| Sunday 8/6 |
| 2:00-11:00 p.m. |
Arrival and Registration |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
| Session 1 |
Turning Polycrystals to Single Crystals Through Controlled Interface Motion |
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Discussion leader: Rajendra Bordia, U. of Washington |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Introductory Remarks |
| 7:50 p.m. |
Martin Harmer, Lehigh University
"Controlled Abnormal Grain Growth for Solid State Crystal Conversion" |
| 8:55 p.m. |
Amit Goyal, ORNL
"Rolling Assisted Biaxially Textured Substrates for the Growth of Single-Crystal-Like Ceramic Superconducting Wires" |
| Monday 8/7 |
| 7:30-8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 8:45 a.m. |
Conference Photo |
| Session 2 |
Dynamic Properties of Interfaces |
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Discussion leader: Sheldon Wiederhorn, NIST |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Alexander M. Cruickshank Award Lecture:
William W. Mullins, Carnegie Mellon University
"Understanding and Controlling the Motion of Neutral and Charged Grain Boundaries During Normal and Abnormal Growth." |
| 10:10 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Janet Rankin, Brown University
"Real-Time Observations of the Initial Stages of Interface Evolution" |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Doh-Yeon Kim, Seoul National University
"Coarsening of Faceted Grains Dispersed in a Liquid Matrix-Mechanism of Abnormal Grain Growth" |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
Education Focus Group: Simone Peterson Hruda, FSU/FAMU (Dunbar Birnie, Gary Fischman, Richard Riman, Robert Snyder) |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
| Session 3 |
Electronic and Defect Properties of Interfaces |
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Discussion leader: David Clarke, UCSB |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Joachim Maier, MPI
"Size Effects on Point Defect Distribution" |
| 8:30 p.m. |
Xiaoqing Pan, University of Michigan
"Electronic Properties of Grain Boundaries in SnO2 Thin Films" |
| Tuesday 8/8 |
| 7:30-8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| Session 4 |
Moving Boundaries |
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Discussion leader: Rowland M. Cannon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
| 8:45 a.m. |
John W. Cahn, NIST
"Testing the Fundamentals of Grain Growth Theories with Simulations" |
| 9:55 a.m. |
Lasar Shvindlerman, RWTH Aachen
"Grain Boundary and Triple Junction Motion: Current Results and Current Problems" |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Break |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Venkat Gopalan, Penn State
"Domain Wall Kinetics in Ferroelectrics" |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
| Session 5 |
Grain Boundary Sensitive Properties |
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Discussion leader: David Brandon, Technion |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Steve Bennison and Kurt Mikeska, DuPont
"Property Control via Grain Boundary Engineering in Alumina" |
| 8:40 p.m. |
Preview of invited posters |
| 9:10 p.m. |
Simone Peterson Hruda
Report from the Education Focus Group (Dunbar Birnie, Gary Fischman, Richard Riman, Robert Snyder) |
| Wednesday 8/9 |
| 7:30-8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| Session 6 |
Grain Boundary Properties |
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Discussion leader: Sunggi Baik, Pohang University of Science and Technology |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Manfred Rühle, MPI
"Segregation, Pre-Wetting and Wetting at Grain Boundaries in Metals and Ceramics" |
| 10:10 a.m. |
Nigel Browning, UIC
"What Electronic Spectroscopy tells us about Grain Boundary Structure Property Relationships" |
| 11:20 a.m. |
Break |
| 11:45 a.m. |
Preview of invited posters |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
| Session 7 |
Discussion of Length Scales in Interface Studies |
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Discussion leader: Carol Handwerker, NIST |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Introductory remarks by the Discussion Leader |
| 7:45 p.m. |
Brief Presentations by the expert panel (Carter, Garofalini, Karma, King) |
| 8:45 p.m. |
Open discussion |
| Thursday 8/10 |
| 7:30-8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| Session 8 |
Controlling Texture in Ceramics |
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Discussion leader: Keith Bowman, Purdue |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Gary Messing, PSU
"Texturing Ceramics via Templated Grain Growth" |
| 10:10 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Desi Kovar, UT, Austin
"Is there a pay-off for texturing ceramics?" |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Arun Gokhale, Georgia Tech
"Effect of Gravity on Interfacial Connectivity and 3D Coordination Number Distribution in Liquid Phase Sintered Microstructures" |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
| Session 9 |
Banquet Lecture |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Stephen Sass, Cornell University
"The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon" |
| Friday 8/11 |
| 7:30-8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Bus Departs |
