Final report

Dates and location

29 August — 31 August 2022, Lake of Garda, Italy

Chairperson

Prof. Alberto Salvadori, Universita` degli Studi di Brescia, Italy

Co-chairperson

Prof. Robert McMeeking, UCSB, USA ; Dr. Edwin Knobbe, BMW AG, Germany

Conference fees

Early bird [15/5/2022] - full registration : 250.00 €
Late [after 16/5/2022] - full registration: 300.00 €
Online registration: 100.00 €
Accompanying fee (dinner): 80.00 €
Poster registration: 250.00 €

What other funding was obtained?

Sponsors:
University of Brescia ; BMW Group ; Dassault Systemes ; Comsol ; Sabic

Conference fees:
Early registration speakers: 250 euros ; Late registration speakers: 300 euros ;
Poster registration speakers: 250 euros ;
Remote attendance registration: 100 euros ;

Euromech provided 2000 euros support, and the platform cost for remote attendance was 2500 euros.

What were the participants offered?

- Three days of scientific presentations and round-table discussion, in
hybrid format (30 speakers, 11 posters, 4 in-person attendees; 7 video-conf)
at the Congress Center in Sirmione, Lake of Garda.

- Five coffee breaks with pastries and cookies.

- 1 colloquium dinner at the winery "Borgo la Caccia", Pozzolengo. The dinner included bus transport, a performance by a duet (Daniela Fusha arpa and violin ensemble); cocktail.

- Welcome address from the Rector of the University of Brescia, from the Major of Sirmione.

- Service of remote connectivity, safety, cleaning.

- 11 Posters printing.

Applicants (members)

Matteo Arricca
Claudia Bonanno
Adam Boyce
Luigi Cabras
Nicolò Curati
Vikram Deshpande
Marc Kamlah
Ulrike Krewer
Guerric Lemoine
Emilio Martinez-Paneda
Robert McMeeking
Matthias Neumann
Kenneth Runesson
Alberto Salvadori
Volker Schmidt
Brian Sheldon
Wolfgang A. Wall
Bai-Xiang Xu

Applicants (non members)

Apu Basak
Marzieh Bastanfar
Sascha Berg
Manuel Berlato
Nicole Blum
Kingshuk Bose
Giovanna Bucci
Pieremanuele Canepa
Yanyu Chen
Andrea Colavitto
Marvin Cronau
Dmitri Danilov
Tanmay Dev
Claudio Di Leo
Sahar Esmizadeh
Eta Forshamn
Alejandro A. Franco
Orkun Furat
Kai Guo
Souzan Hammadi
Juan Hurtado
Satheesh Kandasamy
Han Kil Kim
Arno Kwade
Matthias Lachner
Arnulf Latz
Matthew McDowell
Simone Montalto
Victor Oancea
Daniele Panfiglio
Sreekanth Pannala
Omar Perego
carlo piccinato
Yue Qi
IRENE QUINZENI
Birgit Regner-Kamlah
Michele Rizzotti
Maria Schmidt
Christoph Schmidt
Mattia Serpelloni
Paul Shearing
Don Siegel
Stephan Sinzig
Jessica Smith
Paul Specker
Christiaan Stoker
Robert Taylor
Negin ValiZadeh
Tejs Vegge
Erkin Yildiz

Scientific report

The purpose of the Euromech Colloquium "MULTISCALE MECHANICS, MULTIPHYSICS MODELING AND SIMULATIONS FOR ENERGY STORAGE" was to bring together the most active international research and industrial groups (with a special focus on Europe) to discuss fundamental issues for the development of next generation batteries - typically lithium or sodium ion.

Safety issues have led to the development of solid-state batteries, which present many open problems, most of which - perhaps surprisingly to non-experts - mechanical in nature. Although the usual audience for these kind of conferences is the academic one, the times we live in and a natural inclination of the organizers call for a strong presence of industrial groups, both large players in the manufacturing of batteries and automotive or consumer in general. One third of the scientific committee was selected from industry (BMW, Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.) and representatives of several industrial groups attended the colloquium (Sabic, Ferrari Automotive, Fincantieri among others).

Most leading academic research groups from the field were represented, of course. The colloquium was attended by a total of 52 participants ( 30 invited speakers, 11 posters, 4 in-person attendees; 7 video-conf ).
Participants came from institutions in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, UK, Russia, China, USA, Sweden, Denmark, and Singapore. 30 oral face-to-face presentations of 30 minutes each - including Q&A, were given over the three days of the
colloquium.

The keyword of the colloquium was interdisciplinarity. The stage hosted mathematicians, mechanicians, computational experts, experimental and theoretical electrochemist, academic and industry-oriented talks. Such a strong multi-disciplinary organization was largely appreciated and made the colloquium a unique forum, capable to foster and boost interactions among the scientific groups.

Number of participants from each country

Country	Participants
Italy	21
Germany	20
United States	15
United Kingdom	4
Sweden	3
Singapore	2
France	1
Belgium	1
Denmark	1
Total	68