Division Luncheon Lectures
Structural Materials Division (SMD)/Functional Materials Division (FMD) Luncheon
Featuring Talks by the 2023 FMD and SMD Young Leaders Professional Development Award Recipients
Speakers: Jing Du, Penn State University;
Arun Kumar Mannodi, Purdue University;
Dong Liu, University of Bristol; and
Christopher Zenk, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Date: Monday, March 4, 2024
Time: Noon to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency Orlando
Cost: $75 to receive lunch; purchase your ticket through the TMS2024 registration form. (You may attend the lecture—without lunch—at no cost.)
About the Presentations
The four FMD and SMD 2023 Young Leaders Professional Development Award recipients will each deliver a “TED-style” talk on a topic the speaker is knowledgeable about and feels deeply passionate about. Each speaker will summarize their work in general terms to convey the innovation and exciting impact of their research. The presenters will give the following talks:
- "Bone Structure and Function," Jing Du
- "Engineer Better Damage Tolerance under Extreme Conditions," Dong "Lilly" Liu
- "Accelerating Perovskite Discovery using High-Throughput Computations and Machine Learning," Arun Kumar Mannodi
- "SPACE–Superior Performance through Accelerated Composition Exploration," Christopher Zenk
About the Presenters
Arun Mannodi Kanakkithodi is an assistant professor in the department of Materials Engineering at Purdue University. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2017 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory from 2017 until 2020. His research revolves around applying first principles simulations and methods rooted in data science and machine learning for materials design.
Extraction & Processing Division (EPD)/Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD) Luncheon
Speaker: Dierk Raabe: Max-Planck lnstitut für Eisenforschung GmbH
Lecture Title: "The Two Billion Tonnes Question: How Can Research Help to Make Metals Sustainable?"
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency Orlando
Cost: $75 to receive lunch; purchase your ticket through the TMS2024 registration form. (You may attend the lecture—without lunch—at no cost.)
About the Presentation
This lecture gives an introduction to the challenges associated with the sustainability of metals. Only metallic materials exhibit properties as diverse as strength, hardness, workability, damage tolerance, weldability, ductility, and toughness, often combined with functional properties such as corrosion resistance, thermal and electrical conductivity, and magnetism. Today we produce and consume around 2 billion tons of metals every year.
The production of this gigantic amount of metals and alloys per year is responsible for about 40% of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions, consumes 10% of the world's available energy, and requires 3.2 billion tons of ores to manufacture. In addition, production and processing generate huge amounts of often toxic waste products, which in total have a volume 15 to 20 times larger than the total amount of metal produced itself. This is because the metal content of some ores for metals such as copper, nickel, or cobalt is in part below 1.5%. These numbers are growing rapidly and will double by 2050, creating tremendous pressure to circularize a large part (50-70%) of the materials production and manufacturing value chain. However, recycling rates are often low, especially for some of the most strategic metals with recovery rates in part below 1%.
This lecture gives an overview of the big numbers and leverage effects in this economically important field and shows some of the many exciting research opportunities to improve the sustainability of metals, including carbon dioxide-free reduction of metals from their ores, electrification of metal synthesis, challenges behind recycling, scrap-compatible material design, and the science of ‘dirty’ alloys.
About the Speaker
Dierk Raabe studied music, metallurgy, and metal physics. After his doctorate (1992) and habilitation (1997) at RWTH Aachen, he received a Heisenberg fellowship and worked at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined Max Planck Society as a director in 1999. His main interest today is to make industrial production of materials more sustainable, focusing on basic research where the leverage for carbon dioxide elimination is particularly large. His specific interests lie in sustainable metals (specifically green steel and sustainable aluminum alloys), physical metallurgy of metallic alloys, steels, hydrogen, aluminium alloys, atom probe tomography, machine learning, green manufacturing, and metal combustion. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award (highest German Science Award), The Acta Materialia Gold Medal, and two ERC Advanced Grants (highest European Research Grant). He is professor at RWTH Aachen in Germany and at KU Leuven in Belgium.
