<div dir="ltr"><div style>To graduate students:</div><div style><br></div><div>Please see below regarding the 2nd PhD international school on Buildings Physics for graduate students during April 10-26, 2013 in Curitiba, Brazil.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>All the best,</div><div style><br></div><div style>Michael Wetter</div>
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Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:17 PM<br>Subject: Re: PhD International School<br><br><div>Dear colleagues,<br><br>Please disseminate the message below about our PhD International School<div><br>on hygrothermal and energy modeling of buildings, including risk<br>
assessment of energy performance.</div></div>
<div><br></div><div>In attachment you will find the invitation and an updated document which is posted on the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program website at PUCPR.</div><div><br></div><div>Please note that no registration fee will be applied.<br>
<br>Best regards,<div><br><br>Nathan Mendes<br>Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear colleagues,<br>
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The Mechanical engineering Graduate Program at the Pontifical Catholic<br>
University of Parana has the pleasure to invite graduate students </blockquote></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
to attend the 2nd PhD international school on Buildings Physics, which is an initiative to internationalize<div><br>
research in the area of hygrothermal and energy modeling of buildings, including risk assessment of energy performance.<br>
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This school is supported by the International Association of Building<br>
Physics and the focus is on the state-of-the-art knowledge about heat,<br>
air and moisture response of materials, components and whole<br>
buildings. Topics of the advanced building physics course include the<br>
physics behind porous materials, design methods and system behavior,<br>
biological growth (mould, rot), material deterioration, comfort<br>
assessment, methods to solve building physics problems, statistical<br>
methods for total energy use in buildings, energy use, reliability of<br>
retrofitting measures.<br>
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Location: Pontifical Catholic University of Parana -PUCPR, Curitiba, Brazil<br></div><div>Application Period: January 20th to March 1st 2013<br><br></div><div>
Topics will be split into knowledge input and hands-on examples during<br>
the lessons.<br>
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Graduate students might be interested to know that this international<br>
school is valid for 6 credits in the Brazilian graduate system and 5<br>
ECTS (2.5 ECTS for attending the school and 2.5 for the additional<br>
work) in the European system.<br>
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Detailed information on the course structure and accommodation options<br></div>are posted at <a href="http://www.pucpr.br/ppgem" target="_blank">www.pucpr.br/ppgem</a></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Best regards,<br>
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Nathan Mendes<br>
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LECTURERS<br>
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Achilles Karagiozis<br>
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA<br>
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Andreas Holm<br>
Forschungsinstitut für Wärmeschutz e.V. München, Germany<br>
Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS), Germany<br>
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Angela Sassic-Kalagasidis<br>
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden<br>
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Carl-Eric Hagentoft<br>
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden<br>
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Carsten Rode<br>
Technical University of Denmark- DTU, Denmark<br>
President of the International Association of Building Physics<br>
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John Grunewald<br>
Dresden University of Technology – TUD, Germany<br>
<br></div>Helcio Orlande </blockquote> Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Luís Mauro Moura<br>
Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná – PUCPR, Brazil<br>
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Marcus Bianchi<br>
Owens Corning, USA<br>
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Nathan Mendes<br>
Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná – PUCPR, Brazil<br>
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Thomas Bednar<br>
Vienna University of Technology - TUV, Austria<br>
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Vasco Freitas<br>
University of Porto, Portugal<br>
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<br></div><div>Number of students: 20 (50% from Brazil and South America)
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