The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) has a long-standing tradition of presenting award lectures during MS&T combined with ACerS Annual Meeting each year. All ACerS members, as well as Material Advantage Student Members, are encouraged to attend the lectures during this year’s conference, starting on Monday, October 5. Below is the list of ACerS Lectures.
Monday, October 5
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
ACerS/NICE Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture
Arun K. Varshneya, Alfred University and Saxon Glass Technologies
Principles of glass chemical strengthening science and technology
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
ACerS Alfred R. Cooper Award Session
Cooper Distinguished Lecture
Martin Wilding, Aberystwyth University, Wales
Exploring the Structure of High Temperature Liquids with High Energy X-rays
Cooper Scholar Lecture
Emily Aaldenberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dynamic Fatigue of Ion-Exchanged Glass
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
ACerS Richard M. Fulrath Award Session
–Hiroaki Takeda, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Lead-free Electroceramics for High Temperature Use
–Tadashi Matsunaga, UBE Industries, Ltd.; Functional Ceramics Derived from Si-Based Organics
–John C. Mauro, Corning Incorporated, What I Talk About When I Talk About the Glass Transition
–Kenji Shibata, SCIOCS Company Limited; Development of lead-free (K,Na)NbO3 piezoelectric films
–Jon-Paul Maria, North Carolina State University, Entropically-Stabilized Oxides: a Novel Class of Multicomponent Materials
Tuesday, October 6
8:00 – 10:35 a.m.
ACerS Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture (included in the MS&T15 Plenary Session)
Sylvia M. Johnson, NASA Ames Research Center
Space: The Materials Frontier
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
ACerS Frontiers of Science and Society – Rustum Roy Lecture
Delbert E. Day, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Glass Technology for Better Health
Wednesday, October 7
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
ACerS Basic Science Division Robert B. Sosman Lecture
Yuichi Ikuhara, Institute of Engineering Innovation, The University of Tokyo
Grain Boundary Segregation, Vacancies and Properties in Oxide Ceramics