Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Tailoring Ceramics for Biomedical Applications |
| Discussion Leader: Marina Pascucci (CeraNova Corporation, USA) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Brian Derby (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) "3D Bioprinting - From Scaffolds to Organs" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Simone Sprio (Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics (ISTEC), CNR, Italy) "A Revolutionary Approach in Ceramic Processing to Develop Scaffolds for Regenerative Medicine" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Designing Microstructures for Functional Applications |
| Discussion Leader: Gregory Rohrer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Nitin Padture (Brown University, USA) "The Unprecedented Promise of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells for Cheap and Efficient Clean Energy" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Gary Messing (Pennsylvania State University, USA) "Exceptional Piezoelectric Ceramics Through Microstructure Texturing" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Barbara Malic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) "Grain Growth in Solution-Derived Perovskite Thin Films:
Case Studies of (K, Na)NbO3
and (Ba,Sr)TiO3" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Ceramics
with Controlled Porosity |
| Discussion Leader: Ivar Reimanis (Colorado School of Mines, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Norbert Willenbacher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) "Porous Ceramics from Capillary Suspensions" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Rajendra Bordia (Clemson University, USA) "Analysis and
Simulation Guided Porous Ceramics" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New
Paradigms for Grain Boundaries and Interfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Shen Dillon (University of Illinois, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Martin Harmer (Lehigh Univesity, USA) "Do Grain Boundaries Exhibit Time-Temperature-Transformations (TTTs)?" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Suk-Joong Kang (Korean Institute of Ceramc Engineering and Technology, South Korea) "Mixed Control of Boundary
Migration and Microstructural Evolution" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Edwin Garcia (Purdue University, USA) "Microstructure Evolution and Properties of
Polycrystalline Ceramics: A Phase Field Approach" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New Insights in Characterizing Grain Boundaries and Interfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Wayne Kaplan (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Klaus van Benthem (University of California, Davis, USA) "In Situ TEM Characterization of Microstructure Evolution to Elucidate Mechanisms for Densification and Grain Growth" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Bilge Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Chemical and
Electrochemical Stability on Doped Perovskite Oxide Electro-Catalysts" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Advanced
Manufacturing Technologies |
| Discussion Leader: John Blendell (Purdue University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | John Halloran (University of Michigan, USA) "Practical Fundamentals of Photo Polymerization
of Ceramic Suspensions" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Alexander Michaelis (Fraunhofer Society, Germany) "(AM)²:
Advanced
Manufacturing and Additive Manufacturing" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Tatsuki Ohji (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan) "Novel Processing of Engineering Ceramics Towards Multi-Functionality" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Recent
Advances in Sintering Technologies |
| Discussion Leader: Eugene Olevsky (San Diego State University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Olivier Gullion (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany) "Current State of Electric Field Assisted Sintering Technology" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Hermann Riedel (Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials, Germany) "Modeling Techniques for Ceramic Process Chains" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Designing
Microstructures for Structural Applications |
| Discussion Leader: Martha Mecartney (University of California, Irvine, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Helen Chan (Lehigh University, USA) "De-Synthesis of Mixed Oxides: A Method of Achieving Unique Metal-Ceramic Microstructures" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Gerold Schneider (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) "Organically Linked Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Supercrystal with Exceptional Isotropic Mechanical Properties" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Frank Zok (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) "Matrix Concepts and Processing
Protocols for Robust SiC-Based CMCs" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Session: Science of Interfaces |
| Discussion Leaders: Carol Handwerker (Purdue University, USA) and Michael Hoffmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Carl Krill (Ulm University, Germany) "Probing the Sociology of Grain Growth: Cyril
Stanley Smith, German Beer and Microstructural Mapping in 4D" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | W. Craig Carter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "The Interface Between Art and Education" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |