• Hume-Rothery Symposium Dinner
  Date and Time: Monday, February 28, 2011, time 6 to 9 p.m.
  Location: Rancho Las Palmas, Marriott
  
  
• Carlos Tome Honorary Symposium Dinner
  Date and Time: Monday, February 28, 2011, time 6 to 9 p.m.
  Location: Point Loma, Marriott
  
  
• Women in Science Breakfast
  Date and Time: Monday, February 28, 2011, time 7 to 8 a.m.
  Location: Marina Ballroom E, Marriott
  
  
• John T. Berry Honorary Symposium Dinner
  Date and Time: Monday, February 28, 2011, time 6 to 9 p.m.
  Location: Torrance, Marriott
  
  
• President's Welcoming Reception
  Date and Time: Monday, February 28, 5 to 6:30 p.m.
  Location: Exhibit Hall A & B1, San Diego Convention Center
  
  
• 140th TMS-AIME Awards Banquet
  Date and Time: Tuesday, March 1, 2011
  Reception starting at 6:30 with dinner starting at 7:15
  Location: Marina Ballroom Foyer light event features the annual awards presentation and installation of the 2011 TMS President Garry Warren.
  

• Extraction & Processing/Materials Processing & Manufacturing Joint Division Luncheon Lecture
  Topic: TBD
  
  
• Extraction & Processing Division Distinguished Lecture [MORE INFO]
  Topic: "The Removal of Arsenic, Selenium and Metals from Aqueous Solution by Iron Precipitation and Reduction Techniques"
  
  
• Institute of Metals/Robert Franklin Mehl Lecture [MORE INFO]
  Topic: "The Ubiquitous Interfacial Free Energy in Phase Transformations"
  
  
• Light Metals Division Luncheon Lecture [MORE INFO]
  Topic: "The Intersection of Materials, Design and Manufacturing with Lightweight Materials"
  
  
• Vittorio de Nora Award Lecture [MORE INFO]
  Topic: "Recycling of Contaminated Aluminum Scrap"
  
  
• William Hume-Rothery Award Lecture [MORE INFO]
  Topic: "Thermodynamics and Diffusion Coupling in Alloys - Application Driven Science"
  
  
• Young Leaders Tutorial Luncheon Lecture [MORE INFO]
  Topic: "Integrative Materials-Process-Component Design: A Prospective View"
  
  

These networking receptions are offered to launch professional development in an informal, social setting. All receptions will be held Sunday, February 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the San Diego Convention Center. Here are the planned receptions:

• 2011 Functional and Structural Nanomaterials: Fabrication, Properties, Applications & Implications – Room 8  
• Light Metals – Room 17A 
• Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics – Room 9
• Magnesium Technology 2011 – Ballroom 6F
• Pb-Free Solders and Other Materials for Emerging Interconnect and Packaging Technologies – Room 7B
• Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy of Shape Memory Alloys for Actuator Applications – Room 11B
• Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials – Room 3
• Polycrystal Modeling with Experimental Integration – Ballroom 6C
• Characterization of Minerals, Metals and Materials – Room 14B
• Biological Materials Science – Room 15A

The General Poster Session will be held Monday, February 28, from noon to 6:30 p.m. in Exhibit Hall AB1 in the San Diego Convention Center.

• Frontiers in Solidification Science – Ballroom 6E
• Materials Processing Fundamentals – Room 12
• Silicon Production, Purification and Recycling For Photovoltaic Cells – Room 14A
• The Second Symposium on the Recycling of Electronic Wastes – Room 15B
• Chloride 2011 – Room 19
• Surfaces and Heterostructures at Nano or Micro Scale and Their Characterization, Properties and Applications – Room 31B
• Approaches for Investigating Phase Transformations At the Atomic Scale – 32B
• Processing and Properties of Powder-Based Materials – Room 33A
• Neutron and X-Ray Studies of Advanced Materials IV – Room 10

These sessions are included as part of the full conference registration fee and all meeting attendees are invited to attend. Lunch is not provided, however daily boxed meals are available for pre-ordering at a discounted rate on the meeting registration form.

• MONDAY: Meeting of the Membership   [MORE INFO]
  Topic: "An Overview of TMS"
  This lunchtime session will review the overall status and financial health of TMS, membership within the society, and plans for the society's future.
• TUESDAY: Energy Management  [MORE INFO]
  Topic: "Things Your Mother Didn’t Teach You"
  This lunchtime workshop reviews the basics of implementing and/or improving energy management for industry, universities, laboratories, or for offices.
• WEDNESDAY: Materials Cyberinfrastructure [MORE INFO]
  Topic: "What it is, Why it’s Important, and Some Live Demonstrations"
  Five speakers and four live demonstrations of computer platforms on Materials Cyberinfrastructure will be presented.