The Centre held its Annual Workshop at Monash University on the 21st and 22nd of November. Over 100 delegates attended the event, including Professor David Embury as an invited speaker from McMaster University in Canada.

Program Leaders provided an overview of the Centre’s four main research areas (Alloy Design and Processing, Titanium, Hybrid Materials and Surface Engineering), while research staff and students displayed their work during the workshop’s poster sessions.

The formal program also included a section on the Centre’s linkages with industry and CSIRO, a focus on computational materials science, and a discussion on the research infrastructure and capabilities within the Centre. It was also a pleasure to host the inaugural Ian Polmear Lecture given by Professor Polmear himself on ‘A New Age for Age Hardening’.

We would particularly like to note the high quality of poster presentations from Centre staff and students. Over 50 abstracts were received for the two poster sessions and they provided the ‘Best Poster’ judging panel with quite a challenge! But in the end a decision was reached and congratulations are extended to Dr. Martin Xu from The University of New South Wales who won Best Staff Poster for his work on ‘The use of 3D-EBSD in the analysis of various crystallographic aspects of deformation and annealing’, and to Ross Marceau from The University of Sydney whose presentation on ‘Solute clustering and rapid hardening during ageing of Al-Cu-Mg alloys’ won the Best Student Poster award.