COMS

The first is DSS = Diffusion, stress, segregation-community gathered by Boris Bokstein (National Technical University ?Institute of Steel and Alloys?, Moscow) and Deszo Beke (University of Debrecen, Hungary). The workshops of this Community have been held in Hungary and Russia since 1995. The last one was in Moscow in June 2010. Usually such workshops gathered about 50 actively working researchers and provided extended possibilities for less formal talks and discussions. At the last meeting in Moscow (2010) it was decided that Cherkasy team would try to organize the next DSS using experience and advices of prof. Bokstein and prof. Beke.

The second is DIFTRANS= Diffusion and diffusional phase TRANSformations. Cherkasy team, together with Kiev researchers from Institute of Metal Physics (NASU), Institute of Physics (NASU), Kiev Polytechnic Institute, organize series of conferences DIFTRANS in Cherkasy region, Ukraine, in 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007.

These workshops, though diffusion ? based, have been concentrated more on diffusion ? controlled solid state reactions. They attracted such bright personalities (known as state-of-art researchers in diffusion and reactions) as Francois d?Heurle, Jean Philibert, King-Ning Tu, Frans Van Loo, Patrick Gas, Vitaliy Slezov, Anton Naumovets, Katayun Barmak, Leonid Klinger, Guido Schmitz, Figiri Hodaj... Thus, alternative abbreviation expansion of DSSR is Diffusion-controlled Solid State Reactions.

DSS and DIFTRANS communities overlap partially. Actually, for DSSR we would like to attract at least several researchers from another, third community ? the nucleation one ? the annual workshops at Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Moscow region, Russia, organized by Dr. Juern Schmelzer ( Rostock, Germany). Such triple joint will help to concentrate on nano-issues of DSSR.

We hope that interdiffusion of ideas from the three abovementioned communities will be truly reactive and productive.

Crystal engineering is the design and synthesis of functional solid-state structures (e.g., new organic molecular crystals and metal-organic co-ordination polymers and framework solids (MOFs)), based on a bottom-up approach from smaller building blocks such as neutral organic molecules, and organic or inorganic ions. Typical design strategies use hydrogen bonds and coordination bonds, which define sub-structural units that are called respectively, supramolecular synthons and secondary building units. This subject cuts across the traditional divisions of organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry, making for a very eclectic blend of ideas, techniques, and strategies.

This GRC and the accompanying GRS will provide a forum for the discussion of the current state of the art of this rapidly evolving, highly interdisciplinary field, will identify and debate open questions, and will point out new promising research directions.

Who should attend? This course is directed to employees of small and medium sized companies, intending to im-prove their products by the application of nanomaterials or are determined to develop new ones based on nanomaterials. The second group to attend the course are new co-workers of companies, universities or research institutes who want to shorten the time to get the neces-sary knowledge on nanomaterials or those who want to broaden their knowledge in this group of materials.

The Symposia will focus on a broad range of topics embracing applicative and fundamental aspects of magnetism, as well as novel magnetic materials. Presentations will consist of plenary, semi-plenary, and contributed talks, complemented by poster sessions. A number of invited speakers will give lectures on important recent advances in the field. The attendance of young students is welcome.

The meeting is organized jointly by the Physics Department of the University of Parma and by the IMEM-CNR Institute.

The conference host country is Ukraine that gives an opportunity to attend it for the researchers from former USSR, because of financial reasons. In order to provide deeper integration the Science of these countries into the World Research Area, the Conference Organizing Team applies a lot of efforts to popularize it in the world, to involve the participants from many countries and to invite a renowned scientist as an invited speakers.

The International Conference and Expo on Material science and Engineering will schedule and coordinate all meetings with our Editorial Board Members of Journal of Material Science & Engineering and other experts in the Material Science & Engineering field across the World. The scientific program paves a way to gather visionaries through the research talks and presentations and put forward many thought provoking strategies in Material Science. The scientific program will focus on current advances in the research, production of different materials and use of materials science.