EMU Schools

General remarks on EMU Schools

Mineralogical sciences have been very much differentiated in the last few decades. There are excellent experts, but experts working on different fields understand each other less and less, which decreases the effectivity of research and risks the unity of mineral sciences.

The lack of a common language is no wonder: the widely accepted general mineralogical knowledge, reflected in the programmes and textbooks of the gradual courses of the different university curricula has not quite followed the development of mineral sciences.

Many university professors, research scientists and higher grade students feel that more general knowledge on important new applied or basic science fields, not directly connected to their closest research interest, could help their teaching and/or research activity.

To fill the gap between information provided by university curricula and conferences for specialists EMU decided to set up its Schools, where experts give review lectures starting on the traditional university level but providing the participants at the end with the skill of understanding even the latest trends of the given field.

Forthcoming and past EMU Schools

  • Bulk and Surface Structures of Layer Silicates and Oxides: Theoretical Aspects and Applications
                Rome, Italy; July 10 to 20, 2011
                organisers:
                Maria Franca Brigatti (mariafranca.brigatti[at]@unimore.it)
                           Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia and
                Annibale Mottana (mottana[at]uniroma3.it)
                            Università Degli Studi Roma Tre                        
 
  • Advances in the Characterization of Industrial Minerals
                Chania, Crete, July, 14.-18, 2009
                George Christidis,  Chania, Greece        
                            Technical University of Crete,
                            Department of Mineral Resources Engineering
                            73100 Chania, Greece
 
  • Nanoscopic Approaches in Earth and Planetary Sciences
    Frank E. Brenker,
    Frankfurt, Germany & Guntram Jordan, München, Germany
    München, Germany, August 12 to 17, 2007
 
  • Technical Mineralogy: Silicate based Materials
    Bernard Grobéty, Fribourg, Switzerland
    August 28 – September 1, 2006, Budapest, Hungary
 
 
  • Spectroscopic Methods in Mineralogy
    Anton Beran & Eugen Libowitzky, Vienna, Austria
    Vienna, Austria, August 30 to September 3, 2004
 
  • Ultra-high Pressure Metamorphism
    Roberto Compagnoni, Torino, Italy
    Budapest, Hungary, July 21 to 25, 2003

Continuation of the 4th EMU School
'Energy Modelling in Minerals'
organized by Carlo Maria Gramaccioli, Milano, Italy
Gargnano, Lake Garda, Italy, 8-14 June, 2003

 
  • Energy Modelling in Minerals
    Carlo Gramaccioli, Mailand, Italy
    Budapest, Hungary, June 29 to July 7, 2002
 
  • Solid Solution in Silicate and Oxide Systems of Geological Importance
    Charles Geiger, Kiel, Germany
    Lübeck, Germany, June 24 to 29, 2001
 
  • Environmental Mineralogy
    David J. Vaughan, Manchester, UK
    Budapest, Hungary, May 15 to 20, 2000
 
  • Modular Aspects of Minerals
    Stefano Merlino, Pisa, Italy
    Budapest, Hungary, December 14 to18, 1997