Conference Theme

  • Advanced techniques, beamlines and facilities for imaging

  • Advanced techniques, beamlines and facilities for diffraction

  • Crystal or magnetic structure of advanced or complex materials

  • Additive manufacturing

  • Solidification processing

  • Powder sintering

  • Gas-solid reactions

  • Solid-state transformations

  • Field-driven transitions

  • Strain hardening and recrystallization

  • Stress and textures

  • Fatigue and fracture

Program of the 2nd International Workshop

on the Use of Large Science Facilities in Metals Research (ULSFMR)

17-18 February 2025, Auckland, New Zealand

Venue: Campus of the Auckland University of Technology

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Day 1 (17 February 2025)

8:00-9:00 am

  • Registration

9:00-9:30 am

  • Opening speech

9:30-12:00 am

  • Symp. 1: Progress in new synchrotron and neutron sources

10:15-10:45 am

  • Tea break

1:00-3:00 pm

  • Symp. 2: Solidification processing

12:00-2:00 pm

  • Lunch break

3:00-5:15 pm

  • Symp. 3: Studies under extreme conditions

3:30-4:00 pm

  • Tea break

6:00-8:00 pm

  • Gala Dinner

Day 2 (18 February 2025)

9:00-11:00 am

  • Symp. 4: Energy materials

10:30-11:00 am

  • Tea break

11:15-12:30 am

  • Symp. 5: Additive manufacturing

12:30-1:30 pm

  • Lunch break

1:30-3:30 pm

  • Symp. 6: Structure, stress and deformation (

3:30-4:00 pm

  • Tea break

4:00-5:45 pm

  • Symp. 7: Phase transformations

5:45-6:00 pm

  • Closing ceremony