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12 Jun 2020: Still in lockdown, June 2020. Vegan banana cake. Cherry blossom. Inside of an Amazon Kindle which stopped working. Weed with nice flowers. Back cover of Kindle. Another weed, but nice flower. After some jiggery pokery, the Kindle came alive.

14 Feb 2020: Steve Ooi, Hala Salman Hasan, Andy Howe, Greg Olson, Impact factor. Hala Salman Hasan visits Cambridge, here with Steve Ooi in the Coffee room. Andy Howe retires again, this time as Editor of Materials Science and Technology. Looks too young to me

14 Feb 2020: International Conference on Joining and Welding, Peru. The fourth ICONWELD 2018 conference was held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), which was founded in 1917. The conference was associated with a display of industrial equipment

14 Feb 2020: Harry at the Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST), China. Harry's visit during April 2019 was hosted by Professor Wu Kaiming, and involved research discussions and a lecture on difficulties in the theory of diffusion-controlled growth.

16 Nov 2020: Indian food for Diwali by our Polish colleague Dominik Dziedzic. Diwali celebration at Dominik Dziedzic's apartment. Harry's Diwali. Harry's Diwali. Delicious spiced-tea. Pre-order for March 2021.

14 Feb 2020: Hector Pous Romero: 35 years. Dear Hector,. When you joined us for research, you captured the essence of Cambridge as a place of scholarship and friendship. Through your work, you demonstrated that it is possible to be misled by data that are overly

14 Feb 2020: Chris Hulme-Smith's leaving party. #Chris is leaving the University of Cambridge to join KTH Stockholm as Assistant Professor. This video was taken at the Saffron Restaurant in Cambridge, a leaving party. Photographs and video courtesy of Apparao

14 Feb 2020: View from the top of the Shard. #The Shard is a steel and glass building in London, with the appearance of broken glass with sharp edges. Photographs courtesy of Gebril El-Fallah.

14 Feb 2020: Cleaning the PT Group Laboratory. # Cleaning organised by Chris Hulme-Smith and Dominik Dziedzic. Shaumik Lenka. Shaumik Lenka. Chris Hulme-Smith. Dominik Dziedzic. Ailsa Kiely and Chris.

14 Feb 2020: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureate, visits Spain. #Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureate and President of the Royal Society, visits Santendar for a summer school on biology. He described the structure of ribosomes as revealed using electron

14 Feb 2020: Visitors from Nippon Steel Corporation and Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology. Yasuhira Yamada of the Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, and Teppei Ohkawa of the Nippon Steel Corporation visited Cambridge during

14 Feb 2020: Squash championships, 2019. During 2019, there have to date (March 9th) been 36 matches between Apparao Chintha and Harry Bhadeshia. Each match has five sets, each set three games. The score so far is 17 to 19 and one fifth. The matches take place

18 Apr 2020: Cambridge during lockdown, March-April 2020. To compile a nomenclature list for ordered greek symbols in Latex, nomenclature[ghc]{$Theta$}{Functional response} where g represents Greek, h according to the list, theta and c for upper case theta.

14 Feb 2020: Data-centric engineering and Greg Olson. A Data-centric engineering workshop held at the Samberg Conference Centre, MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts, followed by a visit to Northwestern University to celebrate Greg Olson's change of purpose. The hotel

14 Feb 2020: CBMM meeting in Cambridge. CBMM stands for Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineracao, the largest supplier of niobium in the world. The meeting hosted in Cambridge on the 24th of May was to discuss the metallurgy of particular steels. It was

14 Feb 2020: Munish Sudan visits from Tata Steel (India), March 2019. Following a meeting held at the Moeller Centre in Churchill College, Munish visited the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. And the Cafe West. It is now Spring in Cambridge. Some

14 Feb 2020: Sourabh Chatterjee, Spring, Iraq, Birmingham University. Saurabh Chatterjee and team win a major award for a reduction in the silicon content of a class of steels without compromising properties, at Tata Steel. Spring in Pohang, South Korea.

4 Aug 2020: Events during early August, 2020. Hard copy of Harry's book for checking before sending to publisher. A gift from DebRoy on completion of another book which we co-authored, currently being typeset. Courtesy DebRoy. The wonderful, early-morning

14 Feb 2020: Apparao Chintha wins two awards. #In a competition at the University of Cambridge, Apparao Chintha best poster award. The "highly commended" video shown below is by Apparao Chintha of the University of Cambridge. The sample is a special steel

14 Feb 2020: MSM-Darwin bike ride to St Ives, July 2017. # On a beautiful summers's day, the team from Darwin College and from the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy cycled to St Ives. There was some racing on the way with Mathew Peet winning by 15