08:30 - 09:30

Registration: Brookfield Atrium, Brookfield House, 266 London Road, LE2 1RQ

09:30 - 09 :45

Opening Ceremony: 

   •  Hongbiao Dong, Chair of the Organize Committee 

   •  Jianliang Zhang, Co-Chair of the Organize Committee 

   •  Representative of the University of Leicester 

   •  Xingjiang Wang, Chinese Society for Metals 

   •  Paul Skerry, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 

 Location: Peter Jackson Lecture Theatre, Brookfield House, 266 London Road, LE2 1RQ

09:45 – 10:45

Plenary Session 1: Chaired by Xinping Mao, University of Science and Technology Beijing 

   •  Property Optimization and Integration of High-Strength Steels 

       Zhaoping Lu, University of Science and Technology Beijing 

   •  Future Pathways for Steel – Shared Challenges, Common Goals but Many

       Options 

       Alan Scholes, Materials Processing Institute

10:45 – 11:00

Refreshment break (Brookfield Atrium)

11:00 – 12:00

Plenary Session 2: Chaired by Mingliang Qiao, Nanjing Iron and Steel Co., Ltd 

   •  The Latest Development and Application of Niobium Bearing Steel and

       Material 

       Aimin Guo, CITIC Metal Co., Ltd. 

   •  British Steel: Building A Sustainable Future 

       Chris Vaughan, British Steel

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch (Brookfield Atrium), presentations from 

13:00 – 14:00

Plenary Session 3: Chaired by Ed Pickering, University of Manchester

   •  Advancing UK Steel Industry and Steel Applications: Challenges and 

       Innovations 

       Yi Gao, Tata Steel UK 

   •  Bake Hardening Mechanism of Press Hardening Steels 

       Haiwen Luo, University of Science and Technology Beijing

Parallel Track (1) (Peter Jackson Lecture Theatre): 

    • Advanced Steels & New Materials 

    • Advanced Manufacturing 

    • Green Metallurgy Technology 

Chair: Lijuan Zhang, Dongguan University of Technology

Parallel Track (2) (Room 0.42A+0.42B): 

    • Application of AI in Steel Industry 

    • Modelling of Materials & Metallurgical Processes 

    • Materials Characterisation 

Chair: Dawei Zhang, University of Science and Technology Beijing 

14:05 – 14:25

Invited talk: Key issues of as-cast semi-product quality control for super large dimeter round Castings

Jiaquan Zhang, University of Science and Technology Beijing

Invited talk: Material data discovery, sharing, and application on industry chain 

Hang Su, Central Iron & Steel Research Institute

14:25 – 14:45

Invited talk: Spinodal decomposition in an additively manufactured nickel-base superalloy: reaction behavior and its effect on strain-age cracking

Hailong Qin, Central Iron & Steel Research Institute

Invited talk: Competitive cost-efficient steel manufacturing applications of machine learning 

Bogdan Nenchev, Intellegens Limited

14:45 – 15:05

Invited talk: Iron oxide reduction mechanism by hydrogen for green steel studied at atomistic scale 

Kejiang Li, University of Science and Technology Beijing 

Invited talk: In situ synchrotron and neutron characterization of steels 

Biao Cai, University of Birmingham

15:05 – 15:20

Refreshment break (Brookfield Atrium)

Parallel Track (1) (Peter Jackson Lecture Theatre): 

    • Advanced Steels & New Materials 

    • Advanced Manufacturing 

    • Green Metallurgy Technology

Chair: Lijuan Zhang, Dongguan University of Technology 

Parallel Track (2) (Room 0.42A+0.42B): 

    • Application of AI in Steel Industry 

    • Modelling of Materials & Metallurgical Processes 

    • Materials Characterisation 

Chair: Biao Cai, University of Birmingham

15:20– 15:40

Invited talk: Comparative study on the high-strength low-alloy steels fabricated by wire arc additive manufacturing versus conventional casting: microstructures and quasi-static and dynamic mechanical behaviors 

Lijuan Zhang, DongGuan University of Technology

Invited talk: Modelling of Strength and Hardness during Pearlite Tempering 

Zhanli Guo, Sente Software Ltd.

15:40– 16:00

Invited talk: Thermal Energy Storage: Contributing to Steel Industry Decarbonisation 

Tongtong Zhang, University of Birmingham

Invited talk: Deep Learning for Industrial-Scale BOF Steelmaking Data

Maryam Khaksar Ghalati, University of Leicester

16:00– 16:20

Rapid discovery of high-performance additive manufactured superalloys using high-throughput and artificial intelligent methods

Pei Liu, Central Iron & Steel Research Institute

Invited talk: Transfer learning in intelligent recognition of scrap bundles

Zhenghai Zhu, Anhui University of Technology

16:20– 16:40

Effect of ageing on the microstructural evolution in a new design of maraging steels with carbon

Peng Gong, University of Manchester

Invited talk: Introduction to Neutron Imaging at IMAT: Radiography, Tomography and Strain Mapping

Ruiyao Zhang, ISIS Facility

16:45 – 17:45

Panel discussion (Peter Jackson Lecture Theatre) 

Alan Scholes, Materials Processing Institute, UK (Chair) 

Andy Trowsdale, British Steel, UK 

David Dye, Imperial College London, UK (Co-chair) 

