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

Technical Program

Registration

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

Young-Wook Kim

 

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