2022 International Postgraduate seminar

From  May 9th to 10th, the 5th International Postgraduate seminar on  Refractories initiated by our school was successfully held. The seminar  has an international presidium composed of well-known professors from 8  different countries, and the secretariat is permanent Wuhan University  of Science and Technology. The rotating chairman of this seminar is  Professor Harald Harmuth of Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria. The  seminar adopts a combination of online and offline forms, with 23  universities and research institutes from 7 countries including China,  Austria, Germany, Brazil, Poland, South Korea and Iran. More than 300  experts and scholars from the institute attended the seminar.

Professor Li Yawei, deputy director of the  State Key Laboratory of Refractory and Metallurgy, delivered a welcome  speech on behalf of the school, expressed a warm welcome to the guests  who participated in the seminar, and expressed gratitude to the leaders  and experts who have long cared about and supported the refractory  material graduate seminar. It is expected that domestic and foreign  universities will come to the school for exchanges, collaboration and  cooperation to promote the high-quality development of the refractory  industry. Mao Ying, Director of the Graduate Work Department of the  Party Committee of the Graduate School of our school, Professor Cheng  Changgui, Deputy Dean of the School of Materials and Metallurgy,  Professor Han Bingqiang, Director of the Department of Inorganic  Nonmetallic Materials Engineering, and Deputy Director Professor Huang  Ao attended the seminar.

The  seminar was attended by 11 graduate students from Technische  Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany, Seoul National University  in South Korea, Federal University of San Carlos in Brazil,  Montanuniversitaet Leoben in Austria, AGH University of Science and  Technology in Poland, as well as from Wuhan University of Science and  Technology, 13 graduate students from China University of Geosciences  (Beijing), Henan University of Technology, Anhui University of  Technology, Zhengzhou University, Xi'an University of Architecture and  Technology, Shanghai University, and University of Science and  Technology Beijing made 24 academic reports, covering the topics of  refractory raw materials, preparation, numerical value Simulation,  performance characterization, application of five main aspects. At the  same time, the seminar collected 23 posters from Northeastern  University, Shanghai University, Zhengzhou University and other  universities. Through reports and posters, the seminar provides a good  learning and communication platform for postgraduates, enabling them to  understand the latest research trends and development directions of the  refractory industry at home and abroad, and expand their international  horizons.

Professor  Li Yawei of our school, Professor Christos G. Aneziris of Technische  Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg, Professor Harald Harmuth and  Professor Jin Shengli of Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Professor In-Ho Jung  of Seoul National University and  Professor Pawel Stoch of AGH  University of Science and Technology as the chairman presided over each  stage of the seminar, and our doctoral students Li Shenghao, Li Yichong  and Liu Wenjing attended the meeting and made oral reports. During the  seminar, all graduate students made wonderful reports, and the  participating experts and scholars asked questions enthusiastically, and  achieved good communication and exchanges, and the seminar atmosphere  was active.

Professor Harald Harmuth as the chairman of the seminarmade  a detailed summary and analysis of the 24 reports of this seminar, and  classified them according to the research content. After the selection  and scoring, Professor Harmuth announced the best oral report and the  best poster. The report of 6 graduate students including Miriam Bach and  Seungjoo Baek was rated as the best oral report, which was produced by 4  graduate students including Zhe Chen and Weijie Cai The poster was  awarded the best poster.

This  seminar has been held for five consecutive sessions and has become an  important platform for postgraduate training and academic exchanges  among universities and research institutes in the field of refractory  materials. An important part of the training work, this seminar has won  the "Belt and Road" International Science and Technology Organization  Platform Construction Project of China Association for Science and  Technology, the second batch of new engineering research and practice  projects of the Ministry of Education (E-CL20201928), Hubei Province  Silicate Society Refractory Materials Supported by the branch and Hubei  University Provincial Teaching Research Project (2021240).