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CONFERENCES AND FIELD TRIP FUNDING
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1. METSOC CONFERENCES AND METSOC-SPONSORED CONFERENCES
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1.1 THE CONFERENCE OF METALLURGISTS
The Conference of Metallurgists is held each year in August. It is an established international conference consisting of
symposia which attract experts from all over the world. It also includes scientific and technical workshops of extremely
high caliber, a trade show and industrial visits. Students are encouraged to participate through technical presentations,
attendance of section meeting and special events, such as the student-industry mixer.
In 2008 the Conference will be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba. For more information on the conference
please go to http://www.metsoc.org/com2008
For further information, please contact:
Brigitte Farah
Manager, Administration & Meeting Planning
MetSoc of CIM
3400 de Maisonneuve West
Suite 855, Xerox Tower
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3Z 3B8
Tel.: (514) 939-2710 ext. 1329
Fax: (514) 939-9160
Email: bfarah@cim.org
TRAVEL FUNDING FOR THE COM
- General MetSoc Funding
The student activities budget allocates up to $4,000.00 Cdn in travel funding for student members of CIM who wish to attend the
conference. Requests are pooled and funds are distributed to cover a fair proportion of each student's travel costs.
Registration and accommodations are not included. Priority is given to students presenting a poster, and to Canadian
student members traveling within Canada.
- COM Student Travel Policy
All student members of CIM are eligible for student travel funding. To apply, please mail or fax to the MetSoc
adminstrator the following: a letter requesting travel funding, specifying:
- the name of the conference
- your name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address
- what school you represent
- where you will be travelling from
- if you are travelling in a group by car
- include an abstract of your poster
Students are advised of final decision in early August.
Click Here for Application Form
The deadline for application is June 15th. If you apply before June 15th, and
are presenting a poster, a portion of your travel expenses will be reimbursed
(by least expensive/reasonable means).
Funding will be considered first for presenters and second for attendees.
- COM Student Monitors
Students can become part of the COM as student monitors for technical sessions. Its an excellent opportunity to network and earn some extra cash. For more details
click here!
- Funding From the Technical Sections
- Iron and Steel Section:
This section will fund students for their travel expenses upon request only. Funding allocation fluctuates yearly and remains
at the discretion of the Section's Committee.
Send requests for funding to MetSoc's administrator.
The Technical Section contact is:
Priti Wanjara
Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Centre
National Research Council Canada Government of Canada
PO 40 Station Cote des Neiges
Montreal, Quebec, H3S 2S4
Tel.: (514) 283-9380
Email: priti.wanjara@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca
- Mineral Sciences and Engineering Section:
This section has a budget of $1000.00 Cdn per year to help students in Mineral, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering
to attend the Conference of Metallurgists, as long as a Mineral Sciences and Engineering Section sponsored symposium
or general session is scheduled and the student is expecting to present his/her paper in one of those sessions.
The program covers the registration fee only. Send requests for funding to MetSoc's administrator.
The Technical Section contact is:
Sadan Kelebek
Mining Engineering
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
Email: sadan.kelebek@mine.queensu.ca
- Non-Ferrous Pyrometallurgy:
$500.00 Cdn will be allocated per student member presenting either an oral paper or a poster in Non-Ferrous Pyrometallurgy,
at the COM, to a maximum of 10 students. Send requests for funding to MetSoc's administrator.
The Technical Section contact is:
Jin Liu
Inco Ltd.
2060 Flavelle Blvd
Sheridan Park
Mississauga, Ontario L5K 1Z9
Tel.: (905) 403-2616
Email: jin.liu@valeinco.com
1.2 ANNUAL CIM HYDROMETALLURGICAL MEETING
The Annual Hydrometallurgical Meeting has always been regarded as the broadest forum for the exchange of new ideas and
is an excellent occasion to meet old friends and colleagues. In addition, in recent years, the accompanying short course
has been perceived as one of the finest in the area, and is again intended to be so on this occasion.
