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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Marie Curie Summer school on aqueous and porous materials

Please forward this to your PhDs and Postdocs who may be eligible for full funding to attend the 2008 Marie Curie Summer School on Aqueous and Porous Materials at Trest, Czech Republic from the 19th to 29th of August 2008.

Full eligibility and registration details may be found at http://www.materialsknowledge.org

This is the fourth and final in a series of Marie Curie funded summer schools on multidisciplinary materials science, and speakers and topics include:
Prof. John Banhart, (Hahn-Meitner- Institut, Berlin)
Metallic foams
Dr. Richard Weinkamer (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam) Bone and wood as hierarchical materials:
structure-property relationships
Prof. Franti¨ek Vyskocil (Charles University, Prague) Selective Pores in Cell membrane (Ion channels), are regulated by physical and chemical impulses
Dr. Philippe Ackerer (IMFS, Strasbourg) Flow and Transport in natural porous media
Dr. Anita Roth (University of Tuebingen) - The principles of plant water transport - Interrelationships between wood structure and function
Dr. Peter Lichtner , (Los Alamos National Lab.) - Reactive Transport in Porous Media from Pore to Continuum Scales
Prof. Giuseppe Fallini : (University of Bologna) Biomineralization
Prof. François Renard (LGCA Grenoble - PGP Oslo) Dissolution-precipitation processes driven by stress gradients in the Earth's crust
Prof. Wolfgang Brameshuber (RWTH, Aachen) Concrete - an example for a complex porosity

Mark Jessell
IRD LMTG UMR 5563
14 avenue Edouard Belin
31400 TOULOUSE

Tel: +33 (0)5 61 33 26 47
www.lmtg.obs-mip.fr/user/mjessell (home)
www.tectask.org (IUGS Tectask)
www.materialsknowledge.org (Marie Curie Summer Schools)

The way to AMINEF in Gedung Balai Pustaka

American Indonesian Exchange Foundation
Balai Pustaka Building, 6th. Floor
Jl. Gunung Sahari Raya No. 4
Jakarta 10720, Indonesia

1. The buses which goes to Senen Bus Station all of them pass through Gedung Balai Pustaka. Especially which route is through Pasar Baru .

2. Bus Transjakarta, from Blok M you have to change the bus 2-3 times.
Way 1 : from Blok M change the bus in Dukuh Atas bus stop to the bus towards Pulogadung, then take a bus in Pramuka bus stop towards Ancol, this bus pass through Gedung Balai Pustaka. The closest bus stop (Budi Utomo) is about 800 meters from Gedung Balai .
Way 2 : From Blok M take the bus in the Harmoni Bus Stop, the bus towards Pulogadung, get down in Senen Bus Stop and walk about 800 meters, or from this bus stop take the bus towards Ancol and get down as mentioned in way 1. About the distance, this two bus stops is about the same. (It is better if you take ojek or bajaj from this bus stop to Gedung Balai Pustaka)

3. If you take taxi with old tariff (TL=Tarif Lama) from blok M with no traffic jam is about Rp. 30.000,00.

4. From Blok M use bus Patas AC 76. Gedung Balai Pustaka is in the right side, after you pass through Depag, and say to conductor "Balai Pustaka"

5. Use a busway from Blok M towards Kota, get down in Sawah Besar bus stop. From here take a Mikrolet M12 towards Senen. After cross road Wahidin and before senen get down and cross the street.

Living Cost in Germany

Living Cost in Germany is vary from city to city, but this is th case if you stay in Aachen, Germany
Student accommodation or private sharing : 180 - 230 euros per month
Food : 10 - 12 euros per day (if eating outside)
Transport for students : free within Aachen and until Koln and Dusseldorf in regional trains)

Living Cost In Austria

Living Cost in Austria is depending on the city, for example the Capital of Austria, Vienna:
- Dormitory is about 250-400 euro per month.
- Living Cost 200-400 euro per month.
- Transportation 128 euro per 4 months (student and age < 26), or 49 euro per month (ordinary)

For visa, it has to be a letter from the University/Scholl in Austria. It takes about 2-3 months.

Where to do GMAT Test

GMAT Tests are held in Jakarta, Indonesia :
1. EEC Slipi +62-21 5320044 or +62-215323176
2. Kaplan GMAT Preparation +62-81388908450, +62-21 5211588, +62-215211701 (Information abaout this test can be asked in that number)
3. Or this number +62-213159225

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