Back in Person for TMS2022

After a virtual annual meeting in 2021, the TMS community came together in person once again for the TMS 2022 Annual Meeting & Exhibition (TMS2022) last week in Anaheim, California. More than 2,600 attendees, including more than 1,200 students, gathered February 27 through March 3 for a week of technical exchange and networking. In total, more than 100 symposia were held at TMS2022, spanning 14 technical topics. 

A highlight of this year's meeting was the TMS2022 All-Conference Plenary session, featuring speaker Jim Yurko, senior distinguished engineer at Apple Materials Engineering. 

In his talk, "Alloy Design at Apple," Yurko discussed the role that materials play in making Apple products a reality and in reducing Apple's environmental footprint. But he also told the story of how his team found solutions to pressing design and sustainability problems with the help of collaborators they met through TMS.

"We depend on the research community to develop these solutions and then we look to see if we can pull them into our toolkit," said Yurko. "I really want to emphasize to the industry folks in the crowd: TMS is amazing for this. This is our one-stop shop where we can work with people in this large research community and get what we need in a mutually beneficial relationship."

To encourage these types of in-person connections that make TMS meetings so valuable, two networking events were introduced at TMS2022: a Sunday night Welcome Back Reception, which encouraged networking among technical divisions, and a Monday morning Welcome Breakfast, which offered attendees a chance to ease into the week's technical programming. 

All networking events and other TMS2022 activities were conducted with the health and safety of attendees in mind. TMS followed all guidelines and recommendations for large gatherings, so that our attendees could come together safely and comfortably. 

For photos and recaps from additional meeting events, browse TMS2022 News, the event’s daily, at-meeting newsletter. More extensive coverage of the conference will be published in the June issue of JOM, and photos will be available to download from Flickr in the coming weeks.

Next year, TMS returns to one of its most popular meeting destinations: San Diego, California, March 19-23, 2023. We hope to see you there for TMS2023!

Jud Ready Takes Office as 2022 TMS President

"Tonight, I want to focus on what we, as a membership, have been able to do, under some unprecedented circumstances, to move the Society closer to achieving the goals of the TMS Aspires Plan," said 2021 TMS President Ellen Cerreta at the TMS-AIME Honors & Awards Ceremony, held on March 2 at TMS2022. "We did that while trying not to lose sight of some of TMS’s core values, including: volunteer-driven programming, robust annual meetings, inclusive membership, and strong partnering between fundamental and applied science & engineering."

After summarizing the progress of the Society during her year as president, Cerreta passed leadership of the Society to Jud Ready, Georgia Institute of Technology, for 2022. Ready served as vice president of the Society in 2021.

Ready also addressed the audience at the awards ceremony, reminding listeners of how TMS membership can benefit them throughout their careers. "TMS has been with me for every step in my career and will continue to be with me in those years still to come," he told the audience. "It is, and will be, the same for you." 

Brad Boyce, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, moved into the role of 2022 Vice President. Learn more about the 2022 TMS Board of Directors. 

View TMS2022 Livestreamed Sessions

TMS2022 featured nine livestreamed sessions throughout the week that allowed virtual registrants and presenters to more fully participate in the live meeting experience. These livestreaming sessions were available for virtual registrants to watch in real-time from any location and gave them the opportunity to ask questions of the presenters, but they also allowed individuals who were unable to travel to the conference to present remotely as part of these sessions.

The following livestreamed sessions are now available as recordings for all TMS2022 registrants to view (open to both in-person and virtual attendees):
 

• 2022 Light Metals Keynote Session: 50 Years of Continuous Light Metals Proceedings—Highlights and Vision for the Century
• REWAS 2022: Plenary Session: Developing Tomorrow’s Technical Cycles
• REWAS 2022: Sustainability Opportunities in Aluminum
  Part of REWAS 2022: Coupling Metallurgy and Sustainability: An EPD Symposium in Honor of Diran Apelian
• Furnace Tapping Session III
  Including keynote presentation by Isabelle Nolet of Hatch and panel discussion
• Advanced Functional and Structural Thin Films and Coatings: Young Talents in Research/Multifunctional Biomaterials, Innovative Approaches to New Concepts and Applications
• Biological Materials Science V
• Mechanical Behavior at the Nanoscale VI: Nanomechanics-coupled Material Physics
• 30 Years of Nanoindentation with the Oliver-Pharr Method and Beyond: Thin Films & Confinement Effects
• Additive Manufacturing–Nano/Micro-mechanics and Length-scale Phenomena: Special Topics

To access the livestreamed sessions, go to the TMS2022 Conference Platform and log in by entering the email address you used to register for TMS2022 and your registration confirmation ID (formatted as either 22-XXXX or P-XXXX).

