From May 9th to 10th, the 5th International Refractory Postgraduate Forum initiated by Wuhan University of Science and Technology was successfully held. The conference 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 conference is Professor Harald Harmuth of Leoben University of Mines, Austria. The conference is a combination of online and offline, 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 meeting.
At 2:40 p.m. on the 9th, 50 teachers and students from Wuhan University of Science and Technology gathered in Room 1004, Steel Building, Qingshan Campus. Professor Li Yawei, deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Refractory Materials and Metallurgy jointly built by the provincial and ministerial departments, delivered a welcome speech on behalf of the school, to participate in this event. The guests of the forum expressed their warm welcome and expressed their gratitude to the leaders and experts who have long cared about and supported the refractory graduate forum. 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, Minister of Postgraduate Work Department of the Party Committee of the Graduate School of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, 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 forum.
The forum was attended by 11 graduate students from Freiberg University of Technology in Germany, Seoul National University in South Korea, Federal University of San Carlos in Brazil, Leoben University of Mines in Austria, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow 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 forum collected 23 posters from Northeastern University, Shanghai University, Zhengzhou University and other universities. Through reports and posters, the forum 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.
In this forum, Professor Li Yawei of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Professor Christos G. Aneziris of Freiberg University of Technology, Professor Harald Harmuth and Professor Jin Shengli of Leoben University of Mining and Technology, Professor In-Ho Jung of Seoul National University and AGH Krakow Prof. Pawel Stoch from the University of Science and Technology presided over each stage of the meeting as the chairman of the sub-meeting. Li Shenghao, Li Yichong and Liu Wenjing, doctoral students of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, attended the meeting and made oral reports. During the conference, all the graduate students made wonderful reports, the participating experts and scholars asked questions actively, and achieved good communication and exchanges, and the conference atmosphere was active.
At the end of the meeting, the chairman of the meeting, Professor Harald Harmuth, made a detailed summary and analysis of the 24 reports of this forum, and classified them according to the research content. After the selection and scoring, Professor Harmuth announced the best oral report and the best poster for this forum. 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 's poster was awarded Best Poster.
This forum 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. As an important part of talent training, this conference was awarded 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), and the Hubei Institute of Silicate Refractory. Supported by the Materials Branch and the Provincial Teaching and Research Project of Hubei Universities (2021240).
