EUROMAT is the premier international congress in the field of materials in Europe. The EUROMAT2017 congress will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 17 – 22 September, 2017. The venue will be the “Thessaloniki Concert Hall”, a unique complex of buildings conveniently located at the seafront of the city.
In the year 2017 FEMS (The Federation of European Materials Societies) celebrates its 30th Anniversary, this is the 15th conference in the series of EUROMAT conferences, which are organised under the auspices of FEMS every two years since 1989. These conferences are well recognised internationally as the prime venue in Europe for the gathering of a wide community of academics and industrialists who are active in the field of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) in Europe and around the world. The EUROMAT 2017 conference is co-organised by two of the 27 FEMS member societies, namely the Hellenic Metallurgical Society (HMS) and the Hellenic Society of the Science and Technology of the Condensed Matter (HSSTCM)both based in Greece.
The conference comprises 57 symposia grouped into 8 areas seven of which cover Functional and Structural Materials, Processing, Characterisation and Modelling, Energy and Environment, Biomaterials and Healthcare, Raw Materials and the eighth that is specifically dedicated to Education and Technology Transfer. All these areas are of great strategic importance for the future and the development of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). Four topics were selected by The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society – TMS to be organised jointly by TMS and FEMS. This co-sponsoring refers to an agreement between the two societies to explore future cooperative ventures in the organisation of their respective conferences on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. We look forward to continuing and strengthening this collaboration in future EUROMATs. As part of a reciprocal arrangement FEMS will be organising Symposia at TMS2018 in Phoenix, Arizona. We are grateful to the members of the scientific committee for their perseverance and devotedness to putting in place an outstanding list of symposia for each area of the conference.
Strong collaboration with national and international industrial, publishing, and commercial partners is what keeps MSE moving forward worldwide. We welcome the support of EUROMAT 2017 by 40 sponsors and exhibitors, and we are grateful to them for offering educational, networking and promotional opportunities for the conference delegates.
The organisation of the final programme involved the dedicated work of more than 200 experts in different fields that have acted as symposium organisers and co-organisers. On behalf of all the participants of the conference we express our sincere thanks to all of them for their hard work, leadership, commitment and enthusiasm to honour their tasks. Without their valuable commitment to deal with the high number of abstracts, the straightforward organization of the scientific programme would not have been possible.
The conference programme integrates approximately 1,850 oral presentations and 875 posters, the latter presented during two poster sessions. The conference starts on Sunday afternoon with 4 selected tutorials that address recent developments in emerging fields in MSE and start-ups. We have also organised what we hope will be an enjoyable social programme to accompany this conference to give you a flavour of Greece.