To participate in the activities and events organized by MecaNano, you have to be part of a working group ! Please register on the e-cost website. Once it is done, you can register to the activity or event. Note that you should receive an invitation email. Please accept or decline the invitation once you get it.
Upcoming events:
MecaNano WG 3 Online RDM School: Elements of an ELN: Backend (Storage, Database), Front-End
The MecaNano School for RDM will be offered this year in an online format. The plan is to split the content into several small units. The following units are below and one MUST sign-up at the links provided to receive the links to the meeting. 9. April 2025: 9:30 – 11:00 CET: Databases, Structured Databases ... Read more
3rd General Meetings, Krakow, Poland
We are excited to announce that the MecaNano General Meeting will be held again in 2025! This year, the event will take place from May 19th to 21st at the Academic Center for Materials and Nanotechnology, AGH University of Krakow, Poland. The local organizers for this event are Wiktor Bednarczyk, Piotr Bała, Grzegorz Cios, and ... Read more
Krakow, 30-055 Poland
International conference Materials Structure and Micromechanics of Fracture (MSMF-11), Brno, Czech Republic
International conference Materials Structure and Micromechanics of Fracture (MSMF-11) will take place in Brno, Czechia (June 23-25, 2025) Chairman: Miroslav Cerny Deadline for absract submission have passed but you can contact the organizers for post-deadline submissions. More info on https://www.msmf-brno.eu
Brno-Žabovřesky, Czech Republic
MecaNano WG 3 Online RDM School: Build your own ELN: Overview, Working with S3, StreamLit
The MecaNano School for RDM will be offered this year in an online format. The plan is to split the content into several small units. The following units are below and one MUST sign-up at the links provided to receive the links to the meeting. 9. April 2025: 9:30 – 11:00 CET: Databases, Structured Databases ... Read more
MecaNano WG 3 Online RDM School: Build your own ELN: How do the things fit together to a working system
The MecaNano School for RDM will be offered this year in an online format. The plan is to split the content into several small units. The following units are below and one MUST sign-up at the links provided to receive the links to the meeting. 9. April 2025: 9:30 – 11:00 CET: Databases, Structured Databases ... Read more
Summer School on Nanomechanics for Young Researchers and Innovators 2025
The next MecaNano's summer School on Nanomechanics, dedicated for Young Researchers and Innovators will take place at Kassel, Germany, from July, 28 to August, 01 2025. More info coming soon! Don't miss this great opportunity, especially if you are a PhD student or a post-doc researcher! This summer school is organised by Pr. Benoit Merle ... Read more
Kassel, 34125 Germany
MecaNano session at COMPLAS 2025 on Nanoscale Origins of Plasticity in Modern Nanostructured Materials
A COST MecaNano minisymposia entitled "Nanoscale Origins of Plasticity in Modern Nanostructured Materials" will be organized by J. Guénolé (LEM3, CNRS, France), J. Amodeo (IM2NP, CNRS, France), D. Mordehai (Technion, Israel) and V. Taupin (LEM3, CNRS, France) during COMPLAS 2025, Barcelona. Please visit the conference website for more information. Conference will takes place at Barcelona, ... Read more
Barcelona, 08034 Spain
Mechanical Properties and Plasticity of Small-scale Materials in COMPLAS 2025
The XVIII International Conference on Computational Plasticity Fundamentals and Applications (COMPLAS 2025) will takes place in Barcelona (Spain) 2-5 September 2025. https://complas2025.cimne.com/ ! During this event, an invited symposium “Mechanical Properties and Plasticity of Small-scale Materials” will be organized by Matteo Ghidelli (LSPM) and Hosni Idrissi, (UCLouvain). More info on this symposium: https://complas2025.cimne.com/event/area/34103e61-907e-11ef-b344-000c29ddfc0c . This ... Read more
Barcelona, 08034 Spain
2nd MecaNano Workshop on Machine Learning for Micro- and Nano-Mechanics
The 2nd MecaNano Workshop on Machine Learning for Micro- and Nano-Mechanics will take place on September 4–5, 2025, at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Budapest. Following the success of the first edition, this workshop continues to explore the integration of machine learning techniques in small-scale mechanical testing and materials science, with a focus ... Read more
Budapest, 1117
MecaNano at Euromat 2025
