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14 Feb 2020: John Ray Lecture, St Catherine's College, Cambridge. The talk by Harry was followed by dinner with students (Presidents of the John Ray Society) from the College, at the Ivy Restaurant in Cambridge.

14 Feb 2020: Baby daughter, Hee Young and Jae Hoon Jang (and steel). Hee Young and Jae Hoon Jang have a baby daughter, who already has been introduced to steels. Photographs courtesy of Jae Hoon Jang.

14 Feb 2020: Arunim Ray and Wilberth Solano Alvarez in a mine. Following their studies at Cambridge University, both Arunim and Wilberth end up in an underground mine.

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.

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: UK-China Steel Symposium, July 2018. The symposium was held at the University of Birmingham, organised by Professors Hanshan Dong (Birmingham University) and Hongbiao Dong (Leicester University). There were about 180 participants, including staff

14 Feb 2020: Suresh Babu, tensile specimens, nuts from Libya, nibbles from China. Suresh Babu gives a talk on welding and additive manufacturing. Valve on bicycle tyre. Shaumik Lenka's beautiful tensile specimens. Shaumik Lenka's beautiful tensile specimens.

14 Feb 2020: Open day, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. # The LMB will be opening its doors to all on Saturday 17 June. Mathew Peet was involved in the task of explaining scientific principles to children. César Milstein was a Fellow of Darwin

14 Feb 2020: Lulea University of Technology (LUT), Sweden. Harry visited LUT in order to deliver two lectures on steels and to discuss research and teaching with the staff and students in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics. Some images

14 Feb 2020: Sites and Sounds. # A fairly random collection of images, including one from the 1993 Gordon Conference. Steel samples designed to study distortion during quenching. The set for "Matilda", a musical at the Cambridge Theatre in London. The set for

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: Failed Suffolk 100 mile bike ride. Steve Ooi, Apparao Chintha, Gebril El Fallah and Harry Bhadeshia attempted the 100 mile Suffolk bike ride on the 16th of September 2018. Departed around 5.15 a.m. in Steves car which can hold three bikes, and Gebril

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: Crystals, polycrystals and phase transformations. # Crystals represent order. ABCABSCABCABCABCABC., not. On Wendy and Dominik’s desks. Shaumik Lenka. Apparao Chintha and Shaumik Lenka. Di Wen’s desk. Professor Dong Woo Suh, POSTECH, South Korea.

14 Feb 2020: The Jominy End Quench Test. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. A heat treatment that causes steel to harden is so much more than the meer plunging of hot metal into a fluid that is often a liquid. The initial red-hot state represents the austenitic condition

14 Feb 2020: Harry at the Norwegian Research Council in Oslo.

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.

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

11 Mar 2021: Professor Kazutoshi Ichikawa wins awards. Professor Kazutoshi Ichikawa (PT Group Member) of Tohoku University has been awarded two major prizes for highly-ductile steel plate for shipbuilding. The first by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure,

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

14 Feb 2020: Professor Zhinan Yang returns to Yanshan University. Professor Zhinan Yang, who is translating the third edition of Bainite in Steels, left the University of Cambridge to return to Yanshan University.

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: Konark Sun Temple. The Konrak Sun Temple is not far from Puri on the coastline of Oshida, India. There was a steel metallurgy conference held in the vicinity. Pictures courtesy of Apparao Chintha. The temple itself is from 150 BCE.

14 Feb 2020: Gebril El-Fallah and Mathew Peet. # Gebril returned from his trip to see his family in Libya, bearing gifts. Also, Mathew Peet in action at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

4 Oct 2020: Apparao Chintha, Prasad Kopparthi and Gopi Krishna Chejarla, go cycling. October 2020. This has to be one of the most beautiful locations to cycle in. I think this is close to Dimla Lake. Pre-order for March 2021.

2 Oct 2020: Apparao Chintha, Prasad Kopparthi and Gopi Krishna Chejarla, go cycling, October 2020. Appa has now submitted his Ph.D. thesis, so he bought a new bicycle, and the three colleagues from TATA Steel Research and Development in Jamshedpur, India, went

14 Feb 2020: 40th Risø International Symposium on Materials Science, 2019. The Risø International Symposium on Materials Science celebrated its 40. th. anniversary. The meeting was held in Roskilde, Denmark. Hair dressing salon in Roskilde. Walk-in service for

14 Feb 2020: Apparao Chintha at AIST. Apparao attended the American Institute for Steel Technology meeting in Philadelphia. At this meeting, Anand Sen of Tata Steel was presented the Steelmaker of the Year Award. Photographs courtesy of Apparao Chintha.

