A summary of the CALPHAD XXXIX conference

CALPHAD XXXIX (May 23–28, 2010) was held in Jeju, Korea, organized by Byeong-Joo Lee, Chang-Seok Oh, Joonho Lee, Jae-Hyeok Shim and Hyuck Mo Lee. 125 registered participants presented 73 oral contributions and 52 posters, including 5 invited talks by experimental researchers from various materials research fields in a specially inserted session named “experiments that need thermodynamic analysis”. Poster sessions were held on the evening of Monday and Tuesday. A “Young Calphadian Meeting” was also organized on Tuesday evening after the poster session with A. Pelton, B. Sundman and J. Ågren as invited speakers. There was a conference excursion to the Jeju forkvillage during Wednesday afternoon. The Best Paper Award for papers published in 2009 in the CALPHAD journal and a Best Poster Award for one of the conference’s posters were conferred during the conference dinner on Wednesday evening. The abstracts and titles of oral presentations and titles of poster presentations are summarized in this report.