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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.

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

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1st Announcement of the 4rd ESF Nanotribology Workshop in Porquerolles, France, June, 18-22 2005

The 4th ESF Nanotribology Workshop will be 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 are invited to present their last findings in nanocontact : experimental studies and theoritical approaches in the field of tribology at the nanometer scale will be focused on.

Nature Materials article: The contact mechanics of fractal surfaces

Renato Buzio, Corrado Boragno, Fabio Biscarini, Francesco Buatier de Mongeot and Ugo Valbusa

The role of surface roughness in contact mechanics is relevant to processes ranging from adhesion to friction, wear and lubrication. It also promises to have a deep impact on applied science, including coatings technology and design of microelectromechanical systems. Despite the considerable results achieved by indentation experiments, particularly in the measurement of bulk hardness on nanometre scales, the contact behaviour of realistic surfaces, showing random multiscale roughness, remains largely unknown. Here we report experimental results concerning the mechanical response of self-affine thin films indented by a micrometric flat probe.

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1st Announcement of the 3rd ESF Nanotribology Workshop in Sesimbra, Portugal, 18-22 September 2004

The 3rd ESF Nanotribology Workshop will be held in Sesimbra, Portugal. This workshop will be organized in the same spirit like the workshops in Portovenere and 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 to 50-60 participants. Thus, the acceptance of contributed talks will be made by the steering committee of the ESF-NATRIBO program. The local organizers are Rogerio Colaco and Rui Vilar.

More information will follow on this webpage : www.nanotribo.org The deadline for abstract submission is June 31, 04. The notification of acceptance will be beginning of August. Local Organizers are Rogério Colaço and Rui Vilar

1st Announcement.pdf

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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2nd ESF-Nanotribology Workshop announced!

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.

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Summary of the Steering Committee Meeting in Portovenere, October 21 2002

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1st ESF-Nanotribology Workshop

Detailed Program now available

October 19-23, 2002

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

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