Light Metals Division Luncheon
Speaker: Glenn Pushis, Aluminum Dynamics LLC
Lecture Title: To be announced
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Time: Noon to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency Orlando
Cost: $75 to receive lunch; purchase your ticket through the TMS2024 registration form. (You may attend the lecture—without lunch—at no cost.)
About the Speaker
Glenn A. Pushis was appointed President, Aluminum Dynamics, LLC in July 2022. He is also Senior Vice President Strategic Projects at Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI) since February 2019. In his current position, Pushis is responsible for the construction and commissioning of the company’s new $2.5B flat roll aluminum mill located in Columbus, Mississippi, USA, and operational responsibilities at Superior Aluminum Alloy. Prior to this assignment, he was responsible for the construction and commissioning of the $2.2B flat roll mini-mill project located in Sinton, Texas, USA. In 2016, Pushis served as senior vice president of Long Products that included four long products steel mills, which at that time combined had approximately 3.8 million tons of annual steelmaking capacity. These facilities produce specialized engineered bars, structural steel, railroad rail, merchant bars, and other specialty steels, primarily serving the construction, transportation, and industrial sectors. In 2014, Pushis served as vice president of Sheet Products overseeing the Flat Roll Division in Butler, Indiana, USA, and The Techs located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Pushis oversaw mill modifications to increase the Butler mill’s production capacity to 3 million tons per year and completed the start-up of a paint line and other finishing operations at Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA. Prior to managing SDI’s Flat Roll Division and The Techs, Pushis served as vice president and general manager of the Engineered Bar Products Division, where he oversaw the refurbishing and start-up of the special bar quality mill at Pittsboro, Indiana, USA. Pushis joined SDI in 1994, having previously worked in engineering at Nucor Corp. in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Purdue University and received his MBA from Indiana University in 2013.
Award Lectures
Extraction & Processing Division Distinguished Lecturer
Speaker: George Demopoulos, McGill University
Lecture Title: "Advanced Hydrometallurgical Process Innovations: Clean Environmental Applications and Sustainable Electrochemical Energy Materials and Technologies"
Date: Monday, March 4, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 9:10 a.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency Orlando, Celebration 3
William Hume-Rothery Award
Speaker: Yunzhi Wang, Ohio State University
Lecture Title: "Deformation Pathway Engineering and Compositionally and Structurally Modulated Alloy Design"
Date: Monday, March 4
Time :8:40 a.m. to 9:10 a.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency Orlando, Bayhill 23
Institute of Metals/Robert Franklin Mehl Award
Speaker: Hamish Fraser, Ohio State University
Lecture Title: "Optimization of Microstructure of Titanium Alloys Processed using Additive Manufacturing"
Date: Tuesday, March 5
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency Orlando, Windermere X-1
William D. Nix Award Lecturer
Speaker: Tresa Pollock, University of California Santa Barbara
Lecture Title: "Designing Fatigue Resistant Structural Materials"
Date: Wednesday, March 6
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency Orlando, Regency O
Emerging Professional Award Lectures
Young Innovator in the Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing Award Lecture
Date: Monday, March 4
Time: 4:20 p.m. to 4:55 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency Orlando, Plaza Int'l IJK
Minh-Son Pham, Imperial College London
"Meta-Crystals: Synergistic Combination of Materials Science and Additive Manufacturing"
About the Presentation
Mimicking the crystalline microstructure enables a synergistic fusion of materials science and additive manufacturing to create meta-crystals consisting of hierarchical self-similar structures: crystalline microstructure (natural crystals) within crystal-like architectures (artificial crystals). Engineering such hierarchical structures provides excellent opportunities to translate the metallurgical strengthening mechanisms and create new strengthening sources in architected structures to achieve high strength, plastic deformation stability, and excellent energy absorption for lightweight architected materials. Moreover, tailoring the crystal-mimicking mesostructures to specific locations enables programming the spatial mechanical behavior and shape-morphing that help improve the adaptability of architected materials.
