Day 1 was mainly dedicated to presentations of recent progress and scientific highlights within the each of the SFI Research Areas, as well as key elements of the work plans for 2025. The first day was rounded off with a poster session with all together 17 posters, illustrating the breadth and variety of the research activities, including several student specialization projects. Although a bit hectic with many posters, it was a nice and useful session with a lot of interesting discussions about ongoing research activities and between the participants from different partners.  

Day 2 started with three very interesting presentations related to microstructure and property modelling, including both a bit of history, via current status and instructive examples, to current and future trends related to the new possibilities of AI and machine learning approaches, which for sure will be an important part of future work in this connection:

•    NaMo – A combined precipitation, yield strength and work hardening model for 6xxx series aluminium alloys (O.R. Myhr, Hydro)                  
•    Process-Structure-Property linkages in Thermo-Calc (A. Engstrøm, ThermoCalc)
•    AI in Materials Science & Engineering (D. Marchand, SINTEF)

A pdf-copy of all the presentations are available via the SFI PhysMet TEAMS file sharing system. 

The second part of Day 2 was allocated to a group work, with the following agenda/questions:
1.    Short presentation of Activity plans 2025 and feedback from the partners on the plans
2.    Input from the partners on future cooperation, - what is working and what can be improved.
The participants were organized into 5 groups and 5 ‘hosts’ – one for each research area, which rotated every 20 minutes, to ‘visit’ all the 5 research areas.  

Thanks to Torleif for the organization and for taking care of all practicalities and to all participants for their presence and for making this a fruitful and informative meeting.