Summer school EU H2020 MSCA-ETN REDMUD
29-31 August 2016 in Novotel, Leuven, Belgium
Preliminary programme:
29 August 2016
08.30-10.00 Registration and poster installation
10.00-10.15 General introduction
10.15-11.45 Early history of aluminium production (Koen Binnemans, KU Leuven, Belgium) – 
11.45-12.45 Lunch break + poster session
12.45-14.15 Geology and mineralogy of bauxite deposits (Bray, E Lee, USGS, USA)
14.15-15.45 Bayer process (James Vaughan, The University of Queensland, Australia)
15.45-16.15 Coffee break + poster session
16.15-17.45 Hall-Héroult process (Arne Petter Ratvik, SINTEF, Norway)
30 August 2016
08.30-09.00 Morning coffee
09.00-10.30 Aluminium alloys and their applications (Franco Bonollo, University of Padova, Italy)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break + poster session
11.00-12.30 Recycling of aluminium metal (Georg Rombach, Hydro and RWTH Aachen, Germany)
12.30-13.30 Sandwich lunch + poster session
13.30-15.00 Scandium and other REEs (Koen Binnemans, KU Leuven, Belgium) –
15.00-15.30 Coffee break + poster session
15.30-17.00 Recovery of metals from BR (Dimitrios Panias, NTUA, Greece) –
17.00-17.30 Formal poster session
Dinner with speakers
31 August 2016
08.30-09.00 Morning coffee
09.00-10.30 Cementitious binders with high Fe content (Ruben Snellings, VITO, Belgium)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break + poster session
11.00-12.30 Inorganic polymers with high Fe content (Yiannis Pontikes, KU Leuven, Belgium) –
12.30-13.30 Sandwich lunch + poster session
13.30-15.00 Opportunities and Challenges on the way toward a sustainable aluminium supply (Ester van der Voet, Leiden University, NL)
15.00-15.30 Coffee break + poster session
15.30-17.00 Bauxite residue valorisation: successes and failures (Ken Evans, UK) –
17.00-17.30 Closing remarks