Meeting Dates: 13-14 October 2011
Meeting Venue: INPL, University of Nancy,
2 av. de la Forêt de Haye - Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, Nancy (France)

PROGRAM Download the Meeting Agenda!

DAY 1. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011

9:30-9:45 Welcome to participants by chairman and local organiser

9:45-10:10 Report on the status of the Action (C. Marchioli)

10:10-10:30 Short Term Scientific Missions: application procedure (D. Asendrych)

10.30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Scientific presentations from Action members and experts
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12:30-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-15:30 Scientific presentations from Action members and experts
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15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:30 Management Committee meeting (for MC members/substitutes only)
* Adoption of the MC meeting agenda
* Presentation of the delegations
* Adoption of the kick-off meeting minutes
* News from the Chair (C. Marchioli)
* News from the Administrative Officer (C. Azevedo) Download the presentation
* Nomination and selection of new experts (from both COST and non- COST countries) to be invited to working group meetings
* Training school 2012 on experimental methods at VTT and KTH
Presentation of current schedule
Selection of lecturers and attendees
* Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM)
Evaluation and decision on submitted STSM applications
* Dissemination
Book publication: selection of contributions and publication deadlines
Annual report
Symposium on "Rheology of fiber suspensions” at the XVIth Intern. Congress on Rheology: Announcement by M.G. Rasteiro
* Action website
Report on current state (by C. Marchioli )
Discussion on further development and content
* Place and date for the next MC Meeting
* Any Other Business (AOB)
Definition of test cases (to be discussed during the parallel WG meetings)
“Tour de table” Report of WG leaders on:
* Present/future WG activities
* Present/future national coordination and communication activities

20:00.23:00 Social Dinner

DAY 2. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011

9:30-11:00 Parallel WG meetings (chaired by WG leaders)
* Definition of test cases
* Involvement of industrial partners
Which industrial partners?
Procedure for inviting industrial partners to meetings
* Expected output during the Action's first year
* Place and date for the next WG Meeting (if needed)
* AOB

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 Open technical discussion
* Report of each WG leader on WG meeting decisions/outcomes
* Auditors' comments

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-15:00 Open technical discussion
* Selection of relevant test cases
* Final remarks

15:00-15:15 Closure of the Meeting

REGISTRATION

Registration will be made through the e-COST system. Participants will be invited by Cristian Marchioli and the Grant Holder (CISM) through automatic e-mails generated by the system itself. Then recipients will have to accept/decline the invitation: if they accept, then they will need to register in the e-COST system in case.

ACCOMMODATIONS

You can book a hotel

HOW TO GO TO INPL

From Airport by TGV (Buy your TGV e-ticket HERE!!!)

Depart from Aéroport Roissy Charles de Gaulles - gare Roissy
Arrive at Louvigny - gare Lorraine TGV (à environ 30km de Metz et Nancy)
Then take the shuttle from Louvigny - gare Lorraine TGV station to Gare Nancy (downtown)

Trip from airport to Lorraine TGVC takes bteween 1h10min and 2h20min, shuttle to Gare Nancy railway station (downtown) takes approximately 30min.

From Paris By TGV (Buy your TGV e-ticket HERE!!!)

Depart from Paris - Gare de l’Est
Arrive at Nancy - Gare Nancy railway station (downtown)
This trip takes 1h30

From downtown or from railway station to INPL (Cost Meeting Venue)
Take tram 1 (direction Vandoeuvre CHU Brabois) and get off at Forêt de Haye station

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For additional information contact:
Salaheddine.Skali-Lami AT ensem.inpl-nancy.fr