Upcoming Events of the

Upcoming Events of the
Boston Chapter

We've got an exciting program planned for this year — hope to see you at one of our meetings!
To make dinner reservations, please call 800-467-1057
(or make dinner reservations by sending us an email) by Noon on the Tuesday before the meeting.
ASM members                       $25   Spouse of member       $12
Non-members                        $32 Spouse of non-member $27
ASM Member Students         $10
non-ASM Students                $12
There will be a 50% charge in case of no-shows.

September | October | November | December
January | February | March | April | May

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Joint meeting with SAMPE

Subject: Lightweight Materials for Multifunctional Army Applications

Speaker: Dana M. Granville

Materials Applications Branch
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Location: MIT Faculty Club, 6th Floor, 50 Memorial Drive , Cambridge      (Link to Map)    Free Parking north of the building is available after 6:00 PM.

Time: 6:00 PM Social, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Speaker

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Topic: Polarization Measurements on Single-Step, Co-Fired Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Speaker:   Prof. Srikanth Gopalan
Associate Professor
ENG Manufacturing Engineering
Boston University

Location: MIT Faculty Club, 6th Floor, 50 Memorial Drive , Cambridge      (Link to Map)    Free Parking north of the building is available after 6:00 PM.

Time: 6:00 PM Social, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Speaker

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Trustee Night

Topic: Trends in IC Failure Analysis

Speaker: Dr. Larry Wagner
Immediate Past President and Trustee of ASM International

Topic: Optimizing Nanocrystalline Grain Size for High Strain Rate Applications

Student Speaker: Jason Trelewicz

Location: MIT Faculty Club, 6th Floor, 50 Memorial Drive , Cambridge      (Link to Map)    Free Parking north of the building is available after 6:00 PM.

Time: 6:00 PM Social, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Speaker

No Meeting in December 2007

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Topic: Low Life Cycle Cost Natural Gas Reforming for Fuel Cell Forklift Market Application

Nuvera Fuel Cells - Plant Tour

Speaker: Atul Sharma

Nuvera Fuel Cells
129 Concord Road, Building 1
Billerica, MA 01821
Voice: +1.617.245.7500

Please make your reservations the usual way.
No charge for this event.
Light dinner compliments of Nuvera Fuel Cells

Location: for directions please see http://www.nuvera.com/pdf/billerica_directions.pdf

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Joint meeting with ASM Worcester

Topic: Green Technologies: Metal Sortation Strategies for Easy Recycling

Speaker: Dr. Aldo Reti
Director of Marketing and Sales
wTe Corporation

Student Speaker's Topic: Modeling Methods for Managing Raw Material Compositional Uncertainty in Alloy Production

Student Speaker: Gabrielle Gaustad
PhD Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
MIT Expected Graduation May 2009
MIT-Dupont Alliance Fellow 2004-2005
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award Winner 2005-2008

Location: Bella Costa Ristorante
147 Cochituate Rd.
Framingham, MA 01701
(508) 626-1726
http://www.bellacosta.net

Time: 6:00 PM Social, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Speaker

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Medical Device Industry Panel Discussion

Panelists: The panel consists of recognized experts in the medical devices field who are involved with innovative materials.

Name

Title

Company

Products

Ginger Abraham-Freel, PhD

Senior Manager,
Biomaterials Development

Organogenesis, Inc.,
Canton , MA

Tissue engineered membranes, patches,
scaffolds, based on porcine small intestine

Carol Devellian

VP R&D

NMT Medical, Inc.,
Boston , MA

Minimally invasive cardiac implants to treat stroke, migraine

Dave Martin, PhD

Director, R&D

Tepha, Inc.,
Cambridge , MA

Bioabsorbable polymers produced thru recombinant DNA

David Spenciner

Consultant

Rhode Island Hospital
Orthopedic Foundation

Specialized durability testing of orthopedic products

Kate Stohlman

VP of Quality and Regulatory Affairs

Viacor, Inc.

Minimally invasive mitral valve replacement

Krishna Venugopalan, PhD

Principal Engineer,
R&D

Codman & Shurtleff – J&J, Raynham, MA

Neuro-products – drug pumps, shunts, drug-loaded catheters, also NiTi stents

Location: MIT Faculty Club, 6th Floor, 50 Memorial Drive , Cambridge (Link to Map)

Free parking is available (see Link to Map):

·         E-51 Lot on Amherst St. at Wadsworth St .

·         Hayward Lot, on Hayward St. off Amherst St .

General Schedule:
6:00-6:30 PM Social,
6:30-7:45 Sit-down Dinner,
7:45-8:00 Break,
8:00-9:15 Panel Discussion,
9:15 Adjourn

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Spouses Night

Topic: Ancient Shipwrecks in the Deep Mediterranean Sea: The Search for the Origins of Civilization

Speaker: Dr. Brendan Foley, Research Associate,
Deep Submergence Lab of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Lecturer in History of Technology, MIT

Student Speaker's Topic: Synthetic Nanotopographic Templates for Vascular Tissue EngineeringA

Speaker: Chris Bettinger,
Laboratory of Professor Robert Langer,
Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT

Location: MIT Faculty Club, 6th Floor, 50 Memorial Drive , Cambridge      (Link to Map)

Free parking is available (see Link to Map):

·         E-51 Lot on Amherst St. at Wadsworth St .

·         Hayward Lot, on Hayward St. off Amherst St .

Time: 6:00 PM Social, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Speaker

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Fellow, Award, Past Chair, Sustaining Members Night

Topic: Tribute to Prof. Regis Pelloux, FASM

Speaker: Various

Location: MIT Faculty Club, 6th Floor, 50 Memorial Drive , Cambridge      (Link to Map)

Free parking is available (see Link to Map):

·         E-51 Lot on Amherst St. at Wadsworth St .

·         Hayward Lot, on Hayward St. off Amherst St .

Time: 6:00 PM Social, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Speaker

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Upcoming Events of the Boston Chapter

Upcoming Events of the
Boston Chapter