Recent Lectures

Seminar Topic: Assessment and application of equilibrium slag – metal phosphorous partition for basic oxygen steelmaking.

Speaker: Prof. A. Ghosh, Retired Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Topic: Introduction and Recent Advances in Refractory Metals

Speaker: Dr. Prabhat Kumar, Consultant: Refractory Metals, Powder Metallurgy, IP Strategies. Former Technology Fellow and The Managing Director of H.C. Starck India Ltd.

Venue: S. C. Sirkar Seminar Room, Dept. of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering

Topic: Dielectric Materials Research at 3M Co.

Speaker: Dr. Dipankar Ghosh, Research Specialist in the Corporate Research Laboratory at 3M Company, St. Paul, MN, USA

Topic: Carbon nanotube grows long – Synthesis and Application

Speaker: Dr. Supriya Chakrabarti, Research Associate, Plasma Science and Nanoscale Engineering Group, Nanotechnology & Integrated Bio-Engineering Centre, Ulster University, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, BT37 0QB, UK

Topic: Novel grain refiners for high performance Al and Mg automotive castings

Speaker: Prof. Hari Babu Nadendla, BCAST, Institute of Materials and Manufacturing, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom, Tel: +44(0)1895 265466 | Email: mtsthbn@brunel.ac.uk | http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/hari-babu

Topic: Remarkable Corrosion Resistance through Nano Approaches.

Speaker: Prof. R. K. Singh Raman, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University (Melbourne), Vic 3800, Australia

Topic: The Limit of Severe Grain Fragmentation in severe Plastic Deformation

Speaker: Prof. L. S. Toth, University of Lorraine, Metz, Nancy, France

Roles of Texture in Controlling Oxidation, Hydrogen Ingress and Hydride Formation and Transformation in Zr Alloys.

Speaker: Prof. Jerzy A. Szpunar, Canada Research Chair, Dept. of Mechanical Energy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

Remarkable Corrosion Resistance through Nano Approaches

Speaker: Prof. R. K. Singh Raman, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University (Melbourne), Vic 3800, Australia

Application of amorphous materials as electrical steel and sensors for non destructive evaluation of materials

Speaker: Dr. Amitava Mitra, Chief Scientist, Business Development & Monitoring Division CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur 831007

RCharacterization of Nanostructured Ferritic Alloy

Speaker: Prof. R. K. Singh Raman, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University (Melbourne), Vic 3800, Australia

Remarkable Corrosion Resistance through Nano Approaches

Speaker: Dr. Soupitak Pal, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) When all Simulations are Wrong and Only Some are Useful

Speaker: Prof. Farrokh Mistree, L. A. Comp Chair, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

The effects of laser shock peening (LSP), ultrasonic nanocrystal surface modification (UNSM) and cavitation shotless peening (CSP) on properties of alloys.

Speaker: Prof.  Vijay K. Vasudevan, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati (UC) in Cincinnati, OH, USA

Mechanical Characteristics of Auxetic Fibre Networks of Stainless Steel

Speaker: Dr. Suresh Neellakantan, Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.