Second Circular
THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED STEELS 2025
November 18~20, 2025
Shanghai, China
Second Circular
Organized by

The Chinese Society for Metals (CSM)

Cooperatively Organized by

The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan (ISIJ)

The Korean Institute of Metals and Materials (KIMM)

The Indian Institute of Metals (IIM)

Hosted by

Central Iron & Steel Research Institute

Shanghai University

Jiashan Research Institute of New Materials

Sponsored by

Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd

Tsingtuo Group

Hebei Longfengshan Casting Industry

SCOPE
This conference will cover the progress, challenges and opportunities related to advanced steels. This includes the effects of decarbonisation on iron and steel development, the impact of new technologies such as AI/ML and advances in our understanding of the basic concepts of these steel types. Topics include but are not limited to:
Physical metallurgy
New steel processing
Steel design and modeling inc. Al/ML
Steel products, performance and applications
Green steel technology
CALL FOR PAPERS

Those who wish to present papers are asked to submit extend abstract.

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE

English, with simultaneous Chinese and English interpretation.

CONFERENCE VENUE

Hyatt on the Bund Hotel Shanghai

199 Huangpu Road (Huangpu Lu), Shanghai

REGISTRATION RATES
Category

Early Bird

(on or before 31 August 2025)

Regular

(after 1 September 2025)

Full Registration
4000 CNY (600 USD)
5000 CNY (800 USD)
Students
1500 CNY (200 USD)
2000 CNY (300 USD)
GENERAL INFORMATION

The International Conference on Advanced Steels (ICAS) is the merging of two international conference series: “International Symposium on Ultrafine Grained Structures (ISUGS)” and “International Conference on Advanced Structural Steels (ICASS)”.

The merged ICAS 2010 was held in Guilin, China. Followed by ICAS 2015 in Yokohama, Japan, ICAS 2018 in Jeju, Korea and ICAS 2022 in Tsukuba, Japan.

We sincerely welcome you to contribute and participate in the 8th ICAS 2025, both from academic or industrial perspective.

HONORARY CHAIRS
Prof. Kuangdi Xu
Honorary President of The Chinese Academy of Engineering
Prof. Yuqing Weng
Honorary President of The Chinese Society for Metals
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Prof. Han Dong

Jiashan Research Institute of New Materials

Shanghai University, China

Prof. Peter Hodgson
Deakin University, Austrialia and Fusteel, China
Conference Secretariat Contact Information
Coordinator: Dr. Yangxin Wang
E-mail: icas2025.8th@gmail.com
Website: http://icas2025.iamshu.cn/
DEADLINE

Extended Abstract .......................................July 31, 2025

Notification of Acceptance.................September 30, 2025

ADVISORY COMMITTEES
Guocai Chai
China
Research Institute of Advanced Materials, Shenzhen
Wenquan Cao
China
Central Iron & Steel Research Institute
Hao Chen
China
Tsinghua University
Mingxin Huang
China
The University of Hong Kong
Laizhu Jiang
China
Tsingtuo Group
Xuejun Jin
China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Sung-Joon Kim
Korea
Pohang University of Science and Technology
Jian Lv
China
City University of Hong Kong, China
Haiwen Luo
China
University of Science & Technology Beijing
Young-Kook Lee
Korea
Yonsei University, Korea
Matthias Militzer
Canada
University of British Columbia, Canada
Jian-Feng Nie
Australia
Monash University, Australia
Elena Pereloma
Australia
University of Wollongong, Australia
Mark Rainforth
UK
University of Sheffield, UK
Pedro Rivera
UK
University of Southampton, UK
Chengjia Shang
China
University of Science & Technology Beijing, China
Nobuhiro Tsuji
Japan
Kyoto University, Japan
Ke Yang
China
Institute of Metals Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
Binhan Sun
China
East China University of Science and Technology
Xiaorong Cai
China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Alexander Gramlich
Germany
RWTH Aachen University
Xiaofei GuO
China
Shanghai University
Zengbao Jiao
China
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hualong Li
China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chunguang Yang
China
Institute of Metals Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yan Ma
Netherland
Delft University of Technology
Minghui Cai
China
Northeastern University
Bo Wang
China
Shanghai University
Cunyu Wang
China
Central Iron & Steel Research Institute
Run Xu
China
Shanghai University
Zhenjia Xie
China
University of Science & Technology Beijing
Xiaoming Mao
China
Baosteel Research Institute
SESSION
Fundamentals of physical metallurgy
Alloying
AI+Steel
Property evaluation and microstructure evolution
New processing metallurgy
Functional steel
Steel performance and applications
New iron and applications
Green steel technology