The European Ceramic Society
Lectures and Teachers
The ECerS Summer School in Krakow will consist of 10 modules given by internationally renowned teachers who are experts in the field:
Prof. Jon Binner
University of Birmingham - UK
“Microwave sintering; what can it and can’t it do?”
Dr Salvatore Grasso
Southwest Jiaotong University – China and Queen Mary university of London – UK
“Impact of high heating rates: from pit firing to ultrafast high-temperature sintering”
Prof. Stuart Hampshire
University of Limerick - Ireland
“Overview of the Fundamentals of Sintering”
Dr Mathias Herrmann
IKTS - Germany
“Fundamentals and technology of hot pressing and hot isostatic pressing”
Prof. Anne Leriche
Polytechnic University Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes - France
“Toolbox to control grain growth during densification of ceramics”
Prof. Gary Messing
Penn State University - USA
“Contrasting Microstructure and Densification Processes during Solid State and Liquid Phase Sintering of Al2O3”
Prof. Clive Randall
Penn State University - USA
“Utilizing Cold Sintering in the Design and Integration of New Functional Composite Materials”
Prof. Pavol Sajgalik
Academy of Sciences - Slovakia
“Miracle versatility of advanced Si3N4: from engineering to functional applications"
Dr David Salamon
CEITEC - Czech Republic
“Spark Plasma Sintering – design of experiments”
Prof. Richard Todd
University of Oxford - UK
“Flash Sintering – towards faster, cheaper, greener and better Ceramics”
The Summer School will end with a round table led by a few teachers and students around questions previously formulated by the students.
Last news
2024 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 4th call!
In the frame of the 2024 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a 4th call, this time to allow grants to European Students to attend the 88th Annual Session of the Indian Ceramics Society and International Conference in Advanced Ceramics for Sustainability which will be organised by the Indian Ceramic Society in the campus of Indian Institute of Technology Madras (located in Chennai, India), from 28th to 30th November 2024.
ACerS is offering travelling grants of 1.500 $ to attend the two 2024 ECerS Summer Schools
The grants can be allowed to undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students from non-European based universities. The 2024 ECerS Summer Schools will be held prior to Electroceramics XIX (Vilnius, Lithuania - School: 17-18 August 2024) and Shaping 9 (Warsaw, Poland - School: 24-25 September 2024)!
Information
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