINUM SESSION
2006 Annual Meeting Plenary to Feature Aluminum Fabrication Industry Executives

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NEW ON-LINE TOOLS SIMPLIFY MEETING ATTENDANCE
TMS Rolls Out Searchable Global Meetings Calendar and Upgraded Personal Conference Scheduler

A PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS . . .
. . . JOM Editorial Calendar Offers Look at Technical Coverage in 2006

HOW TO . . .
. . . Submit an Article to JOM

TOP TEN . . .
. . . MSE Museums and Exhibits

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS
Deadlines and Application Information for Materials Scholarships and Research Grants

WASHINGTON NEWS FROM THE FEDERATION OF MATERIALS SOCIETIES
Senators Launch Bipartisan Manufacturing Caucus

INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON-LINE
Members of Chinese and Indian Societies Can Now Apply for Electronic TMS Benefits

Technical Questions@TMS Web Site Features New Superalloys Resource

An expert on superalloys, Roger C. Reed of Imperial College (London), has developed an on-line resource on the subject for the technical community. Part of the Technical Questions@TMS web site, this resource is similar to other areas launched previously on the topics of aluminum and metal-matrix composites. As technical director of TMS, Warren Hunt is currently leading the development of additional technical resources for the site and is seeking prospective developers.

Through the site, Reed offers answers to frequently asked questions, summaries of technical terms and concepts, reading lists, and sources for additional information for a variety of topics related to superalloys, including processes, properties, R&D, and applications. If visitors cannot find an answer to their technical question, they may e-mail Reed with their questions and can expect to receive a response within 48 hours. Additional technology areas are currently in development for the site.

2006 Annual Meeting Plenary to Feature Aluminum Fabrication Industry Executives

Moving downstream from the well-attended 2005 TMS Annual Meeting plenary on the global primary aluminum industry, TMS is planning a similar aluminum-focused session for 2006 to address processes from the casthouse to the fabricated product. The Aluminum Fabrication Industry: Global Challenges and Opportunities will feature talks from corporate leaders who spearhead business units in fabricated aluminum products from around the world. The following presenters are scheduled:

• Patrick Franc, President, ARCO Aluminum, Inc.
• Steven Demetriou, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Aleris International, Inc.
• Kevin Greenawalt, President, North American Operations, Novelis, Inc.
• Helmut Wieser, Group President, Mill Products Europe/North America, Alcoa, Inc.
• Dieter Braun, President, Automotive Sector, Hydro Aluminium

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TMS Rolls Out Searchable Global Meetings Calendar and Upgraded Personal Conference Scheduler

Selecting and planning for meetings just got easier. Today, TMS unveiled its new Global Meetings Calendar, an extensive—and searchable—listing of upcoming materials conferences throughout the world. Using drop-down menus, visitors can search the conference listings in one of three ways: by year, by technical area, or by TMS Division interest areas. Conference organizers can add their listing to the calendar by filling out an on-line form. A TMS staff member will review the submission for suitability before it appears on the site.

Later this month, TMS will roll out an upgraded version of its Personal Conference Scheduler (PCS), as well, to allow users to plan for upcoming meetings more easily. The new site has been updated to match the look and feel of other TMS tools, like CMS-Plus, to make navigation simpler for users. The site will also allow members to log in using the same combination of Username and Password that grants access to journal subscriptions in the TMS Document Center, conference planning information in CMS-Plus, and member benefits on the Members-Only web site.

. . . JOM Editorial Calendar Offers Look at Technical Coverage in 2006

JOM has released its 2006 Technical Emphasis Calendar, a guide to the journal's editorial coverage for the coming year. Next year's coverage features topics planned and organized by 22 TMS technical committees from the society's five technical divisions. The coverage mirrors the society's varied technical interests, featuring issues on such emerging materials areas as nanotechnology and biomaterials as well as issues on classic topics like extraction and processing, metals fabrication, and lightweight materials.

Authors use the guide to determine when to submit articles on particular topics. Readers use the guide to preview what lies ahead. Pictured is a preview of the July issue of the journal, featuring a (slightly scary) photo from an article on the technology of textiles. As for other feature articles that are planned in the coming months—you'll just have to wait and see . . .

. . . Submit an Article to JOM

To contribute a paper for an upcoming issue of JOM, authors should begin by visiting the JOM web site. For background information and instructions for new authors, the web site includes an Author's Kit section, which answers questions that authors frequently ask. As each issue of the journal deals with a different topic from the field of materials science and engineering, authors should next view the journal's technical emphasis calendar for a listing of planned editorial topics and manuscript submission deadlines, to determine if their paper fits with JOM's editorial plans. The current calendar shows planned topics through December 2006.

