:: STUDENT TRAVEL FUNDS ::.
To support students to travel to the 14th International Clay Conference (14-20 June 2009, Italy), AIPEA will assign financial contributions. The rules are the following:
1. The student submits an abstract and his/her curriculum vitae
2. This submission is supported in writing by his/her supervisor
3. Both the student and the supervisor are members of AIPEA
4. The student is under 35 years of age.
5. The financial support can only be used to attend an International Clay Conference and its associated excursions, field trips and workshops.
6. Student can only apply for one International Conference
7. The amount of money can be up to $ 500 - per student.
All correspondence must be addressed by email to Prof. David L. Bish, President AIPEA (bish[at]indiana.edu).
The selection committee will consist of three members selected by the President.
The deadlines are as follows:
- submission of abstract + CV + letter of support: December 31, 2008
- notice of decisions: January 31, 2009.
:: STUDENT BEST SPEAKER & POSTER AWARDS ::
The Student Best Speaker & Poster Awards was inaugurated in 2007 at the Euroclay conference in Aveiro, Portugal. It is sponsored by AIPEA and it is designated to encourage young clay scientists, who will receive a cash awards during the International Clay conferences and Euroclay conferences.
:: AWARDED STUDENTS ::
Euroclay 2007 – Best Oral Presentations
Mariana da Silva Rebelo et al. (University of Aveiro, Portugal) with the paper: Mineralogical and physic-chemical properties of some Portuguese Mesocenozoic clays used as healing clays.
Vanja Biševac et al. (University of Zagreb, Croatia) with the paper: New data on metamorphic event in the eastern part of Mt. Papuk, Slavonia, Croatia.
Euroclay 2007 – Best Poster Presentations
Mathieu Gautier et al. (University of Orleans, France) with the paper: Interaction between ammonium smectite and some simple organic molecules: pollution prediction in waste landfill.
Ewa Káfunková (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) with the paper: Photofunctional materials base on intercalated layered double hydroxides.
14th International Clay Conference - Best Oral Presentations
Holger Seher et al. (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany) with the paper:
Bentonite colloid stability in granite groundwaters: experiments and modelling.
Rosa Marques et al. (Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear/GeoBioTec, Sacavém, Portugal) with the paper: A contribution for the geochemical atlas of Santiago Island, Cape Verde – total contents of REE and other trace elements in the topsoil layer.
Bethany L. Ehlmann et al. (Brown University, U.S.A.) with the paper: Evidence for low-grade metamorphism/diagenesis on Mars from phyllosilicate mineral assemblages.
14th International Clay Conference - Best Poster Presentations
Lenka Herzogová et al. (Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic) with the paper: Removal of As and Se oxyanions using modified clays: Al3+, Al3+/Fe3+, Mn2+ modification.
Adebukola Adegoroye et al.(University of Alberta, Canada) with the paper: A comprehensive analysis of organic matter removal from clay – sized minerals extracted from oil sands using low temperature ashing and hydrogen peroxide
Euroclay 2011 - Best Oral Presentations
Yohei Ishida (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) Visible light-harvesting ability of cationic dyes assembly on an anionic clay surface: the effect of adsorption conditions.
Laure Delavernhe (Institut des Materiaux Jean Rouxel, France) Relationship between macroscopic water affinity of kaolinites and their surface properties.
Euroclay 2011 - Best Poster Presentations
Natalia Matskova (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) Characteristic of palygorskite clays from Dahkovskoe industrial deposit (Moscow region, Russia).
Mazen Ziadeh (University of Bayreuth, Germany) A facile approach for producing high aspect ratio fluorhectorite nanoplatelets by utilizing a stirred media mill.
