Congress - History

 

About the congress


The IBEROMAT-SAM-CONAMET congress is the greatest Iberoamerican Conference covering research, technology and applications of Materials Science. The main objective of this congress is to bring together the iberoamerican community in the field in order to establish contact between people, improve the integration and present and discuss in a critical way the latest developments and innovations in the Materials Science area. Hence, this congress constitutes an update regarding cutting edge research on new materials and allows people to know about the current situation of research in the iberoamerican region. During the years the congress has been growing in terms of number of participants, counting in its last edition with assistants from more than 20 countries of Europe and The Americas presenting more than 700 works. In this edition, the presentation of about 800 works and more than 400 assistants coming from academic, governmental, industrial and research fields are expected.

 

About the organizing institutions


The main organizing institution of this edition of the congress is the SAM-Argentine Materials Association, through a committee that involves the participation of experts in the field coming from diverse institutions. On December 20th, 1955, a group of professionals from different disciplines related to metallurgy got together at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the Buenos Aires University and founded the Argentine Metals Society (SAM). Then, on march 15th, 1993, at Rosario city in the Santa Fe state, this association was refounded as SAM-Argentine Materials Association but conserved its objective: to promote and divulge materials science at different respects, and to edit and/or subsidize technical-scientific publications in the field. The SAM-Argentine Materials Association has been uniterruptedly performing anual congresses since 1993. From 2001, this congress was merged with the also anual National Metallurgy and Materials Congress (CONAMET) pertaining to the Chilean Metallurgy and Materials Society (SOCHIM). Since then, the congress has been orginized year after year alternately at each country, being named joint congress SAM-CONAMET at Argentina or CONAMET-SAM at Chile. In turn, the Iberoamerican Metallurgy and Materials Congress (IBEROMET) is carried out every two years since 1990 at different iberoamerican countries, and since its last edition it has been denominated succinctly Iberoamerican Materials Congress (IBEROMAT). In this opportunity, these two relevant international congresses take place together, giving place to the International Materials and Metallurgy Congress IBEROMAT-SAM-CONAMET 2014.