Abstract Submission Details
Submit a 150-word abstract by March 15, 2011.
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Biomaterials
• Emerging Frontiers in Surface Engineering of Biomaterials
• Next Generation Biomaterials
• Surface Properties of Biomaterials
Ceramic and Glass Materials
• ACerS Sosman Award Symposium: Interface Structure and Microstructure
Evolution in Ceramics
• Ceramic Matrix Composites
• Glass and Optical Materials
• Innovative Processing and Synthesis of Ceramics, Glasses and
Composites
• Multifunctional Oxides
• Richard M. Fulrath Award Symposium
• Solution-based Processing for Ceramic Materials
Electronic and Magnetic Materials
• Advances in Dielectric Materials and Electronic Devices
• Magnetoelectric Multiferroic Thin Films and Multilayers
• Pb-free Solders and Next Generation Interconnects
• Semiconductor Heterostructures: Theory, Growth, Characterization
and Device Applications
Energy Issues
• Energy Conversion/Fuel Cells
• Energy Storage: Materials, Systems, and Applications
• Materials Degradation in Alternative Energy Systems
• Materials for Nuclear Waste Disposal and Environmental Cleanup
• Materials Science Challenges for Nuclear Applications
Fundamentals and Characterization
• Advanced Developments in Electron Microscopy
• Amorphous Materials: Common Issues within Science and Technology
• Deformation and Transitions at Grain Boundaries
• Hardness across the Multi-scales of Structure and Loading Rate
• Integrated Computational Materials Engineering: Modeling and
Simulation Applied to Metals Processing
• Interfaces, Grain Boundaries and Surfaces from Atomistic and
Macroscopic Approaches —
Fundamental and Engineering Issues
• International Symposium on Defects, Transport and Related Phenomena
• Multi-scale Modeling of Microstructure Deformation in Material
Processing
• Nano- and Atomic-scale Fracture
• New Roles for Electric and Magnetic Fields in Processing, Microstructure
Evolution, and Performance of Materials in Energy and Biosciences: A
memorial symposium in honor of Prof. Rustum Roy
• Phase Stability, Diffusion, Kinetics and their Applications (PSDK-VI)
• Recent Advances in Structural Characterization of Materials
Iron and Steel
• Advances in Zinc-based Coating Technologies for Steel
Sheet
• Processing, Microstructure and Properties of Cast Irons,
and Cast and Forged Specialty Steels
• Recent Developments in Steel Processing
• Steel Product Metallurgy and Applications
Materials – Environment Interactions
• Advanced Protective Coatings for Refractory Metals and
Alloys
• Corrosion Protection through Metallic and Non-metallic
Coatings
• Environmentally Assisted Cracking of Materials
• Green Technologies for Materials Manufacturing and
Processing III
• Localized Corrosion: Measurement, Mechanisms and
Mitigation
Materials Performance
• Beyond Property Measurement: Mechanical Behavior of
Multifunctional Materials Systems
• Fatigue and Microstructure: A Symposium on Recent
Advances
• Materials Failure Analysis
• Measurements and Modeling of Advanced Automotive and
Structural Materials at Intermediate and High Strain Rates
• Periodic Cellular Materials: Current Status and Recent
Progress
• Prof. K.K. Chawla Honorary Symposium on Fibers, Foams,
and Composites: Science and Engineering
• Shape Memory Alloys
• Structural Materials for Aerospace and Defense: Challenges
and Prospects
• Titanium Processing and
Applications
Nanotechnology
• Advances in Nanostructured Materials and Applications
(The 2011 Acta Materialia Gold Medal Symposium)
• Controlled Synthesis Processing and Applications of
Structural and Functional Nanomaterials
• Nanotechnology for Energy, Healthcare and Industry
• Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Noble Metal
Nanostructures
Processing and Product Manufacturing
• Additive Manufacturing of Metals
• Advances in Manufacturing Technologies
• Characterization and Modeling of the Performance of
Advanced Alloys for the Transportation Industry—Bridging
the Data Gap II
• Joining and Sustaining of Superalloys
• Joining of Advanced and Specialty Materials (JASM XIII)
• Laser Applications in Materials Technology II
• Microwave Processing of Materials
• Novel Sintering Processes and News in Traditional Sintering
and Grain Growth
• Particulate Composites
• Surface Protection for Enhanced Materials Performance:
Science and Technology
Special Topics
• Continuous Improvement of Academic Programs (and
Satisfying ABET along the Way)
• Journal of Undergraduate Materials Research
• National Materials Advisory Board Dissemination Series