Other activities

Organizer in Scientific Events

• 2017: Organizing Committee. Pan American Materials Congress. Co-located with the TMS 2017 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. San Diego California. Feb 26 – March 2, 2017. [ Website ]
• 2017: Symposium Organizer at TMS 2017 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. San Diego California. Feb 26 – March 2, 2017. Symposium name: Deriving Value from Challenging Waste Materials: Recycling and Sustainability Joint Session. Organizers: John A. Howarter, Purdue University Elsa Olivetti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mingming Zhang, ArcelorMittal Global R&D Randolph E. Kirchain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Henry A Colorado, Universidad de Antioquia. [ Document ]
• 2016: Symposium Organizer at Materials Science and Technology Conference (MS&T’16). Symposium name: Construction and Building Materials for a Better Environment. Salt Lake City, UT USA, Oct 23-27. Organizers: Henry A Colorado, Universidad de Antioquia; Dileep Singh, Argonne National Laboratory; Flavio de Andrade Silva, COPPE/UFRJ; Gaurav Sant, University of California, Los Angeles.
• 2016: Symposium Chair and Organizer of 1st International Symposium of Ceramics and Composites (ISCCO), Medellin, Colombia, October 3, 4 and 5 of 2016. [ Website ]
• 2016: Symposium Organizer at 9th International Conference on High Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites (HTCMC 9), June 26-30, 2016. Symposium name: G4: Ceramics for sustainable infrastructure: Geopolymers and sustainable composites. Ontario, Canada. Organizers: Waltraud M. Kriven, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, Henry A. Colorado, University of Antioquia, Colombia
• 2015: First International Conference for advance materials and power engineering (ICAMPE 2015). International Advisory Committee. Kottayam, Kerala, India. Dec 11-13, 2015. [ Website ]
• 2014: Symposium Chair and Organizer of 1st International Symposium of Advanced Manufacturing and Nanotechnology, Medellin, Colombia, Nov 12 and 13 of 2014. [ Website ]
• 2015: Section Chair Alternative Chemistries and Construction Materials, from Symposium: Geopolymers, Chemically Bonded Ceramics, Sustainable and Eco-friendly Materials. 39th international Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites. ICACC’15. January 25-30, Daytona Beach, Florida.
• 2014: Section Chair. Innovating Processing and Synthesis of Ceramics, Glasses and Composites. Materials Science & Technology 2014 conference. October 2014. Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• 2014: Section Chair Alternative Chemistries and Construction Materials, from Symposium: Geopolymers, Chemically Bonded Ceramics, Sustainable and Eco-friendly Materials. 38th international Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites. ICACC’14. January 25-31, Daytona Beach, Florida.