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Report on the Shaping 8 Conference
The 8th Shaping Conference was organized jointly by the European Ceramic Society and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Empa in partnership with the Swiss Association for Materials Science and Technology, SVMT, from 14th to 16th September 2022 in Dübendorf/Zurich, Switzerland.
Some numbers about the conference:
There were 125 participants from 19 countries.
- 21 poster presentations
- 57 regular oral presentations were presented on 2 parallel sessions
- 10 keynotes lecturers presented 8 plenary presentations:
- Marc Bohner & Yassine Maazouz - RMS Foundation, Switzerland: "State of the art in shaping (calcium phosphate) bioceramics"
- Giorgia Franchin - University of Padova, Italy: "Additive Manufacturing of ceramics from liquid feedstocks"
- Peter Holtappels - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany: "Bottom-up shaping of advanced ceramics for electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies"
- Anne Leriche - LMCPA-University of Valenciennes, France & David Grossin - CIRIMAT-ENSIACET: "DOC-3D-printing: an European research network on additive manufacturing of ceramics"
- Rodrigo Moreno - CSIC, Madrid, Spain: "The role of rheology in shaping of ceramics for sustainable energyThe role of rheology in shaping of ceramics for sustainable energy"
- Zhe Zhao - Shanghai Institute of Technology, China: "The path to the Defect-free 3D-printed ceramics: tough but hopeful"
- Tanja Zimmermann - Empa, Switzerland: "Shaping the future of sustainable built environment"
Prior to the Shaping 8 Conference, a Summer School "A swiss knife for ceramics shaping: Between fiction, hope and vision" was organised on September 13th and 14th, 2022 devoted to ceramics processing science.
The Shaping 8 conference & School were sponsored by the JECS Trust.
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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)!
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