News & Update  

November 14, 2024: The program has been updated HERE.

November 14, 2024: The brochure has been updated HERE.

August 26, 2024: The website is open.

About TICS 10 

Date

TICS: Monday-Tuesday, December 9-10, 2024

ATSC: Wednesday-Friday, December 11-13, 2024

ATSC information can be accessed HERE.

Registration

ATSC registration system (provided by AMARYS-JTB) is used. Please register here by November 22, 2024.

Registration fee: 20,000 yen. A discount is available if you register both TICS and ATSC.

A banquet will also be held on Monday, December 9, 2024. The banquet fee is TBD.

Feel free to contact us at M-tics-ml_at_aist.go.jp (please change _at_ to @)

Venue

Aobayama Campus, Tohoku University

6-6 Aramaki Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0845, Japan

Feel free to ask if you need accomodation. We have reserved several hotels for you.

Sympoium Chairs

Dr. Hideki Kakisawa, Group Leader, Ceramics Matrix Composite Group, Research Center for Structural Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

Dr. Kentaro Shinoda , Group Leader, Advanced Functional Surface Group, Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute, National Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) < LINK>

Organizers

10th Tsukuba International Coating Symposium Committee
    by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST):
      Drs. Kentaro Shinoda, Mohammed Shahien, Masato Suzuki, Takashi Nagoshi, and
    by National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS):
      Drs. Hideki Kakisawa, Gaku Okuma, Masahiro Kusano, Makoto Watanabe, Hideyuki Murakami and Kazuya Shimoda.

Co-organizer: TBD

Supported By

Japan Thermal Spray Society

Ceramic Society of Japan

Tohoku University

Program

Available HERE

Keynote and Invited Speakers

Professor Sanjay Sampath, Stony Brook University

Professor Sanjeev Chandra, University of Toronto

Professor Thomas Klassen, Helmut Schmidt University

Professor Andre McDonald, University of Alberta

Dr. Frank Gaertner, Helmut-Schmidt University

Professor Kazuhiro Ogawa, Tohoku University

Dr. Takeshi Nakamura, IHI

Dr. Ryota Takizawa, TOTO

Session Topics Currently Planned

Session I: Thermal/Environmental Barrier Coatings

Session II: Materials Design and Advanced Characterization

Session III: Advanced Coating Technologies

Session IV: Additive Manufacturing/Coatings for Repairs, Refurbishment, and Remanufacturing