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Saturday 23 March 2019 Microstructural Kinetics Group University of Cambridge Science Festival 2019Come and visit the Microstructural Kinetics Group demonstration at the University of Cambridge Science Festival 2019 on Saturday 23 March 2019.https://www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/events?search_api_views_fulltext=metallurgy

The MKG group has recently held an event for members of the public to showcase science and facilities in Cambridge physical sciences (Department of Materials Science and Cambridge Graphene Centre).The event was an opportunity to discuss some of the megatrends in materials science and exciting new technology being developed in Cambridge.The trip was…

Professor Dongchan Jang, of the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) at the Department of Nuclean and Quantum Engineering is visiting the Microstructural Kinetics Group on Friday 23 November.

Science Minister visits Department of Materials Science & MetallurgySam Gyimah MP,  Universities and Science Minister for England, visited the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge on the 16th May 2018. During a tour of the Department facilities and laboratories, he met with postgraduate students and postdoctoral r…

SELECTA Winter School Cambridge 7-12 January 2018 Department of Materials Science & MetallurgyThe SELECTA Winter School was held in Cambridge on 7-12 January 2018.“Gateway to industry: Introducing materials to market. Practical aspects”Invited speakers:-Mike Ashby, GRANTANorbert Babscan, ALUNINVENTJ-M Breget, AlemnisMariana Calin, IFWMel Conti, Met…

ExtendGlass project gets underwayThis project on ‘Extending the range of the glassy state:  Exploring structure and property limits in metallic glasses’ is supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant held by Prof.  Lindsay. Greer.  Metallic glasses (MGs), among the most actively studied metallic materials, have attractive mechanic…

Co-hosted by Cumbria Aspires and the Cambridge Society, Professor Greer talks to Sixth Form students at Workington Academy and St Benedict's Catholic High School.This visit was co-hosted by Cumbria Aspires and the Cambridge Society. During the visit Professor Greer met Sixth Form students at Workington Academy, he was taken on a tour of Lakes Colle…

Student visitor 2017Pablo Palomino studies computational modelling and has spent the last 2 months in Cambridge under the supervision of Carolina Meylan (Early-Stage Researcher on VitriMetTech) and Professor Greer, exploring how his modelling might complement the experimental work in the MKG.  Pablo is from the University of Ioannina, Greece and is…

AIMR's Director speaks with the world.What is the Cambridge AJCAIMR Joint Research Center at Cambridge (Cambridge AJC) is an overseas satellite that AIMR has established at the Uni­versity of Cambridge in the U.K. The Cambridge AJC was founded through an academic agreement that was concluded in 2012 between Tohoku University AIMR and the University…

The next Forum will be held on Tuesday 20th June 2017. The afternoon programme will include the award of the Armourers & Brasiers’ Materials Science Venture Prize and the 19th Kelly Lecture. In 2016, the Forum attracted not only an academic audience, but representatives from some 50 manufacturing companies.The Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge F…