Conference of Metallurgists, COM 2006

International Symposium on Magnesium Technology
in the Global Age

Magnesium with its high specific strength is an important material for today's key industries, such as automotive, aerospace, and electronics. In the last century, the small scale of the industry has been an obstacle to its widespread use especially in cost sensitive applications of the automotive industry. The International Symposium on Magnesium Technology, under the sponsorship of METSOC and TMS, will bring together the international industrial and research communities in order to acknowledge the progress in the global R&D effort in 2006. The symposium will review the recent technological advances in the area of magnesium and its applications. In the land of the original Pidgeon process, magnesium companies and many magnesium projects, this Canadian conference will be a homecoming for the Global Magnesium. Sessions will include:

• Magnesium primary production and market trends
• Magnesium casting and casting alloys
• Magnesium wrought alloys, deformation, forming
• Microstructural characterization
• Corrosion and corrosion protection of magnesium
• Joining technologies and advanced processes
• Industrial applications.

Mihriban O. Pekguleryuz
McGill University
3610 University Street
Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2B2
Tel.: (514) 398-1528
Fax: (514) 387-4492
E-mail: mihriban.pekguleryuz@mcgill.ca

DEADLINES
Submission of abstracts: November 30, 2005
Notification to authors: February 1, 2006
Submission of papers: March 31, 2006