Last month I focused on preparing an article (“Microstructure and mechanical properties of AA7475/AlN compacts with varied reinforcing particles size”) and an abstract (“Effect of reinforcement particle size on microstructure and mechanical behavior of AlZnMgCu/AlN nano-composites produced using mechanical alloying”) for two oncoming conferences – “Composites 2012 – theory and practice” which will be held in Poraj on 18-20 April and “International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials (ISMANAM)” which will be held on 18-22 June in Moscow.