Tribology conferences, symposia, seminars and courses (sorted by starting date)

List maintained by Dr G. Nikas and including events with clear tribological connection and webpages in English. To add an event or suggest a correction, e-mail Dr Nikas.

 Event

Location

Dates

80th STLE Annual Meeting & Exhibition New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 17-21 May 2026
NORDTRIB 2026
Tampere, Finland
9-12 June 2026
Tribology - Gordon Research Conference
Lewiston, Maine, USA 27-28 June 2026
3rd China-Europe Tribology Conference
Xi'an, China
6-8 July 2026
The 11th International Conference on Tribology in Manufacturing Processes & Advanced Surface Engineering
Bangkok, Thailand
22-24 July 2026
51st Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology
Lyon, France
2-4 September 2026
44th Polish Tribology Conference
Gdansk, Poland
8-11 September 2026
8th World Tribology Congress
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 20-25 September 2026
International Conference on Tribology and Surface Science - TRiboSurf'26
Trabzon, Turkey
4-7 November 2026
6th International Conference on Polymer Tribology Lund, Sweden
23-24 November 2026
14th International Conference on Industrial Tribology Chennai, India 10-12 December 2026
3rd International Conference on Tribology and Sustainable Lubrication (nextlub)
Leipzig, Germany
20-21 January 2027
81st STLE Annual Meeting & Exhibition Chicago, Illinois, USA
2-6 May 2027
10th European Conference on Tribology - ECOTRIB 2027
Ljubljana, Slovenia
7-9 June 2027
OilDoc Conference & Exhibition
Rosenheim, Bayern, Germany 15-17 June 2027
10th International Tribology Conference - Himeji 2027
Himeji, Japan
19-24 September 2027