ACerS 120th Annual Meeting at MS&T18
ACerS will host its 120th Annual Membership Meeting in conjunction with MS&T18. Plan your schedule so you can attend this meeting from 1-2 p.m. on Monday, October 15, in rooms A111/112 at the Greater Columbus 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 you should join your fellow members for ACerS meetings, lectures, special events, short courses, and more, while at MS&T. To view the complete ACerS at MS&T18 event schedule, 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/EPDC Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture 9-10 a.m., October 15, Room A111/112 Jennifer A. Lewis (bio), Harvard University, USA Digital Assembly of Colloidal Suspensions, Gels and Foams For abstract click here |
| Richard M. Fulrath Award Session 2-4:40 p.m., October 15, Room A111/112 |
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 | 2:00-2:40 p.m. Naoya Shibata (bio), University of Tokyo, Japan Atomic-scale understanding of ceramic interfaces by advanced electron microscopy For abstract click here |
 | 2:40-3:00 p.m. Yosuke Takahashi (bio), Noritaki Co., Ltd., Japan Development of ceramics and glass materials for solid oxide fuel cell and oxygen permeable membrane For abstract click here |
 | 3:00-3:20 Mark D. Waugh (bio), Murata Electronics North America, Inc., USA Blending cultures to achieve innovation For abstract click here |
| 3:20-3:40 Break |
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 | 3:40-4:00 Shinichiro Kawanda (bio), Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Japan Potassium sodium niobate-based multilayer piezoelectric ceramics co-fired with nickel inner electrodes For abstract click here |
 | 4:00-4:40 John McCloy (bio), Washington State University, USA Undividing the discipline: Social interfaces in ceramics science and engineering For abstract click here |
 | Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture MS&T Plenary Session 8:10 a.m., October 16, Union Station Ballroom B Cato T. Laurencin (bio), Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, USA Regenerative engineering: Materials in Convergence For abstract click here |
 | Alfred R. Cooper Award Session 2-4:40 p.m., October 16, Room A111/112 Cooper Distinguished Lecture Tanguy Rouxel (bio), University of Rennes 1, France A multiscale approach to the mechanical properties of glass For abstract, click here |
 | 2018 Alfred R. Cooper Young Scholar Award Presentation Ricardo Lancelotti, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil For abstract, click here |
 | ACerS Frontiers of Science and Society–Rustum Roy Lecture 1-2 p.m., October 16, Room A111/112 David Morse (bio), Corning Incorporated, USA Imagination and innovation in the land of machines For abstract click here |
 | Basic Science Division Robert B. Sosman Lecture 1-2 p.m., October 17, Room A111/112 Jürgen Rödel (bio), Technische Unversität Darmstadt, Germany Lead-free piezoceramics: From local structures to application For abstract click here |