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Heartwarming congratulations to Haxoue who defended her thesis “Beyond embrittlement: In situ explorations of hydrogen effects near boundaries”. Congratulations Dr. Yan!
(07/18/2022)

Celebrating our newly minted PhDs and ScDs at the MIT Advanced Degree Ceremony (we missed you Ben!). Congratulations all!
(05/26/2022)

Great news! Congratulations Cem for getting promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure!!
(05/03/2022)

Julian is officially a PhD candidate! Congrats on your succesfull TAE and best of luck for the rest of your PhD journey.
(03/19/2022)

The Taşan delegation team to TMS2022 had a busy week with 19 talks! Well done everyone!
(03/03/2022)

After 4 years of outstanding work, Shaolou successfully defended his thesis on phase transformations in metastable FCC alloys. Congratulations Dr. Wei!
(12/16/2021)

Hyunseok gave an invited talk at the 2nd World Congress on High Entropy Alloys on short-range ordering.
(12/07/2021)

Cem organized the 2nd World Congress on High Entropy Alloy World Congress in Charlotte, NC! Excellent in-person turn out with 128 attendees and 88 talks over 3 days!
(12/2021)

The 2021 MIT Alloy Design Workshop was a hybrid event this year. Thanks to all that joined, in person and online!
(12/03/2020)

Congratulations Dr. Jiang! Menglei just defended her Thesis on “High-strength transformation-induced plasticity steels with reverted interlath austenite”.
(11/22/2021)

New Dr. in the house! Gianluca defended his ScD Thesis on the “Failure of martensitic sharp edges”. Congratulations Dr. Roscioli!
(10/13/2021)

Jackie successfully defended her PhD thesis on the “Design of Superelastic Secondary Phase Toughened Alloys”. Congratulations Dr. Cho!
(08/30/2021)

All good things must come to an end…so we had to say goodbye to Jinwoo, but we did it in style! Best of luck for your future career at KIST!
(08/2021)

It’s official! Congratulations to Shaolou for winning the 2020 Acta Students Award!
Check out his paper here.
(08/2021)

Congratulations to Hyunseok for winning the Best Oral Award in his symposium at the 2021 MRS Spring!
(06/2021)

Congratulations to Maria and Tim for getting their Masters! We will miss you! Have fun with batteries and submarines!
(05/28/2021)

Tim – here with his favorite slide and his favorite people 😉 – is ready to be an engineering duty officer! Congratulations on completing your MS!
(05/24/2021)

Maria successfully presented her thesis and completed her Master in Material Science with flying colors! Congrats Maria! Time to electrify the world 😉
(04/30/2021)

Speakers announced for the Alloy Design Workshop 2021! More info here.
(03/22/2021)

Dylan wins IOM3 Royal Charter Prize Highly Commended. Read more. Congratulations Dylan!
(02/09/2021)

Farewell Ben! We will miss you! (01/2021)

Dr. Benjamin Cameron, the coolest Dr in town, finished his Ph.D. today with an excellent thesis and several creative papers. We will miss you Ben! We are sure GeorgiaTech will be just as much fun. (01/2021)

Thanks to all that joined the 2020 MIT Alloy Design Workshop. Thanks to Zoom, we had eight speakers and over 200 participants from across the globe! (12/2020)

Cem is the chair of the organization committee of the 2nd World Congress on High Entropy Alloys (HEA2020), which is now accepting abstracts.(11/2020)

Shaolou’s recent paper on ductile RHEA’s is highlighted in Science! News link.
(10/16/2020)

Shaolou’s recent work on refractory high-entropy alloy was published in Nature Materials! Take a closer look here (10/2020)

Our alloy design team has just become more orderly: We welcome LT Timothy Fountain and ENS Daniel Moriarty! (09/2020)

Gianluca’s work is recently published in Science. Check out the coverage on these new findings on MIT News and NPR. (08/2020)

The Tasan group had a busy week at TMS2020 with 14 talks. (02/2020)

