Awards
1. Prof. Yong Du served as the Chairman of the international CALPHAD XLIII conference
2. Kingming Cheng, Weiming Chen, Ying Tang and Rong Wang won the scholarship of Innovative Doctoral Candidate in China
3. Weiming Chen, Kingming Cheng, Weibin Zhang and Yaru Wang won the National Scholarship of China
4. Yingbiao Peng won the Best Poster Prize during CALPHAD XLIII Conference
5. Yuxiang Xu, Shaoqing Wang and Cong Zhang won the first-class and the second-class scholarship of the Northwest Nonferrous Research Institute, respectively
6. Ying Tang won the Diamond scholarship of Central South University
7. Na Ta won the Mittal scholarship of Central South University
8. Linqing He ,Song Qin and Xingxu Lu won the Leimu scholarship of Central South University
9. Jing Li was awarded the China Telecom scholarship of Central South University
10. JinghuaXin won the “Huang Peiyun” education scholarship of Central South University
12. Xingxu Lu was awarded the excellent postgraduate of Central South University
13. Weiming Chen won the first-class prize (in PhD candidate group) during the annual scientific conference of Powder Metallurgy Research Institute at Central South University
14. Xiong Yang, Dan Cai and Geng Zhang won the second- and third-class scholarships prizes (in PhD candidate group) during the annual scientific conference of Powder Metallurgy Research Institute at Central South University, respectively
15. Dongjia Cao won the third-class prize(in master student group) during the annual scientific conference of Powder Metallurgy Research Institute at Central South University
16. Fan Zhang, Ming Wei, Jinghua Xin, Qiannan Gao and Shidi Xiao won the recognition awardsduring the annual scientific conference of Powder Metallurgy Research Institute at Central South University
Postgraduate Education
1. January 2014: Kai Li passed the doctoral dissertation defense. The dissertation topic is "The quantitative characterization of microstructure evolution during the process of solidification and aging for Al-Mg-Si-Cu alloy"
2.June 2014: Bing Yang passed the doctoral dissertation defense.The dissertation topic is "Alloying of cathodic arc evaporation deposition on Ti-Al-N and Cr-Al-N hard coating microstructure and properties"
3. November 2014: Yingbiao Peng passed the doctoral dissertation defense.The dissertation topic is"Thermodynamic study on multicomponent cemented carbides and its application to the control of microstructure"
4. June 2014: Aning Qing passed the master thesisdefense.The thesis topic is "Experimental investigation and thermodynamic calculation of Al-Cu-Sc-Si system"
5. June 2014: Zhaoping Cao passed the master thesisdefense.The thesis topic is "Experimental investigation and thermodynamic modeling of Sc-Ni, Al-Li-Zr and Al-Sc-Zr systems in multicomponent Al alloys"
6. June 2014: Xi Li passed the master thesisdefense.The thesis topic is "Experimental investigation and thermodynamic optimization of phase equilibria in Al-Mg-Ce, Al-Mg-Zr and Al-Mg-Sc-Zn systems"
7. June 2014: Mengde Pang passed the master thesisdefense.The thesis topic is Thermodynamic assessment of Be-Sr, Be-Mg and C-Co-W-Nb quaternary system
8. June 2014: Fan Zhang passed the master thesisdefense.The thesis topic is "Experimental study of multicomponent Mg-rare earth phase diagrams and its application"
9. June 2014: Yao Wang passed the master thesisdefense.The thesis topic is "Experimental investigation and thermodynamic modeling of Al-Cd-Mg, Al-Li-Mg-Mn and Al-Li-Mg-Si systems"
10. June 2014: Yang Liu passed the master thesisdefense.The thesis topic is "The computing research of thermodynamics and mechanical properties in the key binary system of Copper alloy"
11. June 2014: Meng Liu passed the master thesisdefense.The thesis topic is "Several kinds of diffusion welding materials diffusion dynamics experiment study and computer simulation"
12. June 2014: Ming Lou passed the master thesisdefense.The thesis topic is "Thermal spray coatings for reducing the friction in internal combustion engines"
13. June 2014: Wei Luo passed the master thesisdefense.The thesis topic is "In situ micromechanical studies on Laves phases for energy-saving high-temperature applications"
14. June 2014: Weiwei Wang passed the master thesisdefense
15. July 2014: Xi Li began her doctoral research in Sydney University of Wollongong,Australia
16. July 2014: Wei Luo began his doctoral research in Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research, Germany
17. October 2014: Yao Wang began her doctoral research in the University of Genoa, Italy
18. October 2014: Na Ta began herjoint master study in Technical University of Denmark
19. December 2014: Kaiming Cheng began his joint PhD study in Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany