With emerging of new microscopic techniques and their widespread use, appropriate sample
preparation is still the crucial prerequisite for successful microstructural observation of bulk
metallic samples. This involves the preparation of parallel planes with mirror-like surface or defined
sample thickness reduction without damaging of surface layer for special applications. In order to
demonstrate state-of-the-art development in this field, we organize a workshop in cooperation
with Struers GmbH Praha and Carl Zeiss spol. s r. o.
The series of International Conferences on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (FLC‘s) is devoted to basic and applied aspects of new self-assembling materials possessing chiral and polar structures and properties. These conferences have been organized in odd years in between International Conferences on Liquid Crystals.
FQMT’15 is a follow-up to the four previous, successful Prague conferences "Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics". The title of the conference is traditional and reflects main topics of early FQMT conferences.
Esomat conferences are main European scientific events in the field of martensitic transformations in solids and more particularly in shape memory materials and steels. They have been held on a three-year cycle since 1989 and the Esomat2009 in Prague was the first conference held out of the former western Europe.