Student Research Paper AwardsAward Presentation: JPE Vol. 22 Year 2001 Student Research Paper Awards

Christina Wedel, award winner for the JPE Vol. 22 Year 2001 Student Re-search Paper Award, received her award at EUROMAT 2003 in Lausanne,Switzerland, on September 4, 2003. Euromat has grown to the largest bian-nual European materials conference series, this year with some 1300 papersoriginating from 50 countries presented by more than 1000 speakers, amongwhich include a Nobel Prize Winner and further renowned personalities. Itwas organized jointly by the French, German and Swiss materials societies(SF2M, DGM and SVMT), sponsored by the Federation of European Mate-rials Societies, FEMS, and co-sponsored by the European Materials ResearchSociety, E-MRS, and The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, TMS.

An associate editor of the journal, Professor Rainer Schmid-Fetzer, conferredthe award. He presented the certificate, issued by JPE and ASM, and the $500check, endowed by ALCOA, to Ms. Wedel. He also encouraged Ph.D. stu-dents to follow this line and to submit their work to JPE, pointing out the

recently broadened scope of the Journal of Phase Equilibria to explicitly include diffusion and kinetics.

Subsequently Christina Wedel gave a lecture on the highlights of her awarded research work, which she had performed atTohoku University in Sendai, Japan, under the guidance of Professor Itagaki. This lecture, held in the session “ExperimentalThermodynamics of Inorganic Materials” was entitled “Journal of Phase Equilibria Student Research Paper Award—JPE Vol.22 Year 2001” by C. Wedel, and was well received by the audience. Dr. Wedel is now working with Andreas Stihl AG &Co.KG in Waiblingen, Germany.

Toshiaki Horiuchi, award winner for the JPE Vol. 22 Year 2001 StudentResearch Paper Award, received his award at the banquet of the First WorldRound Robin Seminar on “Phase Diagrams as a Tool for Advanced MaterialsDesign” in Sapporo, Japan, on October 14, 2003. The event held October 14and 15, 2003, was organized by Alloy Phase Diagram International Commis-sion (APDIC), and held at Hokkaido University.

APDIC was originally established as an organization for the assessment ofphase diagrams. As part of the International Programme, some 20 volumes onbinary systems, totaling over 11 000 pages, and some 55 volumes on ternarysystems, totaling over 40 000 pages, have been published. In view of the needfor phase diagrams and related databases, the assessment of existing phasediagrams and providing reliable phase diagram data remain the core missionof APDIC. However, in light of new directions and new specifications towhich materials technologies have been turning, APDIC has decided to launcha series of educational seminars on phase diagrams to industry and students.The World Round Robin Seminar (WRRS) will be held every two-three years in different locations around the world. APDICchose Sapporo, Japan, as the location for the first WRRS, and the main subject adopted for the first seminar was “PhaseDiagrams as a Tool for Advanced Materials Design.”

The lecturers selected by APDIC are well-known experts in the field, who provided a systematic knowledge of phasediagrams. Among them was Professor Ted Massalski from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa. Prof. Massalskiconferred the award and presented the certificate, issued by JPE and ASM, and the $500 check, endowed by ALCOA, to thewinner, Mr. T. Horiuchi.

Mr. Horiuchi is now at the final stage of writing his Ph.D. thesis. His thesis advisor, Prof. Tetsuo Mohri, Hokkaido University,is also the current chairman of APDIC.

Rainer Schmid-Fetzer and Christina Wedel

Toshiaki Horiuchi and Ted Massalski

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