Shaolou & Jinwoo were great in 2019, not only due to their individual achievements, but also because of their never-ending support to other members of the group. So, they were chosen to represent the Tasan Group at 76’s-Celtics game. Let’s go Celtics! (02/2020)

The 2019 MIT Alloy Design Workshop was filled with thoughtful insights and discussions. Thanks to all those who joined! (12/2019)

The Alloy Design Workshop that our group organizes every year was highlighted in the MIT DMSE News LINK (12/2019)

Cem has received TMS Early Career Fellow Award! Congratulations Cem! (11/2019)

Haoxue received the MIT Chyn Duog Shiah Memorial Fellowship. Congratulations Haoxue! (10/2019)

Artificial muscle research that Jinwoo contributed is published in Science. See the MIT News article: LINK (07/2019)

Sabrina just graduated from MIT. Thanks Sabrina for the stellar UROP project and good luck in California. (06/2019)

Shao-shi passed his Ph.D thesis defense in Tsinghua University. Congratulations Shaoshi. (06/2019)

Jinwoo’s research is highlighted in Energy Futures: LINK and MIT News: LINK (06/2019)

Celebrating Shaolou’s Acta publication. (02/2019)

Haoxue and Jiyun’s successful TAE’s Celebration. (02/2019)

Menglei just passed her qualification exams in MechE. Congratulations! (01/2019)

Tasan group was at MS&T 2018 with 8 talks. (10/2018)

Cem in the seminar on designing fatigue-resistant steels and resettable alloys for Materials Day at MIT. (10/2018)

A new BBC article on self-healing materials, with Cem’s comments on self-healing metals: LINK

What are the challenges in making HEAs competitive? A brand new report is out with key insights to manufacturing challenges: LINK Cem was a member of the steering committee that organized this effort.

Cem in EU-talk-tour: Imperial College, Oxford, Thermec…

Our group’s work on resettable metals was highlighted in the last issue of Spectrum: LINK

Our group’s research is highlighted by a video prepared by Lillie Paquette and DMSE! MOVIE

Shaolou Wei was awarded the “Exceptional 1st Year Performance Award” by MIT DCGS. (06/2018)

Congratulations Menglei for getting your master degree. (06/2018)

Matt, congrats on your Bachelor’s degree. (06/2018)

Mohadeseh’s correspondence just got published online in Nature Communications! (05/2018)

All three of our 1st year grad students passed their quals. (05/2018)

Prof. Cem Tasan was interviewed by KPCC and Bloomberg after the recent engine failure during the Southwest flight, where he discussed the causes and possible solutions.

News from across the Atlantic: Dr M.T. Taşan-Kok (Prof. Tasan’s sister) has been appointed Full Professor of Urban Governance and Planning at University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Congratulations!

On March 15th, 2018, Cem will give an invited lecture in the Materials Science & Engineering Department of University of California, Berkeley. (03/2018)

Atieh was invited to give a talk in MS&T 2018. “Small-scale Properties of Materials and Length-scale Phenomena”.

Cem gave an invited lecture in Politecnico Milano on opportunities in metals additive manufacturing.

Tasan group had four exciting talks at TMS 2018. (03/2018)

Prof. Tasan won the 2018 Young Investigator Awards, Congrats! See the full list of award winners here! (2018)

Collaboration with SNCF! Tasan Group and French National Railway Corporation (SNCF) started a new collaboration to develop improved coatings and alloys for railway applications.

Haoxue won 1st place in Materials Images Contest at MIT DMSE. Titled: “Every hydrogen has a silver lining” (02/2018)

Ben won 3rd place in Materials Images Contest at DMSE. Titled: “Triple chocolate chip cookies under tension” (02/2018)

Congrats Jackie for passing the Thesis Area Examination! (02/2018)

Congratulations Gianluca for passing your TAE! (02/2018)

Congratulations dear Jackie for getting your master degree. (06/2017)

Congratulations Ben for passing your qualification exam! (2017)

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