The meeting will be held at the Village Hotel Leeds.

Address: The Village Hotel Leeds 186 Otley Road Headingley Leeds, LS16 5PR United Kingdom Tel: +44 113 278 1000 th Fax: +44 113 278 1111 5 OPEN MEETING http://www.village-hotels.co.uk/hotels/leeds/ The Village Hotel, Leeds, UK

Cements for the Future

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The Village Hotel Headingley Leeds, United Kingdom

http://www.nanocem.org/leeds2009 Nanocem is a network of European academic and industrial partners, all Invited speakers: interested in fundamental research on cement and concrete. The consortium is  Peter Robery, Technical Director, Halcrow Group Ltd, Visiting Professor, entirely financed by its industrial partners. Academic partners contribute in kind the University of Leeds, Immediate Past President, The Concrete Society, UK through their projects.  Pal Chana, Chief Executive (Acting), British Cement Association, UK Since its foundation in 2002, the network has constantly grown and consists and speakers from Nanocem network: now of 24 academic partners and 15 industry partners from all over Europe. More  Leon Black, University of Leeds, UK than 120 academic researchers are managing some 60 PhD and PostDoctoral  Jesper Sand Damtoft, Aalborg Portland, DK research projects in the area of fundamental research.  Peter McDonald, University of Surrey, UK  Donald Macphee, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Nanocem’s main activities are:  Phil Purnell, University of Leeds, UK • organizing workshops and seminars,  Ian Richardson, University of Leeds, UK • sponsoring research in multi-partner projects,  Karen Scrivener, Coordinator Nanocem, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de • acting as a recruitment base for researchers in cementitious materials, Lausanne, Switzerland • highlighting the importance of R&D on cementitious materials at the European level.

Even though it is the most widely used building material in the world, concrete is poorly understood because the fundamental physical and chemical mechanisms Registration on line at http://www.nanocem.org/leeds2009 underlying the behaviour of cementitious materials are quite complex. A Deadline for registration: March 6, 2009 better understanding of cementitious phenomena from a nanoscale level will lead to new materials and methods that have predictable and reproducible characteristics. A major objective is to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions in the production of cement, while maintaining good mechanical properties and st durability. The registration fee is 160£ or 180€ (180£ 200€ after April 1 , 2009) and includes the admission to the conference, the conference materials, all coffee breaks and lunch. At this open meeting the partners and research of the network will be presented. Nanocem members: 50% off registration fee. This will be of interest to a wide range of personnel throughout the construction sector. Cancellation policy: Request for refund must be sent by e-mail to info@nanocem. org. The registration fee will be refunded after deduction of 20% if participation is cancelled prior to April 1st, 2007. After this date, no refund can be made but a copy Further information on Nanocem: http://www.nanocem.org of the meeting materials will be sent to the registrant.

The meeting is organized by: For further information, please contact [email protected] or Leon Black, University of Leeds marie-alix.dalang-secretan@epfl.ch, +41 21 693 58 45 Karen Scrivener, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne [email protected], +44 113 343 22 83