Conference Chairs

• Dr. Tirumalai S SUDARSHAN (MatMod Inc)
• Dr Francesco DELLORO (Mines Paris – PSL)
• Prof. Véronique VITRY (UMONS)

Organising Committee

• Prof. Fabienne DELAUNOIS, UMONS
• Inass LEBBAR, Mines Paris
• Dr Patrizio LOMONACO, TU Delft
• Dr Alexandre MÉGRET, UMONS
• Dr Lara Moreno TURIEGANO, UMONS
• Prof. Marjorie OLIVIER, UMONS
• Prof. Damien THIRY, UMONS
• Dr Romain TRONCY, IS2M-University of Haute-Alsace
• Prof. Jon USTARROZ, ULB

Scientific Committee

• Joel ALEXIS, ENIT Tarbes, France
• Antonello ASTARITA, University of Naples « Federico II », Italy
• Sara BAGHERIFARD, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Oksana BANAKH, Haute Ecole Arc Ingenierie, Switzerland
• Giovanni BOLELLI, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Michel BOUSTIE, École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique, France
• Pierpaolo CARLONE, University of Salerno, Italy
• Andrew COBLEY, Coventry University, UK
• Sergi DOSTA, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• Karine FROMENT, ARC-Nucléart, CEA, France
• Belen GARCIA, Cidetec, Spain
• Miguel Ángel  GARRIDO MANEIRO, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Alessandra GIUMLIA-MAIR, Italy
• Jean-Yves HIHN, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, France
• Chunjie HUANG, Northwestern Polytechnical Univerisity, China
• Heli KOIVULUOTO, Tampere University, Finland
• Julien MARTIN, Université de Lorraine, France
• Alex MONTAGNE, Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, France
• Pedro POZA, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Caroline RICHARD, Université de Tours, France
• Felice RUBINO, University of Salerno, Italy
• Dilip SARKAR, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
• Mariana STAIA, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
• Natalia TINTARU, Vilnius University, Lithuania
• Stéphane VALETTE, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
• Liang WU, Chongqing University, China
• Ann ZAMMIT, L-Università ta’ Malta, Malta
• Mikhail ZHELUDKEVICH, Hereon, Deutschland

1. Thermal and cold spray
2. Electro- Electroless plating.
3. Surface texturation, hydrophobic./philic surfaces.
4. Mechanical surface treatments.
5. Sol-gel and organic coatings.
6. Anodisation, PEO & conversion Coatings.
7. Surface characterization
8. Corrosion
9. Tribology
10. Additive manufacturing.
11. Coatings for the food industry & medical applications.
12. PVD coatings & thin films.
13. Functional coatings (conductivity, shielding, catalysis, chromogenic,….)

A special symposium about Surface treatment for art & heritage : the Symposium ‘Arts and Surfaces‘ will take place on April 24th.

SMT37 will host 4 plenary speakers:

• Dr Alessandra GIUMLIA-MAIR (AGM Archeoanalisi)
• Prof Stephanos KONSTANTINIDIS (UMONS)
• Dr Tirumalai S. SUDARSHAN (MatMod Inc.)
• Prof Stéphane VALETTE (Centrale Lyon)

• Abstract Submission opens:  October 1^st
• Abstract Submission closes:  December 1st.

The Faculty of Engineering  of UMONS, in short FPMs, is also known as ‘Polytech Mons’ and was founded in 1837 as the ‘École des Mines’ (Mining School), the first Mining Engineering school in Belgium, by Théophile Guibal and Adolphe Devillez (bronze monument_shown below, in front of the historical building of Polytech Mons), two young alumni from  ‘École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris’ (now ‘CentraleSupélec’), founded eight years before. In 1853, a new specialist area was created: Chemical Engineering, followed by Mechanical Engineering in 1862 and Electrical Engineering in 1897.

Today, 7 Master’s degrees in Engineering are proposed, and students (around 1000) can choose from the following specialist areas: Architectural Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Energy Engineering, Computer Engineering and Management, Mechanical Engineering, and Geology and Mining Engineering.

The University of Mons (UMONS) was created in 2009 by the merging of Polytech Mons and the University of Mons-Hainaut. UMONS is a French-speaking university in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, near the French-Belgian border. It is approximately 50 kilometers from Brussels, the capital of Europe.

UMONS is one of five academic centers set up in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, and is one of the founding members of the Pôle hainuyer. It assumes the co-presidency of this cluster, which groups together 3 universities, 3 high schools, 3 graduate art schools and 26 continuing education institutions, and offers nearly 600 courses in 21 fields of education to more than 30,000 students in the province of Hainaut. UMONS is one of the founding members of EUNICE, the European University for Customised Education.

With more than 1000 researchers, research objectives in UMONS are pursued both regionally and internationally. The common goal of all UMONS researchers is to develop expertise on a large scale, subsequently benefiting society, particularly the region.

In this framework, UMONS has recently joined forces with other local actors from the higher education sector to open the CampusUCharleroi, where all the delocalised programs from the partners in Charleroi are now hosted in a historical building. The dynamic of CampusUCharleroi has led to the creation of new joint programs, allowing the area to benefit from high quality higher education and research programs.

Through its research and close links with industry, UMONS is actively involved in regional development bith in Charleroi and Mons. It maintains close links with scientific research centers, as well as university spin-off and start-up companies, the majority of which are located on the outskirts of those 2 cities.

The research activities at UMONS are structured in 10 research institutes. One of them is the Research Institute for Materials Science and Engineering (or ‘MATERIALS Institute’) where research on manufacturing processes is carried out.

The UMONS Innovation Center concept enhances the visibility of the long-standing links of UMONS with a number of university-based research centers, and enable to work with any socio-economic organization, regardless of the TRL. The 5 UMONS Innovation Centers are Materia Nova, Multitel, Le CLICK, the Belgian Ceramic Research Center and C3E2D.