Dear colleagues,

we would like to cordially invite you to attend the workshop
'Modelling and Simulation of Superalloys' at ICAMS, Ruhr University
Bochum, Germany on March 29-31, 2017 with hands-on tutorials on
March 27+28.

Superalloys are multi-component materials with complex microstructures
that offer unique properties for high-temperature applications. The
complexity of the superalloy materials makes it particularly challenging
to obtain fundamental insight into their behaviour from the atomic
structure to turbine blades. Recent advances in modelling and simulation
of superalloys contribute to a better understanding and prediction of
materials properties and therefore offer guidance for the development of
new alloys. This workshop will give an overview of recent progress in
modelling and simulation of materials for superalloys, with a focus on
single crystal Ni-base and Co-base alloys. Topics will include electronic
structure methods, atomistic simulations, microstructure modelling and
modelling of microstructural evolution, solidification and process
simulation as well as the modelling of phase stability and thermodynamics.

Invited speakers (confirmed):

Alan Ardell (UCLA Engineering, Los Angeles, USA)
Erik Bitzek (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany)
Benoit Devincre (CNRS-ONERA, Châtillon Cedex, France)
Gunther Eggeler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany)
Bernard Fedelich (BAM, Berlin, Germany)
Haruyuki Inui (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
James Kermode (University of Warwick, Coventry, UK)
Carolin Körner (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany)
Catherine Rae (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
Ralf Rettig (Thermo-Calc, Stockholm, Sweden)
James Saal (QuesTek Innovations LLC, Evanston, USA)
Ingo Steinbach (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany)
Dallas Trinkle (University of Illinois, Illinois, USA)
Axel van de Walle (Brown University, Providence, USA)

For more details and registration please visit
http://superalloys2017.rub.de/

Kind regards,

The Organizing Committee
Jutta Rogal, Thomas Hammerschmidt, and Ralf Drautz