This conference is based on a series of mini-symposia, including a mini-symposium on "Nano-structured materials and microforming". As in the past, one of the objectives of this mini-symposium is to get together the apparently different topics of nano-structured materials (including ultrafine grained and nanocrystalline materials) and microforming (including sheet and bulk metal forming).

The deadline for submitting an abstract is October 1st, 2011.

The proceedings of the 15th ESAFORM Conference 2012 will be published as a special issue of Trans Tech Publications periodical journal Key Engineering Materials, which is fully available online.

More information can be found on http://www.lft.uni-erlangen.de/ESAFORM/.