Event Description
ACerS Tentative Schedule of Events
Sunday, October 4
ACerS Society Lounge
12 – 5:30 p.m. – DLCC, Concourse A
Monday, October 5
ACerS Society Lounge
7 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. – DLCC, Concourse A
ACerS George W. Morey Award
8:00 – 8:40 a.m. – Room 410
Sabyasachi Sen, University of California, Davis, USA
“An Oxygen-Centric View of the Network Former vs. Modifier Role of High Field Strength Cations in Oxide Glasses”
ACerS D.T. Rankin Award
8:40 – 9:20 a.m. – Room 316
Yang Bai, University of Oulu, Finland
“Advances and Bottlenecks in Energy Harvesting Technologies – How Far Are We from Sustainable IoT?”
ACerS Bioceramics Division Awards
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.- Room 32
ACerS/EPDC: Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.- DLCC 406
Bioceramics Young Scholar Award
Ngoc Huu Nguyen, Flinders University, Australia
“Multifunctional Bioceramic Interfaces for Infection-Resilient and Regeneration Bone Implant”
Larry L. Hench Lifetime Achievement Award
Robert Graham Hill, Dental Institute Queen Mary University of London, UK
“Designing Bioactive Glasses Based on an Understanding of Chemical Structure”
Tadashi Kokubo Award
Maziar Montazerian, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
“Past, Present, and Future of Bioactive Glasses and Glass-ceramics”
ACerS Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture
Monday, October 5
11:15 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Alexander Michaelis, Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS, President; University of Dresden, Full Professor for Ceramics
Advanced Ceramics for Energy Transition and Decarbonization
ACerS Annual Business Meeting
1 – 2 p.m. – Room 407
All Members are welcome
ACerS Richard M. Fulrath Award Session
2:20 – 4:40 p.m. – Room 407
Presenter information coming soon
ACerS Annual Honors & Awards Banquet Reception
6 – 6:30 p.m. – 17th Floor – Urban of the Omni Hotel
ACerS Annual Honors & Awards Banquet
6:30 – 9:30 p.m. – 17th Floor – Grand Ballroom of the Omni Hotel
Requires additional registration
Tuesday, October 6
GOMD Alfred R. Cooper Award Session
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. – Room 410
2026 Cooper Distinguished Lecturer
Vincenzo M. Sglavo, University of Trento
“From Vision to Practice: Advancing the Chemical Strengthening of Silicate Glass”
2026 Alfred R. Cooper Young Scholars
Presenter information coming soon
The Science of Saying it Clearly: Communicate Your Research
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Room 308
ACerS Bulletin Team
This workshop, paired with networking and brunch, will show materials scientists how to communicate their research to a non-specialist audience by focusing on the problem/solution aspect of their research rather than specific methods or materials. Participants will create a three-sentence pitch card that they can apply to their poster presentation at MS&T, future grant proposals, or their next public-facing research article.
ACerS Frontiers of Science and Society – Rustum Roy
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. – Room 407
Makio Naito, The University of Osaka
“Powder Processing Technology for High Quality Advanced Materials”
PHASE Equilibria Demo
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. – Room 320
Brittney Hauke, The American Ceramic Society
Join us for a short presentation about the newest PHASE Equilibria version 6.0, followed by a live demonstration of the software. Curious about what’s new or always wanted to use PHASE but never knew where to start? This event is for you! Perfect for both students and professionals.
Missouri S&T Ceramic Engineering Alumni Event: 100 Years of Ceramic Engineering
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
The Yard, 100 5th Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Wednesday, October 7
Starlab Materials Workshop
1:00 – 5:00 p.m. – Keystone Space Innovation Center
Requires additional registration
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