Metalfoam.net - Newsletter No. 8
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1) MetFoam2003 conference
2) Special Issue of AEM on metal foams
3) Special issue of MRS Bulletin on cellular materials

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1) The 3rd International conference on
    Cellular Metals and Metal Foaming Technology

will be held from 23 to 25th June 2003 in Berlin (Germany)
and is the third of a successful series of international
conferences on these materials and technologies.

The programme is now available and includes 70 oral and 60 poster
presentation on three days. Some metal foam produces will exhibit their
products.

Up to now 210 participants have registered. Registrations are still
possible.

Although the deadline for abstract submissions is over now, a limited
number of poster conributions can still be accepted since we have
capacities for up to 70 posters.

See: http://www.hmi.de/events/metfoam/ for further details including
online registration tools.

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2) Metal foam issue of Advanced Engineering materials

AEM has devoted its october 2002 issue to metal foams. The issue
contains a selection of 18 papers which were presented at MetFoam2001 in
Bremen and which were updated by the authors.

Table of contents and abstracts:
http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2266/200210.html

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3) MRS special issue on Cellular Solids

The April 2003 of the MRS Bulletin contains a number of articles on
Cellular Solids. Guest Editor: Lorna Gibson (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)

http://www.mrs.org/publications/bulletin/2003/



We would like to thank the sponsors of our metalfoam.net pages:
Cymat, Canada: manufacturer of aluminium foam
Porvair, USA: manufacturer of porous metals
MIT-Verlag, Germany: publisher of books

This was today's news. If you have any interesting news for newsletter
#9, please mail to: admin@metalfoam.net (John Banhart)
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10 June 2003 / J. Banhart