ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS

Co-Chairs

• Zh. ALFEROV (Russia), Nobel Prize laureate
• L. ESAKI (Japan), Nobel Prize laureate

Sponsors

• Russian Academy of Sciences
• Russian Foundation for Basic Research
• Far Eastern Branch of RUS
• Ministry of Education and Sciences of Russian Federation
• Administration of Primorsky Region of the Russian Federation
• AIXTRON AG, Germany
• Research & Manufacturing Enterprise "INJECT" OJSC, Russia
• CARL ZEISS, Germany
• NT MDT, Russia
• SPECS GmbH, Germany
• Newport Corporation, USA
• Spectra-Physics Laser Division, USA
• SPECS GmbH, Germany
• RIBER Company, France

Foreword

The annual International Symposium on Nanostructures is chaired by two Nobel Prize laureates — Professor Zh. Alferov and Professor L. Esaki, and traditionally organized by Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the RAS, which is pioneering in many directions of this impetuously developing area. The Symposium was launched in 1993 by its Co-Chairs. It was one of the first in the area, which now is becoming one of the leading in modern physics and technology.

The 16th Symposium will be organized together with the Institute for Automation and Control Processes of Far Eastern Branch of the RAS in Vladivostok from 13 to 19 July 2008. Vladivostok is the biggest city in the Russian Far East. It has nice and original architecture, lot of scientific, educational and cultural centers. July in Vladivostok is one of the best months. The weather is warm enough, without exhausting heat and humidity. One of the excellent qualities of the Sea bays around Vladivostok is their geographical position: on one side they are protected by the Black Mountains, on the other side — by the peninsula and the continent. So, high waves do not enter the bays, and at leisure one can practice swimming and boating, which are among the most ancient human arts. The forest around Vladivostok is very rich and impressive. There are a lot of different mushrooms and berries, including famous Chisandra chinensis, wild apples, grapes and strawberries.

The aim of this Symposium is to focus on the newest achievements in physics, technology and applications of solid state nanostructures and bring together various groups working actively in these very important directions all over the world. The Symposium scientific program will cover a wide spectrum of physical phenomena, both basic and applied, and technological aspects related to nanostructures.

Location and Date

Symposium Committees

International Advisory Committee

International Programme Committee

Organizing Committee

Language

All contributions should be presented in English that is the official language of the Symposium. No simultaneous translation services will be provided.

Main Topics

The symposium programme will cover different aspects of semiconductor nanostructure research. We are seeking for contributions in the following, non-exhastive list of topics:

• Technology of Nanostructures: Growth, Self-Organization and Nanopatterning
• Atomic-scale Characterization of Nanostructures
• Electrical and Optical Properties of Nanostructures (including Spin-related Phenomena, Many Particle Effects, Infrared and THz Phenomena)
• Nanostructure Device Applications in Opto-Ultrafast Electronics and Computing
• Nanophotonics, Microcavity and Photonic Crystals: Properties, Characterization and Applications
• Emerging Materials in Nanostrucutures (including Wide-bandgap Semiconductors, Oxides, Ferromagnetics, Carbon-based, Polymer and Biomaterials)
• Nanostructures and Life Sciences
• Nanomechanical Systems and their Applications

Symposium Format

The Symposium programme will comprise invited talks and contributed papers. The latter should be earlier unpublished works that either have been completed or are at their final stages. All contributions will be refereed for technical merit and content by the International Programme Committee on the basis of the extended abstracts submitted by the authors. Main criteria for paper acceptance are originality, significance of presented results, quality and completeness of the abstracts. The accepted papers will be assigned to either oral or poster presentation at the discretion of the International Programme Committee.

Plenary, invited and contributed talks will be presented in a single-session format at opening, closing and regular oral sessions. There will be a few poster sessions.

Oral presentations will conform to a 40-minute, 30-minute and 20-minute format (including 5 minutes for discussions) for plenary, invited and contributed talks, respectively.

Each poster presenter will be provided with a 1x1 m² board.

AIXTRON Young Scientist Award

Symposium Programme Committee and the Board of AIXTRON AG (Germany) established a special award to honour a young scientist who will present at the Symposium the best paper in the field of solid state nanostructures. The award consists of a diploma and a $1,000 reward sponsored by AIXTRON AG.

The recipients of this Award are:

1999	A. Kovsh (Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg, Russia)
2000	Th. Gruber (Würzburg University, Würzburg, Germany)
2001	I. Shorubalko (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)
2002	S. Kennedy (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
2003	S. Tarasenko (Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg, Russia)
2004	I. Dmitriev (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany)
2005	M. Kuntz (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
2006	D. Sizov (Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg, Russia)
2007	S. Sassine (GHMFL, CNRS, France)

The awardee will be selected by the Award Committee from the Symposium participants nominated by the Programme Committee. The Chair of the Award Committee will announce the winner at the Award Ceremony scheduled for the last day of the Symposium.

Selection Criteria and Conditions of Entry

The competition will be opened to scientists under the age of thirty-five from all over the world. In case of many authors’ papers the principal author will be considered as an applicant for the award on behalf of others.

In addition to an extended abstract an applicant should also submit a separate sheet with complete information about the applicant: name; birthday; Ph.D. degree, if any; postal address; e-mail and fax number, to the Organizing Committee.

