SYMPOSIUM A Advanced Methods in Synthesis and Processing of Materials
SYMPOSIUM B Advanced Materials for High-Technology Application
SYMPOSIUM C Nanostructured Materials
SYMPOSIUM D Eco-Materials and Eco-Technologies
SYMPOSIUM E Biomaterials
SYMPOSIUM F Renowned scientists from ex-Yugoslavia

Conference on Lasers and electro-optics - European Quantum Electronics Conference

CA - Solid-state Lasers
CB - Semiconductor Lasers
CC - Terahertz Sources and Applications
CD - Applications of Nonlinear Optics

CE - Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterisation
CF - Ultrafast Optical Technologies
CG - High-Field Laser and Attosecond Science
CH - Optical Sensing and Metrology

CI - Optical Technologies for Communications and Data Storage
CJ - Fibre and Guided Wave Lasers and Amplifiers

CK - Micro- and Nano-Photonics

CL - Photonic Applications in Biology and Medicine
CM - Materials Processing with Lasers

EQEC 2017 Topics

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EA - Quantum Optics
EB - Quantum Information, Communication, and Sensing
EC â€" Ultracold Quantum Matter and Quantum Simulation
ED â€" Precision Metrology and Frequency Combs
EE - Ultrafast Optical Science
EF - Nonlinear Phenomena, Solitons and Self-organization
EG â€" Light-matter Interactions at the Nano-scale
EH â€" Plasmonics and Metamaterials
EI - Two-dimensional Materials
EJ â€" Theoretical and Computational Photonics

CLEO^®/Europe-EQEC 2017 Joint Symposia Topics

JSI - Free Electron Lasers and Applications
JSIV - Topological Insulators in Optics
JSV - Perovskite Optoelectronics

Designing Biomimetic, Dissipative Material Systems

The themes for ICCM-21 will contain all the composite materials with relate to researches and applications, including but not limited to Materials Science, Structural Design, Experimental Methods, Mechanical Properties, Multifunctional and Smart Composites, Processing and Manufacturing, Applications. The scientific program will consist of plenary talks, keynote lectures, mini-symposia, oral sessions and poster sessions.

Satellite School of the 24th IUCr Congress 2017

Shanghai International Crystallographic School
working with Bilbao Crystallographic Server
http://www.cryst.ehu.es

The aim of the school is to provide an introduction to group theoretical methods and tools necessary for appropriate applications of symmetry properties in solid state material science. Special emphasis is given to tutorials on computational crystallography using the Bilbao Crystallographic Server (BCS) (www.cryst.ehu.es) for the study of specific problems in solid state physics, like phase transitions, and their symmetry-mode analysis, comparison between crystal structures, magnetic symmetry and its applications in the description of magnetic structures, etc. The applications of BCS tools to ab initio calculations is specifically discussed for the study of ferroelectric polarization in organic and inorganic crystalline structures, phonon properties and computational materials design by structure prediction.

The school is intended for scientists in Material Science, Solid State Physics and Crystallography in general and specifically for graduate students and young researchers interested in a deep and practical knowledge of group theory and crystallography as applied in material science. The maximum number of participant is limited to 70. Official language of the School is English. Location: The school will take place LeHu Hotel in Shanghai University (Baoshan Campus) http://www.lhljt.shu.edu.cn

Topics

• Nano materials and nano composites.
• Nanobiomaterials/ Drug delivery.
• Thin films and surface science.
  
• Amorphous and liquid crystalline materials.
• Semiconductor & electronic materials and devices.
• Sensor technology.
• Crystal growth and its application.
• Advance materials.
• Energy materials.
• Polymers, polymer composites and their applications.
• Natural products.
• Modelling & simulation of material phenomenon.
• Other emerging areas of material science.

The school will be held in Utting/Ammersee and Garching/Munich, Germany, in cooperation with the Röntgen-Ã...ngström-Cluster (http://www.rontgen-angstrom.eu) and the BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany).

