Scope The symposium will have oral and poster sessions covering topics such as those given below:

Biomaterials Casting and Solidification Ceramics Composites Computational Materials Science Energy Materials Environmental Degradation Materials Processing Functional Materials Materials Forming Materials Joining Mechanical Behavior Nanostructured Materials Non-destructive Evaluation Phase Transformations and Physical Metallurgy Process Modeling and Simulation Powder Metallurgy Steels Surface Engineering

Pre-Registration Intending participants must pre-register and upload abstracts on the website: http://mme.iitm.ac.in/isrs2012 Souvenir A souvenir will be brought out on the occasion of the symposium, giving details of the programme, abstracts, list of sponsors and advertisements. Sponsorship details and the advertisement rates are available at the symposium website. Registration Fee Participants from India/SAARC Countries: Rs. 2000 Overseas Participants : US $ 200 Payments details are available on the symposium website. Important Dates Abstract submission : July 31, 2012 Acceptance of abstract : August 30, 2012 Submission of manuscript : November 15, 2012 (Submit manuscript online on Trans IIM Website, Springer, http://www.editorialmanager.com/tiim/) For Further Details Contact: T.S. Prasanna Kumar Chairperson
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036

International Symposium for Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Materials Science & Engineering

Announcement and Call for Papers Venue: IC & SR Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, India December 13 15, 2012
Organized by

Awards Best papers, presented in the oral and poster sessions, will receive awards. Proceedings Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, published online by Springer, has agreed to publish selected papers of ISRS-2012 in one of its forthcoming issues. The authors of all the papers presented at ISRS-2012 are encouraged to submit the manuscript online to the Journal, which will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the proceedings. Support to Participants Local hospitality will be provided to all the participants at IIT Madras. Limited funds are available for travel support to participants from India.

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering IIT Madras

B.S. Murty, Convener Ranjit Bauri, Co-Convener

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036 Phone: +91-44-22574754 (B.S. Murty) +91-44-22574778 (Ranjit Bauri) Fax: +91-44-22570509 e-mail: isrs2012@wmail.iitm.ac.in murty@iitm.ac.in rbauri@iitm.ac.in

In association with IIM Chennai Chapter Material Advantage Chapter of IIT Madras Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Students Association (METSA)

http://mme.iitm.ac.in/isrs2012

Preamble Development of communication and analytical skills as well as exchange of ideas and interaction among research scholars are an integral part of training in the research programme of every institute. The present symposium, International Symposium for Research Scholars (ISRS-2012) on Metallurgy, Materials Science & Engineering, is devoted solely to research scholars so that they can interact with their peers from all over the world and exchange research ideas, which can help in improving their quality of research, analytical and presentation skills. ISRS-2012 aims at achieving these objectives and provides a unique forum for research scholars from all over the world to broaden their perspective by increasing their awareness of diverse areas of research worldwide. The pre-requisite for participation is that the participant should be currently pursuing a research-based degree. Keynote lectures by experts will be an added attraction of ISRS-2012. These will inspire the research scholars with an exposure to a variety of topics and provide opportunity for discussions with stalwarts in materials research. The Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (MME), IIT Madras in association with IIM Chennai Chapter, has been organizing the biennial symposia, National Symposium for Research Scholars (NSRS), on Materials Science and Engineering, since 1996, at the national level. This was later transformed into International Symposium for Research Scholars (ISRS) since 2004. This years symposium, ISRS-2012, is the fifth in the series of international symposia, and we earnestly hope that it will be a greater success bringing more research scholars together. Research scholars, including scientists from various laboratories and industries pursuing their Doctoral / Masters (by Research) are invited to present their original work and participate in ISRS-2012, a three day event in the academic and serene environs of IIT Madras. IIT Madras is committed to providing a world class education to its students and ISRS-2012 serves the educational experience of research scholars by providing them with a world class, international forum to exchange and enhance their research ideas.

Patrons Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras Baldev Raj, President, PSG Institutions Muthuraman B, Vice-Chairman, TATA Steel Murugappan MM, Chairman, Carborundum Universal International Advisory Committee Amudeswari A, IFCPAR, Delhi Banerjee S, DAE, Mumbai Banhart John, HZB, Germany Bhanu Sankara Rao K, University of Hyderabad Bhattacharjee D, TATA Steel, The Netherlands Chakraborty M, IIT Bhubaneswar Chetal SC, IGCAR, Kalpakkam Chowdari BVR, NUS, Singapore Das Narayana J, DRDO, Delhi Das Siddhartha, IIT Kharagpur Das Suresh, NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram Dong C, Dalian University of Technology, China Dusane Rajiv O, IIT Bombay Eckert Jrgen, TU Dresden, Germany Fan Z, BCAST, UK Ghosh KP, IIT Roorkee Hahn Horst, KIT, Germany Hodgson Peter, Deakin Univ., Australia Jayaram Vikram, IISc Bangalore Kim DH, Yonsei Univ., Korea Krishnaiah K, Dean (Academic Research), IITM Malakondaiah G, DMRL, Hyderabad Manna I, CGCRI, Kolkata Mishra BK, IMMT, Bhubaneswar Mitra A, International Relations, DST, Delhi Rajan Krishna, ISU, USA Ramanath G, RPI, USA Ramanujan Raju V, NTU, Singapore Ravi Ravindran C, Ryerson University, Canada Sangal Sandeep, IIT Kanpur Sastry GVS, ITBHU Schneider J, TU Darmstadt, Germany Seal Sudipta, UCF, USA Sharma Rajiv, IUSSTF, Delhi Srikanth S, NML, Jamshedpur Sundararajan G, ARCI, Hyderabad Surappa MK, IIT Ropar Wilde G, IMP, Mnster, Germany

Local Organizing Committee Chairperson Prasanna Kumar TS, Head, Dept. MME, IITM Convener Murty BS, MME, IITM Co-Convener Bauri Ranjit, MME, IITM Treasurer Ravi Sankar Kottada, MME, IITM Secretaries Mangesh Lodhe, MME, IITM Niraj Chawake, MME, IITM Members Bakshi Srinivasa Rao, MME, IITM Balasubramanian M, MME, IITM Bhattacharya SS, MME, IITM Chakkingal Uday, MME, IITM Gandhi Ashutosh S, MME, IITM Ganesh Sundara Raman S, MME, IITM Hari Kumar KC, MME, IITM Haridoss Prathap, MME, IITM Janakiram GD, MME, IITM Kamaraj M, MME, IITM Kesavan Nair P, MME, IITM Neelakantan Lakshman, MME, IITM Parthsarthy V, Wave Current Automotive, Chennai Phani Kumar G, MME, IITM Prasad Rao K, MME, IITM Raghavan S, MME, IITM Ravi Kumar NV, MME, IITM Sampath Kumar TS, MME, IITM Sampath V, MME, IITM Sankaran S, MME, IITM Sarkar Sabita, MME, IITM Seshadri SK, MME, IITM Shanmugam P, TII Group Chennai Singh Paramanand, MME, IITM Sridharan VL, ASM International Chennai Chapter Subramanya Sarma V, MME, IITM Sundararajan T, Wheels India Venugopal P, MME, IITM