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 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 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)