For information on this year's Hydrometallurgy meeting please go to
www.hydrometallurgysection.org
TRAVEL FUNDING FOR THE ANNUAL HYDROMETALLURGY MEETING
The Hydrometallurgy Section can provide travel funding for graduate students, and exceptional undergraduate
students, involved in the field of Hydrometallurgy wishing to attend this conference. The funding is calculated
according to the following formula:
The formula for funds allocation is:
- $100.00 Cdn per 1000 km to destination;
- $50.00 Cdn per day, for food and accommodations;
- $200.00 Cdn to attend a short course related to Hydrometallurgy;
- A maximum of $600.00 is allowed per student.
The application should provide the following information:
- A summary (1 page) of the graduate research project;
- A letter from the thesis director to support application.
To be eligible a student should be involved in a project related to hydrometallurgy
Send Requests for funding to MetSoc's manager.
The Technical Section contact is:
David G. Dixon
Associate Professor
Dept. Metals and Materials Engineering
University of British Columbia
6350 Stores Road
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4
Tel.: (604) 822-3679
Fax: (604) 822-3619
Email: dixon@interchange.ubc.ca
Deadline: June 30
1.3 THE CANADIAN MATERIALS SCIENCE CONFERENCE
The Canadian Materials Science Conference (CMSC) is usually held in mid-June at a Canadian university. The conference
provides an informal atmosphere for 150 delegates and encourages wide-ranging participation from graduate students
while bringing to the conference distinguished researchers from the United States and abroad for the more sharply
focused workshops and symposia. The CMSC invites research papers on the processing, microstructure, and properties of
materials. Submissions are organized into oral and poster presentations. To encourage student participation, financial
assistance is provided by the Metallurgical Society of CIM for students traveling more than 500 km to the conference.
The CMSC traces its beginning to 1951 when the Canadian metal physics conference was founded as an annual meeting at the
royal military college of Canada in Kingston by Professor T.S. Hutchison of RMC and Professor W.C. Winegard of the
University of Toronto. The conference has slowly evolved over the years. In 1976, a concurrent Canadian metal chemistry
conference was begun through the efforts of professor J.M. Toguri of the University of Toronto and Professor C.W. Bale of
Ecole Polytechnique. In 1989, the more inclusive and more appropriate name of Canadian materials science conference was
adopted. Since then, the conference has matured from the original three-day format to include a week long meeting with
poster sessions, workshops and symposia with published proceedings. The 20th CMSC will be held at the University
of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in June 2008. Abstracts must be submitted before March 1st, 2008.
For more information, email all questions to
metsoc@cim.org or
reg.eadie@ualberta.ca
For students traveling more than 500 km to the conference, funding is available on a first come first serve basis from the Metallurgical
Society of CIM. Students must present a request for funding to MetSoc's administrator:
Brigitte Farah
Manager, Administration & Meeting Planning
The Metallurgical Society of CIM
3400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Suite 855, Xerox Tower
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3Z 3B8
Telephone: (514) 939-2710 ext. 1329
Fax: (514) 939-9160
Email: bfarah@cim.org
Applications must be made by May 15th.
For Students travelling more than 1000 km to the Conference, additional funding can be arranged through some Technical
Sections of MetSoc of CIM:
Iron and Steel
Up to $800.00 Cdn is available each year to students presenting either an oral paper or a poster in the fields of
Iron and Steel at the CMSC.
Send requests for funding to MetSoc's adminstrator.
The Technical Section contact is:
Priti Wanjara
Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Centre
National Research Council Canada Government of Canada
PO 40 Station Cote des Neiges
Montreal, Quebec, H3S 2S4
Tel.: (514) 283-9380
Email: priti.wanjara@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca
Materials Performance and Integrity
Send request for funding to MetSoc's administrator.
