A workshop aimed at providing guidance to students and young professionals in writing good research papers was conducted at PACRIM12 on 22 May, sponsored by Saint Gobain.
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Wild weather didn’t interfere with ACerS Engineering Ceramics Division’s International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites. Nearly 1,000 attendees from 51 countries attended the 41st ICACC this week in Daytona Beach, Fla.
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Materials Challenges in Alternative and Renewable Energy (MCARE) was held April 18–21 in Clearwater, Fla., and drew nearly 200 materials scientists, researchers, and engineers from 30 countries. And everyone seems to agree that sustainable solutions for efficient energy harvesting and storage across all industries is the ultimate goal.
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ACerS executive director Charlie Spahr is on location in JeJu Island, Korea and reports highlights from a successful meeting, as political and weather-related challenges abated and allowed the conference to be held as planned.
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More than 1,000 scientists and engineers dodged the deep freeze gripping much of the United States to attend the 38th edition of the International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites…
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George Wicks chats with China’s rising energy scientists at the MCARE 2013 opening reception. Credit: ACerS. This year’s Materials Challenges in Alternative and Renewable Energy 2013 conference is underway…
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The tenth Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology wrapped up last Friday at midday. The general consensus among attendees that I asked was that the technical program was…
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Most of the presentations I attended in the past three days were given by researchers from universities and national labs, which often were more about basic science and less about…
Read MoreJoe Ryan (right) talks about his career at the Pacific Northwest National Lab during Monday’s career roundtable event for students at PACRIM. Credit: Fei; ACerS. (Editor’s note: We ran into…
Read MoreH.T. Lin welcomes Dongliang Jiang (left) from China. Also pictured are Lin’s wife, Mei-Ling, and son, Albert Lin. Credit: Fei; ACerS. After a long day driving from New Mexico, we…
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