ACerS 121st Annual Meeting at MS&T19

ACerS will host its 121^st Annual Membership Meeting in conjunction with MS&T19. Plan your schedule so you can attend this meeting from 1–2 p.m. on Monday, September 30, in Portland Ballroom 253 at the Oregon Convention Center. The annual meeting will feature the outgoing president’s State of the Society report, the incoming president’s vision, new officer inductions, and a members’ town hall and question and answer session. This is a great opportunity be proactive and get involved with your society’s present and future.

If ceramics and glass are a part of your world, then join fellow members for ACerS meetings, lectures, special events, short courses, and more, while at MS&T. To view the preliminary technical program, click here.

ACerS is featuring the following award lectures at MS&T. Take the opportunity to listen to your award-winning ceramics and glass materials colleagues’ latest findings. Please note that all lectures will be held at the convention center in the rooms indicated below.

ACerS Distinguished Life Members are eligible for complimentary MS&T registration and Senior/Emeritus Members qualify for reduced MS&T registration. These special offers are only available through ACerS, and are not found on the online MS&T registration site.

Please complete one of the special registration forms at the links above and send it to Erica Zimmerman by August 16, 2019. Contact Erica if you are not sure if you are a Senior or Emeritus member of ACerS.

Saturday, September 28
Sintering of Ceramics short course Ricardo Castro	9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Marriott Salon D
Sunday, September 29
Introduction to Machine Learning for Materials Science short course Joshua Tappan, Bryce Meredig, John Mauro	8 a.m.–Noon Marriott Salon BC
Sintering of Ceramics short course Ricardo Castro	9 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Marriott Salon D
Monday, September 30
The Navrotsky Award for Experimental Thermodynamics of Solids Alexander Beutl, A novel apparatus for coulometric titrations in lithium containing systems	8:10–8:55 a.m. OCC—B119
ACerS/EPDC Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture Kathleen Richardson, Redefining Material Design Paradigms for Next Generation Optical Materials	9–10 a.m. OCC—Portland Ballroom 253
ACerS 121st Annual Membership Meeting	1–2 p.m. OCC—Portland Ballroom 253
ACerS Richard M. Fulrath Award Session Manabu Fukushima, Engineering Cellular Ceramics with Modulated Pore Configurations Keigo Suzuki, Fabrication and Characterization of Nanoscale Dielectrics for the Design of Advanced Ceramic Capacitors Ronald Polcawich, Piezoelectric Thin Film Processing, PiezoMEMS Devices, and an Overview of PRIGM, SHRIMP, & AMEBA Programs Koichiro Morita, Dielectric Material Design and Lifetime Prediction for Highly Reliable MLCCs Vilas Pol, Engineered Ceramic Materials for Energy Storage	2–4:40 p.m. OCC—Portland Ballroom 253
ACerS Annual Honor and Awards Reception and Banquet	6:45–10 p.m. Marriott—Salon EF
Tuesday, October 1
ACerS Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture Minoru Tomozawa, Glass and Water: Fast Surface Relaxation	8–10:40 a.m. OCC—Portland Ballroom 251
ACerS Frontiers of Science and Society–Rustum Roy Lecture Jennifer Lewis, Printing Architected Matter in Three Dimensions	1–2 p.m. OCC—Portland Ballroom 253
ACerS GOMD Alfred R. Cooper Award Session: Cooper Distinguished Lecture Kathleen Richardson, Function-tailoring Strategies for Broadband Infrared Glasses	2–4:40 p.m. OCC—A106
Wednesday, October 2
ACerS Basic Science Division Robert B. Sosman Lecture Yury Gogotsi, Nanomaterials Born from Ceramics: Transformative Synthesis of Carbons, Carbides, and Nitrides	1–2 p.m. OCC—Portland Ballroom 253
Thursday, October 3
Electroceramics in Modern Technology: Applications and Impact short course R.K. Pandey	8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Marriott, Hawthorn/Laurelhurst Room
Friday, October 4
Electroceramics in Modern Technology: Applications and Impact short course R.K. Pandey	8 a.m.–Noon Marriott, Hawthorn/Laurelhurst Room