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Past Events
Tribology: Friction, Wear, and Lubrication, MIT, June 25-29, 2007
This program presents, in a systematic form, current insights into
tribology, focusing on the concepts of surface energy and
delamination. Experimental techniques and quantitative
relationships in friction and wear will be discussed. Special
consideration will be given to the tribological properties of such
materials as polymers and composites, and to the problem of
applying fundamental knowledge to the control of friction and wear
behavior in practical situations.
For more information visit the program's website:
MIT: Designing Tribological Systems
1st Announcement of the 6th ESF Nanotribology Workshop in Santa Margherita di Pula, Sardinia (Italy), May 13-16, 2007
This is the 1st announcement of the 6th ESF Nanotribology Workshop in Santa Margherita, Sardinia, Italy. The workshop will be held in the Hotel Flamingo. This workshop will be organized in the same spirit like the other workshops (2002 Portovenere, 2003 Antalya, 2004 Sesimbra, 2005 Porquerolles, and 2006 Antalya). ESF-NATRIBO project partners can present their recent results and some invited speakers from overseas will join as well. The participants will be financially supported. However, the number of participants is limited. Thus, the acceptance of contributed talks will be made by the steering committee of the ESF-NATRIBO program.
The deadline for abstract submission is March 15, 2007. The
notification of acceptance will be middle of April.
The registration will be online at the beginning of January, 2007.
The online registration is closed.
5th ESF Nanotribology Workshop in Antalya, Turkey,
September 23-27, 2006
Program of the 5th ESF-Nanotribology Workshop 23-27 September 2006, Antalya, Turkey
Program 5th ESF Nanotribology Workhshop (pdf)
Hotel La Mer, 07980 Kemer, Antalya,
Tel +90 242 815 38,
Fax +90 242 815 15 37
http://www.hotellamer.com
Confirmed invited speakers:
Kathy Wahl, Naval Research, US
Ali Erdemir, Argonne National Lab, US
Jacob Israelachvili, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Rob Carpick, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Sanjay Biswas, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
John Pethica, Oxford, UK and Trinity College, Ireland
Elisa Riedo, Georgia Tech, USA
Suzi Jarvis, Trinity College, Ireland
Nic Spencer, ETHZ, Switzerland
Jean-Michel Martin, ENS Lyon, France
Erio Tosatti, SISSA ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Martin Müser, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Ken’ichi Hiratsuka, Chiba, Japan
Tom Dickinson, Washington State University, US
The deadline for abstract submission is July 31, 2006. The notification of acceptance will be end of August.
International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology ICN&T 2006, Basel, July 30 - August 4, 2006
We'd like to draw your attention to the forthcoming International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology ICN&T 2006. The conference will be held at the conference centre in Basel/Switzerland from July 30 through August 4, 2006.
The scope of this conference is twofold:
To commemorate the invention and development of SPM (25 years of STM and 20 years of AFM) and related techniques and their impact on the sciences.
The expansion and reinforcement of nanoscience in general
and its potential to unleash future technologies.
For more information visit the ICNT2006 website:
ICNT2006-Homepage
Sliding dynamics:
The physical and mechanical viewpoints on Friction.
School, Valpré, Lyon, France
19-24 November 2006
Friction, traditionally viewed as a pure contact mechanics problem, has now emerged also as
a major research area in the fields of materials science and physics. In fact, the traditional
description of friction lacks predictive power and a physical basis must be developed.
However, simple instability models cannot capture the detailed material behaviours. Below
the limit of continuum mechanics, friction has also to take into account the local response of
the materials and cannot rely on averaged constitutive relations; the relevant length scales are
controlled by the local geometry (roughness) and the internal length scales of the materials.
Finally, the resulting behaviour is yet complexified by the coupling between deformation and
material structure.
SlidingDynamics.pdf
Tribology: Friction, Wear, and Lubrication, MIT, June 19-23, 2006
This program presents, in a systematic form, current insights into tribology, focusing on the concepts of surface energy and delamination. Experimental techniques and quantitative relationships in friction and wear will be discussed. Special consideration will be given to the tribological properties of such materials as polymers and composites, and to the problem of applying fundamental knowledge to the control of friction and wear behavior in practical situations.
