In honour

of the 60th birthday

of prof. Claudio Migliaresi

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Trento, 16-19 December 2007

1st Meeting: Advances in Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials

REACHING TRENTO:

BY CAR:

BRENNER MOTORWAY (A22 EXIT TRENTO CENTRO).

BY TRAIN:TRENTO CAN BE EASILY REACHED BY TRAIN FROM EVERY PLACE IN

ITALY (I.E. VERONA, VENICE, MILAN). THE STATION IS VERY NEAR TO

TRENTO'S HISTORICAL CENTRE (PIAZZA DUOMO CAN BE REACHED ON FOOT

IN A FEW MINUTES). TO FIND OUT THE TRAIN TIMETABLES SEE: WWW.TRENITALIA.IT

BY PLANE: THE NEAREST AIRPORTS ARE VERONA (90 KM), BRESCIA (165 KM), VENICE (155 KM), TREVISO (130 KM), MILAN (250 KM), BERGAMO

(200 KM) AND BOLOGNA (225 KM).

UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO – Italy

Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

CONFERENCE SCOPE INVITED PARTICIPANTS GENERAL INFO

Domenico Acierno University of Napoli, Italy Luigi Ambrosio CNR-IMCB Napoli, Italy Renzo Antolini University of Trento, Italy Antonio Apicella 2nd University of Napoli, Italy Gang Bao* GeorgiaTech, USA Rolando Barbucci University of Siena, Italy Giovanni Camino Polytechnic of Torino, Italy Emo Chiellini University of Pisa, Italy Alberto Cigada Polytechnic of Milano, Italy Daniel Cohn Hebrew University, Israel Anthony Di Benedetto University of Connecticut, USA Mauro Ercolani NewCorTec, Italy Dino Ferri Polimeri Europa, Italy Dante Gatteschi University of Firenze, Italy Jean-Francois Gerard CNRS Lyon, France Vasif Hasirci METU, Turkey Samuel Huang University of Connecticut, USA Dietmar W. Hutmacher QUT, Australia Joseph Jancar University of Brno, Czech Rep. David Kaplan Tufts University, USA Joseph Karger-Kocsis Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany Josè Kenny University of Perugia, Italy Kemal Kesenci Novamed GmbH, Turkey Jan Kolarik Academy of Sciences, Czech Rep. Giancarlo Marazzi Orthofix, Italy Giorgio Mari Fresenius HemoCare, Italy Gad Marom Hebrew University, Israel Luigi Nicolais University of Napoli, Italy Francesco Pilati University of Modena, Italy Erhan Piskin Hacettepe University, Turkey Miroslav Raab * Academy of Sciences, Czech Rep. Rui L. Reis University of Minho, Portugal Theonis Riccò University of Brescia, Italy Pier Francesco Robotti Eurocoating, Italy Saverio Russo University of Genova, Italy Julio San Roman CSIC, Spain Etienne Schacht University of Ghent, Belgium Maria Cristina Tanzi Polytechnic of Milano, Italy Teodoro Valente University La Sapienza, Italy Michel Vert University of Montpellier, France Daniel Wagner Weizmann Institute, Israel Gianluca Zappini Ivoclar Vivadent, Liechtenstein

* to be confirmed

The Conference will take place in an informal setting surrounded by the beauty of Trento winter area, enhanced by the typical Christmas Market in Piazza Fiera where to discover a magic world of scents, flavours, colours and lights and to feel the ancient emotions of waiting for Christmas

Sala delle Marangonerie, Buoconsiglio Castle, Trento The Buonconsiglio Castle is a medieval castle located in the center of the town. The Castle originated from a fortified building erected in the 13th century next to the city's walls. It acted first as meeting point of the local community and then became the seat of the Prince-Bishops of Trento until the secularisation of the Principality (1802). Presently hosts the Provincial Gallery of Arts.

The number of participants is limited to 120, a nominal fee of 200 Euros is requested. Registration fee includes participation to the Conference, Welcome Party, Coffee Breaks and Symposium Dinner. Participation fee for accompanying person is 50 Euros and includes Welcome Party and Symposium Dinner. The Welcome Party will take place at the Grand Hotel Trento, and the Symposium Dinner is scheduled for the 18th of December. Registration deadline: the 31st of October 2007. All the Oral Communications are by invitation. Participants whishing to present a Poster are requested to submit an abstract (max one A4 page) before the 30th of September.

REGISTER ON SITE AT : WWW.TICME.ING.UNITN.IT

Rooms can be reserved at the following hotels: Grand Hotel Trento **** (90 € single, 100 € double), Hotel Accademia **** (65 € single, 105 € double), Hotel America *** (63 € single, 49 € /pax double). They all are at walking distance from both the train station and the conference site. When reserving ask for the special rate reserved to the conference participants. For further information on the hotels see : http://www.apt.trento.it/English/ENG_Hotel.html

SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT

LUCA FAMBRI ANTONELLA MOTTA

ALESSANDRO PEGORETTI AMABILE PENATI

from the University of Trento:

• Nanocomposites

• Advanced Composites and Blends

• Functional Materials

• Biomedical Polymers and Composites

• Advanced Polymers and Composites for

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

• Polymer Processing and Testing

ELEONORA CARLETTI DEVID MANIGLIO

ticme@ing.unitn.it

MATTEO TRAINA

VENUE

REGISTRATION AND DEADLINES

HOTELS

Research on Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials is evolving with a breathtaking rapidity. The scope of the conference is to put together a small, selected group of leading scientists to exchange ideas and perspectives on the current status of the research, aiming at tracing some directions. Rather than focusing on a particular branch of polymers and biomaterials science, the overall aim of the conference is therefore to provide a forum for a broad discussion on recent achievements in some topics at the cutting-edge of research.

CONFERENCE TOPICS