The Winter School will provide a systematic overview of the application of neutrons and synchrotron radiation to the structural analysis of materials. The school starts with the fundamentals of synchrotron radiation and neutron scattering. The focus is subsequently shifted towards neutron techniques and their application to specific problems in materials science. Different classes of modern functional materials are presented and it will be shown how neutron scattering, on the one hand, and synchrotron radiation, on the other hand, can be used to explore the microscopic mechanisms that are responsible for their properties. While fundamental aspects are dominating, application related phenomena will be covered as well.
After a two-day theoretical course in Utting/Ammersee the participants will spend two days at the FRM II in Garching (near Munich) doing practicals. The fifth day of the school offers further talks and a final discussion. All relevant experimental methods will be covered.

Registration deadline has been extended to December 8th, 2016

FEZA school will be organized on July 8-9 in a mountain resort close to Sofia. The program of the school will include lectures of leading experts on various aspects of zeolite science and practice.

• Two days school after the FEZA conference in Plovdiv (ca 1 h drive from Sofia)
• 7 lectures
• Poster session
• Round table discussion

The transport will be provided by the organizing committee

The 7thInternational FEZA Conference is organized by Bulgarian Zeolite Association under the auspices of the Federation of European Zeolite Associations â€" FEZA.

Topics of the FEZA Conference

• Synthesis and modification of zeolites and related materials
• Advanced characterization of porous solids
• Host-guest systems
• Adsorption, separation & diffusion
• Porous films and membranes
• Catalytic applications
• Advanced environmental and technological applications
• Theory and computational modeling
• Natural zeolites

The FEZA school will be organized immediately after the conference.

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), and related molecular porous materials have entered a stage where not just the porosity, but other physical attributes are now playing a major role in their properties. Catalytic properties rivalling those of classic heterogeneous catalysts are being unearthed by carefully engineering isolated active sites in the pores. Photophysical properties enabled by both the rigidity and the controlled dynamics of the porous environment are making strides from both fundamental and applied perspectives. Applications in energy storage are emerging as well, enabled by important advances in increasing the electrical and ionic conductivity in these materials to values that rival and even surpass those of organic semiconductors. Exciting magnetic properties are being reported in such materials with increasing frequency as well, suggesting that perhaps porous magnets and possibly superconductors are also within reach.

This Discussion will thus focus on several important new directions in the chemistry of porous crystalline materials and will attempt to distil converging themes.

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• New Directions in Gas Sorption and Separation with MOFs
  Mainstay of many of the MOF researchers, this subfield is maturing into a much more applied field, with important applications especially in gas separation and methane storage. Both fundamental gas binding aspects and new structural aspects influencing gas sorption will be discussed and targeted as part of the discussion.
• Electronic, Magnetic, and Photophysical Properties of MOFs and COFs
  Electrical conductivity and charge transport have only recently become possible with MOFs. This is one of the newest potential applications of these materials.
• Catalysis in MOFs
  New trends here focus on electrochemical catalysis, strut-based metalloligand catalysis and organocatalysis, as well as node-based catalysis. All aspects have seen huge leaps in the last few years and these will be discussed in this session.
• MOFs Modelling and Theory
  This final session will focus on theoretical modelling of gas sorption processes in MOFs. A material genome is emerging, which is promised to allow ab-initio predictions of MOFs properties.

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COPS-XI is the latest of a series of symposia, held every 3 years, devoted to fundamental and applied research on the characterization of the structure of porous materials and the relationship between structure and material performance.

The scope includes

• experimental characterization methods, such as X-ray diffraction, NMR, adsorption, mercury intrusion, calorimetry ...
• theoretical and simulation methods used to interpret experimental data, such as molecular simulation, classical and statistical mechanical theory, pore network modeling ...
• applied research, on the impact of measured material properties on performance in applications

The aim of this series of symposia is to bring together experts from academia and industry in order to share the latest developments in the characterization of porous solids using the various experimental and/or computational methods, together with the understanding of the relationships between the measured material properties and the final performance for a given application.

This conference will be held at the Popes Palace in Avignon and will be chaired by Philip Llewellyn (CNRS-Marseille)

A special session chaired by one of the BZA founders, Prof Alan Dyer, will reflect on the past 40 years of the association.

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr Julien Haines, Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, France
• Prof Raul Lobo, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, USA
• Dr Alvaro Mayoral, Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
• Final plenary speaker TBC