About the Presenter
Minh-Son Pham is a senior lecturer (equivalent to a tenured associate professor) in Engineering Alloys at Imperial College London, and currently leads a dynamic research group focusing on alloy design, mechanical metamaterials, additive manufacturing, and mechanical integrity (fatigue, creep and hydrogen embrittlement) of metallic alloys. He leads a transformative approach that proposes the mimicry of crystalline microstructure to create artificial crystals (i.e. meta-crystals) that are lightweight, high strength, and programmable. His excellent track record in research includes more than 40 peer-reviewed publications (including ones in Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids and Nature), and more than 15 plenary/keynote/invited talks at major conferences (e.g., Additive Manufacturing International and TMS conferences). His research has been recognized via a series of accolades awarded in the UK, USA, and Switzerland including the ETH Medal 2013. Pham has established extensive collaborations with leading academics and industrial experts to tackle challenges in energy, automobiles, aerospace, space, and medical devices. Pham received a doctor of science degree from ETHZ and spent three years as a postdoc in Anthony Rollett’s group at Carnegie Mellon University during which he was also a NIST guest researcher.
NEW TIME: Emerging Professionals Tutorial Lecture
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency Orlando
Please Note: The time and format of this event have changed from what was previously announced. No advance registration is needed for the event, there is no cost to attend, and lunch will not be served. All are invited to come and hear from the presenter.
About the Presentation
A career in materials science provides the unique opportunity to explore many diverse worlds—physical and conceptual—an opportunity I have fully embraced. My home country, Italy, gave me strong theoretical foundations, a Ph.D. in the U.S. boosted my self-confidence and independence, a postdoc in Germany led me into the wonder-world of multidisciplinary collaborations, and as a faculty member in the Netherlands, I am exploring ever-new avenues for industrial, societal, and sustainable impact. At the same time, my research portfolio grew in both breadth and depth, stretching from mechanics to chemistry and physics, and diving into the complexity of advanced materials design and manufacturing. My work on the development of new multiscale ceramics and ceramic-based materials stems out of both the knowledge and the methodologies learnt throughout these experiences.
There is widespread agreement that the future of science lies in cross-disciplinary teamwork. Data on the impact—scientific, industrial, and societal—of new discoveries confirms it. In this lecture, I will show how embracing a broad spectrum of perspectives on a scientific challenge can lead to unexpected discoveries, how diversifying research approaches paves the path towards multifunctional materials, and how bursting one’s comfort bubble pays off by building both resilience and creativity. I will provide examples from the field of multiscale materials design, processing, and modeling. Ultimately, merging one’s diverse experiences and fields of knowledge is key to creating a unique research niche and fostering a stimulating and rewarding academic career.
Atieh Moridi, Cornell University
"The Power of Instability: Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Additive Manufacturing and Professional Development"
About the Presentation
Life is an ever-changing journey that requires us to adapt to new challenges and situations. In the world of additive manufacturing (AM), the concept of instability and non-equilibrium dynamics plays a crucial role in creating parts with unique microstructures and properties. To study these non-equilibrium dynamics, my group has integrated a custom printer at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). Conducting operando AM experiments at high temporal resolution reveals the existence of metastable phases during solidification, which would otherwise be impossible to detect.
In this presentation, I will showcase how the formation of metastable phases during solidification can contribute to the creation of rough and convoluted grain boundaries that resemble fractal objects. This phenomenon not only enhances material properties but also reflects the valuable experiences and skills gained from taking a "rough path" in life.
Furthermore, I will demonstrate how phase metastability in different alloy systems can break down columnar grain growth in AM. Additionally, I will draw parallels to the power of diversity and how a dynamic environment with diverse perspectives and ideas can promote creativity and innovation. Through my own experiences running a research lab, I have learned that having a team with diverse backgrounds and perspectives can lead to breakthroughs and advancements in research.
Overall, this presentation highlights the importance of embracing instability and the beauty of metastability in AM and in life.