EPM2027, September 27-30: First Announcement - Please save the date!

www.hzdr.de/EPM2027

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Scope

Electromagnetic Processing of Materials (EPM) encompasses all areas of materials processing in which electric and magnetic fields can be employed to enhance process performance, product quality, energy efficiency, or sustainability. Traditional topics include liquid metal processing, casting and solidification, induction heating, crystal growth, and plasma-based technologies, while emerging applications continue to expand into new fields of advanced manufacturing and materials engineering.

As process industries worldwide face the profound challenge of transforming their production systems towards greater energy efficiency, climate neutrality, resource conservation, and circularity, innovative processing technologies are becoming increasingly important. The application of electromagnetic fields—and in particular electrically driven heating and processing technologies—offers powerful opportunities to reduce emissions, improve process control, increase productivity, and enable the transition towards sustainable industrial production.

The conference welcomes contributions from all areas of materials processing involving electric, magnetic, or electromagnetic fields, ranging from fundamental research and numerical modeling to industrial applications and equipment development. EPM aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform that brings together researchers, engineers, technology providers, and industrial practitioners from academia, research organizations, and manufacturing industries. By fostering scientific exchange and collaboration, the conference seeks to accelerate the development and deployment of innovative technologies that will shape the future of sustainable materials processing.

Scientific Topics

• Fundamentals and modelling of EPM
• Induction heating and related heat treatment
• Steelmaking: Ladle treatment, Continuous casting
• Casting and solidification
• Microwave and plasma processing
• Electrification of industrial processes
• Instrumentation and measuring techniques for EPM processes
• Electrochemical processes
• Electromagnetic melting, cold crucible, melt preparation
• Magnetic flow control, EM stirring and braking, EM casting
• EM shaping, forming, mixing, separation, magnetic or EM levitation
• High-intensity magnetic fields applied to materials processing
• Equipments for EPM, EM pumps, EM brakes, EM stirrers, power sources
• Crystal growth from the melt, magnetically influenced Cz and FZ processes
• EM control of solar silicon production processes
• Digitalization and artificial intelligence in electromagnetic processing
• EM shaping or forming, mixing, separation, magnetic or EM levitation
• Digitalization and artificial intelligence in electromagnetic processing

Scientific Board

Andris Jakovics	University of Latvia, Latvia
Leonid Buligins	University of Latvia, Latvia
Engang Wang	Northeastern University of Shenyang, China
Zhongming Ren	Shanghai University, China
Qiang Wang	Northeastern University, China
Mingjiu Ni	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hirota Noriyuki	National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Jiawei Mi	University of Hull, UK
Laurent Davoust	Grenoble INP, France
Francois Bay	CEMEF, Mines ParisTech, France
Kaspars Dadzis	Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
Sven Eckert	Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
Hideyuki Yasuda	Kyoto University, Japan
Andrew Kao	University of Greenwich, UK
Valdis Bojarevics	University of Greenwich, UK
Pjotr Zabinski	Poland
Fabrizio Dughiero	University of Padova, Italy
Michele Forzan	University of Padova, Italy
Alban Potherat	Coventry University, UK
Abdellah Kharicha	Christian-Doppler Laboratory for Metallurgical Applications of Magnetohydrodynamics, Austria

Organizing Committee

Sven Eckert (s.eckert@hzdr.de, chairman)
Max Sieger (m.sieger@hzdr.de)
Thomas Wondrak (t.wondrak@hzdr.de)
Vladimir Galindo (v.galindo@hzdr.de)
Aida Roch (a.roch@hzdr.de)

Important dates

Abstract submission	May 15, 2027
Notification of acceptance	June 01, 2027
Preliminary program	June 15, 2027
Registration* open (Early-bird)	June 15, 2027
Registration* open (Regular)	July 15, 2027
Full paper submission	August 31, 2027
Registration closes (on-site registration possible)	September 15, 2027
Final program	September 15, 2027
* Registration via Website

Venue

EPM2027 will be held at Penck Hotel in the city centre of Dresden. The venue offers a total of 174 rooms and perfect conditions for technical sessions, poster presentations and exhibition space for industrial partners and sponsors.

Any questions related to the workshop should be addressed by e-mail to epm2027@hzdr.de
Do not hesitate to contact us if you need further information. We are looking forward to welcome you in Dresden!