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8 Sep 2022: Rian and Antoinette Dippenaar visit Cambridge. Rian Dippenaar did his Ph.D. in the Department of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, in 1968, under the supervision of Professor Robert Honeycombe. They together solved the mechanism by which

24 May 2021: 60 mile bike ride, 23rd of May 2021. The cycling season is off to a gentle start, with pandemic precautions in place. Along the later sections of the route, we (Dominik Dziedzic, Steve Ooi, Harry Bhadeshia) battled wind and rain and felt quite

14 Feb 2020: Bartek Glowacki, Steve Ooi, Hung-Wei Yen. Professor Bartek Glowacki on a sunny day in Cambridge. Darwin College. Chen, Hung-Wei Yen, visiting from the Taiwan National University. Steve Ooi on the right. Chen and Hung-Wei in the Darwin College parlour

14 Feb 2020: Kouichi Murakami visits after 30 years. Kouichi Murakami completed his Ph.D. research at Cambridge during 1993. He is now Chief Executive for Technology at IHI in Japan. IHI is a major engineering industry, formerly known as Ishikawajima Harima

14 Feb 2020: Snow, mountains, Switzerland, Snowflake, EBSD cake. Apart from the first one, the photographs were all taken in Switzerland, about 3 hours drive from Zurich, during December 2017. The cake pictures are from South Africa. A flake of snow,

14 Feb 2020: Professor Nirupam Chakraborti honoured in Sweden. #Professor Nirupam Chakraborti of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, has been awarded by International Association of Advanced Materials, the Scientist Medal. The award ceremony was

8 Oct 2022: An illustration of mixing. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Some ink dropped into a jar of ware to show mixing, both by diffusion and a very small amount of flow.

14 Feb 2020: Crystallography, Horses, Amir, Aviation. Shaumik Lenka doing high-resolution two-surface analysis on. bainite sub-units. Shaumik Lenka doing high-resolution two-surface analysis on. bainite sub-units. Habit plane, true shear, orientation. on single

14 Feb 2020: Membre d'Honneur. Harry was elected to an Honorary Membership of the Société Française de Métallurgie et de Matériaux, SF2M. Journey begins with coffee at Cambridge Railway Station. Arrival at King’s Cross Station in London. Tube journey to

14 Feb 2020: Steel tower. #Photographs courtesy of Dominik Dziedzic and Apparao Chintha.

7 Jan 2021: Comberton to Toft walk during lockdown. Lots of mud. Stream. This might be field of kale. Beacon in case the Vikings attack. Bridge - with helpful arrow to show direction. Sounds good - already had two cups. Not sure whether this refers to the

8 Oct 2022: Rail moving points. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. The French high-speed rail authorities have mandated that moving points must be made from the carbide-free bainitic steel.

21 Dec 2020: December 2020. Equations generated during a conversation with Hamilton Abreau. Socially distanced walk in the forest. Harry, facing Queen's Common before entering Darwin College. Futile attempt at repairing a coffee machine. Even after buying a

14 Feb 2020: Cycle race to St Ives, 20th May 2017. This was a timed race from the beginning of the guided busway in Cambridge to the bus stop in St Ives. Harry won this against Apparao Chinta, Gebril El-Fallah and Dominik Dziedzic with a time of just under 43

21 Sep 2023: Visit to China Steel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Harry visited China Steel (September, 2023) to deliver a talk on entitled machine learning - steels - artificial intelligence?, and then have a holiday at the southernmost tip of Taiwan. Professor Jer Ren

30 Aug 2022: Baking hot, bicycles, additive manufacturing, Russia, Malaysia, Queen Mary University of London. The pond in Comberton, completely barren with all water evaporated due to the heat wave and lack of rain. This is the Comberton pond in 2001 when we had

8 Oct 2022: X-ray diffraction equipment. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Desktop X-ray diffraction machines for teaching undergraduates the way diffraction data are collected. Everything is manual, for example, the manipulation of the Geiger counter as a function of

14 Feb 2020: Bicycle race from Cambridge to St Ives, 6th January 2018. This is the first bicycle race held by the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. On the 6th of January, the participants raced from Cambridge to St Ives. The first five to complete

11 Jul 2020: Mostly cycling, but not entirely, July 2020. Antarctica, picture courtesy of Sunita Hansraj. Antarctica, picture courtesy of Sunita Hansraj. Antarctica, picture courtesy of Sunita Hansraj. Eliran Bar in Darwin College, assembled this bicycle from

14 Feb 2020: Chocolates from Mexico, and visitors from Mehran University. Wilberth Alvarez Solano brought these chocolates from Mexico. Cocao originates from Mexico and Central America. Apparao Chintha, Gebril El-Fallah and Wilberth. Professor Tauha Hussain Ali