2013 Program Chair Sujanto Widjaja opens the ICACC’13 Plenary Session. Credit: ACerS.
The first “business” day of the ICACC’13 meeting plenary and award speakers (plus the awarding of the best paper and best poster awards from the 2012 session). The photos below come from some of the opening events and awards.
ACerS Engineering Ceramics Division Chair Sanjay Mathur presents the 2013 James I. Mueller Award to Anil V. Virkar (left) and the Bridge Building Award to Tatsuki Ohji (right). Virkar spoke on the unique characteristics of Zirconia and Ohji linked the microstructure and mechanical properties of engineering ceramics. Credit ACerS.
Plenary speaker Bruce Dunn discussed energy storage materials, especially the emergence of pseudocapacitor materials. Credit: ACerS.
KITECH's Sangmok Lee described a four-step route to novel materials development and the concept of "consilience" in his plenary presentation. Credit: ACerS.
Keith Blakely, a serial entrepreneur, who started his first company, Advanced Refractory Technologies at the age of 24, spoke at a luncheon of business leaders about mutual relationship building between small and large businesses. Credit: ACerS.
After the plenary session and luncheon, the symposia quickly got underway, Above, Se-Hee. Lee made a presentation on "All Solid State Batteries for High Energy Applications." Credit: ACerS.
ACerS President Richard Brow and Executive Director Charlie Spahr welcomed participants in the student and young professional mixer. More mixer photos are below. All credit: ACerS.
