Recently retired VP of research at General Motors to give the Kelly Lecture

after work rush hour Credit: Andreas from Flickr Creative Commons

after work rush hour Credit: Andreas from Flickr Creative Commons

Alan Taub will give the Fourteenth Kelly Lecture at 5.30pm in the Babbage Lecture Theatre as part of the Armourers and Brasiers’ Cambridge Forum, on Wednesday 27 June 2012.


Taub will speak on "Materials challenges for a sustainable automotive industry"."



Taub will speak on “Materials challenges for a sustainable automotive industry”.

The Armourers and Brasiers’ Cambridge Forum is based in the Babbage Lecture Theatre on the University’s New Museums Site and starts with registration at 1.30 pm.

It is held annually by the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy in Cambridge with the aim of raising the profile of materials science in the UK academic and industrial communities, while being international in scope.

The five talks before the Kelly Lecture are on a wide variety of topics:

Julian Allwood (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) – “Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open”

Professor Matt Rosseinsky (Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool) - New inorganic materials for energy applications

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Andrew Bloodworth (British Geological Survey) -”Between a rock and a hard place: how sustainable is critical metal supply?”

Nigel Knee (Head of Nuclear Policy, EDF Energy) -” Nuclear new build in the UK – forging ahead”

Professor George Smith (University of Oxford) – “Where the atoms are: Cottrell atmospheres and other recent applications of atom-probe tomography”

The Forum will also see the award of the annual Materials Science Venture Prize from the Armourers and Brasiers’ Company.

The annual Forum attracts high-level involvement from industry, research councils and other influential bodies. It incorporates the Kelly Lecture and the Gordon Seminars, inaugurated in 1999 to mark the opening of the Gordon Laboratory in the Department.
The Guild of St. George of the Armourers was instituted in 1322 when regulations were laid down for control of the trade. The arms of the Brasiers’ Company were joined with those of the Armourers after 1708. A large fraction of the charitable giving of the Company supports Materials Science education from primary school to research-student level and beyond.

Attendance is free and open to anyone interested. For more details on the Forum, including the full programme, and to register, click on the event link above right.

 
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