18 May 2024: Dr Apparao Chintha promoted to Principal Scientist, May 2024. Apparao Chintha (PT Group Member) has been promoted at Tata Steel, Jamshedpur. He will now report to the Chief of Product Development Research. Appa qualified as a Bachelor in Metallurgy

14 Feb 2020: Harry at the Baltic National University, Kaliningrad, Russian Federation. Harry was at the Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad, Russia, during late October 2018, with NUST MISIS colleagues to report on progress in the context of the 5-100

14 Feb 2020: Farnborough Air Show 2018. Photographs of the show courtesy of Dominik Dziedzic. Farnborough is the home of the Royal Aircraft Establishment and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch. Nevil Shutte's book "No Highway", published in 1948, where Mr

11 Mar 2021: Innovations in everyday engineering materials. Dispels the notion that science and engineering are overly intellectual, abstract and often disconnected from everyday, real-world experience. Or in plain language, a thrilling book. Published 2021.

14 Feb 2020: 2019 Wuhan Forum on Materials Frontiers. The symposium was held at the Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST). Wuhan has the largest population of University students in the world, some 1.3 million. The sky as the aircraft approached the

14 Feb 2020: Harry in Jamshedpur, India. During September 2018, a memorable time at the Tata Steel Laboratories in Jamshedpur. Connected with Saurabh Chatterjee (Darwin College Cambridge and PT Group member) in Kolkata. A swollen river, image taken from the

14 Feb 2020: 8th meeting of the International Scientific Advisor Council of NUST-MISIS, Moscow, Russian Federation, October 2017. Some photographs courtesy of Joe Shinar. At Heathrow airport. At Heathrow airport. Arrival in Moscow, rain. The next day, walking

21 Apr 2024: Slide presentations. Automotive Steels. Bainite. POSCO Lectures on Bainite. Bainitic pipe. Cologne 2014. Percolation of phases, MST 2015. Buildings. Cast Iron. Austempered ductile cast iron. Carbides. Creep. Crystallography. Diffusion. Dispersion

14 Feb 2020: Chia Hooi Too and Don Ri Yuen visit after 15 years. # Both Chia and Don were students in Cambridge. They then got married and in November 2017 visited Cambridge some 15 years after leaving. They both have very successful technology-based careers in

14 Feb 2020: Guo Lei leaves Cambridge. # Dr Guo Lei leaves Cambridge after successfully completing his Ph.D. thesis. Photographs courtesy of Apparao Chintha.

26 Apr 2024: Wilberth Solano in Cambridge, April 2024. Wilberth Solano (PT Group member) visited Cambridge for discussions about a review paper that they have been writing for almost seven years. Here we are having lunch at Darwin College before doing any actual

11 Mar 2024: Dongwoo Suh becomes Dean of GIFT, POSTECH, March 2024. Many, many congratulations to Professor Dongwoo Suh who is now the Dean of the Graduate Institute of Ferrous and Energy Materials Technology (GIFT) at POSTECH in South Korea. He continues to

23 Feb 2020: Steve Ooi visits Japan, February 2020. People waiting to cross the street at the right signal. Night. Tokyo Skytree, the tallest structure in Japan, made from steel and some steel-reinforced concrete. View of Tokyo from the top of the Skytree. View

14 Feb 2020: Harry at Mekhanobr-tekhnika (St Petersburg), and then the St Petersburg Polytechnic Institute. After Moscow, Harry went on to Mekhanobr-tekhnika in the beautiful city of St Petersburg. Mekhanobr Teknika is a research and engineering company based in

14 Feb 2020: AWS Symposium to honour Stan David and Tarashankar DebRoy. #A meeting organised by the Americal Welding Society, was held in Chicago during November 2017 to honour two colleagues who have distinguished themselves when it comes to welding and joining:

14 Feb 2020: Harry at Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, September 2017. # Harry spent a couple of weeks at the Tata Steel Research Laboratory in Jamshedpur, India. Some photographs courtesy of Saurabh Kundu and Sandip Ghosh Chowdhary. Saturday meal at the Kundu residence,

14 Feb 2020: Harry at the Tata Steel Laboratories in Jamshedpur, India, June 2019. The main research and development laboratories of Tata Steel in India are located in Jamshedpur, the origin of the mass production of steel in Asia. Taking advantage of the

14 Feb 2020: Helena and Gebril get married. The ceremony was held at the new Cambridge Central Mosque, with its elegant and spacious wooden architectural "trees". These trees are entirely wooded and form a canopy with considerable curvature. Steve Ooi and family

14 Feb 2020: Physical Metallurgy Conference in Poland. The Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science Conference is held in Poland every three years, on behalf of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The Conference was Chaired by Professor Boguslaw Major. Physical

26 Apr 2024: Kazutoshi Ichikawa and colleagues honoured, April 2024. Ichikawa is on the left. The award (2024) is in recognition of outstanding Science and Technology, by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The award citation is

4 Jul 2024: Cast Irons. Miguel Angel Yescas-Gonzalez and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Cast irons typically contain 2-4 wt% of carbon with a high silicon concentrations and a greater concentration of impurities than steels. The carbon equivalent (CE) of a cast iron