The 5th International Workshop on Spark Plasma Sintering will be held in Toulouse, France in November 2024. This meeting will provide an opportunity to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the CNRS SPS national platform of Toulouse, which was created in the fall of 2004.
The intention of the workshop remains unchanged with respect to the previous successful ones (1st Edition in Avignon-2008 organized by G. Bernard-Granger from CREE-St-Gobain, 2nd and 3rd editions in Capbreton (2011) and Toulouse (2014) organized by C. Estournès from CNRS-CIRIMAT and the French National Research Consortium on SPS and the 4th Edition in Cagliari (2018) organized by G. Cao and R. Orrù from University of Cagliari
This International Workshop will offer an interdisciplinary meeting point for scientists from academia and industry to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in SPS and recent developments on Cold, Flash and HP-SPS. The purpose is to give some breakthroughs regarding densification mechanisms, and highlight advances in the understanding of the influence of various parameters such as current path, temperature gradients and mould nature / design influence, whatever is the powder bed (conductive or isolating). Joining of different materials and functionally graded materials are also concerned. The Workshop will also be the occasion to make a point one the modeling of the process, on the hybridization/combination of processes with SPS to develop originals materials, multi-materials and of complex shapes and open new application perspectives.
The workshop will be held in Toulouse, a Southwestern France city and will be located at the University Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier from 6th (Wednesday) to 8th (Friday) of November. We will propose a visit to “Cité de l’Espace” on Thursday afternoon. The meeting will end in the afternoon of the 18th (Friday).
Submit your abstract
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Timeline
June 15, 2024
Abstract submission template available HERE
September 09, 2024
Deadline for Submission Abstract
September 20, 2024
Results submitted to presenter
September 30, 2024
Early Bird registration ends
October 10, 2024
Program published on the website
Program
The scientific program will be divided in several technical sessions, it will start Wednesday 6th of November, at 8h15 am and finish Friday 8th in the afternoon at 5h30pm at the latest. Depending on the number of posters a session will be dedicated to their presentation or it will be scheduled during the breaks.
The duration of talks will be 25 min + 5 min for invited talks and 15 min + 5 for communications.
The Thursday afternoon will be devoted to some visits.
The workshop fee will cover Breaks, Lunches, Banquet and Tours.
Prizes will be awarded for the best oral presentation of a PhD Student and for the best poster.
Schedule
Invited speakers
Manshi OHYANAGI is a Professor in the Department of Materials Chemistry at Ryukoku University, Ohtsu, Japan.
Dariusz GARBIEC is deputy director of research at Łukasiewicz – Poznań Institute of Technology, Poznań, Poland
Charles MANIERE is CNRS researcher at the CRISMAT laboratory, Normandie University, Caen, France
Mattia BIESUZ is assistant professor in materials science and technology at the University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Registration
Earlybird registration fees before Sept 30th!
Presentation guidelines
Oral Presentations:
The time available for standard oral presentation is 20 minutes in total (Q&A). The time available for invited talks is 30 minutes in total.
Poster presentations:
All posters must be prepared in English according the A0-format (841 mm x 1,190 mm).
They will be accessible during all the workshop duration.
Committees
International Scientific Committee
Venue
The conference will be held in the large Marthe Condat auditorium of the University of Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier at the following address:
Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier
Administrative Building
118 route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse cedex 9
Access by car
– Ring road exit 20: « Complexe scientifique de Rangueil » then follow « Complexe scientifique de Rangueil »
Access by public transport
– Metro: line B – Stop « Université Paul Sabatier »
– Bus
• Line 2 – Stop « Faculté de pharmacie »
• Line 37 and 68 – Stop « Giordano Bruno »
• Line 78 – Stop « Champ Magnétiques »
• Tisséo interactive map
– Train
• From Matabiau station, take metro line A towards Basso Cambo, stop « Jean Jaurès » then line B towards Ramonville, stop « Faculté de pharmacie »
• From Saint Agne SNCF station, take metro line B towards Ramonville, stop « Faculté de pharmacie »
– Plane
• From Toulouse-Blagnac airport, take the Airport shuttle (exit gate C) stop « Compans-Cafarelli » then line B towards Ramonville, stop « Faculté de pharmacie » (journey time: approximately 33 minutes)
Hotel suggestions
Ours Blanc Toulouse Centre
Hôtel de France
Quality Hotel Toulouse Centre
Haut Lofts Luxury Apart’Hotel
Hôtel Riquet
Ibis Toulouse Centre
Hôtel Raymond 4 Toulouse