The technical program covers sintering of all classes – from powder materials through invited and contributed talks – and includes poster presentations and special programs designed to facilitate discussion among participants. Program topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Fundamental aspects of sintering
• Modeling and simulation of sintering at multiple scales
• Sintering of multi-material and multi-layer systems
• Microstructural evolution in sintering processes
• Novel sintering processes
• Field assisted sintering
• Stress-assisted sintering
• Sintering phenomena in additive manufacturing
• Sintering of nano-structured materials
• Sintering of electronic materials
• Sintering in emerging energy and bio applications
• Chemical interactions during sintering
• In-situ measurements and analysis of sintering
• Materials informatics of sintering
• Sintering for low carbon society
• Other sintering-related topics