Summary of the CALPHAD XXXVI 2007 conference

From 6–11 May 2007, 147 registered participants met at State College, Pennsylvania, for the thirty-sixth CALPHAD meeting organized by Zi-Kui Liu, Steve Hansen, Joanne Murray and Phillip Spencer. Activities were held at Toftrees Golf Resort and Conference Center with logistics run by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from The Pennsylvania State University. Over the course of six days, 57 oral presentations and 84 posters were offered, the abstracts and titles of which are summarized in this report. Posters were on display from Sunday evening until Friday morning. In addition to the continuous display of the posters, two dedicated poster sessions were held in the Monday and Tuesday evenings, which were overwhelmingly enjoyed by the participants.