Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts to the symposium devoted to the topic of “Integrated Computational Grain Boundary Engineering” (ICGBE) held within the framework of the Thermec’2018 conference in Parise, France on July 8-13, 2018.

The symposium is the continuation of the ICGBE workshop successfully held during the Thermec’2016 in Graz. The main idea of the symposium is to have an open discussion on the state of the art of grain boundary and interface segregation investigations by means of theoretical and experimental methods. Currently available experimental and theoretical tools already allow one to obtain rather accurate data on the structure and chemical composition of interfaces in solid state. However, a question of a “correct” comparison between theoretical and experimental data, questions of interpretation and validity of these data are still open in many cases.

At this symposium, we would like to continue a joint discussion among the experts in the field on the current status of understanding, modeling and relevance of segregation to various applied problems of materials science.

The abstract submission deadline is October 25, 2018. Abstracts can be submitted via the official conference website https://thermec2018.sciencesconf.org/ under the topic of “Integrated Computational Grain Boundary Engineering.”

Best regards,

Organizing committee:

Dr. Vsevolod Razumovskiy (coordinator; e-mail: [email protected]), MCL, Austria

Dr. Lorenz Romaner, MCL, Austria

Prof. Matthias Militzer, UBC, Canada

Prof. Pavel Lejček, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Prof. Christopher Schuh, MIT, USA

Prof. Ernst Kozeschnik, TU Wien, Austria

Distinguished Thermec’2018 plenary lecture:   

Prof. Albert Fert, Nobel Laureate, Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES- France

Keynote Lecture:

Prof. Christopher Schuh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA