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 |
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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 |
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The exhibition hall |
A ceramic Rhino |
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Mark Hull from Maney |
Mark Hull from Maney |
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Kinnor Chattopadhyay, formerly of Tata Steel |
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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 |
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Met Adebayo Badmos by chance. He did his Ph.D. with Harry and is now Professor at Black Hawk College in the USA |
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The whole Centre relies on steel for structural integrity |
The whole Centre relies on steel for structural integrity |
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Dongwi working hard |
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Railway bridge |
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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 |
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Professor Fernando Rizzo talking about the quench and partitioning adventure |
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Indigenous iron making in a remote part of Ethiopie |
The direct reduction furnace |
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The talk about Ethiopia was given by Judith Todd, who did her Ph.D. in Cambridge under the supervision of Jim Charles |
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Professor Paul Howell, Penn State University, gave a nice talk on meteorite structures |
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Professors Oleg Sherby and George Krauss |
David, Victoria, Alex and Jenny Edmonds |
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David, expressing some sentiments |
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Tony DeArdo |
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Barry Muddle popped in briefly |
Rick Bodnar, of the famous Bodnar and Hansen paper |
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Professor Furuhara from Tohoku University |
Kim Dongwi of GIFT |
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A traffic jam |
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There was a very pleasant dinner held in honour of David Edmonds |
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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) |
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Jenny Edmonds |
David, reminiscing |
Group photograph |
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The following photographs are courtesy of David Matlock, Colorado School of Mines. The dinner was sponsored by Vanitec, Metallurg Vanadium and Stratcor.