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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 2023

SUNDAY, March 12, 2023

from 15:00		ARRIVAL
16:09	Tegernsee train station	Shuttle 1 to the castle

17:09	Tegernsee train station	Shuttle 2 to the castle

18:09	Tegernsee train station	Shuttle 3 to the castle

19:00	Gartenzimmer	Get Together (snack bar)

MONDAY, March 13, 2023

8:00–9:00	Speisesaal	Breakfast
9:00	Konferenzraum	Welcome to the 37^th Annual MSIT Meeting and the 7^th MSIT Winter School Dr. Svitlana Iljenko (MSI, Germany) and Dr. Andy Watson (Hampton Thermodynamics, UK)
		MSIT Winter School	MSIT Meeting Group Work
9:15		Principles of Chemical Thermodynamics Dr. Andrew Watson (Hampton Thermodynamics, Hampton, UK)	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
10:30	Konferenzgebäude	Coffee & Poster Session
11:00	Konferenzraum	Phase Equilibria and Phase Diagrams, Part I Dr. Martin Palm, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
12:30	Speisesaal	Lunch
14:00	Konferenzraum	Phase Equilibria and Phase Diagrams, Part II with practical session Dr. Martin Palm, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
15:30	Konferenzgebäude	Coffee & Poster Session
16:00	Konferenzraum	Crystallography, Part I Dr. Vitaliy Romaka (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany)	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
17:00	Konferenzraum	Introduction to Pandat and Datafiles Dr. Andrew Watson (Hampton Thermodynamics, Hampton, UK)	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
18:30	Speisesaal	Dinner
20:00	Konferenzraum	MSI Eureka – Modern Electronic Resource and Tool for Efficient Materials R&D; Dr. Svitlana Iljenko (MSI GmbH, Germany) for participants of the Winter School and the Workshop

TUESDAY, March 14, 2023

8:00 – 9:00	Speisesaal	Breakfast
9:00	Konferenzraum	Crystallography, Part I Dr. Vitaliy Romaka (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany)	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
10:00	Konferenzgebäude	Coffee & Poster Session
10:30	Konferenzraum	Crystallography, Part II (practical session) Dr. Vitaliy Romaka (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany)	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
11:30	Konferenzraum	Experimental Determination of Phase Diagrams, incl. practical session - analysis of data Dr. Frank Stein (Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Germany)	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
12:35	Speisesaal	Lunch
14:00	Konferenzraum	Experimental Determination of Phase Diagrams, incl. practical session - analysis of data Dr. Frank Stein (Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Germany)	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
15:30	Konferenzgebäude	Coffee
15:50	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)
17:20	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	Constrained Equilibria Prof. Klaus Hack (GTT Technologies, Aachen, Germany)
21:00	Speisesaal	Feuerzangenbowle

WEDNESDAY, March 15, 2023

8:00 – 9:00	Speisesaal	Breakfast
9:00	Konferenzraum	Application of Density Functional Theory in the Context of Phase Diagram Modelling Dr. Tilmann Hickel, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany; BAM Div.6.4 Materials Informatics		Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data (allocated group rooms)
10:00		Applications of Computational Materials Thermodynamics Prof. Klaus Hack (GTT Technologies, Aachen, Germany)
11:00		Computational Materials Thermodynamics - Practical Session: Thermodynamic Modelling of Phase Equilibria Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar (IIT Madras, India); Dr. Andrew Watson (Hampton Thermodynamics, UK)
11:30	Gartenzimmer	Coffee
11:00	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)
12:30	Speisesaal	Lunch
14:00	Konferenzraum/ Grüner Seminarraum	Computational Materials Thermodynamics - Practical Session: Thermodynamic Modelling of Phase Equilibria Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar (IIT Madras, India); Dr. Andrew Watson (Hampton Thermodynamics, UK)	Current Research Topics (green seminar room) "Thermodynamics of structure", Andreas Leineweber, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. “Experimental Studies and Thermodynamic Modelling of Oxide Systems”, Olga Fabrichnaya, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany “Thermodynamic Assessment of the MgO-TiO₂-SiO₂ System”, Mariia Ilatovskaya, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany “Experimental Investigation and Thermodynamic Modeling of the Li₂O-Al₂O₃ System", Danilo Alencar de Abreu, Olga Fabrichnaya, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany "Phase Equilibrium Investigations and Thermodynamic Modelling of the ZrO₂-Ta₂O₅ System", M. Löffler¹, M. Lepple², O. Fabrichnaya¹, ¹ TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, ² Institute of Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry of the Justus Liebig University Giessen.
15:30	Gartenzimmer	Coffee
16:00	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)
18:30	Speisesaal	Dinner
20:00	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

THURSDAY, March 16, 2023

8:00 –9:00	Speisesaal	Breakfast
9:00	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)
10:30	Gartenzimmer	Coffee
11:00	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)
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)
15:20	Konferenzraum	Closing and Summary of the Winter School
15:30	Gartenzimmer	Coffee
16:00	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, March 17, 2023

8:00 – 9:00	Speisesaal	Breakfast
before 9:00		Clear rooms before 9:00
Critical Evaluation and Review of Materials Systems. Group Work
9:00	Re-allocated group rooms	Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
10:45	Gartenzimmer	Coffee
11:00	Grüner Seminarraum Chair: Dr. Liya Dreva	Principals of Eutectic Crystallization Dr. Sergiy Lakyza, ENSEMBLE3, Warsaw, Poland
11:45	Grüner Seminarraum Chair: Dr. Liya Dreval	Group Reports
12:30	Speisesaal	Lunch
before 14:30		Departure

Poster Session

Monday: 12.03.2023: 10:30 till 11:00 and 15:30 till 16:00
Tuesday: 13.03.2023: 10:00 till 10:30

“High-Performance Materials for Next Generation Thermal Barrier Coatings in the System
ZrO₂-HfO₂-Y₂O₃-Ta₂O₅”,
Alina Habermann¹, Maren Lepple¹, Manuel Löffler², Olga Fabrichnaya²
¹ Institute of Inorganic ‘Analytical Chemistry of the Justus Liebig University Giessen.
²Institute of Materials Science of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

"A Third Generation Calphad Description of the Fe-Mn-Ti System",

Mario Kriegel and Alexander Walnsch
Institute of Materials Science of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

“High-entropy Li-garnets as New Solid-state Electrolytes in Li-ion Batteries",
Benjamin Zimmermann and Maren Lepple
Institute of Inorganic ‘Analytical Chemistry of the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

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

ECTS credit-equivalents

Although we are not giving ECTS credits, some Universities may allocate equivalents of ECTS credits for participation in the MSIT Winter School. We recommend that you make enquiries at your Institution. Four days of participation is the equivalent of at least 35 hours including breaks.

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