The Materials Properties & Phase Diagrams Center

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Winter School: phase diagrams and thermodynamics for scientists at all levels. Advanced School: in-depth training on specialized materials science topics. Seminar on Rare Earth Materials & Magnet Technology: ideal for business and technology managers.

Programme 2026

SUNDAY, January 25, 2026

from 15:00		ARRIVAL
From ca. 16:00	Tegernsee train station	Regular Shuttles to the Castle

19:00	Gartenzimmer	Get Together (snack bar)

MONDAY, January 26, 2026

8:00–8:45	Speisesaal	Breakfast
8:45	Konferenzraum	Welcome to the MSIT. Dr. Svitlana Iljenko (MSI, Germany) and Dr. Andy Watson (Hampton Thermodynamics, UK)
9:00		MSIT Winter School	MSIT Meeting Group Work
9:00		Principles of Chemical Thermodynamics Dr. Annie Antoni-Zdziobek, CNRS Alpes, Laboratoire SIMaP France	Presentations (Grüner Seminarraum)/ Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
10:20	Konferenzgebäude	Coffee
10:40	Konferenzraum	Phase Equilibria and Phase Diagrams, Part 1 Prof. Andreas Leineweber, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
12:30	Speisesaal	Lunch
13:50	Konferenzraum	Phase Equilibria and Phase Diagrams, Part 2 Prof. Andreas Leineweber, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
15:00	Konferenzraum	Crystallography, Part 1 Dr. Vitaliy Romaka, TU Dresden, Germany	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
16:00	Konferenzgebäude	Coffee
16:30	Konferenzraum	Crystallography, Part 2 Dr. Vitaliy Romaka, TU Dresden, Germany	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
18:30	Speisesaal	Dinner
19:45	Konferenzraum	40^th Anniversary of the MSIT – Materials Science International Team

TUESDAY, January 27, 2026

8:00 – 8:45	Speisesaal	Breakfast
8:45	Konferenzraum	Application of Density Functional Theory in the Context of Phase Diagram Modelling Dr. Tilmann Hickel, BAM Div.6.4 Materials Informatics, and Max-Planck-Institute for Sustainable Materials GmbH, Germany	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
10:15	Konferenzgebäude	Coffee & Poster Session
10:45	Konferenzraum	Experimental Determination of Phase Diagrams, Part 1 Dr. Frank Stein, Max-Planck-Institute for Sustainable Materials GmbH, Germany	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
12:20	Speisesaal	Lunch
13:50	Konferenzraum	Experimental Determination of Phase Diagrams, Part 2 incl. practical session - analysis of data Dr. Frank Stein, Max-Planck-Institute for Sustainable Materials GmbH, Germany and Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar, IIT Madras, India	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
14:50	Konferenzraum	General Thermodynamic Aspects of Phase Diagrams. Prof. Klaus Hack, GTT Technologies, Aachen, Germany	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
15:35	Konferenzgebäude	Coffee & Poster Session
16:00	Konferenzraum	Problems and Pit Falls in Evaluating Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Data; Dr. Liya Dreval, MSI GmbH, Germany for participants of the Winter School and the Workshop
17:00	allocated group rooms	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data. Participants of the Winter School join groups for evaluation work
18:30	Speisesaal	Dinner
20:00	Konferenzraum	Diffusion Controlled Phase Transformations and Precipitation Reactions. Andre Schneider, Thermo-Calc Software, Solna, Stockholm MSI Eureka – Modern Electronic Resource and Tool for Efficient Materials R&D. Dr. Svitlana Iljenko (MSI GmbH, Germany)
21:00	Speisesaal	Feuerzangenbowle

WEDNESDAY, January 28, 2026

8:00 – 8:45	Speisesaal	Breakfast
8:45	Konferenzraum	Experimental Methods in Thermodynamics, incl. practical session - analysis of data Dr. Alexander Pisch, SIMaP, UGA-CNRS-Grenoble INP, France	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
10:20	Konferenzgebäude	Coffee & Poster Session
10:50	Konferenzraum	Phase Diagram Modelling. Dr. Andrew Watson, Hampton Thermodynamics, Hampton, UK	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
11:50	Konferenzraum	Introduction to Pandat and TDB files. Dr. Andrew Watson, Hampton Thermodynamics, Hampton, UK
12:30	Speisesaal	Lunch
13:50	Konferenzraum	Theory of Optimisation & Syntax of datafiles Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar, IIT Madras, India;	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms) / or a Short Walk (depending on weather condition).
15:20	Konferenzraum	Computational Materials Thermodynamics - Practical Session: Thermodynamic Modelling of Phase Equilibria Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar, IIT Madras, India Dr. Andrew Watson, Hampton Thermodynamics, UK
16:00	Gartenzimmer	Coffee
16:30	allocated group rooms	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data. Participants of the Winter School join groups for evaluation work
18:30	Speisesaal	Dinner

