Meyers International Symposium on Composite, Ceramic & Nano Materials Processing, Characterization & Applications

MEYERS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

On Composite, Ceramic & Nano Materials Processing, Characterization & Applications (11th Intl. Symp.)

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This major symposium is in honor of the distinguished work and lifetime achievements of Dr. Marc Meyers, a very well-known professional with deep impact in composite, biomaterials, and nano materials processing, characterization and applications for sustainable development.

Marc André Meyers is a Distinguished Professor in the University of California, San Diego. This is the highest professorial level in the UC system and represents an honor that is reserved for only a small fraction of the tenured faculty. His parents, Henri and Marianne Meyers, come from Diekirch and Oberfeulen, respectively. Marc studied in Feulen and Belair for two years. He has had visiting professorships at the U. of Karlsruhe (Institute of Technology), U. of Metz, and Cambridge U. (Cavendish Laboratory). He is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is currently supported by the major US funding organizations: National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research (MURI), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U. of California Office of the President, and DARPA.

Throughout his career, he received a number of important awards. The most prestigious of these, the Acta Materialia Materials and Society Award, which was bestowed in 2010, has a most distinguished list of recipients that includes global leaders in the materials science field. The other awards are from Europe (Humboldt Society Senior Scientist Award in Metal Physics, Germany, Heyn Medal, German Materials Society, and J. S. Rinehart Award from the DYMAT Association), China (Lee Hsun Lecture Award from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and US (TMS -The Metals, Materials and Minerals Society, one of the three principal materials societies in the US) Educator Award, ASM Albert Sauveur Accomplishment Award, Albert White Educator Award, SMD/TMS Distinguished Scientist and Distinguished Service Awards). He is a Fellow of TMS, APS, and ASM International (One of the three principal materials societies in the US). He is also the co-recipient, with D. Benson, E. Bringa, V. Lubarda, and S. Traiviratana of the JOM (TMS) best paper award in structural materials. In 2011 he was elected Corresponding Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Professor Marc André Meyers is a member of the Materials Science and Engineering community. Within this field, he has focused on three areas:
a) Nanocrystalline materials;
b) Biological materials;
c) Dynamic behavior of materials.

He has dedicated his career to the synthesis, processing, and characterization of new materials. Recently, he has been very active in nanocrystalline and ultrafine grain materials and biological materials. In the past fifteen years, he has applied Materials Science principles to biological materials. This approach, using the highly developed experimental characterization capabilities developed by MSE, is yielding a cornucopia of new information on biological materials that is indeed enriching biology and expanding the frontiers of MSE. He has just finished a textbook, Biological Materials Science, focusing on biological (or natural) materials, biomaterials and bioinspired materials. In the beginning of his career, he concentrated on the dynamic behavior of materials, which comprises deformation, fracture, fragmentation, shear localization, chemical reactions under extreme conditions and processing (combustion synthesis; shock compaction; explosive welding and fabrication; shock and shear synthesis of novel materials). The underlying unifying theme is the high rate at which events occur. He initiated this work in 1972 and dedicated forty uninterrupted years of research to this field. He made important strides to unify the field, by emphasizing the basic physical and chemical processes that the different phenomena have in common. Indeed, he has defined the field through his now classic book, Dynamic Behavior of Materials.

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS
A round table discussion open to everyone interested will be organized during the symposium. This will allow high level representatives of various industries, technologies, and academic disciplines to discuss and debate freely, without reservations, all topics of this symposium and identify possible research and development pathways towards a future industry with increased sustainability. Click here for a description of the topics of symposium and the round table.

You are cordially invited to actively participate in this symposium by submitting and presenting a paper, or by attending the round table. We look forward to meeting you at this world class symposium.

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