Recorded OnDemand presentations from virtual presenters as well as from in-person presenters who submitted a recorded version of their presentation will be available to view March 14 through April 30.

If you did not register for TMS2022 but would like to access both the livestreamed recordings and on-demand presentations, you can register today for the conference at the discounted virtual attendee rate.   

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Wins Materials Bowl

Congratulations to the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities team, Material Girls, on winning the 2022 TMS Materials Bowl: Escape to Anaheim knowledge and trivia competition, held on February 27 at TMS2022.

Team members Colton Gerber, Ashlie Hamilton, Kevin Schmalbach, and Nicholas Johnson each received $250 in prize money, as well as $500 for their chapter and the honor of taking home the Materials Bowl trophy.

This year's competition featured a new format, which allowed teams to answer multiple-choice questions from their phones. The fast-paced, interactive game offered a real-time look at the leaderboards, which showed that the competition remained close through two rounds of play.

Eleven teams participated in the first elimination round, with the top three teams progressing to the final round. The University of Florida Material Gators team came in second place and the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology team took third place.

It all came down to the final question, which required the three teams to complete the following sentence: 
 
In fireworks, the green flame is produced because of…

• Sodium
• Barium
• Mercury
• Potassium

The correct answer, which secured the win for the Material Girls team, was barium.

Meet the Student Poster Contest Winners

The following undergraduate and graduate posters were honored for excellence in the 2022 Technical Division Student Poster Competition during TMS2022.

Extraction & Processing Division
Graduate: "Sustainable Process Flowsheet for Recovery of Value added Products from Bauxite Residue," Himanshu Tanvar

Functional Materials Division
Undergraduate: "Thermomechanical Clamp for Curing Low-k Dielectric Dry Film," Ethan Shackelford
Graduate: "Crumpled MoS2 Flexoelectric Energy Harvester," Yeageun Lee

Light Metals Division
Undergraduate: "Investigate the Effect of Crystallographic Orientation on the Mechanical and Corrosion Properties of Copper Single Crystals," Devin Davis
Graduate: "Microstructural Evolution during Post Processing of Additively Manufactured 7050 Aluminum Alloy and Its Effect on Corrosion Behavior," Rupesh Rajendran

Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division
Undergraduate: "COMSOL-generated Weld Heat Transfer Models For Automation of Infrared Thermography Non-destructive Testing (IR-TNDT) Image Analysis," Savannah Horowitz
Graduate: "Production via Machining and Rolling of High resistivity Electrical Steel," B. Stiven Puentes

Structural Materials Division
Undergraduate: "Quantitative Analysis of Microstructure in the Ti-6Al-4V Alloy Using Scanning Electron Microscopy," Sydney Fields
Graduate: "Discovering the Corrosion Mechanism of Chromium in High-Temperature LiF-NaF-KF Molten Salts for Gen-IV Molten Salts Reactor Applications," Ho Lun Chan

Missouri University of Science and Technology Wins Bladesmithing Competition

In the TMS2022 Exhibit Hall, a total of 18 student-created blades—all produced by hand hammering or trip-hammer forging—were on display as part of the 2022 Bladesmithing Competition in Anaheim. The TMS Wadsworth-Sherby Bladesmithing Grand Prize, presented by Jeff Wadsworth in honor of Oleg Sherby, was awarded to Missouri University of Science and Technology at a special awards ceremony held on March 1 as part of TMS2022. 

The second place prize recipient was the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and the third place awardee was the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor received an honorable mention.

Additional citations were awarded to deserving teams in the following areas: Beauty to Texas A&M University and the University of California, Berkeley; Creative Use of Materials to Arizona State University; and Resourcefulness to Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Garry Warren, chair of the TMS Foundation Board of Trustees, and Michael West, Bladesmithing Committee chair, offered opening remarks and commendations to the teams during the ceremony. 

You can view videos showing the creation of the 2022 TMS Bladesmithing entries through the 2022 TMS Bladesmithing website or through the TMS YouTube Channel.