A session "D3 – Mechanics characterization and modelling" will be organised at Euromat 2025, by Benoit Merle, Verena Maier-Kiener, Maciej Szczerba andAndre Clausner . Don't hesitate to submit an abstract! The conference will take place in Granada, September 14-18th 2025. We would love you, your coworkers, and your students to submit abstracts on basically any ... Read more
Granada, 18006 Spain
7th Dislocations Conference – Dislocation 2025
The Dislocations conference brings together researchers from around the world to explore the critical role of dislocations in plastic deformation. This unique conference fosters collaboration across disciplines, encouraging the exchange of ideas through discussions on experimental observations, advanced simulations, and theoretical frameworks. With a focus on cutting-edge research, the event features a dynamic program of invited and ... Read more
Miami, FL 33124 United States
Past events:
MecaNano WG 3 Online RDM School : Interacting with Databases via SQL, SQLAlchemy
The MecaNano School for RDM will be offered this year in an online format. The plan is to split the content into several small units. The following units are below and one MUST sign-up at the links provided to receive the links to the meeting. 9. April 2025: 9:30 – 11:00 CET: Databases, Structured Databases ... Read more
MecaNano WG 3 Online RDM School: Databases, Structured Databases and SQL Overview
The MecaNano School for RDM will be offered this year in an online format. The plan is to split the content into several small units. The following units are below and one MUST sign-up at the links provided to receive the links to the meeting. 9. April 2025: 9:30 – 11:00 CET: Databases, Structured Databases ... Read more
Nanobrücken 2025, Halle, Germany
!!! Abstract deadline for Nanobrücken 2025 is January 31st! NanoBruken 2025 will take place 4-6 March at the Frauenhofer IMWS in Halle (Saale) Germany. The symposium will cover all aspects of mechanical characterization and simulation, from the micro to the nano scale, on all types of objects. A perfect agreement with Mecanano! Expect: - great ... Read more
3rd Online Symposium on Simulation and Modeling Challenges
MecaNano’s WG2 kindly invites you to submit an abstract for the 3rd Online Symposium on Simulation and Modeling Challenges in MecaNano, taking place on February 7th, 2025, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm CET. This symposium will spotlight innovative simulation and modeling techniques and clever solutions in numerical micromechanics, offering a platform for sharing cutting-edge ... Read more
MecaNano Winter School
Digitization has increased the effectiveness and sustainability of scientific workflows tremendously. Today we can use systems that, while we generate research data, associate, keep track and manage related contextual (meta)data in a digital and (semi-)automated manner. At the same time many labs stand at the brink of deciding and implementing certain software solutions in their ... Read more
WG3 online seminar
In this seminar series users and/or developers of different electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) that are used in the domain of Material Science and Engineering will introduce “their” ELN. The aim is to get an overview of the respective software, who application in everyday workflows, point out strengths and maybe touch upon weaknesses. Following a ~ ... Read more
ECI conference: Nanomechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development IX
The next ECI: Nanomechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development will take place October 6th-11th, 2024 in Messina (Sicily), Italy. Oral presentation. Deadline for abstract submission is March 31st, 2024 (May 15th, 2024 for posters). The conference will start on October 6th with a MecaNano sponsored tutorial. More info : https://engconf.us/conferences/materials-science-including-nanotechnology/nanomechanical-testing-in-materials-research-and-development-ix/
Giardini Naxos, Sicily 98035 Italy
MecaNano session at MSE 2024
MecaNano will have a dedicated session (C05) at MSE 2024, september 24-26th, in Darmstadt Germany. Abstract submission is now closed. More details: https://dgm.de/mse/2024/topics/characterization#session-7979e862-2fec-4cfe-8df5-b87a09f50a5a
Darmstadt, 64289 Germany
WG3 online seminar
In this seminar series users and/or developers of different electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) that are used in the domain of Material Science and Engineering will introduce “their” ELN. The aim is to get an overview of the respective software, who application in everyday workflows, point out strengths and maybe touch upon weaknesses. Following a ~ ... Read more
