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7:30 am	Registration
8:20 am	Technical Sessions Tracks: Metal Joining III and Market Sectors & Production
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Coffee Break
10:15 am - 11:00 AM 518A	Keynote presentation The Status of the Aluminum Industry in Canada Jean Simard President and General Manager Aluminium Association of Canada
11:00 Am - 12:00 PM	Technical Sessions Tracks: Sustainability & Recycling, Metal Surface and REGAL' Students Presentions
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm 710	Lunch with keynote speaker The NRC has developed research programs specifically to help the automotive industry improve the vehicles it produces, while enhancing its own efficiency. Aluminium is a key element in many areas of improvement currently being developed. John R. McDougall President NRC
2:00 Pm - 4:40 pm	Technical Sessions Tracks: Construction III, Research and development I, Research and development II, Simulation
4:40 PM - 5:25 PM 519A	Keynote presentation The New Developments of Eurocode 9 for the Design of Aluminium Structures The European CEN-TC 250 Committee recently started with the evolution project for a new generation of Eurocodes. Sub-Committee SC9 “Design of Aluminium Structures” (Chair, Federico M. Mazzolani) is proposing several improvements to the present EV 1999 version. This proposal, which is going to be approved by the European Commission, is based on the simplification issue and contains the introduction of advanced technological systems (like new types of connections) and new typologies (like large span roofings, special bridges and aluminium-glass facades). FEDERICO MAZZOLANI University of Naples Federico II
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM 517	COCKTAIL RECEPTION : ALUMINIUM ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (AAC) Students’ awards – JER / Regal Rio Tinto Alcan’s scholarship grantS ceremony