THURSDAY, January 29, 2026

8:00 – 8:45	Speisesaal	Breakfast
8:45	Konferenzraum	Computational Materials Thermodynamics - Practical Session: Thermodynamic Modelling of Phase Equilibria Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar, IIT Madras, India; Dr. Andrew Watson, Hampton Thermodynamics, UK	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
10:15	Gartenzimmer	Coffee
8:45	Konferenzraum	Computational Materials Thermodynamics - Practical Session: Thermodynamic Modelling of Phase Equilibria Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar, IIT Madras, India; Dr. Andrew Watson, Hampton Thermodynamics, UK	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
12:30	Speisesaal	Lunch
14:00	Konferenzraum	Computational Materials Thermodynamics - Practical Session: Thermodynamic Modelling of Phase Equilibria Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar, IIT Madras, India; Dr. Andrew Watson, Hampton Thermodynamics, UK	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
16:00	Gartenzimmer	Coffee
16:20	allocated group rooms	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data. Participants of the Winter School join groups for evaluation work
17:30	Fireplace ground floor	Guided tour through the castle of Ringberg
18:30	Speisesaal	Dinner (Bavarian buffet)

FRIDAY, January 30, 2026

8:00 – 8:45	Speisesaal	Breakfast
before 9:00		Clear rooms before 9:00
8:45	Re-allocated group rooms	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data. Participants of the Winter School join groups for evaluation work
10:00	Gartenzimmer	Coffee
10:20	Konferenzraum	Group Reports
11:45	Konferenzraum	Closing of the Winter School and the Workshop
12:00	Speisesaal	Lunch
After lunch		Departure

Oral Presentations

Monday: 26.01.2026: 09:15 till 09:45 Grüner Seminarraum

“Development of Liquid Alloy Database Using Modified Quasichemical Model”
Prof. Min-Kyu Paek, Institute of Metallrugy, TU Clausthal, Germany

“FE-CALPHAD database Extension of NiAl B2-phase to Design Advanced Printable Die Steels”
Dr. Florian Hengsbach, Paderborn University / MIT, Germany

“Thermodynamic Modelling of the ZrO₂-HfO₂-Y₂O₃ System”
Dr. Olga Fabrichnaya, Institute of Materials Science, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

Poster Session

Tuesday: 27.01.2026: 10:15 till 10:45 and 15:35 till 16:00
Wednesday: 28.01.2026: 10:20 till 10:50
Konferenzgebäude

“Fe-B-C Ternary System: Experimental Study of Solid-Liquid Equilibria at Low Boron Contents (<1 wt.%)”
Luanna Carvalho de Souza ^1,2, Annie Antoni-Zdziobek ¹, Céline Pascal ¹, Evangéline Ahtoy ²
¹ Univ. Grenoble Alpes & CNRS, SIMAP, Grenoble INP
² ArcelorMittal Maizières Global R&D

“Unraveling the thermodynamics and mechanism behind the lowering of direct reduction temperatures in oxide mixtures”
Shiv Shankar¹, Barak Ratzker¹, Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva¹, Tim M. Schwarz¹, Hans Brouwer²,
Baptiste Gault^1,3, Yan Ma^1,2, Dierk Raabe¹
¹ Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Düsseldorf, Germany
² Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
³ Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK

“Asymmetric Interfacial Energies in Tilted Lamellar Mo-Si-Ti Structures: A Multi-Phase-Field Study Analysis of Material Characteristics”
K. NouraniNiaki ^1,3, F.Wang ^1,2, B.Nestler ^1,2,3
¹ Institute for Applied Materials-Microstructure Modeling and Simulation (IAM-MMS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(KIT), Germany
² Institute of Nanotechnology (INT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
³ Institute of Digital Materials Science, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany

“Thermodynamic Investigation of the Pd-Ni-S Glass-Forming System”
Wenhao Ma ^1,2,3
¹ Technical University of Berlin, Chair of Metallic Materials, Germany
² Saarland University, Chair of Metallic Materials, Germany
³ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Materials - Applied Materials Physics (IAM-AWP), Germany

“Multi-physics and Multi-scale Simulation of Continuous Casting Process”
Mohammed-Amine El Mrabti, Ahmed Dimokrati, Johan Jacquemin
College of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (CCSE), Materials Science, Energy and
Nano-engineering department (MSN), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco

“Elastic Constants and Formation Energies of Single Point Defects in B2-ordered FeAl Intermetallic”
Pavel Papež, Jung Soo Lee, Tobias Brink, Frank Stein
Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Düsseldorf, Germany

“Design and Simulation of Next Generation of Metallic Coatings based on Zn-Mg-Al Alloys”
Zakaria Sahir, Johan Jacquemin
University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Marrakech, Morocco

“Multicomponent Rare Earth Garnets: Intrinsic Bottlenecks in Electronic Structure and Thermodynamic Properties”
J. Pejchal ¹, J. Ježek ^1,2, D. Sedmidubský ², V. Laguta ¹, V. Babin ¹, V. Jarý ¹, A. Beitlerová ¹, R. Kučerková ¹, M. Nikl¹
¹ Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
² University of Chemistry and Technology, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic

“MSI Eureka – Modern Electronic Resource and Tool for Efficient Materials R&D”,
Svitlana Iljenko
MSI GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany

ECTS Credit-Equivalents for MSIT Winter School Participation

While we do not directly offer ECTS credits, many universities recognize participation in the MSIT Winter School on Materials Chemistry as equivalent to ECTS credits. We encourage you to consult your institution regarding the possibility of credit recognition. The program spans four and a half days, totaling approximately at least 36 hours of engagement, including breaks.

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