Sponsored and organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The National University of Singapore (Singapore) the Sixteenth International Conference on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials is to be held 17-19 December 2007.

The purpose of the inter-disciplinary conference is to bring together state-of-the-art developments on all aspects related to the processing and fabrication of advanced materials spanning the entire spectrum of metallic, intermetallics, ceramics, ceramic-matrix composites, metal-matrix composites, intermetallic-matrix composites, advanced polymers, polymer-matrix composites, semiconductor materials and surface and high-temperature coatings.

This conference will provide an attractive forum for presenting the latest advances in materials processing and fabrication by researchers and engineers from the cross-section of industry, research laboratories and academia. Key-note, invited and contributed papers will be included. The key-note and invited papers from "leading-edge" academic and industrial research settings, in related areas, will provide a lucid and comprehensive overview of the current status and potential future directions for research, development and commercialization. Contributed papers will attempt to cover specific problems in the same areas.