International Conference “Structural and Phase Transformations in Materials: Theory, Computer Modelling and Experiment

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ForewordThe international conference “Structural and phase transformations in materials: theory, computer modelling and experiment” (SPTM 2017) was held on the Chusovaya base on March 23-27, 2017 (∼ 80 kilometers from the fourth-largest city in Russia, Ekaterinburg). The conference was organized by the Ural Federal University (Laboratory of Multi-Scale Mathematical Modeling).The conference was devoted to discussions of the current state and new scientific achievements on the subject of structural and phase transformations in materials, including the following topics:• Theory of the Processes• Experiments and Their Results• Software and Hardware for Modeling• Results of Computer Simulation.The present event paid its special attention to the phase transformation phenomena such as dendritic growth, nucleation and pattern formation including theory, experiment and software developments.The organizing Committee was pleased to welcome more than 40 participants from 8 countries attending the conference (Belarus, China, France, Germany, India, Morocco, Russian Federation, and Ukraine). The Organizers have selected 34 peer reviewed research papers in the present issue of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. We hope that the present papers will be of interest for readers and represent a thorough research skeleton for inspiration and future developments.Yours sincerely,Dmitri V. Alexandrov, Peter K. Galenko, Ilya O. Starodumov and Victoria V. PolyakovaApril 7, 2017OrganizersUral Federal UniversityLaboratory of Multi-Scale Mathematical ModelingOrganizing CommitteeChairman: Professor, Doctor of Science, Dmitri Alexandrov (Ural Federal University, Russia)Vice-Chairman: Professor, Doctor of Science, Peter Galenko (University of Jena, Germany)Members (Ural Federal University): Ilya Starodumov and Victoria PolyakovaProgram CommitteeChairman: Dmitri Alexandrov (Prof. Dr., Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Vice-Chairman: Peter Galenko (Prof. Dr., University of Jena, Jena, Germany)Members:Jianrong Gao (PhD, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China)Phanikumar Gandham (PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India)Olga Gusakova (PhD, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus)Oleg Kazak (PhD, Technische Universitat Ilmenau, Germany)Valery Golod (PhD, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia)Leonid Klyuev (PhD, Immers Ltd., Moscow, Russia)Mikhail Krivilyov (Dr., Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia)Evgeny Kharanzhevsky (Prof. Dr., Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia)Irina Nizovtseva (PhD, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Alexander Ivanov (PhD, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Nikolai Kropotin (PhD, MKM Ltd., Izhevsk, Russia)Alexey Malygin (PhD, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Valentin Kropotin (MKM Ltd., Izhevsk, Russia)Vladimir Ankudinov (Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia)Ilya Starodumov (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Irina Alexandrova (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Evgeny Pavlyuk (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)