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.




































































































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