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Multiple characterization techniques, such as transmission electron microscopy, scanning-transmission electron microscopy, three-dimensional atom probe microscopy, and X-ray/neutron diffraction techniques, as well as modeling and simulation tools, such as first principles calculations, Monte Carlo methods, cluster expansions, and molecular dynamics, are used to investigate phase transformations at the atomic scale. The complementary nature of these experimental techniques, as well as the combination of experimental techniques with modeling and simulation, can provide powerful synergies for these investigations. This successful symposium, which concentrated on studies where multiple techniques and/or computational materials science tools have been coupled for the study of phase transformations at the atomic scale, was held at The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) 2011 Annual Meeting & Exhibition (San Diego, CA, February 27–March 3, 2011). …