Tribology and Wear

Bridging the Scales in Tribology and Wear

The Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (Düsseldorf, Germany) is organizing a workshop on tribology and wear on June 25th, 2014. The list of confirmed external speakers includes:

•       Prof. Roland Bennewitz (Saarbrücken)

•       Dr. Martin Dienwiebel (Karlsruhe)

•       Prof. Alfons Fischer (Duisburg)

•       Dr. Bo Persson (Jülich)

•       Dr. Ruth Schwaiger (Karlsruhe)

The program also includes a lab session where new approaches used in tribology research and wear characterization will be demonstrated.

Information and Registration at: http://wear.mpie.de/

This is a free workshop which is sponsored by MPIE.

The workshop is part of a series of topical one-day workshops named ‘Frontiers in Materials Science & Engineering’ at the institute. The intention is to bring together leading experts from academia and industry in a workshop format to enable in-depth discussions of fundamental and applied research regarding both current and preliminary research in this area.