M AT E R I A L S THE INAUGURAL SEMINAR SERIES HOSTED BY MATERIALS AUSTRALIA | 27-28 SEPTEMBER 2021
Chair Roger Lumley AWBell Pty. Ltd & National President; Materials Australia Organising Committee Jianfeng Nie Monash Uni Alexey Glushenkov ANU Sophie Primig UNSW Ing Kong LTU Andrew Breen USyd Nikki Stanford UniSA Ivan Cole RMIT
Topics for Abstracts Topics are not limited to but may include the following. > Advanced Materials Design and Processing > Metals > Polymers > Ceramics > Characterization and testing > Additive Manufacturing > Energy, Environment and Recycling > Biomaterials
Cost Students: $50 (includes membership to Materials Australia) Members: $20 (all grades) Non-Members: $250 (includes membership to Materials Australia) Materials Forum will be hosted by RMIT.
Materials Forum is a new initiative that involve presentation of the best of Australian published materials research in an easily accessible, online seminar format. The main purpose of the event is for authors and speakers to present seminars on their work that has already been published in peer reviewed international journals. Publications may be from an international team of authors but should include at least one Australian author. Presentations suitable for inclusion may be on any published work from the past ten years and are expected to be no more than 20 minutes long with ten minutes allowed for questions and discussion. Papers chosen for Keynote presentation will be 45 minutes with 15 minutes question time.
Abstract Submission
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