Xinjiang Wang, The Chinese Society for Metals 

Mark Ma, CIMM Group 

Xiandong Liu, Baosteel European R&D Center 

Hang Su, Central Iron & Steel Research Institute 

Bin Xiao, Tata Steel, UK 

Jitendra Patel, International Metallurgy Ltd, UK

18:00– 18:30

Transport to the National Space Centre, Exploration Drive, Leicester, LE4 5NS, 

 Coaches depart at 18:00 in front of Brookfield House, 266 London Road, LE2 1RQ

18:30 – 22:30

Conference Dinner at the National Space Centre 

    •  Drink reception 

    •  Planetarium show 

    •  3-course dining 

    •  Exhibition show 

Speeches from sponsors: NISCO, CIMM Group, and ForceCon 

Coaches depart at 22:30 from National Space Centre

Friday, 30 August 2024

9:00 –10:30

Plenary Session 4: Chaired by Andy Trowsdale, British Steel 

   •  Diffusion in Steep Concentration Gradients, Iron & Alloys 

       Sir Harry Bhadeshia, Queen Mary University of London 

   •  Med-Mn TWIP+TRIP Steels 

       David Dye, Imperial College London 

   • The Challenges of Scrap-Based EAF Steelmaking for Net Zero Steel

       Production 

      Zushu Li, University of Warwick

10:30- 10:45

Refreshment break (Brookfield Atrium)

10:45 –12:15

Plenary Session 5: Chaired by Xiandong Liu, Baosteel European R&D Center 

   •  Using In-Situ High-Temperature EBSD to Investigate the Mechanisms of

       Austenitisation in Steels 

       Ed Pickering, University of Manchester, UK 

   •  Control of Microstructure in Wire-Arc Directed Energy Deposited 17-4PH

       Steel through Combined Intrinsic and Post-Processing Heat Treatment 

       Qiang Zhu, Southern University of Science and Technology, China 

   •  Application of Electro Pulsing in Continuous Casting of Steel 

       Rongshan Qin, Open University, UK

12:15 - 13:00

Lunch (Brookfield Atrium)

13:00 - 14:00

Plenary Session 6: Chaired by Hang Su, Central Iron & Steel Research Institute 

   •  Cultivating New Productive Forces to Drive High-Quality Development in

       the Ironmaking Industry 

      Jianliang Zhang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China 

   •  Data Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Machine-Learning Models

       for Metallurgical Engineering 

      Hongbiao Dong, University of Leicester, UK

Parallel Track (1) (Peter Jackson Lecture Theatre): 

    • Advanced Steels & New Materials 

    • Advanced Manufacturing 

    • Green Metallurgy Technology

Chair Tongtong Zhang, University of Birmingham

Parallel Track (2) (Room 0.42A+0.42B): 

    • Application of AI in Steel Industry 

    • Modelling of Materials & Metallurgical Processes 

    • Materials Characterisation 

Chair Jing Li, University of Science and Technology Beijing

14:05 – 14:25

Invited Talk: Assessing the Reduction Behaviours of Diverse Reductants with Molten FexO-Containing Slags for Sustainable Steel Manufacturing

Zhiming Yan, University of Warwick

Invited Talk: Digital Casting-from Macro Segregation Numerical Simulation to Machine Learning Based Real-time Prediction of Continuous Casting Process

Jun Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

14:25 - 14:45

Converting Emissions into Fuel using Industrial Waste Heat

Weiwei Zhao, University of Birmingham

Invited Talk: Intelligent prediction method for endpoint phosphorus content in converter based on fusion mechanism and data

Mingmei Zhu, Chongqing University

14:45 - 15:05

Induced segregation of O atoms as the culprit of Cr atomic segregation near grain boundaries

Xuecheng Peng, University of Science and Technology Beijing

A deoxidation thermodynamic model considering multiple–components coupled reactions

Yan Yan, University of Science and Technology Beijing

15:05 - 15:30

Refreshment break and networking (Brookfield Atrium)

Parallel Track (1) (Peter Jackson Lecture Theatre): 

    • Advanced Steels & New Materials 

    • Advanced Manufacturing 

    • Green Metallurgy Technology

Chair Xiaoping Wu, Chengdu Advanced Metal Materials Industrial Technology Co. Ltd

Parallel Track (2) (Room 0.42A+0.42B): 

    • Application of AI in Steel Industry 

    • Modelling of Materials & Metallurgical Processes 

    • Materials Characterisation 

15:30 - 15:50

Improving local formability of multiphase steels by increasing microstructural homogeneity via a potential short process

Xiaoyu Yang, University of Science and Technology Beijing

Invited Talk: Meshless Computational Fluid Dynamics: New Techniques and Applications

Tao Zhang, University of Leicester

15:50 - 16:10

Blast furnace ironmaking decarbonisation – the use of double perovskite materials for in-process thermochemical CO₂ splitting

Zixuan Wang, University of Birmingham

Economic Evaluation of a CO₂-to-CO Conversion Strategy in Steelmaking

Siyuan Dai, University of Birmingham

16:10 – 16:30

Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Steelmaking End-Point Temperature Using a Large-Scale Industrial Dataset

Jianbo Zhang, University of Leicester

16:45 - 17:00

Award ceremony and closing remarks, Peter Jackson Lecture Theatre

17:00 – 17:30

Networking (Brookfield Atrium)

17:30 – 18:00

Transport to College Court Leicester, Knighton Road, Knighton, Leicester, LE2 3UF 

It is a walking distance (15 minutes) from the Conference Centre to the College Court 

18:00 – 20:00

Networking Dinner at College Court Leicester

Networking, Lab visiting, Departure