Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and Hysitron, Inc. are pleased to presentNanobrücken 2015: A Nanomechanical Testing Workshop & Hysitron User Meeting, which will take place on April 21-23, 2015 in Potsdam, Germany. Nanobrücken 2015 is the fifth edition of the now-annual Nanobrücken workshop series, having been hosted in both Saarbrücken and Dresden.

The Keynote Speaker for this year's workshop will be Prof. Mathias Göken, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Please visit the workshop's website to view the Call for Abstracts. As in the past, the workshop is open to all aspects of nanomechanical and nanotribological testing, including biomechanical, in-situ experimentation and simulation/theory. The abstract submission deadline is March 2. Student contributions are strongly encouraged! 

In addition to keynote/invited/contributed talks, there will be a student talk competition open to anyone who is a student at the time of the workshop as well as a poster competition open to everyone. Congratulations to 2014's winners Aaron Kobler, KIT (best student talk) and Václav Pejchal, EPFL (best poster)!

We wish you a splendid 2015 and look forward to seeing you in Potsdam this April!

Sincerely,

The Program Committee:
Prof. Peter Fratzl, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Prof. Emil Zolotoyabko, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Prof. Roland Bennewitz, Leibniz Institute for New Materials
Dr. Igor Zlotnikov, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Dr. Douglas Stauffer, Hysitron, Inc.
Dr. Oden Warren, Hysitron, Inc.