Honorary Symposia

David Bourell

This symposium will honor the contributions of Professor David Bourell in the many domains of materials science, additive manufacturing, standards development, and education that he influenced through his illustrious career. These include densification of powders by sintering and infiltration, laser powder bed fusion, novel materials and microstructures developed by powder and additive processes, technology evolution of additive manufacturing, education in additive manufacturing and powder metals, accreditation and standards role in technology development, and sustainability in powder materials and additive manufacturing.

Diana Farkas

This symposium is to honor Professor Diana Farkas’s impact in the field of computational materials modeling to uncover the mechanical behavior of materials. Her contribution to the field of atomistic simulations spans over four decades with a focus on intermetallic alloys, fracture studies, and nano-crystalline materials. To honor the broad range of Professor Farkas’s research on metals, intermetallic alloys, nanoindentation, and nano-porous materials, the symposium will highlight work that integrates computational and experimental investigations by utilizing a multidisciplinary approach. The symposium will focus on mechanical behavior of materials, computational modeling, experimental work, and applications.

Fiona Doyle

Professor Doyle has worked in a wide range of areas in which she applied her fundamental work on chemical thermodynamics, chemical and electrochemical kinetics, transport phenomena, and colloid and interfacial science to develop a fundamental mechanistic understanding of minerals and materials processing operations and materials-solution interactions, with a goal of developing a foundation for ensuring sustainability and economic competitiveness in the supply of resources and energy. The processing and recovery of critical minerals via hydrometallurgical methods is essential for the transition to renewable, green energy. The first topic is planned to focus on the recovery of critical minerals from primary ores, byproducts, slags and tailings, scraps and waste fractions. The second topic focuses on novel separation technologies and methods. The third topic in this symposium examines the environmental impact of mining and metallurgical operations.

Anthony Rollett

Anthony Rollett—the U.S. Steel Professor of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at Carnegie Mellon University and co-director of its Next Manufacturing Center—has made crucial contributions throughout his career in uncovering and defining the microstructure-property relationships characteristic of manufacturing methods. Through his work in both computational simulation and experiments, he has investigated topics such as recrystallization, grain boundary migration, viscoplastic deformation, annealing, residual stress, strain aging, and powder bed fusion (among many others) and brought clarity on how manufacturing-induced defects impact a material’s resultant properties. This symposium is intended to honor his contributions to the field of materials science and highlight the work of others who have been inspired by him and his accomplishments. This honorary symposium will feature invited presentations from colleagues and collaborators of Rollett as well as contributed presentations from members of the materials and manufacturing community who follow in his footsteps to use modeling and characterization methods to gain fundamental insights on microstructure evolution during manufacturing and the process-structure-property relationships that can be inferred.

Dipankar Banerjee

This symposium is being organized on the occasion of Professor Dipankar Banerjee’s 70th birthday to celebrate his seminal contributions and profound impact on the field of titanium physical metallurgy. It brings together leading experts from across the world working on various aspects of titanium alloys many of whom are his close friends and collaborators. The scope of the symposium broadly encompasses all aspects of titanium and titanium-based intermetallics including innovative processing routes, advanced characterization techniques, novel computational modelling approaches etc. The symposium will have special emphasis on advanced electron microscopy for assessing the structure-property-processing correlation within titanium-based alloys and intermetallics, with sessions also dedicated to evaluating phase transformation pathways and deformation mechanisms, domains which have immensely benefitted from Professor Banerjee’s research contributions. These will include phenomena operating across multiple orders of length scales extending from atomic-level to ingot- scale, across a wide range of temperatures and loading rates.

Rainer Schmid-Fetzer

This symposium is dedicated to the innovative contributions made by Professor Rainer Schmid-Fetzer to materials science for over forty years. With his background in metallurgy and physics he has earned merits in materials thermodynamics and constitution of multicomponent and multiphase materials, phase diagram calculation software algorithm design, thermodynamic model and database development, and their applications in solidification, microstructure development, interface reactions in bulk and thin film materials, and computational design of materials. To honor the broad range of Schmid-Fetzer’s research on alloys, semiconductors, ceramics, and functional materials, the symposium will highlight work that integrates experimental and computational investigations. It is being held to celebrate Schmid-Fetzer’s lifelong and ongoing contributions as Professor Emeritus to our materials science community.