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16 Jun 2024: Phase Transformations & Complex. Properties Research Group. Queen Mary University of London. Emeritus Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy. University of Cambridge. Ph.D. student. Rajdeep Mondal. rajdeep.mondal@qmul.ac.uk. Honorary Associates. The

28 Jun 2024: Steels for rails. W. Solano-Alvarez and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. Transport by rail is an efficient way of moving goods and people while managing problems such as congestion and the consequences on the environment. The relatively low energy

24 Jun 2024: "Rail Live" 2024. Pictures courtesy of Wilberth Solano who took them while at the Rail Live exhibition. Setting up for the demonstration of aluminothermit welding of rails. The yellow "Pandrol" is a preheater powered by propane. This avoids the need

16 Jun 2024: Phase Transformations & Complex. Properties Research Group. Queen Mary University of London. Emeritus Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy. University of Cambridge. Ph.D. student. Rajdeep Mondal. rajdeep.mondal@qmul.ac.uk. Honorary Associates. The

16 Jun 2024: CML Reunion, South Korea. Many long-standing and recent members of the Computational Metallurgy Laboratory at GIFT, POSTECH in South Korea got together for a reunion in Pohang. The event also marked the celebration of Professor Dong Woo Suh's

16 Jun 2024: Harry at the BBC. Harry was at the BBC to record the Life Scientific podcast. Heading towards the famous studios in London's Broadcasting House. The newsroom from the top. The Tardis. Published, 2023. October 8th, 2024.

20 Jun 2024: Dr Sangeeta Khare visits Cambridge. Dr Sangeeta Khare is an academic at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She is also a PT Group member, having worked with Harry for many years, both at POSTECH in South Korea and in Cambridge. Here, we are

3 Jun 2024: The Norwich 60 bicycle ride, 2nd June 2024. Training before the Norwich ride. Training consisted of two separate 40 mile sessions. In the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside. Each 40.57 mile trip began in Comberton, to St Ives, and back. In St Ives,

3 Jun 2024: Rajdeep Mondal does experiments, May 2024. Rajdeep Mondal is conducting research leading to a Ph.D. qualification from Queen Mary University of London. Here, Dr Steve Ooi is helping to use the machine, very generously, over two whole days. The

3 Jun 2024: Saurabh Kundu from Tata Steel, visits Japan, May 2024. Saurabh Kundu attended the 56th TECO meeting of the World Steel Association, at Tokyo, Japan. There he had the opportunity to connect once again with colleagues who were all in the Phase

14 Apr 2024: Professor Haibin Zuo visits from USTB. Professor ZUO Haibin, Associate Director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, visited us (Haixue Yan and Harry) at Queen Mary University of

14 Apr 2024: A collection of 280 years. Ravindra, Mukesh, Batuk and Harry (Harshad) were all at the Highway Secondary School in Nairobi, back in 1968. We all now live in the U.K. and had our first ever reunion, after some 45 years, in London. Ravindra organised

14 Apr 2024: Adventures of PT Group Members (and others). An elephant made from graphite. An asymmetrical "I-beam". Trading post in New Mexico (not the Dominican Republic), picture courtesy of Noelle Hommedieu. Pieces of steel that Faraday himself conducted

4 May 2024: Paul Shelley visits from Molycop, May 2024 2024. Molycop is an international industry supplying mining consumables. It has laboratories in Australia, Chile and Peru. Dr Paul Shelley sponsors research on steel at Queen Mary University of London, and

8 Jun 2024: One. Two. Published, 2023.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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: 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.

25 Oct 2020: Apparao Chintha, Prasad Kopparthi and Gopi Krishna Chejarla on cycling adventures again. Pre-order for March 2021.

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: 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: Darwin College, Girish Nivarti, Bainite in Steels, Twinned Rainbow. In Darwin College. Chris Hulme-Smith and Dominik. Nirupam Chakraborti sent this from a library in the USA. Girish Nivarti submitting his thesis on flame dynamics. An excerpt from

21 Mar 2020: Johan Westraadt, Andy Howe, Christian, March 2020. Professor Johan Westraadt from the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa visited Cambridge. Andy Howe send a picture of dendrites in ice near Sheffield's Peak District. An Apeirogon (cf. octagon,

14 Feb 2020: Harry at Oslo, Norway. During September 2018, Harry did some work at the Norwegian Research Council in Oslo. The Central Station in Oslo. The Norwegian parliament building. These substantial metallic flower pots are security barriers which at the

14 Feb 2020: Riverside Museum, Glasgow. Photographs courtesy of Apparao Chintha.

4 Jan 2021: Jean assembles hydraulic claw. #Click a picture to see a larger view. Pre-order for March 2021.

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.

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

21 Aug 2022: Dreamachine and the Elisabeth Line. Professor Anil Seth of Sussex University, who has written the book "Being you" which was on the Times Best Selling list for weeks, gave Harry a ticket to visit the Dreamachine. Anil is an expert on consciousness

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: Random collection of interesting pictures. Di Wen (Wendy) with her decorative headphones. Shengda Pu and Mohammed Alshahrani. At Jeju Island, South Korea. Photograph by Professor Dong Woo Suh. Steel structures at Heathrow Terminal 3. Harry on the

14 Feb 2020: Harry in Moscow at NUST MISIS. First at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) MISIS, for the 9th meeting of the International Scientific Advisory Board. Heathrow to Moscow Sheremetyevo by Aeroflot. Steel umbrella capable of