CALPHAD Annual Awards

The Best Paper Award for papers published in the CALPHAD journal

The paper for the Best Paper Award will be voted for by the CALPHAD Advisory and Editorial Board members. The Best Paper Award consists of $500 from CALPHAD and a certificate.

The Best Poster Award at each CALPHAD meeting

The poster for the Best Poster Award will be voted during each CALPHAD meeting by a jury consisting of the organizing committee chair and vice-chair and participating members of the CALPHAD Editorial Board. The Best Poster Award consists of $300 from CALPHAD and a certificate.

List of Recipients

Year	Best Paper	Best Poster
2006	S. Curtarolo, D. Morgan and G. Ceder, "Accuracy of ab initio methods in predicting the crystal structures of metals: A review of 80 binary alloys," CALPHAD, Vol.29, 2005, 163-211.	R. Bernst, G. Inden, and A. Schneider, “Carburization of Fe-X (X=Si, Mo, V) Diffusion Couples”
2007	P. Koukkari and R. Pajarre, "Calculation of constrained equilibria by Gibbs energy minimization," CALPHAD, Vol.30, 2006, 18-26. M. H. F. Sluiter, "Ab initio lattice stabilities of some elemental complex structures," CALPHAD, Vol.30, 2006, 357-366.	Youn-Bae Kang, In-Ho Jung, Hae-Geon Lee, “Experiment and Thermodynamic Optimization of the MnO-SiO2-TiO₂-Ti₂O₃ system for Application to Steel Production”
2008	Eli Brosh, Guy Makov, and Roni Z. Shneck, “Application of CALPHAD to high pressures”, CALPHAD, Vol. 31, 2007, 173-185	C. Guéneau, S. Gossé, S. Chatain, C. Utton, D. Dupin, B. Sundman, C. Martial, J.C. Dumas, C. Rado, “FUELBASE: a Thermodynamics Database for Advanced Nuclear Fuels”

CALPHAD Gibbs Triangle Award

In celebration of the 150th birthday of Josiah Willard Gibbs, who was born in 1839, the Gibbs Triangle Award was established in 1989. It will be awarded once every third to fifth year for outstanding contributions to studies of ternary and higher-order phase diagrams, their thermodynamic background and principles of construction as well as methods of calculation and assessment work. The name of the award has been taken from Gibbs’ composition triangle, commonly used in representing ternary phase diagrams. The recipient will be chosen by the associate editors of the CALPHAD journal together with prior recipients. The award is in the form of a musical triangle.

List of recipients

1. Larry Kaufman (1989, CALPHAD 13, 1989, 336), in recognition of his unique, pioneering contributions. The fact that the thermodynamic CALculation of PHAse Diagrams is today accepted as an important scientific activity is largely due to his forsight and energy. His introduction of the “lattice stability” concept has been instrumental in enabling thermodynamic assessments of phase diagrams to be extended to ternary and higher order systems, and he has been particularly active in assessing ternary metallic and ceramic systems of industrial importance.

2. Taji Nishizawa (1994, CALPHAD 18, 1994, 368), in recognition of his contributions to the understanding of ternary phase diagrams, in particular the magnetic effects which he has studied by means of a unique combination of experimental and computational techniques.

3. Arthur Pelton (1999)

4. Mats Hillert (2000)

5. Bo Sundman (2002)

6. Gunnar Eriksson (2007), in recognition of his invaluable contribution to the study and calculation of phase diagrams and to computational thermodynamics through the development of internationally acclaimed software.

7. Hans Leo Lukas (2008), in recognition of his outstanding seminal contribution to the development of thermodynamic software allowing to take into account various kinds of information improving the consistency of the Gibbs energy modeling, and for the development of thermodynamic descriptions for numerous binary, ternary and higher order systems.

Winners of CALPHAD Scholarship for Students

CALPHAD Scholarship for Students supports current students to attend CALPHAD meetings provided by the meeting organizers and CALPHAD, Inc.

2007: Muhammad A. Arafin (Concordia University), Jozefien De Keyzer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Rongxiang Hu (Illinois Institute of Technology), Md. Mezbahul Islam (Concordia University), Julien Jourdan (CEA/DEN/DMN/SRMA/LA2M), Manjeera Mantina (The Pennsylvania State University), Atsushi Nishikawa (Kwansei Gakuin University), Jonas Östby( Risø National Laboratory, Arkapol Saengdeejing (The Pennsylvania State University), An Serbruyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Sherali Tursunbadalov (Tadjik State Pedagogy University), Wei Xu (Netherlands Institute for Metals Research), Hui Zhang (The Pennsylvania State University), Lijun Zhang (Central South University)