The final deadline for applications is fast approaching (1 May 2008)!!

Please forward this to your PhDs and Postdocs who may be eligible for full funding to attend the 2008 Marie Curie Summer School on Aqueous and Porous Materials at Trest, Czech Republic from the 19th to 29th of August 2008.

Full eligibility and registration details may be found at http://www.material sknowledge. org

This is the fourth and final in a series of Marie Curie funded summer schools on multidisciplinary materials science, and speakers and topics include:

Prof. John Banhart, (Hahn-Meitner- Institut, Berlin)
Metallic foams

Dr. Richard Weinkamer (Max Planck Institute of
Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam) Bone and wood as hierarchical materials:
structure-property relationships

Prof. Franti¨ek Vyskocil (Charles University, Prague) Selective Pores in Cell membrane (Ion channels), are regulated by physical and chemical impulses

Dr. Philippe Ackerer (IMFS, Strasbourg) Flow and Transport in natural porous media

Dr. Anita Roth (University of Tuebingen) - The principles of plant water transport - Interrelationships between wood structure and function

Dr. Peter Lichtner , (Los Alamos National Lab.) - Reactive Transport in Porous Media from Pore to Continuum Scales

Prof. Giuseppe Fallini : (University of Bologna)
Biomineralization

Prof. François Renard (LGCA Grenoble - PGP Oslo)
Dissolution- precipitation processes driven by stress gradients in the Earth's crust

Prof. Wolfgang Brameshuber (RWTH, Aachen) Concrete - an example for a complex porosity

Mark Jessell
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