Exploring connections between macroscopic characteristics of materials and their microscopic structure in atomic scale is an important topic in contemporary materials science and engineering. The aim of the workshop is to bring together distinguished representatives of physics, chemistry, materials science, and metallurgy communities to present and discuss state-of-the-art developments and the perspectives of theory, techniques, and applications, in multiscale modeling of cohesion and structure of extended defects in materials and their interfaces, fracture mechanics, phase transformations and chemical reactions at materials interfaces, micromagnetism, and polymer processes.
During 3 full days of the workshop there will be about 20 invited talks (50 minutes) each including tutorial introduction, and several short presentations (15 minutes) of younger researchers from different groups. In total we plan to have about 60 participants, including at least 25 junior scientists.
The workshop is supported by the European Science Foundation Programme PSI-K, and the COST Action P19.
The workshop will be hosted by the University of Wroc³aw (Poland) for three full days (Sunday - Tuesday), September 24-26, 2006. The participants are expected to arrive on Saturday, September 23, 2006. The lectures will be held untill Tuesday evening.
Wroc³aw is the third largest academic city in Poland. It has convenient air connections to Warsaw, and some other european cities (Frankfurt, Munich, London). The workshop is considered to be a satelite meeting to the MMM Conference to be held from September 18th to 22nd, 2006 in Freiburg, Germany (http://www.MMM2006.org).