Federation for International Refractory Research and Education
Event
ECerS-FIRE Summer School Dresden
The ECerS-FIRE Summer School "Mining the future of refractories and high temperature materials: the impact of sustainability, AI, computing tools and advanced techniques" will be co-organized by ECerS and FIRE at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS, Dresden, Germany, the week before the next ECerS conference, from Thursday 28 to Friday 29 August 2025.
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Contact us and/or Become Member!
Contact us for any information and/or to Become Member of FIRE: fire@ecers.org