General remarks on EMU Schools
Mineralogical sciences have been very much differentiated in the last few decades. There are excellent experts, but experts working on different fields understand each other less and less, which decreases the effectivity of research and risks the unity of mineral sciences.
The lack of a common language is no wonder: the widely accepted general mineralogical knowledge, reflected in the programmes and textbooks of the gradual courses of the different university curricula has not quite followed the development of mineral sciences.
Many university professors, research scientists and higher grade students feel that more general knowledge on important new applied or basic science fields, not directly connected to their closest research interest, could help their teaching and/or research activity.
To fill the gap between information provided by university curricula and conferences for specialists EMU decided to set up its Schools, where experts give review lectures starting on the traditional university level but providing the participants at the end with the skill of understanding even the latest trends of the given field.
EMU Schools
- Minerals and waste, an Anthropocene tale
Mario Tribaudino
Bardonecchia, Italy; June 20 to 24 june 2022
- MEREMA 2nd Edition: International School on Mantle Dynamics
Elisabetta Rampone
Sestri Levante, Italy; October 24 to 29, 2021
- Mineral fibres: crystal chemistry, chemical-physical properties, biological interaction and toxicity
Alessandro Francesco Gualtieri
Modena, Italy; June 19 to 23, 2017
- Mineral Reaction Kinetics
Wilhelm Heinrich and Rainer Abart
Vienna, Austria; September 19 to 23, 2016
- Planetary mineralogy
M.R. Lee and H. Leroux
Glasgow, Scotland; August 25 to September 3, 2014
- Minerals at Nanoscale
Fernando Nieto and Fernando Gervilla
Granada, Spain; June 3 to 6, 2013
- Layered mineral structures and their application in advanced technologies
Maria F. Brigatti & Annibale Mottana, Italy
Rome, Italy; July 9 to 19, 2011
- Ion Partitioning in Low Temperature Aqueous Systems: From Fundamentals to Applications in Climate Proxies and Environmental Geochemistry
Manuel Prieto & Heather Stoll, Oviedo, Spain
Oviedo, Spain, June 27 to 30, 2010
- Advances in the Characterization of Industrial Minerals
George Christidis, Chania, Greece
July 14 – 18, 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece
- Nanoscopic Approaches in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Frank E. Brenker,
Frankfurt, Germany & Guntram Jordan, München, Germany
München, Germany, August 12 to 17, 2007
- Technical Mineralogy: Silicate based Materials
Bernard Grobéty, Fribourg, Switzerland
August 28 – September 1, 2006, Budapest, Hungary
- Mineral Behaviour at Extreme Conditions
Ronald Miletich, Heidelberg, Germany
Heidelberg, Germany, June 19 to 28, 2005
- Spectroscopic Methods in Mineralogy
Anton Beran & Eugen Libowitzky, Vienna, Austria
Vienna, Austria, August 30 to September 3, 2004
- Ultra-high Pressure Metamorphism
Roberto Compagnoni, Torino, Italy
Budapest, Hungary, July 21 to 25, 2003
- Continuation of the 4th EMU School
‘Energy Modelling in Minerals’
organized by Carlo Maria Gramaccioli, Milano, Italy
Gargnano, Lake Garda, Italy, 8-14 June, 2003
- Energy Modelling in Minerals
Carlo Gramaccioli, Mailand, Italy
Budapest, Hungary, June 29 to July 7, 2002
- Solid Solution in Silicate and Oxide Systems of Geological Importance
Charles Geiger, Kiel, Germany
Lübeck, Germany, June 24 to 29, 2001
- Environmental Mineralogy
David J. Vaughan, Manchester, UK
Budapest, Hungary, May 15 to 20, 2000
- Modular Aspects of Minerals
Stefano Merlino, Pisa, Italy
Budapest, Hungary, December 14 to18, 1997