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Les Rencontres Scientifiques de l’IFP: Advances in Hybrid Powertrains

25-26 November 2008
IFP/Rueil-Malmaison

First Announcement and Call for Papers

Today, hybrid powertrains are expected to have a substantial impact on road travel and its technology still has a long way to go before it reaches maturity. New classes of components, particularly well suited to hybrid applications, are increasingly being studied, prototyped or released. Consequently, hybrid powertrains are still a subject of in-depth research.

This international conference, jointly organized with TNO, is therefore designed to be a scientific and technical event gathering together players from the worlds of academic research, applied research and industry and focusing on the medium-term development of hybrid powertrains for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, buses, and delivery trucks.

The main topics addressed by the conference will be:

• optimization of thermal engines for hybrid applications,
• system-level supervisory control and optimization,
• specific transmissions for hybrid applications,
• on-board energy storage systems,
• optimized electric motors,
• dedicated power electronics,
• heat recovery for next generation of hybrid vehicles,
• modeling and support tools for the design of hybrids,
  from a scientific and technical viewpoint.
   

The response to the Call for Papers has been outstanding. We invite the authors, whose abstract has been selected, to submit a full paper before 11 july 2008 to hybrid2008@ifp.fr using the template available for download hereunder.

Call for papers important dates

18 April 2008:

Deadline for abstract submission
 

12 May 2008:

Notification of acceptance or rejection
 

11 July 2008:

Deadline for paper submission
 

29 September 2008:

Final acceptance
 

Scientific correspondents

• François Badin
  IFP-Lyon, France
  Tel.: +33 4 78 02 56 50
  Fax: +33 4 78 02 20 14
  E-mail: francois.badin@ifp.fr
   
• Antonio Sciarretta
  IFP, Rueil-Malmaison, France
  Tel.: +33 1 47 52 57 34
  Fax: +33 1 47 52 70 12
  E-mail: antonio.sciarretta@ifp.fr
   

Scientific committee

• Dr. François Badin (IFP, France)
   
• Prof. Rik Baert (TNO, The Netherlands)
   
• Darren Foster BE. (Mech) (TNO, The Netherlands)
   
• Dr. Xavier Montagne (IFP, France)
   
• Prof. Pierre Rouchon (Ecole des Mines de Paris, France)
   
• Dr. Antonio Sciarretta (IFP, France)
   
• Prof. Jean-Marie Tarascon (Univ. de Picardie Jules Verne, France)
   

Conference organization

 
Frédérique Léandri
IFP, Rueil-Malmaison, France
Communications Division
Tel.: +33 1 47 52 67 13
Fax: +33 1 47 52 70 96
E-mail: frederique.leandri@ifp.fr
 

To receive the second circular with the registration form, please send the reply coupon back, by fax or e-mail.
 

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