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Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on advanced materials processing, Grand Hyatt, Singapore, December 2-4, 2002. Two key notes, 9 invited addresses and over 130 oral presentations by delegates from over 20 countries. The three-day conference was packed with a wide range of discussion topics from thin films, nano-structured materials, advanced metal-matrix composites, light weight allows and functional materials to characterization, laser materials processing, ceramics processing, and modeling and simulation. The papers presented during the conference are now included in these proceedings in their full lengths.