The Technical Section contact is:
Zoheir Farhat
Department of Materials Engineering
Dalhousie University
1360 Barrington Street
Halifax, NS, Canada B3J 2X4
Tel.: (902) 494-3745
Fax: (902) 420-7636
Email: zoheir.farhat@dal.ca
1.4 CIM ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The CIM's annual general meeting is held alternately in every major city in Canada, and features technical presentations, forums,
workshops, poster sessions, field trips, social events and the Tradex. For information on this year's conference please visit
http://www.cim.org
1.5 ANNUAL CANADIAN MINERAL PROCESSORS MEETING
The Canadian mineral processors division of CIM holds its annual meeting every year in Ottawa during the 3rd full week of
January.
Info:
http://www.c-m-p.on.ca/
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2. CIM FIELD TRIPS
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2.1 METSOC FIELD TRIP FUNDING
CIM will provide funding to every school for one field trip per year. CIM will allocate $25.00 Cdn per Joint Student
Chapter member participating in the field trip. An official record of attendance must be presented to MetSoc's
membership coordinator once the field trip is completed. Payment will be made at that time. There is a limit of
$800 per school and a maximum budget for the program. First-come-first-served. Only one cheque is issued per
school, per year.(Click here for application form)
2.2 MINERALS SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING SECTION FUNDING
The mineral sciences and engineering technical section will contribute $1000.00 Cdn towards one class field
trip per year. Only one university per year is selected for funding. Requests for funding should be made by a
professor to the section chairman or to the education committee.
For more information, contact:
Sadan Kelebek
Mining Engineering
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
Email: sadan.kelebek@mine.queensu.ca
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3. TMS CONFERENCES
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TMS offers a variety of regularly scheduled technical conferences targeting the science and engineering of minerals,
metals, and materials. These meetings provide a forum for the exchange of technical information, as well as an opportunity
for informal discussions and networking with colleagues working in academia, industry, and government. International in
scope, TMS conferences are often co-sponsored by other societies, providing an added potential for information exchange in
specific disciplines. As a benefit of membership, registration fees for TMS student members are either free or substantially
reduced. Info: Meeting Services, Tel.: (724) 776-9000, ext. 243; Fax (724) 776-3770.
For mor information on upcoming TMS meetings please visit
http://www.tms.org/Meetings/Meetings.asp
3.1 SHORT COURSES
All five TMS technical divisions sponsor short courses at the TMS annual meeting and/or regionally to provide attendees with a
concentrated continuing education program on timely subject matter. The courses
may provide enlightenment on an emerging technology,
act as a refresher, or review a particular topic. Courses may be technical or geared to general professional development, such as
customer service or quality management. The majority of TMS courses are related to technical symposia and are often held one or two
days prior to the start of the meeting to avoid overlap with technical programming. Regional continuing education courses are held
in a selected geographic area where a specific industrial emphasis is concentrated.
Info: Education, Tel.: (724) 776-9000 Fax: (724) 776-3770; Email: raabe@tms.org.
3.2 STUDENT/FACULTY MIXERS
A part of both the TMS annual meeting and the TMS fall meeting, the student/faculty mixer is an informal social gathering
among students and faculty advisors from various colleges and universities, and various leaders in the materials field
from research, industry, and academia. Music and refreshments are provided free of charge. The mixer, an excellent networking
opportunity for students and faculty, customarily concludes the TMS student forum on careers held during materials week.
Info: Member Services, Tel.: (724) 776-9000 Fax: (724) 776-3770.
3.3 STUDENT MONITORS
TMS student members may defray expenses while attending TMS meetings and symposia by serving as a monitor
during sessions. Student monitors operate audio/visual equipment and tabulate attendance for varied fees.
Info: Member Services, Tel.: (724) 776-9000, ext. 259; Fax: (724) 776-3770.
3.4 STUDENT CHAPTER TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENTS
Each active TMS Student Chapter is allotted $500 per year to use for travel-reimbursement funds for TMS student
members to attend the TMS annual meeting or MS&T. Faculty advisors may
distribute these funds at their discretion to student members who apply for reimbursement. Info: Member Services, Tel.:
(724) 776-9000, ext. 259; Fax: (724) 776-3770; Email:
bstone@tms.org.
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