The University of Tennessee hosted the Fourth International Conference on High-Entropy Materials (ICHEM) from June 19 to June 23, 2023. This conference brings together leading researchers from around the world to share exciting results and insights regarding high entropy alloys and oxides.
ICHEM 2023 in Knoxville attracted 129 registered participants from across the United States and internationally, including representatives from Australia, France, Germany, Korea, New Zealand, and Taiwan. Previous installments of ICHEM took place in Hsinchu, Taiwan (2016); Jeju, South Korea (2018); and Berlin, Germany (2020).
Professor Bill Curtin of Brown University gave a keynote lecture titled “Theory-guided Design of High-strength, Ductile, Single-phase BCC High Entropy Alloys.”
The conference included four days of talks and posters here in Knoxville. Four plenary speakers included Professor Bill Curtin of Brown University, Professor Jon-Paul Maria of Penn State University, Professor Uwe Glatzel of the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and Professor Robert Cava of Princeton University.
The closing banquet at ICHEM 2023.
In addition to the many excellent presentations, the conference also provided an environment for the fertile exchange of ideas. An organized group hike took advantage of Knoxville’s reputation as the “Gateway to the Smokies,” and attendees enjoyed other social events, including the closing banquet.
Organizing an international conference takes a year (or more if postponed by a pandemic) of advance preparation. Many thanks to the diligent work of the members of the local organizing committee: Professor Veerle Keppens, head of MSE; Dr. T. Zac Ward, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; MSE Professor Emeritus Easo George; and current MSE faculty members Assistant Professor Dustin Gilbert, Professor Peter Liaw, and Assistant Professor Katherine Page.