Jul 15, 17:45 - 21:00 (MT)
Date: Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Location: Fuller Lodge (2132 Central Ave, Los Alamos, NM 87544)
Schedule: Social 5:45pm, Dinner 6:30pm, Seminar 7:15pm
Cost: $15 members and guests, $25 non-members, $5 students
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SEMINAR ABSTRACT: 2026 marks 80 years since the Los Alamos Chapter of the American Society for Metals was chartered and the 113 th year of the society, now known as ASM International. The end of WWII was a time of uncertainty in Los Alamos, and the founding of the Chapter in 1946 is an indicator of optimism and a vision of the future on the part of the founding members. Although the details of the early years of the chapter are limited, this talk will highlight a few of the materials researchers that may well have played a role in the early chapter and the impacts they had on Los Alamos and the greater materials community.
Dr. Kester Clarke (LANL)
BIOGRAPHY: Kester Clarke is Group Leader of MST-8, Structure/Property Relations, in the Materials Science & Technology (MST) Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) with a Joint Faculty Appointment in the George S. Ansell Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (MME) Department at Colorado School of Mines (Mines). Dr. Clarke was previously the Sigma-1 Fabrication Manufacturing Science Group Leader in the Sigma Division at LANL, the Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation (FIERF) Professor at Mines, a Postdoc, Scientist, and R&D Engineer in MST-6 (now Sigma) at LANL, a Senior Engineer Research/Development at Caterpillar Inc., and a Metallurgical Engineer at Engel Metallurgical. Dr. Clarke has been an active ASM International member for over 25 years, and has also served on the Board of Directors for The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS), the Association for Iron and Steel Technologies (AIST), and FIERF, has served as the Vice President and President of FIERF from 2021-2023, and on the executive committees for the North American and International Deep Drawing Research Groups (NADDRG and IDDRG). Dr. Clarke has a BA in Psychology from Indiana University, a BS in Materials Science from Wayne State University, and MS and PhD in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Mines.
Los Alamos, NM, United States