We cordially invite our colleagues, alumni, friends and sponsors to the Summer Party 2019 beginning at 2 pm with a scientific colloquium, followed by the VFF General Assembly, and concluded with a barbecue starting 4 pm.

Mehran Afshar’s oral exam took place on the 14th May 2019 where he successfully defended his thesis on “Computationally-aided design of aluminium alloys for high electrical conductivity power grids”.

Fengxin Mao’s oral exam took place on the 14th May 2019 where he successfully defended his thesis on “Investigation and Modelling of Precipitate Evolution in Age-hardenable Al-Alloys during Artificial Ageing”.

A new article titled “On the role of Laves phases on the mechanical properties of Mg-Al-Ca alloys” by Muhammad Zubair, Stefanie Sandlöbes, Marc Wollenweber, Carl Kusche, Witold Hildebrandt, Christoph Broeckmann and Sandra Korte-Kerzel is being published on 22nd, May 2019 in Vol. 756 of “Materials...

The IMM visits the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) conference in San Antonio, Texas.