Events

CRC 1411 organises scientific meetings and contributes to conferences and symposia of the particle technology, materials science and optimisation communities. This page lists these scientific events, newest first, with links to the corresponding news reports. Seminars, summer schools, retreats and training for our doctoral and postdoctoral researchers are listed on the iRTG-ParSciTech events and training page. Events for schools, families and the public are listed (in German) under Outreach: Veranstaltungen und Auftritte.

Upcoming events

Upcoming CRC 1411 events: internal seminars and meetings as well as public and external events.

CRC 1411 Organised and Co-Organised Events, Workshops and Conference Sessions

• 1–4 September 2026 – 5th Edinburgh-Erlangen School of Adsorption (EESA 2026), Edinburgh, UK. Event page
• 11–15 May 2026 – Special sessions “Design of Particulate Products” and “Particle Technology in MOF Science and Engineering” at WCPT10, Osaka, Japan. Report
• 16–18 March 2026 – Zsigmondy Colloquium 2026 of the Kolloid Gesellschaft, Erlangen. Organised by CRC 1411 PIs Nicolas Vogel, Johannes Walter and Robin Klupp Taylor, with support from the FAU Competence Center Engineering of Advanced Materials. Event page
• 7–8 October 2025 – Particle-Based Materials Symposium (PBM 2025), Erlangen. FAU news
• 2–5 September 2025 – Erlangen-Edinburgh School of Adsorption 2025, Erlangen. Event page
• 26–28 February 2025 – 36th German Zeolite Conference and Annual Meeting of the DECHEMA working group on Adsorption, Erlangen. Report
• 5–8 September 2023 – Erlangen-Edinburgh School of Adsorption 2023, Erlangen. Event page
• 20–21 March 2023 – CRC 1411 International Symposium, Erlangen. Report
• 27 November – 2 December 2022 – MRS Fall Meeting Symposium SB05 “Emergent Order and Mesoscale Structure Formation in Soft Condensed Matter”, Boston, USA (co-organised by CRC 1411 PI Nicolas Vogel). Report
• 6–10 November 2022 – International Workshop “Optics: Simulation and Optimization”. Report
• 6–7 October 2022 – Particle-Based Materials Symposium 2022 “Enhancing Sustainability”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (co-organised by CRC 1411). Report
• 4–6 October 2021 – International Online Workshop on Continuous Particle Synthesis and Product Design. Report
• 20–23 September 2021 – Satellite session “Future Directions in Product Design and Engineering” at the 13th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE13, virtual), jointly organised with the EFCE Section on Product Design and Engineering. Report
• 10–11 May 2021 – International Online Workshop “Particle Technology and Product Design Education – A Digital Leap Forward”. Report
• 27–29 January 2021 – International Online Workshop “Multidimensional Particle Characterisation” (with the DFG Priority Programme 2045 and LUM GmbH). Report
• 26–27 October 2020 – Online Strategy Meeting “Future Directions in Product Design” (jointly with the EFCE Section on Product Design and Engineering). Report

CRC 1411 at conferences and meetings

• 24–28 August 2026 – 28th International Analytical Ultracentrifugation Workshop and Symposium (AUC 2026), Uppsala, Sweden: Cölfen Early Career Investigator Award for PI Johannes Walter. Report
• March 2026 – DECHEMA 2026: best poster prize for Nicolás Salcedo Gálvez. Report
• 23–25 September 2025 – PARTEC 2025, Nuremberg. Report
• 6 January 2025 – Lectures by Prof. Robin Klupp Taylor as Distinguished Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Japan. Report
• 10–12 April 2024 – Women in Optimization 2024, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (sponsored by CRC 1411 among other initiatives). Report
• 27–28 February 2024 – Annual meeting of the DECHEMA/VDI specialist groups on Interface-Dominated Systems and Processes, Crystallization, Mechanical Liquid Separation and Particle Measurement Technology. Report
• 26–28 September 2023 – PARTEC 2023, Nuremberg. Report
• 13–15 September 2023 – Ostwald Colloquium “Interface-mediated Processes in Soft Matter”, Darmstadt: invited talks by four CRC 1411 PIs. Report