Ceramic Transactions (CTs) books contain papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, other regional and division conferences, as well as meetings held by related societies and organizations.

Volumes 200 and 201 contain papers presented at The 15th International Conference on the Texture of Materials from June 1-5th, 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA.

A.D. Rollett obtained an M.A. in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Cambridge University, England in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Drexel University in 1987. He worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory for sixteen years, rising to be the Deputy Director of the Materials Science & Technology Division in 1994. He then moved to Carnegie Mellon University to be the Department Head in Materials Science & Engineering until 2000. He is active in the Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at CMU and is the Focal Area Point of Contact for Computational Chemistry & Materials for the DoD.