Day 0 Tuesday August 19^th : Arrival of participants

13:00 AND 16:30 Pickup at Prague Airport and Travel to Trest

19:00-20:00  Welcome Drinks

20.00-21:00    Dinner
 

Day 1 Wednesday August 20^th : 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    Student lectures (5 minutes! per participant)                                                                                              

15:30-16:00    Coffee

16:00-17:30    Student lectures (5 minutes! per participant) 

17:30-18:00    Collaborative Tasks (Jessell/Khoen) 

18:00-19:00    Dinner                                                                

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

Day 2 Thursday August 21^st : Porous materials

09:00-10:00    Prof. John Banhart, (Hahn-Meitner- Institut, Berlin) Metallic foams -1

10:00-10:30    Coffee                                                    

10:30-11:30    Dr. Richard Weinkamer  (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam)  Bone and wood as hierarchical materials: structure-property relationships

11.30-12.00    Coffee

12:00-13:00    Prof. František Vyskočil (Charles University, Prague) Selective Pores in Cell membrane (Ion channels), are regulated by physical and chemical  impulses-1

13:00-14:00    Lunch                 

14:00-18:00    Free

18:00-19:00    Dinner

19:00-21:00    Field Trip Preparation (Schulmann and Hasalova)

Day 3 Friday August 22^nd : Field Trip,

Field (Schulmann and Hasalova: Porous flow in crustal rocks) & Metallurgy (Ostrava metal industry)

Day 4 Saturday August 23^rd :  Porous Flow & Precipitation phenomena

09:00-10:00    Dr. Philippe Ackerer (IMFS, Strasbourg) Flow and Transport in natural porous media

10:00-10:30    Coffee

10:30-11:30    Dr. Anita Roth (University of Tuebingen) - The principles of plant water transport - Interrelationships between wood structure and function-1

11.30-12.00    Coffee

12:00-13:00    Dr. Peter Lichtner , (Los Alamos National Lab.) - Reactive Transport in Porous Media from Pore to Continuum Scales

13:00-14:00    Lunch

14:00-15:00    Prof. John Banhart, (Hahn-Meitner- Institut, Berlin) Metallic foams -2

15.00-18.00    Free

18:00-19:00    Dinner

19:00-20:00     Prof. František Vyskočil (Charles University, Prague) Release of neurotransmitters: quantal and non-quantal principles
                                         

Day 5 Sunday August 24^th : Participant Poster Presentation

Day 6 Monday August 25^th : Applications and Properties-1

08:45- 13:00   Free

13:00-13:45    Lunch

14:15-15:15    Dr. Peter Lichtner , (Los Alamos National Lab.) - Modeling Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide using High Performance Computing

15:15-15:30    Coffee

15:30-16:30    Dr. Richard Weinkamer  (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam) Bone and wood as intelligent materials: adaptation and healing

16.30-17.00    Coffee

17:00-18:00    Prof. Giuseppe Fallini : (University of Bologna) Biomineralization                                    

18:00-19:00    Dinner

19:00-20:00   Prof. François Renard (LGCA Grenoble - PGP Oslo) Dissolution-precipitation processes driven by stress gradients in the Earth's crust: basics

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

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 Wednesday August 27^th : Modelling of Porous and Aqueous Materials

09:00-10:00    Dr. Philippe Ackerer (IMFS, Strasbourg) Flow and Transport in natural porous media: modelling lab.               

10:00-10:30    Coffee          

10:30-11:30    Dr. Philippe Ackerer (IMFS, Strasbourg) Flow and Transport in natural porous media: modelling lab.               

11.30-12.00    Coffee                        

12:00-13:00    Dr. Daniel Koehn (University Mainz) Modelling physico-chemical interactions, fracturing and fluid

13:00-14:00    Lunch

14:00-17:30    Dr. Daniel Koehn (University Mainz) Modelling physico-chemical interactions, fracturing and fluid flow in rocks

18:00-19:00    Conference Dinner

19:00-21:00    Free

Day 9 Thursday August 28^th : Applications and Properties-2

09:00-10:00    Prof. Wolfgang Brameshuber (RWTH, Aachen) Concrete - an example for a complex porosity

10:00-10:30    Coffee

10:30-12:00   Prof. Wolfgang Brameshuber (RWTH, Aachen) Consequences of porosity in concrete                       

12:00-12:30    Dr. Anita Roth (University of Tuebingen) - The principles of plant water transport - Interrelationships between wood structure and function-2

12:30-13:00    Prof. Giuseppe Fallini : (University of Bologna) Biomimetic materials

13:00-14:00    Lunch

14:00-16:00    Free

16:00-18:00    Presentation of Results of Collaborative Tasks

18:00-19:00    Dinner

19:00-20:00    Prof. François Renard (LGCA  Grenoble - PGP Oslo) Dissolution-precipitation processes driven by stress gradients in the Earth's crust

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

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

11:00               Travel to Prague (arrival: ~13.00) - Packed lunch for bus travellers