Assoc. Prof. Roman Gröger, Dr. Milan Heczko, and Ph.D. student Ankit Yadav represented the research conducted at the Institute of Physics of Materials of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IPM CAS) at the 155th annual congress of materials science and engineering, TMS2026.
This event, the largest of its kind in the world, attended this year by approximately 4,500 scientists in San Diego, CA, USA, industry experts, and professionals from around the globe, is organized by the American organization The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
As part of the conference’s extensive program, Dr. Milan Heczko delivered an invited lecture titled: „Structure, Morphology, Coarsening and Strengthening Behavior of MX Nanoprecipitates in FCC Solid Solution Based Alloys“ which presented new findings on the mechanisms of precipitation hardening in a wide range of alloys, including newly studied materials developed in collaboration with NASA and The Ohio State University. Dr. Heczko’s second lecture focused on comparing the properties of cast and 3D-printed materials based on the CrCoNi chemical composition under cyclic loading conditions: „Fatigue Properties of CrCoNi-Based Multi-Principal Element Alloys – The Effects of Additively Manufactured (L-PBF) Microstructure“.
Assoc. Prof. Roman Gröger gave a presentation titled „Theoretical-Experimental Probe Into the Early Stage of AlN/Si Epitaxy“. Ankit Yadav then presented a talk on: „Towards Accurate Nanocrystalline Aluminum Simulations: A Comparative Analysis of MEAM and Machine Learning Potentials“.
Dr. Milan Heczko co-organized and co-chaired the symposium „Advanced Characterization Techniques for Quantifying and Modeling Deformation“, which attracted nearly a hundred speakers and was among the most attended and followed symposia at the conference. The symposium was divided into seven thematic sections, which included mechanical testing, the study of local heterogeneities, diffraction techniques and synchrotron measurements, electron microscopy, as well as SEM and EBSD techniques, and, last but not least, simulation and modeling. The symposium’s program was developed through international collaboration with Prof. Wolfgang Pantleon (Technical University of Denmark), Prof. Irene Beyerlein (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), Dr. Hi Vo (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), and Prof. Cem Tasan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA).
Prof. Michael Mills (Ohio State University, USA), a long-time collaborator with researchers at the Institute of Mathematics and Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚFM AVČR), also presented in his plenary lecture the results of ongoing collaboration on the Junior Star (24-11058M) and OP JAK MEBioSys (CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004634). As part of the conference program, Prof. Mills received the prestigious Professor William D. Nix Award for his lifetime contributions to the field of materials science.
Link to the TMS2026 website: https://www.tms.org/TMS2026/
