2000 TMS Fall Meeting: Hume-Rothery Symposium Celebration

Focusing on physical metallurgy and materials, the TMS 2000 Fall Meeting will feature a wide array of technical symposia sponsored by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). A poster session is also planned. As a greater convenience for attendees, the meeting is typically colocated with ASM International's Materials Solutions Conference. Technical sessions will focus on key information and successful strategies to give attendees insight into the research, development, and application of new materials processes, analysis techniques, and equipment advances.

The TMS 2000 Fall Meeting will take place in St. Louis, Missouri, at the Regal Riverfront Hotel, which will be the TMS headquarters for the event. All technical sessions and conference registration will be located here.

THE SCIENCE OF ALLOYS FOR THE 21st CENTURY
A HUME-ROTHERY SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATION

An assessment of the progress that has been made in understanding and controlling materials behavior easily reveals that most such progress has occurred since the major contributions that William Hume-Rothery made to the science of alloys. This progress is a consequence of materials science recognizing the importance of a detailed atomistic description of materials in predicting their properties.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

1. The impact of atomistic studies on the understanding and the prediction of alloy properties with subjects such as:

• Hume-Rothery rules revised
• The value of the chemical bonding model for the prediction of properties of new classes of materials
• The importance of d and non-d electron bonding in transition metal alloying
• Has electron theory delivered Hume-Rothery expectations? And, What are the energetics of Hume-Rothery phase formation?
• Application of alloy phase formation theory for the development of new and/or improved active and passive magnetic refrigeration materials; and practical ceramic superconductors with high T_C and J_C values
• High-temperature thermochemistry of alloys.

2. Advances in the knowledge of the glossy state and the prediction of properties of amorphous materials with topics such as:

• The polytetrahedral motif in the structure of liquid and solid metals
• Are all network glasses the same? And, how does one predict the composition of window glass?
• Liquid alloys and glasses: progress and future directions.

3. Modeling the static, kinetics and dynamics of alloy phase transformation and microstructure evolution with topics such as:

• Cluster variation method in the 21st century
• Computer modeling of alloy constitution and diffusional phase transformations
• Structural transformations and microstructure in solids.

A rare assembly of past Hume-Rothery Award Winners will participate in this two day symposium, programmed to provide an expert assessment of our current understanding of the sciences of alloys in the spirit of William Hume-Rothery.

The following past Hume-Rothery Award winners are scheduled to participate:

Jacques Friedel	Karl A. Gschneider, Jr.	Thaddeus B. Massalski	Leo Brewer	Henry Ehrenreich	Richard E. Watson
1977	1978	1980	1983	1984	1985
David Turnbull	Y. Austin Chang	Bill C. Giessen	Erwin Parthe	James C. Philips	Ole J. Kleppa
1986	1989	1990	1991	1992	1994
David G. Pettifor	William L. Johnson	Bruno Predel	Ryoichi Kikuchi	Mats Hillert	Armen Khachaturyan
1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000