Prof. Evan Ma, Prof. Zhiwei Shan and Prof. Ju Li, with 3 graduate students, Lin Tian, Boyu Liu and Yunwei Mao attended the 2012 MRS Fall meeting at Boston, from November 25-30, 2012.
MRS is today a widely respected society with an international membership of 16,000 scientists, engineers, and research managers from industrial, government, and university research laboratories in the United States and more than 50 countries. Its combined efforts to facilitate the exchange of ideas are reflected in the Society's high-quality symposia, a variety of recognized publications, regional sections, university chapters and cooperative undertakings with other societies and international affiliates.
During the conference, Prof. Evan Ma gave an invited talk named ‘Local Topology versus Atomic-level Stresses as a Measure of Disorder: Correlating Structural Indicators for Metallic Glasses'. Prof. Zhiwei Shan gave an invited talk named ‘Recent Progress of Quantitative TEM Deformation Technology and Its Applications’. Lin Tian gave a talk named ‘Probing the Mechanical Property of Submicron-sized Metallic Glasses Using Quantitative Uniaxial Tensile Test inside TEM’. Yunwei Mao gave a talk named ‘Microscopic Mechanisms of Deformation-induced Crystallization of Metallic Glasses at Low Temperatures’.
They still made several fruitful discussions with Dr. haimei Zheng (LBL), Dr. Jian Wang (LANL), Dr. Oden Warren (Hysitron. Inc.), Prof. Huajian Gao (Brown University) and Prof. Zhonglin Wang (Georgia Tech). At the last day in MRS, campers visited MIT and discussed with Prof. Ju Li on many current projects in CAMP-Nano.
BTW, it's worth mentioning that, Dr. Danny Shechtman, who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, gave an impressive plenary talk named ‘Quasicrystals: Discovery, Structure, Properties and Uses’.
