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 The fourth meeting in Cambridge MULTIMAT from 23 till 15 March 2006,
attracted around 60 participants. While the majority of speakers came from
the MULTIMAT network, external speakers and participants contributed greatly
to the success of the meeting. While essentially all sub-themes of the
network were represented, additional contributions related to systems where
the observable steady state is not the result of energy minimisation (or
where such energies simply do not exist) but systems in which flows and
counterflows define the states far from equilibrium were also presented. A
total of 18 selected contributions stimulated lively discussions, which
carried on after the actual meeting. It also showed how much the cooperation
between the various groups in the network has advanced.
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After the midterm review, we received a letter from our EU officer, stating: "As your network is working well, I am pleased to inform you now on a positive conclusion to the Mid-Term Review process". |
Alphonse Finel and the ONERA team will be organizing the next Solid - Solid State Phase Transformations conference in 2010 in Paris! Congratulations
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Petr Sittner and the Prague team will be organizing the next ESOMAT 2009 symposium in Prague! Congratulations
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The MULTIMAT kick-off meeting in Leipzig was a great success, with over 80 participants from all European teams. The meeting consisted of a number of lectures covering topics of the Introductory Courses 1, 2 and 3, presentations of the team leaders of their respective research teams and areas, discussion sessions on all research objectives and a small number of research papers.
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The team from the University of Glasgow has been accepted as a full partner.
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Professor John Ball, a world-renowned mathematician from the University of Oxford and team-leader of our Oxford partner, has received a knighthood in the New Year Honours list! |
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The Midterm meeting in Antwerp from 22 till 25 November, 2006, was attended
by more than 75 participants from all 12 partners and including researchers
from several non-MULTIMAT groups. The program was concentrated around three
half-day lectures delivered by outstanding lecturers from within as well as
outside the network. Next to these educational lectures four more
researchers, again from outside as well as within the network, were invited
to present recent research results related to items of the project. The
combination of the three educational plus the four extended research
lecturers covered aspects of all Introductory and Intensive courses as
listed in the contract. Moreover, in order to strengthen ties to other
European networks, three coordinators of related research and training
networks were invited to present their network and some of the research
performed. Next to these invited presentations the MULTIMAT recruited
researchers, including some former ones, presented their work in short
contributions.
On Thursday a full day of Midterm review with the attendance of the Brussels
officer, Dr. Maria Georgiadou, was concluded successfully and followed by a
Board meeting |
The second meeting in Paris attracted over 60 participants including members of the US team and several researchers not belonging to teams of the network. The Introductory Courses 4 and 5 were covered by several lectures and a full day was attributed to research contributions.
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The third meeting and first annual meeting in Barcelona attracted over 50 participants of which 15 from outside the network. The first day was devoted to an Advanced Course on Experimental Techniques. This course covered part of the foreseen intensive courses Microscopy, diffraction and spectroscopy (IIC.2 and related to Research Objectives I, II and IV), and In-situ experiments of phase transformations (IIC.5 and related to Research Objectives I, II and IV). The second day started with a Focused Session on Interfaces and their Mobility and ended with a Round Table on network topics. The session was aimed at discussing problems related to the origin of the observed microstructures in materials undergoing magnetic and structural transitions and on the dynamical equations that govern domain wall evolution in these systems. During the third day, young researchers of the network presented a number of results of their current work. |
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 Electron
Microscopy for Materials Science, University of
Antwerp, Belgium (
Coordinator
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| Max
Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences,
Leipzig, Germany |
| Mathematical
Institute, University of Oxford, UK |
| Department
of Mathematical Methods and Models for Scientific
Applications, University of Padova, Italy |
| Centre
of Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris,
France |
| Department
of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
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| Structure
and Constituents of Matter, University of Barcelona,
Spain |
| Laboratory
of Microstructures, ONERA, Châtillon, France
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| Institute
for Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Methods in
Physics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University,
Bonn, Germany |
| Institute
of Physics, Academy of Sciences,
Prague, Czech Republic
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| Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow,
UK |
| Aerospace
Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minneapolis,
USA |
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