TMS2025 Technical Program

TMS2025 will present more than 100 symposia planned by all five TMS technical divisions and covering a broad range of topics related to minerals, metals, and materials science and engineering. For your convenience, the symposia have been divided into 11 technical tracks. Click on a track to view a listing of related symposia.

If you know the symposium you want to submit an abstract for, you can visit ProgramMaster directly and choose from an alphabetical listing of symposia.

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To present your work at TMS2025, please submit your abstract by July 1, 2024.

TMS2025 Technical Topics

• + Additive Manufacturing
• • A Career in Powder Processing and Additive Manufacturing: A MPMD Symposium Honoring David Bourell
  • Additive Manufacturing and Alloy Design: Bridging Fundamental Physical Metallurgy, Advanced Characterization Techniques, and Integrated Computational Materials Engineering for Advanced Materials
  • Additive Manufacturing and Innovative Powder/Wire Processing of Multifunctional Materials
  • Additive Manufacturing Fatigue and Fracture: Towards Accurate Prediction
  • Additive Manufacturing Materials in Energy Environments II
  • Additive Manufacturing Modeling, Simulation and Machine Learning
  • Additive Manufacturing of Refractory Metallic Materials
  • Additive Manufacturing: Length-Scale Phenomena in Mechanical Response
  • Additive Manufacturing: Marine Materials and Structures
  • Additive Manufacturing: Microstructural and Mechanical Long-term Stability of AM Materials
  • Additive Manufacturing: Incorporating Breakthrough Functionalities for Building Large Scale Components
  • Designing Complex Microstructures through Additive Manufacturing
  • Nano and Micro Additive Manufacturing
• + Advanced Characterization Methods
• • Advanced Characterization Techniques for Quantifying and Modeling Deformation
  • Advanced Real Time Imaging
  • Characterization of Materials through High Resolution Coherent Imaging
  • Characterization of Minerals, Metals and Materials 2025: In-situ Characterization Techniques
  • Heterostructured and Gradient Materials (HGM VI): Principle, Processing and Properties
  • Neutron and X-ray Scattering in Materials Science and Engineering
  • Novel Strategies for Rapid Acquisition and Processing of Large Datasets from Advanced Characterization Techniques
• + Biomaterials
• • Advanced Biomaterials for Biomedical Implants
  • Advances in Biomaterials for Bioink Formulation and 3D Printing of Scaffolds
  • Bio-Nano Interfaces and Engineering Applications
  • Biological Materials Science
  • Mechanics and Physiological Adaptation of Hard and Soft Biomaterials and Biological Tissues
  • Natural Fibers and Biocomposites: A Sustainable Solution
  • Porous Materials for Biomedical Applications
• + Data-Driven and Computational Materials Design
• • AI/Data Informatics: Computational Model Development, Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification
  • Algorithms Development in Materials Science and Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence Applications in Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
  • Bridging Scale Gaps in Multiscale Materials Modeling in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  • Chemistry and Physics of Interfaces
  • Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics
  • Dilute Alloying and Impurity Effects on Phase Transformations
  • High Performance Steels
  • Local Chemical Ordering and Its Impact on Mechanical Behaviors, Radiation Damage, and Corrosion
  • Materials Aging and Compatibility: Experimental and Computational Approaches to Enable Lifetime Predictions
  • Microstructural Evolution and Material Properties due to Manufacturing Processes: A Symposium in Honor of Anthony Rollett
  • Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams Applied to Materials Design and Processing: An FMD/SMD Symposium Honoring Rainer Schmid-Fetzer (Invited Abstracts Only)
  • Validation of Computational Tools - Industrial Perspectives
  • Verification, Calibration, and Validation Approaches in Modeling the Mechanical Performance of Metallic Materials
• + Electronic, Magnetic, and Energy Materials
• • 2D Materials – Preparation, Properties, Modeling & Applications
  • Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage 2025
  • Advances and Discoveries in Non-equilibrium Driven Nanomaterials and Thin Films
  • Advances in Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
  • Alloys and Compounds for Thermoelectric and Solar Cell Applications XIII
  • Electronic Packaging and Interconnection Materials II
  • Energy Technologies and CO2 Management
  • Functional Nanomaterials
  • Hume-Rothery Symposium on Thermodynamics of Microstructure Stability and Evolution
  • Innovations in Energy Materials: Unveiling Future Possibilities of Computational Modelling and Atomically Controlled Experiments
  • Materials for Sustainable Hydrogen Energy
  • Phase Stability, Phase Transformations, and Reactive Phase Formation in Electronic Materials XXIV
  • Printed Electronics and Additive Manufacturing: Advanced Functional Materials, Processing Concepts, and Emerging Applications
  • Revitalization of Materials through Upcycling: The 2025 Student-Led Symposium
• + Light Metals
• • Advances in Titanium Technology
  • Alumina and Bauxite
  • Aluminum Alloys: Development and Manufacturing
  • Aluminum Reduction Technology
  • Decarbonization and Sustainability in Aluminum Primary Processing: Joint Session of Aluminum Reduction and REWAS 2025
  • Electrode Technology for Aluminum Production
  • Light Elements Technology
  • Magnesium Technology 2025
  • Melt Processing, Casting and Recycling
  • Recycling and Sustainability in Cast Shop Technology: Joint Session with REWAS 2025
  • Scandium Extraction and Use in Aluminum Alloys
• + Materials Degradation and Degradation by Design
• • Environmental Degradation of Additively Manufactured Materials
  • Environmental Degradation of Multiple Principal Component Materials
  • Environmentally Assisted Cracking: Theory and Practice
  • Materials and Chemistry for Molten Salt Systems
  • Nanostructured Materials in Extreme Environments III
  • Refractory Metals 2025
  • Steels in Extreme Environments
• + Materials Synthesis and Processing
• • Advanced Laser Manufacturing of High-Performance Materials
  • Advances in Bcc-Superalloys
  • Advances in Ceramic Materials and Processing
  • Advances in Materials Deposition by Cold Spray and Related Technologies
  • Advances in Surface Engineering VII
  • Composite Materials: Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Material Development and Applications
  • Drying, Roasting, Calcining and Agglomeration of Feedstocks
  • Electrical Steels
  • Friction Stir Welding and Processing XIII
  • Innovative Hydrometallurgical Technologies for Environmentally Benign Processing and Remediation: An EPD Symposium Honoring Fiona Doyle
  • Materials Processing Fundamentals: Thermodynamics and Rate Phenomena
  • Phase Transformations and Microstructural Evolution
  • Powder Materials Processing and Fundamental Understanding
  • Rare Metal Extraction & Processing
  • Recent Advances in Titanium Science and Technology: MPMD/SMD Symposium Honoring Professor Dipankar Banerjee
  • REWAS 2025: Automation and Digitalization in Recycling Processes
  • REWAS 2025: Sustainable End-of-Life Management and Recycling Solutions for Batteries, Wind Turbines, and Photovoltaics
  • REWAS 2025: Sustainable Practices in Strategic and Critical Raw Materials: Exploring Supply Chain Resilience and Recycling Innovations
  • Sustainability of High Temperature Alloys
  • Thin Films and Coatings: Properties, Processing and Applications
• + Mechanics of Materials
• • Accelerated Discovery and Insertion of Next Generation Structural Materials
  • Advances in Multi-Principal Element Alloys IV: Mechanical Behavior
  • Atomistic Simulations Linked to Experiments to Understand Mechanical Behavior: A MPMD Symposium in Honor of Professor Diana Farkas
  • Fatigue in Materials: Fundamentals, Multiscale Characterizations and Computational Modeling
  • Mechanical Behavior Related to Interface Physics IV
  • Mechanical Response of Materials Investigated Through Novel In-Situ Experiments and Modeling
  • Solid-State Diffusion Bonding of Metals and Alloys
  • Spatially Tailored Materials: Processing-Structure-Properties
  • Structure-Property Relationships in Molecular Crystal Deformation
  • Structure and Dynamics of Metallic Glasses
• + Nuclear Materials
• • Composite Materials for Nuclear Applications III
  • Elucidating Microstructural Evolution Under Extreme Environments
  • Materials Corrosion Behavior in Advanced Nuclear Reactor Environments II
  • Mechanical Behavior of Nuclear Reactor Materials and Components IV
  • Meeting Materials Challenges for the Future of Fusion Energy
  • Microstructural, Mechanical, and Chemical Behavior of Solid Nuclear Fuel and Fuel-Cladding Interface II
  • Seaborg Institutes: Emerging Topics in Actinide Sciences
  • Solid-State Processing and Manufacturing for Extreme Environment Applications: Integrating Insights and Innovations
  • Special Topics in Nuclear Materials: Lessons Learned; Non-Energy Systems; and Coupled Extremes
  • Spectroscopic Methods and Analysis for Nuclear Energy Related Materials
• + Special Topics
• • Bladesmithing 2025
  • DMMM5: A Decade of Creating Inclusion and Belonging for Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions
  • Looking Outside Materials Science: Lessons Learned for and from Materials Discovery (A Student-Led Symposium)
  • Nix Award and Lecture Symposium VI
  • Preparing Undergraduate and Graduate Students--And the Faculty Who Prepare Them--For Materials Careers (A Symposium Held in the Memory and Honor of Elizabeth Judson)