Forthcoming Events
Important forthcoming events will be highlighted here. Other departmental events are listed below.
The 2012 Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum will be held on 27th June 2012. The Fourteenth Kelly Lecture will be given at the Forum by Dr Alan Taub, VP for Research, General Motors. The title of his talk will be: "Materials Challenges for a Sustainable Automotive Industry" Visit the Forum website. |
Other Events
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23 May 2012 10 am T001 |
High Performance Steels: Initiative and Practice
In order to meet the progressive requirements for the performance of steels, the author proposed novel microstructures featured with multi-phase, meta-stable and multi-scale (so-called as M3) for the targeted properties for different steel grades applied in various circumstances. In this talk, three prototype steels with unconventional performance are introduced as examples. The 3rd generation high strength low alloyed (HSLA) steels developed has the improved impact toughness of ?200 J at -40 ? and/or elongation of ? 20% while the yield strength maintains at 800-1000 MPa; the third generation advanced high strength steels (AHSS) exhibits excellent formability for automobiles, which is characterized by the product of the tensile strength and the elongation, Rm×A, higher than 30 GPa% when the tensile strength, Rm, ranges from 1000 MPa to 1500 MPa. New heat resistant martensitic steels were also developed with improved creep strength at 650 ? more than 90 MPa. The relationship between the designed microstructures and the targeted prosperities are discussed. It is expected that these new steels developed may remarkably improve the safety and reliability of steel products in service for infrastructures, automobiles and fossil power station in the future. |
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Wed 30 May 2012 2:30pm T001 |
The Physics of Airline Security
Professor Peter Rez Department of Physics Arizona State University "The vast majority of passengers want to arrive safely at their destination. Various systems have been deployed to detect explosives in checked baggage and to intercept passengers carrying guns and explosives. To understand how these systems work I shall review the physics of metal detection and X-ray scattering. In response to the underwear bomber the authorities have introduced body scanner machines, based on either mm wave scattering or backscattering of X-rays, at a number of airports. I shall give a brief review of my work on X-ray based body scanners and show how I calculated the dose from published images. I shall also discuss reasons why it is so difficult to accurately measure the dose from these machines and give an analysis of whether these machines are effective for detecting explosives. Continuing on this theme I shall conclude with an analysis of reasonable detection thresholds. " |
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Wed 30 May 5 pm (25 mins + 5 mins Qs) T001 |
DMG seminar: Spintronic devices with highly spin-polarised manganite electrodes and graphene channels
Lee Phillips |
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31st May 12:45 Tea Room - level 4 |
MS&M Jubilee BBQ!
Materials Science invites you to celebrate the Queens Diamond Jubilee Come along to the RED, WHITE, and BLUE BBQ being held in the Canteen on the 31st May 2012 from 12.45 onwards Tickets are £2.50 each which will include a burger (meat or veggie) and a doughnut Soft drinks will be available Tickets go on sale from Reception and the Canteen on Monday 14th May and will be limited in numbers. (Please let them know if you require a vegetarian burger at time of ticket purchase). |
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Wed 13 June 2 pm (25 mins + 5 mins Qs) T001 |
DMG seminar: Resitive RAM
Akihito Sawa AIST Tsukuba Japan |
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Wed 20 June 5 pm (25 mins + 5 mins Qs) T001 |
DMG seminar: Tunnel junctions with GdN
Avradeep Pal |
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27 June 2012 2.00-6.30pm Babbage Lecture Theatre |
Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum
The Fourteenth Kelly Lecture will be given at the Forum by Dr Alan Taub, VP for Research, General Motors. The title of his talk will be: "Materials Challenges for a Sustainable Automotive Industry" http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/forum/ |
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Wed 4 July 5 pm (25 mins + 5 mins Qs) T001 |
DMG seminar: Superconducting spin-triplet spin-valves
Chris Smiet |
Other events pages: Structural Materials Seminars (previously Gordon Lab) | EM Group | talks.cam