The main selection criterion will be the best demonstration of scientific achievements in the field of physics and technology of solid state nanostructures.

Invited Speakers

A number of distinguished scientists from all over the world have been invited to present talks on recent progress in various key areas of nanostructure physics and technology. While the invitation process is still in progress, a list of speakers who have accepted the invitation will be timely updated.

Proceedings

The Symposium Proceedings, containing extended abstracts of invited and contributed papers, will be traditionally published by the beginning of the Symposium. The Proceedings will be composed from authors’ electronic files without any scientific or language editing. Only minor corrections may be done during the composition.

Before the publication, the copyright must be transferred to the Organizing Committee. Copyright transfer will take the effect from the date on which the author is notified of the inclusion of his (her) contribution in the Symposium Programme.

Authors are requested to submit in due time a completed Assignment of Copyright Form in hard copy. In the case of multi-author papers, only one of the authors needs to sign the form. This signature assumes that all the authors have agreed to transfer the Copyright.

Registration

Participants should register preliminarily by sending a filled-in Registration Form. The form may be sent in the online mode.

Registration Fee

The registration fees include a Proceedings copy, a welcome reception, excursions, coffee refreshments during the technical sessions, meeting at the airport and transportation to a hotel and back while accommodation and meals are not included into fees.

Participant	450 Euro
Student*	250 Euro
Accompanying person	120 Euro

* Students registrations should be accompanied by an appropriate letter from the supervisor confirming the student status.

Accommodation

Symposium participants are kindly advised to make a choice between any hotels:

1. Hotel "Hende" Rooms cost (breakfast is included): 160 Euro for single; 160 (80) Euro for double; 290 Euro for semi luxuries; 330 Euro for luxuries per night.
2. Hotel "Gavan" Rooms cost: 100 Euro for single; 100 (50) Euro for double; 160 Euro for semi luxuries; 195 Euro for luxuries per night (breakfast is included for standard and luxuries rooms).
3. >Hotel "Vladivostok" (Rooms cost (breakfast is included): 75 Euro for single; 75 (37.5) Euro for double; 140 Euro for semi luxuries; 185 Euro for luxuries per night.
4. Hotel "Shale" (Rooms cost: 65 Euro for single; 65 (32.5) Euro for double; 85 Euro for semi luxuries per night (breakfast is not included).
5. Hotel "Prymorie" (Rooms cost: 30 Euro for single; 30 (15) Euro for double; 50 Euro for semi luxuries; 70 Euro for luxuries per night (breakfast is not included).
6. Hotel "Equator" (Rooms cost: 25 Euro for single; 25 (12.5) Euro for double; 40 Euro for luxuries per night (breakfast is not included).

All hotels are about 15 min. walk from the House of Administration of Prymorsky Region.

A limited number of rooms can be reserved for young scientists in the student dormitory on the university campus (Far East National University, Far East State Technical University, Marine National Technical University).

Rooms will be booked from July 13 to July 19, 2008. Additional nights before or after the Symposium can be arranged if requested in advance.

Payment

Registration fee should be paid in Euro in advance by a bank transfer.

Bank details and relevant information.

Beneficiary: Institute for Automation and Control Processes FEBRAS
Beneficiary Bank: Far Eastern Bank 27-A, Verkhneportovaya Str., Vladivostok, Russia
SWIFT code: FAEBRU8V
Account No.: 40503978900050010010

Correspondent Bank :
Commerzbank A.G.
60261, Neue Mainzerstrasse 32-36
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
SWIFT: COBADEFF
Account number 400888086600EUR

Accommodation payment can be made by cash or by VISA, MASTER CARD on the arrival to the hotel.

Cancellation and Refund

If you have already registered and find that you are not able to come, you must notify the Organizing Committee in writing of your request for cancellation and refund. Refunds will be made upon receipt of a written notice, with 50 Euro service charge, if received by June 30, 2008. After this date, no refund can been given.

Passport and Visa

A foreigner traveling to Russia should have a valid passport (expire date should be not earlier than 6 months after the date of visitor's departure from Russia) and an appropriate visa. To get a visa, a visitor has to submit to a Russian Embassy or Consulate an official letter of invitation authorized by the Russian Ministry for Internal Affairs.

Each participant (and accompanying person) who needs a visa will timely get such a letter if he (she) sends a copy of the pages of a passport with photo (by e-mail as attached graphic file or by fax) and the following visa data: name of his/her organization and its full address, present position, the place of the birth (city), location (city) of Russian Consulate to which he/she is going to apply for visa. We strongly advice to offer these data to the Organizing Committee by April 17, 2008, at the latest. Please, follow these recommendations and apply for a visa as soon possible after receiving an original of the invitation to ensure that the visa is issued timely.

Weather

Social Programme

Important Dates

Correspondence

Organizing Committee

K.V. Ignatovich, Institute for Automation and Control Processes FEB RAS 5, Radio Street, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
ignat@iacp.dvo.ru
Skype : ru_silicon
GMT +10

Passport and Visa

Accommodation, Payment

Social Programme

Proceedings

Elena Solovyova, St Petersburg Physics and Technology Centre for Research and Education of the RAS 8, bld. 3 Khlopina, St Petersburg 195220, Russia
lena.solovyova@mail.ioffe.ru

Proceedings printing