ACerS 126th annual meeting will take place at MS&T24, October 6-9, 2024 at the David Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The president reports on Society activities, and newly elected officers take their positions during the annual membership meeting. All ACerS members and guests are welcome. For complete details visit: MS&T24
ACerS Events & Lectures
Sunday, October 6, 2024
ACerS Keramos National Board and Business Meeting
Time: 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Location: Omni – Restaurant
ACerS Keramos Student Chapter Business Meeting
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Location: Omni – Monongahela
ACerS Keramos Convocation and Business Meeting
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Location: Omni – Monongahela
ACerS Keramos Career Speaker
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Omni – Monongahela
ACerS Mentor Program Mixer
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Omni – Shadyside
Monday, October 7, 2024
ACerS YPN Breakfast Club
Time: 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Location: DLCC – 309
ACerS/EPDC Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture
Time: 9:20 a.m. to 10:20 a.m.
Speaker: Olivia A. Graeve, University of California San Diego Location: DLCC – 407
ACerS 126th Annual Membership Meeting
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Location: DLCC – 407
ACerS Richard M. Fulrath Award Session
Time: 2:20 p.m. to 4:40 p.m.
Location:DLCC – 407
This session will feature the following presenters:
- American Academic: Jennifer L.M. Rupp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Technical University of Munich & TUM International Energy, Germany
- American Industrial: Valerie Wiesner, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
- Japanese Academic: Ichiro Fujii, University of Yamanashi, Japan
- Japanese Industrials: Kazuyoshi Izawa, Kehanna Research Cener, Kyocera Corporation, Japan & Shuichi Funahashi, Murata Mfg. Co. Ltd., Japan
ACerS Annual Honor and Awards Banquet
TICKETED EVENT
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Location: Omni – Grand Ballroom
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
ACerS Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture
Young-Wook Kim, Senior Vice President, Worldex Industry & Trading Co., Ltd., and Professor Emeritus, University of Seoul
Presentation Title: “Silicon Carbide: The Versatile Ceramic Alloy”
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Location: DLCC – Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom B
ACerS Alfred R. Cooper Award Session
Time: 9:20 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: DLCC 409
This session will feature the following presenters:
- 2024 Cooper Distinguished Lecture: Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, University of Adelaide, Australia
- 2024 Alfred R. Cooper Young Scholar Award Presentation:
- Daniel Wiedeman, University of Central Florida
- Julianne Chen, Pennsylvania State University
- Kyungmin Yu, Seoul National University
- Patrick Lynch, Alfred University
- Will Fettkether, Iowa State University of Science and Technology
ACerS Bioceramics Awardees
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Location: DLCC – 320
This session will feature the following presenters:
- Tadashi Kokubo Award: Qiang Fu, Corning Incorporated
- Bioceramics Young Scholar: Nicolas Somers, Polytechnic University of Hauts-De-France (UPHF) in France
ACerS Frontiers of Science and Society – Rustum Roy Lecture
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Shunpei Yamazaki, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Location: DLCC – 407
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
ACerS AACS Anna Shepard Award lecture
Time: 10:20 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.
Speaker: Chandra L. Reedy, University of Delaware Location: DLCC – 413
ACerS Basic Science Division Robert B. Sosman Lecture
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Wai-Yim Ching, University of Missouri Location: DLCC – 407