Professor Dayananda has long ties with Purdue. He has dedicated his career to the understanding and application of multicomponent-multiphase diffusion, and provided the education and traineeship for many students. This symposium, in honor of his 70th birthday, highlighted both experimental and theoretical work in a variety of phenomena governed by and related to multicomponent-multiphase diffusion. In addition to invited speakers, contributed papers on the topics listed below were solicited. Topics of relevance included, but are not limited to diffusion paths and interdiffusion microstructures, interdiffusion, intrinsic diffusion, atomic mobility and vacancy wind effects, processing and degradation of high temperature coatings, zero flux planes and flux reversals, modeling of diffusion, alloy heat treatment and phase transformations, diffusion controlled and radiation-enhanced diffusion issues in nuclear fuels and cladding, thermotransport, electromigration and other driving forces of diffusion, microstructural characterization and image analysis, education and traineeship of students on diffusion kinetics of phase transformations.

Sponsored by: The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), ASM Materials Science Critical Technology Sector, ASM-MSCTS Atomic Transport Committee. 

Organized by Y.H. Sohn, University of Central Florida, C.E. Campbell, National Institute of Standards and Technology, J.E. Morral, The Ohio State University, R.D. Sisson, Jr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

For more information about the TMS Meetings, go to the TMS website.