The National Center for Metallurgical Research (CENIM) is pleased to announce once again the Metallurgical Science and Technology Congress, respecting in this way the main objective of the Congress: collecting in a single forum those scientists and technologists interested in the latest advances in Metallurgy, problems and possible solutions, as well as future trends in processing, properties and applications of metals and alloys. As has occurred for other sciences and technologies, metallurgical research and the manner in which it is carried out has progressed tremendously over the past 25 years.

A deep scientific understanding is necessary for advances in technological development and, vice versa, this in its turn provides the way for deeper scientific understanding. The Congress organizers invite all those Researchers in Research Institutes, University Professors, Engineers in Metallurgical Companies, Equipment Manufacturers, and Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Students to participate in the IX Metallurgical Science and Technology Congress (CTM2003) presenting their most recent work in the field of Metallurgy...

• Materials: Steels, intermetallics, lights alloys, superalloys, other metals and alloys.
• Primary metallurgy: Minerals, extraction, sintering, melting.
• Secondary metallurgy: Manufacturing, refining, casting.
• Shaping processes: rolling, forging, extrusion and powder metallurgy.
• Process simulation and modelling.
• Thermal and thermomechanical treatments.
• Physical metallurgy: Microstructural characterisation, microstructure-properties relations, phase transformations, recrystallisation, textures, equilibrium diagrams.
• Fracture and toughness.
• Deterioration and treatment of surfaces: Corrosion, wear, coatings, modification of surfaces.
• Analytical techniques.
• Welding and new technologies of joints.
• Recycling of metallic materials and metallurgical slags.
• Environmental impact of metallurgical industry.
• Archaeometallurgy.
• Others.