SLiMS 2025 - Symposium on lightweight materials and structures
The primary goal of this symposium is to introduce and discuss current trends in the development and exploration of lightweight materials and structures.
Lightweight materials, with their philosophy, concepts, and designs that intertwine high-performance materials with geometry and topology, are found in a variety of applications. These include natural and biomaterials, as well as engineered composites and structures like bridges, planes, and wind turbines, making ‘lightweight’ a truly universal collaboration framework.
The primary goal of this symposium is to introduce and discuss current trends in the development and exploration of lightweight materials and structures. Through these discussions, we aim to define overarching interests and shared grounds that could foster collaborations beyond traditional research fields and industrial sectors.
The symposium is designed for a diverse audience, including R&D units, researchers, industrial stakeholders, and students whose interests lie in materials and material technologies. Lightweight materials, structures, and designs hold the potential for crucial breakthroughs and paradigm shifts in existing design practices.
This event will serve as a forum for fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and forging future collaborations across disciplines, sectors, and applications.
Thanks to our generous partners, including Aarhus University Centre for Integrated Materials Research (iMAT), the Centre for Defence, Space & Security (CenSec), the Danish Centre for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (DCAMM), and IDA Space, participation in SLiMS will be free of charge.
Program: SLiMS is planned as a single day event and will contain morning and afternoon sessions. Both sessions will intertwine equal number of academic and industrial/applied topics, crossing various fields and sectors and reflecting truly interdisciplinary and multisectoral nature of the subject.
Program at a glance:
08:45: Welcome by the iMAT Director.
09:00 - 11:30: Morning session – 4 talks.
11:30 - 13:00: Launch and networking/Canteen Navitas.
13:00 - 15:30: Afternoon session – 4 talks.
15:30 - 16:45: Snack and chat: Discussion panel and networking.
16:45 - 17:00: Closing by the Organizers.
Contact organizers: For any questions in relation to the event please contact:
Michal K. Budzik, mibu@mpe.au.dk
Nichlas Oxfeldt Foldager: nof@danishgraphene.com
Nikolaj Zangenberg: nzg@teknologisk.dk
For IDA members: Aarhus University, the Danish Technological Institute and Danish Graphene ApS have entered into a collaboration with IDA Space. The collaboration involves joint marketing. All registration takes place through the AU platform and after the event, AU sends a participant list (name and email) to IDA, which registers the number of registered IDA members, and then the list is deleted.
For non-IDA members: Your information will be deleted and not used for anything.
This event is part of a collaboration between IDA Space and Aarhus University, the Danish Technological Institute and Danish Graphene ApS. All registrations are handled by Aarhus University. Click on "Tilmeld," and you will be directed to Aarhus University's registration page, where you can read more about the symposium and sign up.
ANYONE CAN JOIN - Most of IDA's events are open to everyone, but you must have an IDA user profile in order to participate. It's free and non-binding - create a user profile now. As a member of IDA, you get a discount on many of our events, so please sign in with your member login when you sign up for an event. Read more about the benefits of an IDA membership here.
Information