Next, authors are asked to submit, through the JOM web site, a maximum 300-word abstract including title, author information, a description of the proposed paper, and a proposed month for publication (based on technical emphasis calendar topics). If the abstract suits the journal's needs, a member of the editorial staff will request that the author send a complete manuscript. The manuscript will then be reviewed by a technical advisor, who is an expert in the particular field being discussed, for accuracy and suitability for the journal. If the paper fits with the journal's editorial coverage and receives the advisor's approval, it will then be scheduled for publication in an upcoming issue of the journal.

. . . MSE Museums and Exhibits

Your profession may not always be an easy one to explain. So this summer, show friends and family what you do at a materials-science-related museum or exhibit. Here are a few we found.

10. Body Worlds 2, Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, Ohio. Materials science put to unorthodox use: a process called plastination allows for the display of real human bodies. Ick. Open through September 18.

9. Doodles, Drafts, and Designs, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia. Get inside the minds (or at least drawings) of inventors who manipulated materials to create better sports equipment, dustless white chalk, and Tupperware. Begins August 6.

8. Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Take a walk through the history of the atomic bomb, learn about plutonium, and glimpse current research projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

7. Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination, Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts. Like JOM, this exhibit uses the popularity of Star Wars to discuss issues in science and technology. Begins October 27.

6. Nanozone, Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, CA. Measure yourself in nanometers. Basketball player Gabriel Hughes was 2,108,200,000 nanometers tall.

5. Nanotechnology: Small Science, Big Deal, Science Museum, London. Explore the science of working at the level of atoms and see some not-so-far-off applications. Through August 31. The museum also has a permanent materials exhibit: the Challenge of Materials gallery.

4. Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance, Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City. This exhibit focuses on highly engineered materials designed for ultimate performance in extreme conditions. For more on this subject, see the July JOM. Through October 30.

3. Strange Matter, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (through September 5) and the Dallas Museum of Natural History, Dallas, Texas (through September 1). Created by the Materials Research Society, this exhibit allows visitors to play with magnetic liquid, amorphous metals, and memory metals, to name a few.

2. National Inventor's Hall of Fame, Akron, Ohio. Celebrates the work of such innovators as Charles Martin Hall and Henry Bessemer.

1. King's College London Materials Library, on display at the JOM Exhibit Booth at the 2006 TMS Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Explore the tactile pleasures of unusual materials at this unique display. (Pictured is a sample of aerogel, one of many materials that are part of the materials library. Photo by NASA.)

Deadlines and Application Information for Materials Scholarships and Research Grants

Researchers and students often need a financial boost to make their projects and education a reality. Here are a few upcoming funding opportunities that could help achieve these goals:

TMS Foundation Shri Ram Arora Award
This award recognizes, encourages, and supports the quest for knowledge within the international materials science and engineering community. In recognition of the Arora family's interest and heritage, applicants residing in India and those of Indian heritage shall be given priority. Applicants should be graduate students majoring in materials science or a related field or of post-doctoral status and involved in materials research. The applicant may not have reached his/her 30th birthday by the submission deadline date. Grants up to $2,500 in cash and coverage of expenses for attending the TMS Annual Meeting.
Deadline for Applications: July 1

U.S. Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR)
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) invites small businesses to submit proposals for the SBIR program. Firms with the capability to conduct R&D in defense-related areas and to commercialize the results are encouraged to participate. The program strives to encourage scientific and technical innovation in areas identified by the DoD.
Deadline for Proposals: July 15, 2005

U.S. National Science Foundation
ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers
The goal of the ADVANCE program is to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic S&E careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. Creative strategies to realize this goal are sought from men and women.
Deadline for Proposals: July 15, 2005

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Industry Studies Fellowships
These fellowships provide support and recognition for junior faculty conducting research in industry studies. To qualify as industry studies research, the candidate's work must include close contact with people in a particular industry as well as field research: that is, interaction with people in their workplaces for observations, insights, and primary data collection. Candidates must be nominated by a senior scholar; direct applications are not accepted.
Deadline for nominations: October 15

Visit the sponsoring organization's web site for more information on any of these awards and find more funding opportunities at the TMS Public and Governmental Affairs Resource Center.

Senators Launch Bipartisan Manufacturing Caucus

Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) on June 15 announced formation of a bipartisan Senate Manufacturing Caucus to spearhead Congressional efforts to address problems facing the nation's manufacturing industry. Noting that the United States has seen a significant erosion of its manufacturing base hitting virtually every state, Graham and Clinton noted the urgency to continue to invest in R&D to foster innovation. "Manufacturers currently lead the way in R&D, spearheading almost two-thirds of all private-sector R&D," according to the Senators' statement. A manufacturing focus group has been more or less active in the Congressional Northeast-Midwest Coalition for several years, but this is the first time a separate caucus has been formed to address manufacturing issues—and the leadership of Graham adds geographical diversity.

