1. Tadashi Furuhara - Tohoku University, Japan (Hillert-Cahn Lecturer)
Presentation Title: Interface in solid-solid transformation - interplay of kinetics and crystallography
Tadashi Furuhara is a Professor and a Deputy Director of the Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University, Japan. He obtained Bachelor and Master degrees at Kyoto University, Japan and a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. Immediately after graduation, he joined the faculty of engineering, Kyoto University in 1989 and made research and education as an assistant and associate professor. Then he became a professor at Tohoku University in 2005.
2. Long-Qing Chen - The Pennsylvania State University, USA
3. Alexis Deschamps - Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France
Presentation Title: Kinetics of phase transformations: what do we learn from in-situ studies?
Alexis Deschamps did his undergraduate studies at Ecole Centrale de Paris in France, followed by a Master degree at McMaster University in Canada and a PhD at Grenoble Institute of Technology, France. After a post-doctoral stay at UBC, Vancouver, Canada, he has held an academic position at the Grenoble Institute of Technology since 1998, with research stays at Monash University, UBC and NTNU. His main research focus is on the experimental determination of the kinetics of phase transformations, mainly in aluminum alloys and in steels, using the combination of large scale facilities, electron microscopy and atom probe tomography. His broader research area deals with the link between the obtained microstructures and various properties, including strength, strain hardening, fracture and corrosion.
Presentation Title: Phase transformations and molecular dynamics simulations
Presentation Title: Chemical patterning of alloys
Christopher Hutchinson is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He obtained his PhD from the University of Virginia, USA, and after several post-doctoral years in Grenoble, France, joined Monash University. His research emphases the manipulation of the chemistry and processing of engineering alloys to create new alloy structures that exhibit improved combinations of mechanical properties such as strength, elongation, impact, wear and fatigue etc. Solid-state phase transformations is a core component of his work. Approximately half of his research is conducted in collaboration with industry and half funded by fundamental research agencies such as the Australian Research Council (ARC). Professor Hutchinson was a recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship, was a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals and is currently a Chief Investigator in the ARC Industry Transformation Training Centre in Alloy Innovation for Mining Efficiency. He is an Editor for Acta and Scripta Materialia.
Paper Title: Engineering the nanoscale and functionality of edible fat crystal networks: from chocolate to butter
Dr. Alejandro G. Marangoni is a Professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Food, Health and Aging at the University of Guelph, Canada. His work concentrates on the physical properties of lipidic materials in foods, cosmetics and biolubricants. With an H-index of 70 and 18,000 citations of his work, he has published over 400 refereed research articles, 82 book chapters, 18 books, and over 40 patents. He is the recipient of many awards including the 2013 AOCS Stephen Chang award, the 2014 IFT Chang Award in Lipid Science, the 2014 AOCS Supelco/Nicholas Pelick Award, the 2015 ISF Kaufmann Medal, the 2017 AOCS Alton E. Bailey Medal, and the 2019 European Lipid Technology Award from Euro Fed Lipids. Marangoni is a fellow of the American Oil Chemists’ Society, the Institute of Food Technologists and the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.). He is the first Editor in Chief of both Current Opinion and Current Research in Food Science, EIC of the Lipid Library (AOCS), and past EIC of Food Research International. Dr. Marangoni has trained over 100 people in his laboratory; many occupy positions of importance in the academe and industry, including 13 professors at major North American universities. Dr. Marangoni was honored as one of the 10 most influential Hispanic Canadians in 2012 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the National Academy of Sciences, in 2018.
7. Matthias Militzer - The University of British Columbia, Canada
Presentation Title: Multi-scale modelling of phase transformations – Where do we stand?
Matthias Militzer is the ArcelorMittal Dofasco Chair in Advanced Steel Processing and the Director of the Centre for Metallurgical Process Engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He received a Diploma in Physics from the University of Technology in Dresden, Germany in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Metal Physics from the Academy of Sciences in East Germany in 1987. He moved to Canada in 1990 where he was first a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University before joining the University of British Columbia in 1993. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His primary field of research is modelling the microstructure evolution during thermo-mechanical processing of steels and other metals. Currently, his major research activities include multi-scale modelling of phase transformations in steels, accelerated cooling of steels and in-situ measurements of microstructures using laser ultrasonics for metallurgy. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) and received the ASM Henry Marion Howe Medal 2010 and the Canadian Metal Physics Award in 2014.
8. Wenzheng Zhang - Tsinghua University, China
Presentation Title: Role of Interfacial Structures in the development of Phase Transformation Crystallography