The Neville Centre Annual PhD Competition and Symposium 2024

The Neville Centre of Excellence in Cement and Concrete Engineering, University of Leeds, and The Concrete Society invite you to the 2024 Neville Centre Symposium and the annual PhD conference.

The Neville Centre of Excellence in Cement and Concrete Engineering, University of Leeds and The Concrete Society, cordially invite you to the 2024 Neville Centre Symposium and the annual PhD conference, Friday, October 25th, commencing with welcome teas and coffees at 09:15, officially starting at 09:30 and due to finish circa 13:30 (lunch will be provided for those attending in-person).

The conference theme this year is ‘Cement – past, present and future’. This is a special event given that the Neville Centre – and the University of Leeds – are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Aspdin's patent for Portland Cement and the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Smeaton. The event is free of charge and will be a hybrid of in-person and on-line.
 
During our annual PhD conference, four shortlisted candidates for the best national PhD in cement and concrete are invited to present an overview of their PhD dissertations culminating in the announcement of the Adam Neville Prize for 2024.

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr Manuel Cresciani, Associate Professor, School of Energy, GeoScience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University;
• Dr Mariana Popescu, Associate Professor of Digital Fabrication, TU Delft;
• Professor Ian Richardson, Specialising in Cement and concrete science; crystal chemistry and microstructural characterisation techniques at the University of Leeds; and
• Elaine Toogood, Director, Architecture and Sustainable Design at The Concrete Centre.

Short history:
The Adam Neville Prize for the best national PhD in the field of cement and concrete in 2018. This prize is donated by the Neville family to honour the late Professor Adam Neville. Professor Neville was President of The Concrete Society from 1974 to 1975 and was head of the University of Leeds’ Department of Civil Engineering from 1968 to 1978. He was recognised internationally as a world-leading expert in concrete and wrote seminal textbook Properties of Concrete (Prentice Hall, 2011), known globally as the ‘concrete bible’ by engineering students.
The award, a £2,000 cash prize, is open to all students in the UK who are studying for a national PhD, either full or part-time, in the field of cement and concrete.

This year’s Symposium will be a hybrid event; please choose from one of the registration options:

• Book your in-person ticket for our Annual Symposium at TicketSource.
• Reserve your ticket to attend our Annual Symposium online at TicketSource.