[originally scheduled November 12-14, 2020]

main topics

1. ADVANCED ALLOYS AND PROCESSES FOR AEROSPACE
2. BIOMATERIALS
3. CASTING
4. CERAMICS, GLASS, REFRACTORY MATERIALS
5. COMPOSITE AND POLYMER MATERIALS
6. CORROSION AND WEAR
7. MATERIALS FOR ENERGY
8. MECHANICAL METALLURGY
9. NANOMATERIALS
10. NON-FERROUS METALS
11. QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING
12. RECYCLING AND SUSTAINABILITY
13. STEELMAKING
14. SURFACE TREATMENT AND HEAT TREATMENT
15. WELDING METALLURGY

KEYNOTE/INVITED LECTURES:

• Microstructure Optimization in Additively Manufactured Metals through Heat and Surface Treatment, Marcel A.J. Somers (Technical University of Denmark)
• Novel Technology for Manufacturing Heavy Steel and Superalloy Forgings, Mingyue Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Advances in Thermal Barrier Coatings: Current Status and Future Perspectives, Makoto Hasegawa (Yokohama National University)
• Optimized Quality Control through Data Mining and Machine Learning: How the multi scale microstructure is used as the ultimate information archive, Frank Mücklich (Saarland University)
• Advanced Coating Technologies to Stabilize Cathode at High Voltage for Enabling Batteries in Vehicles, Khalil Amine (Argonne National
  Laboratory)
• Design of Materials for Advanced Energy Storage, Cengiz Ozkan (University of California)
• Chemically Processed Inorganic Nanostructures for Energy and Health Applications, Sanjay Mathur (University of Cologne)
• Polymeric Composites with Novel 2D Nanofillers Mxenes, Maria Omastova (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
• Recent Trends in Extractive Metallurgy, Fathi Habashi (Laval University)
• Materials Recovery and Reuse for the 21st Century: A call for action and the need for a paradigm change, Diran Apelian (University of California)
• Addressing Fundamental Problems in Metallurgy via First Principles Models: Point Defects, Surface Chemistry, and Initial Stages of Precipitation, Pamir Alpay (University of Connecticut)
• Creep Cracking Mechanisms of Welded Joints for Cr-Mo Heat-Resistant Pressure Vessel Steels, Cong Wang (Northeastern University)

The trade fairs ANKIROS/ANNOFER/TURKCAST 2020 (the biggest metallurgy meet-up in Eurasia, supported by leading national and international organizations and associations in the metallurgy sectors) will be held together with the IMMC’2020.