Preliminary Program Print

Third Marie Curie Summer Schools
on
"Partial Melt and Amorphous Solids"
19-29 August 2007

Estremoz, Portugal
 

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Day 0 Sunday August 19th : Arrival of participants

13:00 AND 16:30  Pickup at Lisbon Airport and Travel to Estremoz

19:00-20:00  Welcome Drinks

20.00-21:00    Dinner

Day 1 Monday August 20th : Materials Science and Knowledge Based Materials: An overview

09:00-12:00 (incl. coffee break) Welcome and introduction of presenters, themes and activities (Jessell):

  • Logistics of Summer School
  • Format
  • What we hope to achieve
  • What the EU wants from such a Summer School
  • The European Research Area

12:00-13:30    Introduction to multidisciplinary materials science (Jessell):

Overview of what it means to be a multi-disciplinary material scientist in the context of the European Union, and specifically we discuss:

 

  • The fundamental Materials Science Pyramid: (Theory-Observation-Experiment-Simulation)
  • What drives research in the different fields of Materials Science?
  • The similarities and differences between materials.
  • How to learn a new materials language (Journals, conference series, web sites...)

13:30-14:30    Lunch

14:30-15:30     Overview of Partial Melts in  engineered materials (Günter Gottstein, RWTH Aachen) 

15:30-16:00    Coffee

16:00-17:00    Overview of Partial Melts in Rocks (Ernie Rutter, Manchester)

17.00-18.00    Introduction to collaborative tasks                           

18:00-19:00    Dinner                                                                

19:30-21:00    Short introductory talks by, Paul Bons, Günter Gottstein & Mark Jessell

Day 2 Tuesday August 21st : Partial Melts and Amorphous Materials

08:45- 09:00   Participant - short talks (3*5 min)

09:00-10:00    Nucleation and Solidification (Lindsay Greer, Cambridge)

10:00-10:30    Coffee                                                    

10:30-11:30    Materials science and rheology of polymers and polymer melts (Jérôme Sarrazin, ExxonMobile)

11.30-12.00    Coffee

12:00-13:00    Cellular Materials (Maria Emília Rosa, Lisbon)

13:00-14:00    Lunch                 

14:00-18:00    Free

18:00-19:00    Dinner

19:00-21:00    Field Trip Preparation (Bons, Dias)

 

Day 3 Wednesday August 22nd : Field Trip, material science in nature (Rui Dias, Evora; Paul Bons, Tübingen)

Day 4 Thursday August 23rd :  Materials characterisation

08:45- 09:00   Participant - short talks (3*5 min)

09:00-10:00    Microstructural characterisation of partial melt alloys (Michel Suery, INPG, Grenoble)

10:00-10:30    Coffee

10:30-11:30    The properties of cork (Maria Emília Rosa, Lisbon)

11.30-12.00    Coffee

12:00-13:00    Collaborative Tasks

13:00-14:00    Lunch

14.00-18.00    Free

18:00-19:00    Dinner

19:00-20:00    Collaborative Tasks

                                                                                                 

Day 5 Friday August 24th : Participant Poster Presentation

Day 6 Saturday August 25th : Physical experiments and manufacture of partial melts and amorphous materials

08:45- 13:00   Free

13:00-13:45    Lunch

13.45-14.15    Participant - short talks (5*5 min)

14:15-15:15    Grain refinement in aluminium melts (Lindsay Greer, Cambridge)

15:15-15:30    Coffee

15:30-16:30    High Pressure Partial Melt Experiments (Ernie Rutter, Manchester)

16.30-17.00    Coffee

17:00-18:00    Numerical simulation of partially molten systems (Frank Wendler, Karlsruhe)

18:00-19:00    Dinner

19:00-20:00    Nuclear waste and vitrification (Etienne Vernaz, CEA-Varlhô)

20:00-21:00    In situ X-ray tomography (Michel Suery, INPG, Grenoble)

Day 7 Sunday August 26th : A Career in Science: Science and Society, Science Management, Scientific Communication (all lecturers)

08:45- 09:00   Participant - short talks (3*5 min)

09:00-9:30      Short introductory to Career management + discussion (Gottstein)
09:30-10:00    Short introductory to proposal writing + discussion (Bons)

10:00-10:30    Short introductory to communication + discussion (Piazolo)

10:30-11:00    Coffee

10:30-12:30    A Career in Science - Introduction to discussion themes (Piazolo)

Informal Discussion Groups on a Career in Science:

  • Science and Society- the role of research in the economic and social welfare of nations; gender roles in scientific careers; management of gender issues in a research environment; sustainable and appropriate development; the role of the researcher in developing science policy.
  • Science Management- how to design a science project; human resource management; the training of the next generation of researchers; national and international collaborations; the financial management of research, intellectual property and patent law; the development of standards and platforms; safety in the workplace, conflict resolution.
  • Scientific Communication- the communication of scientific ideas for a technical audience; the development of research proposals; science communication for a non-technical audience; oral presentation of scientific results.

12.30 - 13.00 Summary by each discussion group

13:00-14:00    Lunch

14.00-18.00    Free

18:00-19:00    Dinner

19:00-21:00    Analysis and Discussion of Project Proposals

Day 8 Monday August 27th : Modelling of Microstructure

08:45- 09:00   Participant - short talks (3*5 min)

09:00-10:00    In situ melt experiments (Bons, Tübingen)

10:00-10:30    Coffee          

10:30-11:30    Modelling microstructure formation and phase transitions (Frank Wendler, Karlsruhe)

11.30-12.00    Coffee                        

12:00-13:00    Modelling microstructure formation and phase transitions in Rocks (Jens Becker, Tübingen)

13:00-14:00    Lunch

14:00-17:30    Computer Laboratory (Becker, Wendler)

18:00-19:00    Conference Dinner

19:00-21:00    Free

 

Day 9 Tuesday August 28th : Applications and Properties of Partial Melts and Amorphous Materials

08:45- 09:00   Participant - short talks (3*5 min)

09:00-10:00    Industrial Applications of Polymers and Polymer Melts (Jérôme Sarrazin, ExxonMobile)

10:00-10:30    Coffee

10:30-11:30    Nuclear glass « R7T7 » behaviour in storage or disposal conditions (Etienne Vernaz, CEA-Varlhô)

11.30-12.00    Coffee

12:00-12:30    Rocks: Partial Melts and the Rheology of the Crust (Schulmann, Strasbourg)

12:30-13:00    Short Introductory Talk (Sandra Piazolo, Stockholm)

13:00-14:00    Lunch

14:00-18:00    Free

18:00-19:00    Dinner

19:00-21:00    Presentation of Results of Collaborative Tasks

Day 10 Wednesday August 29th : Open Discussion: The Future of Materials Science and Future Materials

08:45-11:00    Open Discussion - rounding up

11:00               Travel to Lisbon (arrival: ~15.00) - Packed lunch for bus travellers