With the opportunity to organize two important tribology-related events, 40th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology and Tribochemistry
Forum 2013, prior to the WTC'2013 Torino, the organizers have decided to merge them into a Joint Event to be held at Lyon-France.

40th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology
Leeds-Lyon at 40: is the past still present?
Since 1973, tribology can claim credit for such triumphs as extended trouble-free automotive life, previously unimaginable levels of information storage, and prosthetic joint replacement to improve the quality of life of an aging population. On the other hand, the fundamental origins of friction and wear in most applications remain a mystery. The 40th Leeds-Lyon anniversary seems like an appropriate time for a major retrospective.

Tribochemistry Forum 2013
Exploring tribochemical processes through computer simulation and/or advanced experiments.
Improving the performance of increasingly severe sliding contacts is an important technological challenge, impacting economic and environmental issues. Regimes like mixed lubrication, boundary lubrication or solid lubrication are thus more frequently encountered, causing tribologically-induced chemical changes of rubbing surfaces. Tribochemistry Forum 2013 aims at fostering exchange and discussion for improving the knowledge and the understanding, down to the nanometer scale, of such tribochemical processes and their consequences on tribological performance.

http://tribo-lyon2013.sciencesconf.org/