Events

3.-5. Februar 2016 -HCI/J/3/

Raman Microscopy Workshop - 3 day workshop given by PhDs for PhDs working in the field of Raman Spectroscopy.
This course is organized by Jana Segmehl, Kirstin Casdorff (Wood Materials) & Sebastian Schweiger (Electrochemical Materials).

IfB seminars

Past seminars

14. Januar 2015 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Small crystals, large effect: Crystalline solids and electrolyte solutions in confinement
Dr. Michael Steiger
University Hamburg
Germany

2. Dezember 2014 - HIF/E/19/ 11:00 am

Ionic liquids – a toolbox for material design
Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert
Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam
Germany

28. Oktober 2014 - HIF/E/19/ 11:00 am

Recent advances in lignocellulose fractionation and conversion at Aalto University
Prof. Herbert Sixta
Biorefineries Research Group, Department of Forest Products Technology, Aalto University
Finland

30. April 2014 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Processing of cementitious materials: the underlying physics
Nicolas Roussel
IFSTTAR, Paris
France

26. March 2014 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Using evolutionary algorithms to solve inverse packing problems
Prof. Heinrich Jaeger
Physics Dept, Chicago University
USA

26. February 2014 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Conceptual thoughts on continuum damage mechanics for shallow ice shelves
Prof. Kolumban Hutter
Guest scientist at Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

17. January 2014 - HIF/E/19/ 2:00 pm

Multifunctional Colloids: from Particle Design to Interactive Materials
Prof. Dr. Andrij Pich
Functional and Interactive Polymers, RWTH Aachen University
Germany

18. December 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

A Passion for chemistry
Maurice Cosandey

9. December 2013 - CHN/C/14/ 3:15 pm

Montagskolloquien für die Praxis:
Verklebung und Einsatz von Laubholz und Ingenieurholzbau - Laufende Forschungsarbeiten
Koordination: Prof. Dr. Peter Niemz und Prof. Dr. Andrea Frangi (ETH)

6. December 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 2:00 pm

Pilot Trial for large scale production of Low Carbon Cement (LCC). The Cuban experience.
Leng Vizcaino
CIDEM Villa Clara University
Cuba

20. November 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

When water and rocks are mixed: a hybrid discrete-continuum approach for the simulation of debris flows
Alessandro Leonardi
Computational Physics for Engineering Materials - IfB, ETHZ
Zürich, Switzerland

25. September 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Wireless monitoring of historic structures – challenges and solutions with regard to material deterioration caused by moisture and salts
Dr. Markus Krüger
Materials Testing Institute, University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany

5. September 2013 - HIL/D/10.2/ 11:00 am

Rethinking the architecture of growing plant cell walls and the mechanism of cell wall loosening
Prof. Daniel Cosgrove
Department of biology, Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

18. July 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

The geometry of cooperatively rearranging regions in model glass forming liquids
Prof. Srikanth Sastry
TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Hyderabad, India

1. July 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:00 am

Atomistic Simulation of Cementitious Systems
Sandra Galmarini
Insitute of Materials, EPFL
Lausanne, Switzerland

19. June 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Measuring, understanding, and modifying cement hydration at a molecular level
Prof. Bradley F. Chmelka
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106 U.S.A

17. June 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Performance & Application of Low Energy & Low CO2 Emission Cement
Prof. Tongbo Sui
Sinoma Research Institute, China Sinoma Int'l Engineering Co. Ltd.
Beijing 100102, China

05. June 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Fluorescent Protein Senses and Reports Mechanical Damage in Fiber-reinforced Polymer Composites
Dr. Nico Bruns
Department of Chemistry, University of Basel
Basel. Switzerland

29. May 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

A combined chemical and rheological study of geopolymerization's mechanisms
Aurélie Favier
French institute of science and technologie for transport, development and networks (IFSTTAR) / Université Paris-Est
Marne-la-Vallée, France

21. May 2013 - HIL/F/10.3/ 11:00 am

Roles of bond orientational ordering in glassy slow dynamics and crystal nucleation of hard-sphere liquids
Prof. Hajime Tanaka
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

24. April 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Technological targets for building materials: a sustainability dilemna
Prof. Guillaume Habert
ETHZ - IBI
Zürich, Switzerland

10. April 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 1:30 pm

Shrinkage reducing admixtures - working mechanism, interaction with cement and application in concrete
Dr. Arnd Eberhardt
Sika Technology AG
Switzerland

27. March 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Reinforcing ultra-high performance concrete with cellulose fibers
Prof. Eric Landis
Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maine
Orono, ME, USA

13. March 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Mechanical, thermal and wetting properties of nanocellulose and a genetically engineered fusion protein
Dr. Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon
ETHZ - IfB
Zürich, Switzerland

6. March 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Persistent correlations in complex Transport -- Brownian motion and beyond
Prof. Thomas Franosch
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universtität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Erlangen, Germany

27. February 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Microscopic picture of cooperative processes in restructuring gel networks
Dr. Jader Colombo
ETHZ - IfB
Zürich, Switzerland

12. February 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Insights into chemistry and structure of plant cell walls by Confocal Raman microscopy
Dr. Notburga Gierlinger
ETH - IfB
Zürich, Switzerland

5. February 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 3:30 pm

Fluctuating and inhomogeneous shells under pressure
Jayson Paulose
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

29. January 2013 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

New findings on early hydration of alite and OPC using G-factor Rietveld refinement and heat flow calculations
Prof. Jürgen Neubauer
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen, Germany

Hydration kinetics of CA2 and CA - Investigations performed on a synthetic calcium aluminate cement
Dr. Friedlinde Götz-Neunhoeffer
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen, Germany

12. December 2012 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Mesoscale modeling of C-S-H precipitation
Katerina Ioannidou
ETHZ - IfB
Zürich, Switzerland

5. December 2012 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Elementary mechanisms of plastic deformation in amorphous materials
Dr. Anael Lemaitre
Laboratoire Navier, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
Paris, France

28. November 2012 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Hydrophobic hydration, a matter of the mean energetics of water
Dr. Veronique Trappe
Department of Physics, University of Fribourg
Fribourg, Switzerland

26. November 2012 - CHN/C/14/ 3:15 pm

Montagskolloquien für die Praxis: Eigenschaften und Verwendung von Laubholz
Prof. Dr. Peter Niemz (Koordination)

ETH - IfB
Schafmattstr. 6
Zürich, Switzerland

14. November 2012 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Solid-state NMR, a probe of structure and transport in building materials
Prof. Jean-Baptiste d'Espinose de Lacaillerie
ESPCI ParisTech, Soft Matter science and Engineering Laboratory
Paris, France

7. November 2012 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Exploring Surface Forces
Dr. Rosa M. Espinosa-Marzal
Surface Science and Technology, ETHZ
Zürich, Switzerland

31. October 2012 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Simulations of soft matter interfaces
Prof. Jens Harting
Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

24. October 2012 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Collective processes in the adsorption of nanoparticles at liquid-liquid interfaces
Konrad Schwenke
ETH - IfB
Zürich, Switzerland

26. September 2012 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Micromechanical wood and Interface Characterizations
Dr. Johannes Konnerth
BOKU
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Vienna, Austria

17. September 2012 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Reliable timber and innovative wood products for structures: Adhesive Bonding of Structural Hardwood Elements
Mohammad Masoud Hassani
ETHZ - IfB
Zurich, Switzerland

20. June 2012 - HIF/E/19/ 10:30 am

Molecular simulation of complex molecules at interfaces
Dr. David Cheung
Department of Chemistry and Centre for Scientific Computing
University of Warwick
Coventry, UK