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Rahim received GRC Best Poster Award
Read NowPhD student Rahim Zaman received the Best Poster Award in the 2025 High Temperature Corrosion Gordon Research Conference. The poster is titled "Thermodynamic and Kinetic Modeling of the Hf-Ta-C-O System for the Design of Oxidation Resistant HfC-TaC Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics". Congratulations!
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Rahim received Endowed Graduate Fellowship
Read NowPhD student Rahim Zaman received the Carlos and Esther Farrar Fellowship. He received a certificate from Prof. Jennifer West, the Dean of UVA SEAS.
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Tenured!
Read NowProf. Zhou was awarded tenure! Congratulations! The group celebrated with a dinner at The Ridley. Thanks go to all the Zhou group members for their hard work which makes this possible.
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Northwestern Visit
Read NowProf. Zhou visited the CHiMaD center at Northwestern University and gave a talk titled "Understanding Early-Stage Precipitation and Chemical Short-range Order in Alloys".
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PRISMS Workshop 2023
Read NowBi-Cheng delivered an invited talk titled "A computational thermodynamics framework with intrinsic chemical short-range order" in the PRISMS Workshop 2023 at University of Michigan.
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Farewell to Chu-Liang
Read NowCongratulations to Chu-Liang for successfully defending his PhD thesis! The CTK group had a farewell dinner for Chu-Liang. Thank you for your stellar contribution in the past five years! He will move to MIT to work with Prof. Mingda Li as a postdoc. We wish him all the best!
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Acta Student Award
Read NowCongratulations to Du Cheng (first graduated PhD student from the CTK group) for winning the 2022 Acta Student Award for her primary contribution to the manuscript, “Atomic structures of ordered monolayer GP zones in Mg-Zn-X (X= Ca, Nd) systems”. The Acta Student Award is one of the highest honors for a graduated PhD studying materials/metallurgy. Job well done, Du!
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GRC 2023
Read NowChu-Liang and Prof. Zhou attended and had great fun at the Gordon Research Conference - Physical Metallurgy 2023. Prof. Zhou gave an invited talk titled "A Computational Thermodynamics Framework with Intrinsic Chemical Short-Range Order", which generated a lot of buzz from the audience.
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CALPHAD 2023
Read NowRahim, Chu-Liang, and Prof. Zhou had a blast in the CALPHAD 2023 meeting at MIT. Chu-Liang won the FactSage Best Student Poster Award with his poster titled "A Cluster-Based Computational Thermodynamics Framework with Intrinsic Chemical Short-Range Order: Applications to Prototype Systems". Job well done!
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VSGC conference
Read NowRahim's Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) fellowship got renewed for the 2023-2024 academic year. Congratulations! He was invited to the luncheon hosted by President Jim Ryan and gave a presentation titled "Design of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics for Oxidation Resistance" in the VSGC conference.