WG3 online seminar
In this seminar series users and/or developers of different electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) that are used in the domain of Material Science and Engineering will introduce “their” ELN. The aim is to get an overview of the respective software, who application in everyday workflows, point out strengths and maybe touch upon weaknesses. Following a ~ ... Read more
MecaNano’s 2nd General Meeting
MecaNano's 2nd general meeting will take place in Vienna, Austria, from 1st to 3rd of May. Abstract submission for oral is open until March 5th, 2024. (March, 8th for poster). More info : https://mecanano2024.sciencesconf.org/
Vienna,
WG3 online seminar
In this seminar series users and/or developers of different electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) that are used in the domain of Material Science and Engineering will introduce “their” ELN. The aim is to get an overview of the respective software, who application in everyday workflows, point out strengths and maybe touch upon weaknesses. Following a ~ ... Read more
Nanobrücken 2024
Nanobrücken 2024 will take place on March 19-21, 2024 in Lyon, France. Abstract submission deadline: february, 15th. More info: https://www.bruker.com/de/news-and-events/events/nanobruecken.html
Ecully, 69130 France
First topical workshop on Machine Learning
First topical workshop on Machine Learning The abstract submission is still open for our 2-day event related to the WG4 “Machine Learning” here: https://mecanano-wg4-24.sciencesconf.org/ The workshop will be held on 22-23 February 2024 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. (Note: this is a different city to Louvain!) The community is rather diverse and has a large range of ... Read more
Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348 Belgium
Online-Symposium on Experimental and Simulation Challenges
Virtual conference on experimental and simulation challenges organized by WG2, with highlight presentations from Dr. Barbara Putz (Montanuniversität Leoben / EMPA Thun) and Dr. Jonathan Amodeo (CNRS, France). Abstract submission is now closed. More details here.
WG4 online pitching event
The working group WG4 on "Machine learning" of the MecaNano Cost Action organizes an online Pitching Event similarly to the successful such events of WG1 and WG2. The main purpose is to get to know each other and for the WG4 leaders to assess the expertise/needs of the community regarding machine learning. This event is ... Read more
WG1 and WG2 online pitching event
Don’t miss WG1 and WG2 online pitching events on October 5 and October 11, 2023. If you want to give a presentation on your work or your lab, please fill this form.
First topical MecaNano workshop on Research Data Management
Research Data Management (RDM) addresses crucial cornerstones of modern research. On one hand, ever increasing complexity in our experiments mean that we need to improve the way we track our experimental samples, the experiments we conduct and the machines and tools we use at each step. The resulting data needs to be organised such that ... Read more
Aachen, 52062 Germany
MecaNano’s 1st summer school in Roma
The first of two planned summer schools of the MecaNano Cost Action will take place on 24-28th of July in Rome. The in-person event will take place at Università deglistudi Roma Tre, Department of Civil, Computer and Aeronautical Engineering in Rome. Christoph Kirchlechner of KIT and Marco Sebastiani of Roma Tre are organizing this event. ... Read more
Roma, 00146 Italy
WG1 and WG2 online pitching event
Prof Diletta Giuntini, Prof Dan Mordehai and Dr Daniel Kiener from working group WG1 (size effect) and Dr Verena Maier-Kiener, Dr Julien Guénolé and Dr Tamás Csanádi from working group WG2 (Experimental and Simulation Challenges) are pleased to invite you to the online Pitching Event on June 20-21, 2023, from 10:00 to 12:00 am. The ... Read more
WG1 and WG2 online pitching event
Don’t miss WG1 and WG2 online pitching events on October 5 and October 11, 2023. If you want to give a presentation on your work or your lab, please fill this form.
First general meeting
The first General meeting will take place on 26th and 27th of April, 2023 at IMDEA Madrid, with Jon Molina and his team as local organizers. IMDEA Materials Institute is located at the Scientific and Technological Park of the Polytechnic University of Madrid in Tecnogetafe. Oral and poster presentations related to all topics will be covered: Mechanical ... Read more
Getafe, Madrid, 28906 Spain