International Workshop on Surface Science and Engineering

International Workshop on 

Surface Science and Engineering

March 4^th - 5^th, 2013

Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Venue - Hotel Red Maple Mashal, Indore

INTRODUCTION

Surface engineering is an interdisciplinary subject, requiring knowledge of several engineering and science branches. It primarily offers application oriented paradigms that find utility in industrial components that require surfaces with specific properties and functions. Issues such as corrosion, oxidation, wear, friction, dielectric properties, hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity etc. begin from the surface. Conventional techniques such as paint coatings, electroplating, phosphating/chromating and modern techniques such as PVD/CVD, Lasers, thermal spray etc. are used to change the surface properties. Another aspect of surface engineering is to know the mechanism of surface modification. Several surface exploratory techniques such as SEM/EDAX/EPMA/SIMS/AES/ESCA/AFM/IFB/XRD, are all surface related equipments which are required to understand the mechanism of surface degradation or its protection mechanism in terms of the changed surface composition, its microstructure or morphology. The subject of surface science has developed owing to the efforts of chemists, metallurgists, material scientists, and those working in physical sciences. Indian Institute of Technology, Indore is establishing a state of the art Surface Science and Engineering Group, covering many such aspects, ranging from the surface modification by organic coatings, PVD/CVD, laser or thermal spray and huge characterization facilities mentioned above.

In order to review various aspects of surface science and engineering, a systematic study on the surface conditions, surface structure, methods of surface modification and techniques to analyze surfaces, a two day workshop is being organized to discuss these things in greater details, chalkout the research program and explore the scope for IIT Indore for collaborations.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Experts desirous of presenting their work in the workshop may kindly send their title and abstract to ssew2013[at]iiti.ac.in

 REGISTRATION DETAILS

Please confirm your participation by sending the registration fees by cheque, draft or by bank transfer (details given below) on or before 26^th February, 2013.

Demand Draft, drawn in favor of “Registrar IIT Indore” payable at Indore.

Bank transfer details:

Rates:

Regular Participants: Rs. 2000/-

Student Participants: Rs. 1000/-

Industry Participants: Rs. 5000/-

The registration fee includes food expenses during conference period and lodging expenses for three nights for all students and food expenses for all participants.

Notes:

The organizing committee will not be able to provide the accommodations to industrial participants and the accompanying guests.

Technical Programme (Tentative Schedule)

• Monday (March 04, 2013)
• Tuesday (March 05, 2013)

LIST OF THE CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

• ·         Prof. Wolfgang Diehl (Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST, Germany)
• ·         Dr. Martin Metzner (Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Germany)
• ·         Prof. Peter Hodgson (Deakin University, Australia)
• ·         Dr. Frank Gaebler (Coherent Inc. USA)
• ·         Prof. A. Subrahmanyam (IIT Madras, India)
• ·         Prof. V. D. Vankar (IIT Delhi, India)
• ·         Dr. A. K. Tyagi (IGCAR Kalpakkam, India)
• ·         Prof. L M Kukreja (RRCAT Indore, India)
• ·         Prof. G. S. Lodha (RRCAT Indore, India)
• ·         Dr. Daniel Fabijanic (Deakin University, Australia)
• ·         Dr. P. Shankar (Saveetha School of Engineering, Chennai, India)
• ·         Dr. Milind Acharya (Milman Pune, India)
• ·         Dr B. Venkataraman (DMRL Hyderabad, India)
• ·         Dr. Rajesh Kumar (IIT Indore, India)
• ·         Dr. Sudeshna Chattopadhyay (IIT Indore, India)
• ·         Dr. Krushna Mavani (IIT Indore, India)

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation will be provided in the student hostels, guest houses and nearby hotels.

 CONTACT US

For abstract submission, sponsorships etc: 

Dr.P.R.Sagdeo 
Convener,International Workshop on Surface Science and Engineering
Tel:+91-731-2438-766
Email:  ssew2013@iiti.ac.in

FOR ACCOMMODATION:

International Delegates and Invited Speakers are requested to contact:

Dr.Shaikh M. Mobin 
Email:  xray@iiti.ac.in 
Tel: +91-731-2438-762

All other participants are requested to contact:

Mr.Mangesh Rangnekar 
Email:  guesthouse@iiti.ac.in 
             mangeshr@iiti.ac.in

FOR TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS PLEASE CONTACT:

Dr. Rajesh Kumar 
Email:  rajeshkumar@iiti.ac.in 
Tel: +91-731-2438-761