TMS Announces Call for Abstracts for 2010 Annual Meeting, Launches Web Site

Abstract

Long-time TMS members Vaclav " Vasek" Vitek and Jim Evans will receive accolades at the Annual Meeting with honorary symposia. Vitek, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, will be honored with the Vasek Vitek Honorary Symposium on Crystal Defects, Computational Materials Science and Applications. Vitek is described by symposium organizers as one of the founders of computational materials science. Jim Evans, Professor of Metallurgy Emeritus and the P.