In Honour of Professor David Edmonds

A special symposium was held in honour of Professor David Edmonds who retires to become an Emeritus Professor at Leeds University. The symposium was a part of the Materials Science and Technology 2009 Conference and Exhibition held in Pittsburgh, October 25-29. John Speer and Harry Bhadeshia, both former students of David, presented a lecture commemorating his career.

As a part of the celebrations, there was a special dinner to mark David's retirement.

Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris, with a clever use of steel and wood	The wood serves only an aesthetic purpose.
Waiting for the flight to Pittsburgh
Professors John Speer (Colorado School of Mines), Bill Lee (Imperial College) and George Krauss	Baktha Rath (US Navy Laboratories, Washington) on the left
The Conference Centre	The Conference Centre
Professor Wu Kaiming and Huang Gong, his student	Wu Kaiming, Harry and Huang Gong
Kim Dongwi and Han Soo Kim from GIFT, and Chang Seok Oh from the Korea Institute for Materials Science	Dr Elwazi from U. S. Steel
The exhibition hall	A ceramic Rhino
Mark Hull from Maney	Mark Hull from Maney
	Kinnor Chattopadhyay, formerly of Tata Steel
	Cong from Carnegie Mellon University
Ashwin (Ph.D. student working at the Open University with Mike Fitzpatrick) and David Matlock from the Colorado School of Mines
Met Adebayo Badmos by chance. He did his Ph.D. with Harry and is now Professor at Black Hawk College in the USA
	The whole Centre relies on steel for structural integrity
The whole Centre relies on steel for structural integrity
Dongwi working hard
	Railway bridge
	Excellent talk on liquation during friction stir welding
Professors Hono and Suresh Babu	On the right we have Dierk Raabe from the Max Plank Institute in Germany
Professor Fernando Rizzo talking about the quench and partitioning adventure
	Indigenous iron making in a remote part of Ethiopie
The direct reduction furnace
The talk about Ethiopia was given by Judith Todd, who did her Ph.D. in Cambridge under the supervision of Jim Charles
	Professor Paul Howell, Penn State University, gave a nice talk on meteorite structures
Professors Oleg Sherby and George Krauss	David, Victoria, Alex and Jenny Edmonds
	David, expressing some sentiments
	Tony DeArdo
	Barry Muddle popped in briefly
Rick Bodnar, of the famous Bodnar and Hansen paper
	Professor Furuhara from Tohoku University
Kim Dongwi of GIFT
A traffic jam
There was a very pleasant dinner held in honour of David Edmonds
	David Matlock was the person in charge of ceremonies
Alex Edmonds, with Steve Freeman (a former Darwinian who worked on interphase precipitation with Sir Robert Honeycombe)
	Jenny Edmonds
David, reminiscing	Group photograph

Dinner at the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh

The following photographs are courtesy of David Matlock, Colorado School of Mines. The dinner was sponsored by Vanitec, Metallurg Vanadium and Stratcor.