JOM, Vol. 65, No. 3, 2013 DOI: 10.1007/s11837-013-0559-6 Ó 2013 TMS

In the Final “Book ’em Danno.” Analysis — Steve McGarrett, Hawaii Five-O JO Many, many years ago when I was still a youngster, one of those forbidden television fruits that infatuated my pre-teen mind was the gritty cop drama Hawaii Five-O. The show centered 184 Thorn Hill Road around a special police unit based in Honolulu and led by a man with the most perfectly Warrendale, PA 15086, USA quaffed hair on television, Steve McGarrett (played by the splendidly two-dimensional actor Telephone: (724) 776-9000 Jack Lord). McGarrett’s unit battled all manner of unredeemable bad guys, and I loved every Fax: (724) 776-3770 lurid minute of it. Best part? Whenever McGarrett bagged the ne’er-do-well of the week and Web: jom.tms.org uttered his signature “Book’em Danno” to, well, Danno. Aside from the action-adventure stories E-Mail: [email protected] and the memorably percussive theme song, the show was also an incredible advertisement for the Hawaiian tourism bureau. Even on our 16” black-and-white Zenith, the locations looked PUBLISHER James J. Robinson fabulous. Little did I realize back in those days that I’d be taking my first trip to the 50th state as MARCH GUEST EDITORS TMS executive director to help the society host the upcoming 8th Pacific Rim International Interphase Defects, Structures, and Phase Stability Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing (PRICM-8, for short). This intensely Chemistry and Physics of Materials Committee international conference will be held August 4–9 at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the “big Xiang-Yang (Ben) Liu, island” of Hawaii. PRICM is an event worthy of such a “destination” location. This triennial Los Alamos National Laboratory conference rotates hosting duties and host countries among five societies: the Chinese Society Modeling Mechanical Behavior of for Metals, the Japan Institute of Metals, the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials, Materials Ultrafine-Grained Polycrystals Australia, and TMS, which represents the remainder of the world. Three years ago, Materials Nanomechanical Materials Behavior Committee Australia performed a remarkable job with PRICM-7, attracting more than 1,000 attendees Jian Wang, Los Alamos National Laboratory to Cairns, Australia. Our goal for 2013 is to attract at least as many enthusiastic attendees. EDITORIAL STAFF So far, so good. As I write, there are still three more weeks of abstract collection to perform, Maureen Byko, Editor and already we have in the vicinity of 1,600 abstracts submitted to date. That’s a remarkable Shirley A. Litzinger, Production Editor number. Cheryl M. Geier, Senior Graphic Designer Immeasurable credit for promising early indicators goes to the efforts of the remarkably Ken Grzegorczyk, Web Developer dedicated organizing team, with sub-teams from each country working hard to assure a representative turn out from each region. The PRICM organizing structure is rather formal CONTRIBUTING WRITER Lynne Robinson and complex (I was in need of Cliff Notes in the early going as I familiarized myself with the warp and woof of the organizing culture). The key players for PRICM-8 are the Conference ADVERTISING STAFF Honorary Chair and TMS President Elizabeth Holm (Carnegie Mellon University) and the Caron Gavrish, Sales Specialist very hard-working Conference Organizing Chair Fernand Marquis (Naval Postgraduate School). The organizing committee comprises representatives from each of the five sponsoring JOM (ISSN 1047-4838) is published monthly by Springer Science + Business Media, LLC (Springer) organizations. Each organization has appointed representatives to serve as “In-Country 233 Spring St., New York, NY 10013 in cooperation Technical Representatives,” “International Organizing Committee Members,” and “Advisory with The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). Board Members.” In short, dozens of individuals worldwide are working to make PRICM-8 DISCLAIMER: The opinions and statements ex pressed in one of the most significant conferences of 2013. JOM are those of the authors only and are not necessarily those of TMS or the editorial staff. No confirmations or What will PRICM-8 examine? Well, there are 15 programming tracks that will cross-cut endorsements are intended or implied. many materials science and engineering interests, including energy, environment, high- SUBSCRIPTIONS, ORDERS, AND OTHER FULFILL- MENT INQUIRIES: In the Americas, contact Journals temperature materials, advanced steels, light metals, composites and hybrids, biomaterials, smart Customer Service, P.O. Box 2485, Secaucus, NJ 07096, materials, rare earths, electronic and magnetic materials, thin films and surface engineering, USA; telephone (800) 777-4643 (in North America) or solidification, deformation, modeling and simulation, bulk metallic glasses, nanocrystalline (212) 460-1500 (outside North America); e-mail journals- [email protected]. Outside the Americas, contact and ultrafine-grain materials, advanced characterization, and neutron and synchrotron studies. Journals Customer Service, Springer Distribution Center, As all of the participating countries will be programming in these areas, attendees can be Haberstr. 7, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany; telephone assured of a truly global perspective in each. 49-6221-345-4303; e-mail [email protected]. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: JOM, I hope that you are looking forward to PRICM-8 as much as I am. If you are, this is a great Springer, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, time to look at our registration and housing options on the web site and, um, “book ’em.” USA. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY, and additional mailing offices.

James J. Robinson Executive Director

335