Recent News and Events:
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Dr. James Curran has been elected to a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship. This has a tenure of 4 years, with James being seconded from Keronite to the Gordon Laboratory for 50% of his time over that period, working on the Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation process.
Liza Mirelman has been awarded a visiting scholarship, with all expenses paid, at the Workshop on Emerging Materials for Thin Film Solar Cells, to be held on August 7 - 12 at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She will be presenting a talk on PEO coatings for photocatalytic applications and attending a summer school.
Maya Shinozaki has been invited to give a Talk, with accommodation and travel expenses paid, at the Gordon Research Seminar on High Temperature Corrosion, to be held on July 23-24 in Boston. She will be presenting a talk on TBC coatings for gas turbines.
Dr. James Dean will be giving invited talks at "XX INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS RESEARCH CONGRESS 2011", Cancun, Mexico, 14-19th August and at the MS&T '11 Symposium on "Hardness across the Multi-Scales of Structure and Loading Rate", 16-20 October, at Columbus, Ohio.
A Micromaterials European Nanomechanical User Group Meeting will be held in Downing College on September 26-27, hosted by the Gordon Laboratory.
I am also attending the Deformation and Fracture of Composites (DFC-11) conference in Cambridge
