September 22-26, 2004, NATO-ARW on Nanostructured Materials by High Pressure Severe Plastic Deformation was sucessfully held in Donetsk, Ukraine. A total of 58 participants and observers presented their work. For more photos from the workshop, please visit a website by Marco Berta.
September 24, 2004, the International nanoSPD Steering Committee held a meeting in Donetsk, Ukraine, to coordinate future SPD related conferences. Present at the meeting were (from left) Prof. Ruslan Valiev, Prof. Zenji Horita, Dr. Yuntian Zhu, Prof. Michael Zehetbauer, and Prof. Terence Langdon.
Aug. 20, 2004, nanoSPD has the biggest impact on the field of materials science according to The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which has published the lists of top 10 most-cited papers in three prominent materials science journals over the last 10 years (1994--2004): Progress in Materials Science, Acta Materialia, and Scripta Materialia. For Progress in Materials Science, the #1 most-cited paper is on nanoSPD. For Acta Materialia, 7 of the top 10 most cited papers are on nanoSPD (#2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10). For Scripta Materialia, 7 of the top 10 most cited papers are on nanoSPD (#1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9,10). For more details, please click here.
March 17, 2004, The Third International Symposium on Ultrafine Grained Materials, held in Charlotte, NC, March 15-17, awarded 2 Gold Medals for outstanding oral presentations to Xavier Sauvage (left 2) and Cheng Xu (right 3); 1 Gold Medal for poster presentation to Rongjie Song (right 4); 5 Silver Medals for poster presentations to Azdiar Gazder (right 1), Megumi Kawasaki (right 2), Georgy Raab (left 1), Rintaro Ueji (left 3), and S.H. Yu (left 4). The Gold and Silver Medal winners receive $500 and $100, respectively, to help with their travel expenses. The travel grant is provided by AFOSR.
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