CASC Summer School on Ceramics

Second Summer School 2011

The second CASC Summer School is now full - no further registrations can be accepted.

The second CASC Summer School on Ceramics will take place from 21 to 23 September 2011 at Imperial College London. The school will provide tutorials focussing on current developments in ceramic synthesis, processing and mechanical characterisation with particular emphasis on the practical aspects and hands-on experience. These tutorials will be aimed at early career engineers and researchers – working in universities or industry – who wish to enhance their ceramics background. Topics to be covered are ceramic powder synthesis, wet processing and mechanical testing at micro and macro scales. Tutorial sessions will cover state-of-the-art ceramic processing techniques and advanced mechanical characterisation.

Presenters will include:

• Prof. Jerome Chevalier (INSA Lyon, France)
• Prof. Bill Clegg (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Dr Tim Clipsham (Morgan Technical Ceramics, UK)
• Dr Urs Gonzenbach (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
• Prof. Bill Lee (CASC, Imperial College London)
• Dr Antoni Tomsia (Lawrence Berkeley Nat Lab, USA)

The registration fee of £250 will cover two nights’ accommodation and meals during the three days of the course.

First Summer School 2010

CASC ran its first ceramics summer school at Imperial College London from 14 to 16 September 2010. The school brought together twenty attendees from outside Imperial College with a wide range of backgrounds and an even mixture of industrial and academic experience, providing a venue for dialogue and networking.

Presenters at the first CASC Summer School included: Prof. Aldo Boccaccini, Prof. Jerome Chevalier, Prof. Manish Chhowalla, Dr Jaime Franco, Dr Finn Giuliani, Prof. Mike Reece and Prof. Eduardo Saiz.