For more information visit the program's website:
MIT: Designing Tribological Systems
Nordtrib 2006: 12th Nordic Symposium in Tribology
June 7-9, 2006
LO-Skolen, Helsingør, Denmark
All aspects of tribology are welcome as topics for papers – experimental and theoretical work as well as case studies:
Some examples are:
- Wear Processes and Tribology of Materials
- Friction
- Boundary Lubrication
- Hydrodynamic Lubrication and EHD
- Lubricants Testing and Condition Monitoring
- Industrial Tribology
- Environmental Aspects of Tribology
- Magnetic Recording Tribology
- Nano-Tribology
- Machine Elements
- Polymer tribology
- Surface properties and surface engineering
- Lubricant properties, viscometry
- Contact mechanics
- Magnetic Bearings
Local Organizers: Svend Eskildsen, Jørgen Jakobsen, Peder Klit, Ion M. Sivebæk
Contact: lill@mek.dtu.dk
Nordtrib 2006-Homepage
See some Fotos of the conference in Porquerolles, 2005
4th ESF Nanotribology Workshop
June, 18-22 2005
Hôtel Club IGESA
Porquerolles, France
The 4th ESF Nanotribology Workshop has been held in Porquerolles, France, in Hôtel Club IGESA.
As for the three previous workshops, partners from the ESF-NANOTRIBO project as well as researchers
from overseas have been invited to present their last findings in nanocontact : experimental studies
and theoritical approaches in the field of tribology at the nanometer scale have been focused on.
The local organizer has been the Tribology Group of Mulhouse (France).
Read more about the location here!
3rd ESF Nanotribology Workshop in Sesimbra, Portugal, 18-22 September 2004
The 3rd ESF Nanotribology Workshop has been hold in Sesimbra, Portugal. This workshop has been organized in
the same spirit like the workshops in Portovenere and Antalya. ESF-NATRIBO project partners presented their
recent results and some invited speakers from overseas joined as well. The participants have been financially supported.
The number of participants was limited to 50-60 participants.
Local Organizers are Rogério Colaço and Rui Vilar
Program as of 11th August
1st Announcement.pdf
2nd ESF-Nanotribology Workshop
Antalya/Turkey, October 18-22, 2003
"Atomic-scale friction"
Scope of the workhop: Experimental and theoretical studies of energy dissipation;
various energy dissipation processes; energy transfer through nanostructures (thermal and
electronic conduction, quantum effects), recent developments in noncontact atomic force
microscroscopy; energy dissipation in noncontact atomic force microscopy, atomic scale study of
ultra low friction coatings, friction at the solid-liquid interface.
50-60 participants, where 10 are invited speakers and 15 research presentations.
Directors of workshop: S. Ciraci and E. Meyer
Local organizer: S. Ciraci, A. Oral, O. Gulseren
Program as of 25th August
1st Announcment
Informations on Location etc.
MRS Symposium P: Dynamics in Small Confining Systems VII
December 1-5, 2003
Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Hotel, Boston MA
Interfacial science has rapidly expanded beyond the original realm of chemistry to include physics, mechanical and chemical engeneering, biology, materials science, and other specialized subfields. This seventh international symposium in a series sponsored by the MRS will emphasize a wide range of topic covering static and dynamic properties of small confining systems. Participants from various disciplines will share different points of view on the questions of how ultrasmall geometries can force a system to behave in ways significantly different than its behaviour in the bulk, how this difference affects molecular properties, and how it is probed. We encourage researchers from all scientific disciplines to present theoretical, experimental, and computational evidence of the effects of confinement on gaseous, liquid, and solid systems.
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"Nanobali 2"
Nanotribology: The liquid-Solid Interface, 7th-11th July 2003, Caha Dewata Resort, Ubud, Bali
The focus of this second Nanotribology meeting in Bali will be the liquid-solid interface- an area that is central to lubrication and one that has been garnering considerable attention among surface scientist and engineers in recent years.
INF-Committee: Y. Ando, S. Biswas, A. Gellman, J. Israelachvili, S.P. Jarvis, J.M. Martin, J. Pethica, N.D. Spencer, W. Unertl
Secretariat: C. Smith, SFI Physics Dept., Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Fax: +353 1 608 3027
e-mail: catherin.smith@tcd.ie
INF Homepage
1st ESF-Nanotribology Workshop
October 19-23, 2002
Detailed Program now available
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Location: Portovenere (La Spezia) Italy, Hotel Royal Sporting ****
Conference hall for a maximum of 80 people
You can visit the web site http://www. royalsporting.com. The location is wonderful and very quite. It is nearby La Spezia (14 km, 20 minutes by bus). The closest airports to La Spezia are PISA and GENOVA. In particular the airport of Pisa is very convenient because it has the train station inside the airport. La Spezia is 150 km far from Florence, 80 km from Pisa, 100 km from Genova , 60 km from Lucca and 220km from Milano.
Organizer: U. Valbusa, University of Genova
Contact: Martinoli@fisica.unige.it
Workshop Details
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