Organize with fellow ACerS members around interdisciplinary or emerging topics through a Technical Interest Group. TIGs are intended to allow members, and their colleagues who are not yet members, to collaborate on research and solutions for specific ceramic-related topics.

Current Technical Interest Groups

Computational Design of Ceramics and Glasses (CDCG)

Focus

Computational approaches to ceramic science and engineering.

Goal(s)

Promote computational approaches for rational design of ceramic materials and integrate them into research programs with experimental and applied components.

Champions

Participants

  • Ram Devanathan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Jing Yang Wang, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, China
  • Jincheng Du, University of North Texas
  • Walter Kob, Université Montpellier II, France
  • Ariharan S, IIT Kanpur; Sandro Gianella, EngiCer SA
  • Kesong Yang, University of California, San Diego
  • Peter Kroll, UT Arlington
  • Nitin Daphalapurkar, Johns Hopkins University
  • Raymundo Arroyave, Texas A&M University
  • Mohammed Mustafa, UTM
  • Bikram Konar, McGill University
  • Annapurna Kalyandurg, CSIR

Activities

Serve as advisory group for computational symposium at ACerS meetings, organize workshops on challenging areas in modeling and simulation of ceramic materials; promote standard procedures on publishing computational work in ceramic materials.

Polymer Derived Ceramics (PDC)

Focus

Polymer Derived Ceramics (PDC) focused workshops and meetings.

Goal(s)

The purpose of this group is to draw experts and young scientists into a common purpose to benefit intellectually, technologically and socially around this exciting area of scientific endeavor. The TIG will serve as a platform to connect with new research communities from different angles and points of view, both within and outside the United States. We expect fields such as Electronics, Optoelectronics, Energy Storage, Super-Turbines and Advanced Manufacturing to gain a foothold in this community. The Group will organize bi-annual PDC focused workshops and meetings as well as introduce new PDC related symposia at established ACerS conferences. Possible outcomes include books, conference proceedings and peer-reviewed papers in ACerS supported journals and media. The Group will lobby for research funding in the Government and Industry.

Champions

Participants

  • Kathy Lu, Virginia Tech
  • Rishi Raj, University of Colorado
  • Paolo Colombo, University of Padova
  • Ralf Riedel, TU-Darmstadt
  • Yigal Blum, SRI International
  • Gian Domenico Soraru, Università di Trento
  • Rajendra Bordia, Clemson University
  • Sanjay Mathur, University of Cologne
  • Linan An, University of Central Florida
  • Wayde Schmidt, United Technologies
  • Samuel Bernard, CNRS-Institute of Research on Ceramics, Limoges
  • Gabriela Mera, TU Darmstadt
  • Aitana Tamayo, The Institute of Ceramics and Glass, Spain
  • Zhaoju Yu, Xiamen University, China
  • Diletta Sciti, Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics, (ISTEC), Italy
  • Alexandra Navrotsky, University of California, Davis
  • Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University
  • Elsa Olivetti, MIT
  • David Marshall, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Dachamir Hotza, Federal University of Santa Catarina
  • Ricardo Machado, Federal University of Santa Catarina
  • Dong-Pyo Kim, POSTECH University
  • Ravikumar NV, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras
  • Günter Motz, University of Bayreuth
  • Martin Friess, DLR German Aerospace Center
  • Chrystelle Salameh, University of Montpellier
  • Phillip Miele, University of Montpellier
  • Prasad Apte, Harper International
  • Jared Weaver, GE
  • Saravanan Arunachalam, Spirit AeroSystems
  • Richard M Laine, University of Michigan
  • Ravi Mohan Prasad, The Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
  • Matthew Dickerson, Air Force Research Lab
  • Michael K. Cinibulk, Air Force Research Lab

Activities

The PDC TIG has been organizing an annual workshop related to National Science Foundation sponsored collaborative projects on PDCs with partners in Europe. Additional details related to annual workshop can be found here: https://www.k-state.edu/pire/pdc_workshop/index.html

The workshop is designed to promote face-to-face interactions among PIRE members, and expand the scope of PDC fibers research and education. There will be no registration fee for PIRE participants. Non-PIRE members will be charged a moderate fee to cover lodging/food etc. More information will be made available in coming weeks.

Join

To join the Polymer Derived Ceramics TIG, please contact Gurpreet Singh.

Form a Technical Interest Group

For questions about forming a Technical Interest Group or to learn potential TIG ideas, contact Andrea Ross, Director of Meetings, Membership, and Marketing, aross@ceramics.org, 614-794-5820.