The school will address all the current topics of the GDRi Mecano:

• Mechanics of nano-objects:

Size effect on stress and strain, Strain mapping and engineering, Fatigue, Brittle to ductile transition, Defect nucleation and propagation, Structural/interfacial stability, …

• Experimental and modeling methods:

Growth and shaping methods (FIB, Plasma FIBs, Physical/Chemical Vapor deposition, lithography…)
Nanomechanical testing, Indentation, In situ methods, Electron and ionic microscopy, X-Ray…
Ab initio, Molecular dynamics, Discrete Dislocation Dynamics, Finite Element Method…

• Nano- and –Micro objects:

Thin films, nanoparticles, nanocrystals, micropillars, nanobeams, multilayers…

The school will start Sunday Oct 28^th, evening and will end Friday Nov 2^nd, noon.

Classes will be given in the morning. An afternoon break will take place from 14:00 to 17:00. Short lectures (20 min) on advance topics will be given before and eventually after dinner.  A call for abstract will be sent in March (submission March-June) for these talks and posters. A poster session/café will take place Thursday afternoon. An additional poster session may be organized depending on the number of posters.

Confirmed Invited Lecturers (alphabetical order)

Jean-Noël Aqua – Institut des Nanosciences de Paris: Morphological instabilities and nucleation in thin films under epitaxial stress

Daniel Caillard – CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse: Thermally Activated Processes   (*This one will be given before the MD/DFT)

Gerhard Dehm - Max Planck Institut, Düsseldorf: Stresses and plasticity in Thin Films

Marc Fivel - SIMaP-GPM2, Grenoble: Dislocation Dynamics simulations for small scale plasticity

Daniel Kiener – Montanuniversität, Erich Schmid Institut, Leoben: In situ SEM

Gérard Michot – Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy: Fracture and Brittle to ductile transition

Thomas Pardoen – Université Louvain La Neuve: MEMS-based testing

Laurent Pizzagalli – Institut PPrime, Poitiers: Molecular Dynamics  and  DFT

Gunter Richter – Max Planck Institut, Stuttgart: Processing of nano/micro objects

Stephanie Sandlobes – Aachen University: TEM / Identification of dislocations

Olivier Thomas - Université Aix-Marseille: X-ray characterization and imaging of nanostructures

(2018, tentative)

March 15th – Web site opening

March 20th – June 20th – Call for abstracts

July 14th – (Bastille Day) – Publication of the preliminary school schedule

Sept 1st - Oct 15th - Registration

IESC, Cargèse. Housing is split between local rooms and apartments/rooms at the village.

Breakfasts, lunches and coffee breaks are included in the lodging fee. The conference dinner will take place Thursday night on site. A light dinner will be served Sunday night. The other diners will be at the attendees' discretion.

A bus will be departing at 18h45 from Ajaccio airport on Sunday and will leave IESC at 13:00 on Friday.

Back and forth trips to Ajaccio may be organized on urgent requests (Institute's car) or using public transportation (one bus/day): http://www.corsicabus.org/busAjaccio/AJA_Cargese_Po.html

There is no registration fee for the school. The fees are only for lodging.

(The exact price may be slightly modified depending on the sponsoring): 

Shared Double room: 210€

Single room: 260€

Registration here (open sept 2018)