Interact Doctoral School on alkali-activated materials, a new generation of concrete

Course description : PhD Students and PostDoc researchers interested in modern alkali-activated concretes learn and discuss in lectures, get hands-on experience with advanced experimental techniques in laboratory exercises and are introduced to micromechanics-based multiscale modeling. A final presentation is prepared by the participants on a topic of choice based on the results obtained during the laboratory and modeling exercises. Feedback is provided by all teachers. https://interact.ulb.be/events

Course Dates, frequency : May 23-27, 2022 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Target group : Up to now, we have 16 registrations. The maximum number of participants has been fixed to 25.

Teachers : All talks will be given in English. All teachers are confirmed and are listed hereafter: Invited Lectures Interact Lectures Rupert Myers, Imper. Coll. London Özlem Cizer, KU Leuven Arnaud Deraemaeker, ULB Didier Snoeck, ULB/VUB Brussels Ruben Snellings, VITO Markus Königsberger, TU/ULB Frank Dehn, Karlsruher Inst. Techn Mert Yücel Yardimci, UGent Brice Delsaute, ULB Susan Bernal, Univ. Leeds Stéphanie Staquet, ULB Jérome Carette, ULB Luise Göbel, Bauhaus U. Shiju Joseph , University of Glasgow

Objective : Upon successful presentation, participants receive a certificate with 3 ECTS (3 credits that may be validated as doctoral research training in their home university).

Cost – special costs : 250 Euros

Other Sponsors : FNRS-FWO in Belgium under the research project EOS Interact