Workshop on Quantitative Microstructure Analysis
Two weeks at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany: lectures and exercises in the first, your own data in the second. On site or online, and one week is possible too.
Dates, fees and registration will be announced here. The 2027 workshop follows the format of the 2026 workshop.
New in 2027
Learning quantitative microstructure analysis
Daily lectures on EBSD, crystallography, texture and their link to plastic deformation and physical properties, each followed by hands-on exercises in MTEX.
- import, clean and segment EBSD data
- misorientations and grain boundary networks
- tensor properties: stress, strain, elasticity
- parent grain reconstruction and phase transformations
- statistics and visualisation
Applications: bring your own data
Researchers, PhD students and industry users present case studies and workflows. Invited experts introduce new analysis methods, followed by questions and breakout sessions on the participants' own data, from metallurgy, geology, semiconductors and beyond.
- 20-minute talks with 10 minutes of discussion
- keynotes by invited experts, to be announced
- an excursion into the Freiberg silver mine
Freiberg, Saxony
Where: TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. How: on site or online, both weeks or one.
Fees in 2026, for orientation: both weeks on site €400 for students and €600 for others; online €200 and €300; the second week alone €100 and €200. Registration was free for students of TU Freiberg and the University of Halle. The 2027 fees will be announced with the dates.
Questions: ralf.hielscher@math.tu-freiberg.de
Past workshops
Programmes, slides and recordings.