On Oct. 30, Prof. D. Embury, from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University, Canada, and D. Boyd, from the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, are invited to visit the SYNL.

During their visit, they were invited to present the lectures with the titles of (1) Transformable steels based on Fe-Mn (by Prof. D. Embury), (2) Recent developments in steels for Pipeline applications (by Prof. D. Boyd), respectively. They also made stimulated discussions with the scientists and graduate students at SYNL on the relevant research.

D. Embury received his B.Sc. from University of Manchester and Ph.D. from Cambridge University. Prof. Embury is a Distinguished University professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of McMaster University (Canada). His main research interests involve deformation and fracture of metal and composites, phase transitions and strengthening mechanisms in ultra high strength materials. He has authored or co-authored 5 books and more than 200 scientific papers. Prof. Embury is a member of Royal Society of Canada, distinguished foreign fellow of Indian Institute of Materials Science and National Academy of Engineering in the U.S.A. He is a fellow of American Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and French Society of Materials. In addition to his research activities, Prof. Embury has spent considerable effort in promoting cooperative work with industry. In educational activities, Prof. Embury has been involved in the planning of the program on Engineering and Society at McMaster, and in a wide variety of courses and workshops to bring about collaboration between universities and industry both in Canada and Europe. He has many international research collaborations around the world.