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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
- 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 Polymer Foams - Processes and Foaming Mechanisms (Holger Schumacher, Aachen)
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- 10:00 Participant - short talks
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
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