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CorrosionManagement | September/October 2009INSTITUTENEWS50th corrosion science symposiumand ur evans awardThe 50th Corrosion Science ScienceSymposium was held in Manchester onthe 16th and 17th of September runningin conjunction with the Royal Society ofChemistry’s annual Electrochem conference.Following the successful collaboration ofthe two meetings in Southampton in 2003,this was another well attended meeting,with over 210 attendees. Discussions on ournext link up with the RSC in a few years arealready underway.The chance to meet up and exchange ideaswith the electrochemists and electrochemicalengineers who form the core of the RSC’sFaraday and Electroanalysis groups is alwaysa useful exercise for those of us working onthe electrochemical side of corrosion studies.In particular, the scheduling of the plenarylectures to run across the whole timetableensures that not only do those of us incorrosion get to hear about the most excitingdevelopments in the electrochemistry world,but also that the RSC audience are luckyenough to attend the Evans Award plenarylecture on corrosion.The winner of the Evans Award for 2009was Professor Christofer Leygraf of theRoyal Institute of Technology, Stockholmin Sweden, who received the sword fromPaul Lambert, president of the Institute ofCorrosion. Professor Leygraf has led his groupover the last 25 years to develop techniquesto investigate atmospheric corrosionmechanisms at the moecular level. His workto integrate different techniques, such as theuse of the quartz crystal microbalance andThe winner of the Evans Award for 2009 was Professor Christofer Leygraf of the Royal Instituteof Technology, Stockholm in Sweden, who received the sword from Paul Lambert.infrared spectroscopy to measure the surfacechemistry of processes and combine thisinformation with traditional electrohemicaltechniques has added greatly to thetheoretical basis of atmospheric corrosion.In the Corrosion Science Symposiumthe winner of the prize for the best studentpresentation in the Corrosion ScienceSymposium was Majid Ghahari, fromAlison Davenport’s group at the Universityof Birmingham, who spoke on hiswork on ‘Synchrotron studies of StainlessSteel Pitting Corrosion’, and showed somevery interesting videos taken of pit growthchanging under restricted current supply.Next year’s meeting is to be held inSouthampton in the first week of September,organised by Julian Wharton, so expect to seea flyer in these pages very soon.The winner of the prize for the best student presentation in the Corrosion Science Symposiumwas Majid Ghahari, from Alison Davenport’s group at the University of Birmingham.5