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Tentative Programme

SUNDAY, February 16, 2025

from 15:00

ARRIVAL

*

Train station
Bad Münster am Stein

Shuttle 1 to the castle

 

*

Train station
Bad Münster am Stein

Shuttle 2 to the castle

 

*

Train station
Bad Münster am Stein

Shuttle 3 to the castle

 

18:30

Kaminzimmer

Get Together

19:00

Speisesaal

Dinner

* - times will be published later

MONDAY, February 17, 2025

7:30–8:30

Speisesaal

Breakfast

8:30

Luthersaal

Welcome to the MSIT.

Dr. Svitlana Iljenko (MSI, Germany) and
Dr. Andy Watson (Hampton Thermodynamics, UK)

8:45

MSIT Winter School

MSIT Workshop
Group Work

Principles of Chemical Thermodynamics

Dr. Andy Watson (Hampton Thermodynamics, UK)

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

10:00

Speisesaal

Coffee

10:30

Luthersaal

Crystallography, Part 1

Dr. Vitaliy Romaka (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany)

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

12:00

Speisesaal

Lunch

13:15

Luthersaal

Crystallography, Part 2

Dr. Vitaliy Romaka (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany)

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

 

14:45

 

Break

15:00

Luthersaal

Phase Equilibria and Phase Diagrams, Part 1
Dr. Martin Palm, Max-Planck-Institute for Sustainable Materials GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

16:00

Speisesaal

Coffee

16:30

Luthersaal

Phase Equilibria and Phase Diagrams, Part 2 with practical session
Dr. Martin Palm, Max-Planck-Institute for Sustainable Materials GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

18:30

Speisesaal

Dinner

TUESDAY, February 18, 2025

7:30 – 8:30

Speisesaal

Breakfast

8:30

Luthersaal

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

Speisesaal

Coffee

10:30

Luthersaal

Experimental Determination of Phase Diagrams, Part 1

Dr. Frank Stein, Max-Planck-Institute for Sustainable Materials GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

12:00

Speisesaal

Lunch

13:15

Luthersaal

Experimental Determination of Phase Diagrams, Part 2 incl. practical session - analysis of data

Dr. Frank Stein (Max-Planck-Institute for Sustainable Materials GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany) and

Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar (IIT Madras, India)

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

14:30

Luthersaal

General Thermodynamic Aspects of Phase Diagrams.

Prof. Klaus Hack (GTT Technologies, Aachen, Germany)

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

15:30

Speisesaal

Coffee

16:00

Luthersaal

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

18:00

Speisesaal

Dinner

20:00

Luthersaal

Diffusion Controlled Phase Transformations and Precipitation Reactions.

Andre Schneider (Thermo-Calc Software, Solna, Stockholm)

 

WEDNESDAY, February 19, 2025

7:30 – 8:30

Speisesaal

Breakfast

8:30

Luthersaal

Experimental Methods in Thermodynamics,
incl. practical session - analysis of data

Dr. Alexander Pisch (SIMaP, UGA-CNRS-Grenoble INP, France)

 

Description of Datafiles for Optimisation.

Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar (IIT Madras, India)

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

10:00

Speisesaal

Coffee

 

10:30

Luthersaal

Phase Diagram Modelling.

Dr. Andrew Watson (Hampton Thermodynamics, Hampton, UK)

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

11:30

Luthersaal

Introduction to Pandat and TDB files.

Dr. Andrew Watson (Hampton Thermodynamics, Hampton, UK)

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

12:00

Speisesaal

Lunch

13:15

Luthersaal

Theory of Optimisation & Syntax of datafiles

Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar (IIT Madras, India);

Dr. Andrew Watson (Hampton Thermodynamics, UK)

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

14:45

Luthersaal

Computational Materials Thermodynamics - Practical Session: Thermodynamic Modelling of Phase Equilibria

Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar (IIT Madras, India)

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

15:30

Speisesaal

Coffee

16:00

allocated group rooms

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data.
Participants of the Winter School join groups for evaluation work

18:00

Speisesaal

Dinner

20:00

 

Social evening

 

THURSDAY, February 20, 2025

7:30 – 8:30

Speisesaal

Breakfast

8:30

Luthersaal

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)

10:00

Speisesaal

Coffee

10:30

Luthersaal

Computational Materials Thermodynamics - Practical Session: Thermodynamic Modelling of Phase Equilibria

Prof. K.C. Hari Kumar (IIT Madras, India);

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data
(allocated group rooms)

12:00

Speisesaal

Lunch

13:15

Luthersaal

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

Speisesaal

Coffee

16:30

Luthersaal

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)

17:30

allocated group rooms

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data.
Participants of the Winter School join groups for evaluation work

18:30

Speisesaal

Dinner

 

FRIDAY, February 21, 2025

7:30 – 8:30

Speisesaal

Breakfast

before 9:00

 

Clear rooms before 9:00

8:30

Re-allocated
group rooms

Critical Evaluation of Materials Constitution Data.
Participants of the Winter School join groups for evaluation work

10:15

Speisesaal

Coffee

10:35

Luthersaal
Chair: Dr. Liya Dreval

Group Reporting

11:50

Luthersaal

Closing of the Winter School and the Workshop

12:00

Speisesaal

Lunch

After lunch

 

Departure