eNews Letter              
Vol 20, No. 3                            August 2004                IIM Mumbai Chapter

 

  • Forthcoming Events
         - Annual General Body Meeting:    The Annual General Body Meeting of IIM Mumbai Chapter will be held on August 28, 2004 at 1900 hours at Jewel of Chembur Hotel, Chembur. The minutes of the last AGBM (2003),   Annual report for the year 2003-04 and the details about the AGBM agenda are all available at the IIM Mumbai Chapter web site. Members may contribute Rs 50/ per member and Rs 75/ per family member/guest for the contributory dinner.
 
        - Annual Technical Meeting and National Metallurgists Day:    This years Annual Technical Meeting of IIM and the National Metallurgists Day function will be held at God's own land, Kerala. It will be held during November 17-19, 2004 at Trivendrum. Get all the details from this beautifully designed site and don't miss this grand affair.
 
        - ASM-IIM Lecture:    IIM Mumbai Chapter announces the next lecture in this series with ASM by Dr. A. Srinivasa Rao of Naval Surface Warfare Centre, USA at Hotel Atithi, near Santacruz airport on Monday, August 23, 2004 at 1800 hours. The topics are (i) Kinetics of Rust Removal by Hydroxyethane Diphosphonic Acid (HEDPA) and (ii) Characterization of Surface Film Growth During the Electrochemical Corrosion Process. The members will get ample time to interact and discuss on the topics with the speaker during the dinner.
  • Report on Previous Activities
            - ASM-IIM Technical Meetings: A number of ASM-IIM meetings were organized during this year. Read a listing of all the meetings organized during the year.
  • News About Members:    Follow the news about members of IIM Mumbai Chapter. We urge members to send to the Editor any significant news and award won by members for publishing at our web site and sharing the news with all the members of IIM.
  • News from the Materials World
            - Chromium depletion around sulfide inclusions remains a mystery:    Inclusions play an important part in determining the performance of materials in different applications. Newer aspects about inclusions are still emerging. In this article Kamlesh Chandra and Vivekanand Kain describe the latest on the presence of chromium depletion around sulfide inclusions. There is still a debate raging among scientists whether the postulated chromium depletion really exists around sulfide inclusions in stainless steels.
  • Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals
        - Transactions of IIM:         The IIM Mumbai Chapter had taken the initiative last year to make available the table of contents of the Transactions of IIM. We have been brining to you the  Table of Contents: Jan 2003 - Feb 2004 at our web site and also directly to your mailbox through this eNews Letter of IIM Mumbai Chapter. Now IIM has started a new site exclusively for Transactions of IIM. It provides you with abstracts of papers published in the Transactions, guidelines for preparing and sending manuscripts for publication in the Transactions and much more. We urge you to visit this site for all information relating to Transactions of IIM.


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