Graham and Clinton said the caucus will bring together business and labor leaders, economists, and other stakeholders; commission academic studies and other inquiries; and champion legislation to address challenges facing the manufacturing structure. It will identify opportunities for Congressional action to create and keep manufacturing jobs and also will address the legacy costs of health care and pensions.

Members of Chinese and Indian Societies Can Now Apply for Electronic TMS Benefits

Two new sites have been added to TMS OnLine, providing additional information on the partnerships between TMS and two international materials societies: the Chinese Society for Metals (CSM) and the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM). Members of the two societies may now access selected electronic benefits from TMS for an annual membership fee of $25. Applications to become electronic (CSM) or affiliate (IIM) members of TMS are now available through the TMS Membership web site.

Beginning with the 2006 membership year, TMS members will also have the option to become affiliate members of IIM, an agreement which will provide TMS members access to selected electronic benefits from IIM. More information will be available on the 2006 TMS membership dues bills, which will be e-mailed to members in August.

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EDITORS' CHOICE

The editors of TMS publications select the must-read papers from the latest editions:

JUNE JOM: "Talking with Some Directors of the U.S. National Laboratories" by Kelly Roncone
JOM surveyed the leaders of the U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratories for perspectives on some of the U.S. science and engineering community's most pressing issues regarding R&D, globalization, national security, and budget constraints. The journal posed the same five questions to each lab director. What follows are responses from six of the directors: Michael R. Anastasio, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Dan Arvizu, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; John J. Grossenbacher, Idaho National Laboratory; Thomas O. Hunter, Sandia National Laboratories; Robert Rosner, Argonne National Laboratory; and Jeffrey Wadsworth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [READ]

JUNE JOM: "The World is Flat: The Globalization of Materials R&D" by Toni Marechaux and Warren H. Hunt, Jr.
In February, a symposium was held at the 2005 TMS Annual Meeting called The World is Flat: Globalization of Materials R&D. The symposium provided a diversity of viewpoints from invited speakers representing industry, government, and academia on the increasingly global world of materials science and technology. Each of the presentations in the symposium, including an informal roundtable discussion, was recorded on audiotape for exclusive presentation on the JOM web site as an installment of JOM-e. This article provides an introduction to the topic and provides a launch point for experiencing RealPlayer broadcasts of all of the symposium presentations. [READ]

JUNE JOM: "Silicon Nanoelectronics and Beyond: An Overview and Recent Development" by N.M. Ravindra, Vishal R. Mehta, and Sudhakar Shet
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the invention of the first beam-lead device by Lepselter et al. Lepselter and coworkers proposed a method of fabricating a new semiconductor device structure and its application to high-frequency silicon switching transistors and ultra-high-speed integrated circuits. In this paper, an overview of recent developments of silicon nanoelectronics is presented. [READ]

JUNE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS: "Ten-Inch Molecular Beam Epitaxy Production System for HgCdTe Growth" by M. Zandian, et al.
Growth of Hg_1–xCd_xTe by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) has been under development since the early 1980s at Rockwell Scientific Company (RSC), formerly the Rockwell Science Center; and we have shown that high-performance and highly reproducible MBE HgCdTe double heterostructure planar p-on-n devices can be produced with high throughput for various single- and multiplecolor infrared applications. In this paper, the authors present data on Hg_1–xCd_xTe epitaxial layers grown in a ten-inch production MBE system. [READ]

JUNE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS: "Comparison of Normal and Inverted Band Structure HgTe/CdTe Superlattices for Very Long Wavelength Infrared Detectors" by C.H. Grein, H. Jung, R. Singh, and M.E. Flatte
The type III band alignment of HgTe/CdTe superlattices leads to the interesting possibility of achieving very long wavelength infrared (VLWIR) (15 μm and longer) cutoff wavelengths with either normal (HgTe layer thickness less than about 70 Å for CdTe layer thickness of 50 Å) or inverted (HgTe thickness greater than about 70 Å) band structures. We conclude that the highest performance is expected from VLWIR HgTe/CdTe superlattice-based detectors with normal band structure absorber layers. [READ]

JUNE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS: "Growth of Very Low Arsenic-Doped HgCdTe" by D. Chandra, et al.
Arsenic is known to be an amphoteric impurity that may occupy either sublattice in HgCdTe depending upon sample annealing. As an acceptor in low concentrations, it offers several features that are attractive for the fabrication of certain n⁺-on-p detector diode structures. The epitaxial growth of arsenic-doped HgCdTe from a Te-rich melt can fulfill the requirements for application in a variety of devices where low vacancy concentrations and low defect densities are critical requirements in minimizing dark currents. [READ]

