The 32 papers were selected and peer-reviewed from those submitted for publication from the solidification symposium at the conference on materials development and application. Among the topics they consider are the thermal roughening of a solid-on-solid model with elastic interaction, modeling heat and solute flows during the solidification of droplets, the in-situ optical determination of a fraction solid, the three-dimensional reconstruction of experimentally grown xenon dendrites, grain sedimentation and melt convection phenomena during globular equi-axed solidification, analyzing the solidification of microstructure in multi-component gamma titanium aluminide alloys, and the simulation of stray grain formation in investment cast turbine blades.