Recent and Upcoming Presentations:

October 2007

October 30, 2007
DOE Advanced Motor Program Kickoff Meeting, Washington, DC

I.E. Anderson, “Advanced Electric Traction System: Contributions of Ames Laboratory.” (Invited)

November 2007

November 4-9, 2007
Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, Tampa, FL

J. Herrero-Albillos, "Interplay between Er and Co Magnetism in ErCo2."

November 13, 2007
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., "Magnetic Refrigeration." (Invited)

November 15, 2007
Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., "A New Paradigm: Ductile Intermetallic Compounds." (Invited)

November 16, 2007
25th Anniversary of The Rare Earth Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., "1982-2007: 25 Years of Rare Earth Science and Technology – My How Things Have Changed" (Invited - Plenary Lecture)

November 26-30, 2007
2007 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA

K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., "The R5(Si,Ge)4 Systems? A Gold Mine of Magnetic, Thermal and Structural Phenomea." (Invited)

Y.E. Kalay, "Glass Structure and Nanocrystalline Cluster Formation for a Marginal Glass Forming Alloy."

M.J. Kramer, "An Experimental and Theoretical Evaluation of Structural Changes during Glass Relaxation in a Binary Metallic Glass System: Cu1-xZrx."

X.-Y. Liu, 1) "The Role of Solute Segregation on the Evolution and Strength of Dislocation Junctions," and 2) "MD Simulations of Mixed Dislocations Interaction with Glissile SIAs in bcc Iron."

T.A. Lograsso, "Influence of Solidification Microstructure on the Magnetic Properties of Ni-Mn-Sn Heusler Alloys." (Invited)

R.W. McCallum, "Solidification and Microstructure of Gas-Atomized and Melt-Spun MRE-Fe-Co-M-B (MRE=Y+Dy+Nd, M=Zr+TiC, Zr+ZrC)." (Invited)

M.I. Mendelev, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Phase Transformations and Diffusion in pure Zr."

D.L. Schlagel, "Temperature Dependence of the Field Induced Phase Transformation in Ni50Mn37Sn13."

January 2008

January 3-8, 2008
14th International Symposium on Plasticity and its Current Applications, Kailua-Kona, HI

S.B. Biner, "The Effects of Solute Segregation on the Evolution and Strength of Dislocation Junctions." (Invited)

January 15-16, 2008
EPRI Workshop to Assess Basic Science Research Needs for Energy Efficiency, Charlotte, NC

K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., “Magnetic Cooling - An Energy Efficient and Green Technology”

February 2008

February 20, 2008
Ferro Memorial Symposium, Genova, Italy

K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., “Exotic Behavior of Some Rare Earth Intermetallic Compounds.”

February 24-27, 2008
17th International Symposium on Application of Ferroelectrics, Santa Fe, NM

X. Tan, 1) “Electric Field-induced Phase Transition in Ferroelectric Oxides: an In Situ TEM Study,” (Invited), and 2) “Pb(Fe 2/3W 1/3)O 3-based Oxides with Cation Order: An Innovative Approach for Multiferroic Compounds.”

February 24-27, 2008
2008 Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT

K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., “Magnetic Refrigeration/Heat Engines.” (Invited)

March 2008

March 9-13, 2008
2008 TMS 2008 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, New Orleans, LA

I.E. Anderson, 1) "Tailored Oxide Films on Precursor Powders for Isotropic ODS Ferritic Stainless Steels", and 2) "Active Evaluation of Solder Joint Microstructures by Noise Spectrum Analysis."

K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., “The Magnetocaloric Effect, Magnetic Refrigeration and Ductile Intermetallic Compounds.” (Invited)

Y.E. Kalay, 1) “Characterization of Glass and Nanocrystalline Composite Structure in Highly Driven Marginal Glass-forming Alloys,” and 2) “The Evolution of Microstructure in Rapidly Solidified Al-Si Powders.”

M.I. Mendelev, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Mechanical Properties of Cu-Zr Amorphous Alloys." (Invited)

R.E. Napolitano, “Bicrystalline Silicon Growth in Si-Al: Principles of Morphological Selection.”

N.T. Oster, “Effect of Flouride Coating on Mechanical Properties of Polymer-bonded Rare Earth Magnets.”

J.R. Rieken, “Phase Transformations in Reactive Gas Atomized Stainless Steel Powders that Promote an Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Microstructure.”

A.M. Russell, presented by A.T. Becker, “Progress in Understanding the High Ductility of Rare Earth B2 (CsCl-type) Intermetallics”.(Invited)

J.K. Walleser, “As Solidified and Aged Microstructure Control through X Modification in SAC+X Alloys.”

March 16-19, 2008
DOE-BES, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Contractors’ Meeting “Physical Behavior of Materials”, Warrenton, VA

K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., “Relating Bonding, Crystallography and Magnetism in Complex Intermetallic Compounds.” (Invited)

V.K. Pecharsky, “Unconventional Magnetism of the R5T4 Material Systems”.(Invited)

March 24-28, 2008
MRS Spring Meeting 2008, San Francisco, CA

P.C. Canfield, “Properties of Pure, Doped and Damaged MgB2.” (Invited)

Q. Xing, “Influence of Phase Distribution on the Magnetostrictive Behavior of Iron-Gallium Alloys.”

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