JUNE MMTA: "Application of Solute Drag Theory to Model Ferrite Formation in Multiphase Steels" by F. Fazeli and M. Militzer
The June 2005 issue of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A includes an excellent array of articles on topics such as alloy phases, transformations, transport phenomena, mechanical behavior, welding and joining, solidification, materials processing, and composite materials. In this paper on transformations, a revised austenite-to-ferrite transformation model for low-carbon steels is proposed that is applicable to industrial heat-treatment conditions of commercial steels. In the model, the effect of alloying elements on the transformation kinetics is described from a fundamental point of view. [READ]

JUNE MMTA: "In-Situ Three-Dimensional Microstructural Investigation of Solidification of an Al-Cu Alloy by Ultrafast X-Ray Microtomography" by Olivier Ludwig, Marco DiMichiel, Luc Salvo, Michel Suery, and Peter Falus
This paper presents the first results of a new experimental technique developed to investigate the evolution of the morphology of the solid and liquid phases during the solidification of a metallic alloy. It consists of ultrafast X-ray microtomography observations of a solidifying aluminum-copper alloy. [READ]

JUNE MMTB: "An Introductory Electrochemical Approach to Studying Hydrometallurgical Reactions" by Sherryl Robertson, Matthew Jeffrey, Hongguang Zhang, and Elizabeth Ho
The June 2005 issue of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, has articles on hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, transport phenomena, solidification, materials processing, and light metals. This paper details how to perform experiments, interpret data, and recognize complications with results using electrochemical techniques. [READ]

JUNE MMTB: "A Mold Simulator for the Continuous Casting of Steel: Part I. The Development of a Simulator" by A. Badri, T.T. Natarajan, C.C. Snyder, K.D. Powers, F.J. Mannion, and A.W. Cramb
A detailed knowledge of initial solidification behavior of steel in a continuous casting mold is necessary because it determines the surface quality of continuously cast slabs. In order to develop an understanding of the initial solidification of continuous cast steels, a mold simulator was designed and constructed to investigate heat-transfer phenomena during the initial phase of strand solidification. The simulator was used to obtain solidified steel shells of different grades of steel under conditions similar to those found in industrial casting operations. The resulting cast surface morphologies were compared with industrial slabs and were found to be in good agreement, indicating that it is possible to simulate the continuous casting process by a laboratory scale simulator. This two-part paper was cited for distinction during the peer review process.[READ]

JUNE MMTB: "A Mold Simulator for the Continuous Casting of Steel: Part II. The Formation of Oscillation Marks during the Continuous Casting of Low Carbon Steel" by A. Badri, T.T. Natarajan, C.C. Snyder, K.D. Powers, F.J. Manion, M. Byrne, and A.W. Cramb
The techniques developed in this study allowed a more detailed examination of the mold heat-transfer interactions during continuous casting, such that the variations of heat flux due to irregular solidification near the meniscus could be measured. It is shown that the mechanisms proposed in the literature are not individually sufficient for the formation of an oscillation mark, but that several are necessary and must occur in sequence for an oscillation mark to form. A mechanism is proposed for the formation of oscillation marks that is shown to be in agreement with the trends observed and reported in the literature. Additionally, it is shown that the success of practices used in industry to reduce the severity of oscillation marks can be explained using this proposed hypothesis. This two-part paper was cited for distinction during the peer review process. [READ]

2005 DEVICE RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Santa Barbara, CA
June 20-22, 2005

2005 ELECTRONIC MATERIALS CONFERENCE
Santa Barbara, CA
June 22-24, 2005

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION OF MATERIALS IN NUCLEAR POWER SYSTEMS-WATER REACTORS
Salt Lake City, UT
Aug. 14-18, 2005

INTL CONFERENCE ON SILICON CARBIDE AND RELATED MATERIALS
Pittsburgh, PA
Sept. 18-23, 2005

MS&T '05
Pittsburgh, PA
Sept. 25-28, 2005

INTL SYMPOSIUM ON SUPERALLOYS 718, 625, 706 AND DERIVATIVES
Pittsburgh, PA
October 2-5, 2005

2006 TMS ANNUAL MEETING
Abstracts Due: July 15
San Antonio, TX
March 12-16, 2006

2006 SOHN INT'L SYMPOSIUM
Abstracts Due: Nov. 15
San Diego, CA
Aug. 27-31, 2006

2007 TMS ANNUAL MEETING
Orlando, FL
Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 2007

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