2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
April 9 - April 13, 2012
Moscone West Convention Center - San Francisco, California

2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit. Starting with just four symposia in 1983, the MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit has grown to over 50 symposia and over 5,000 attendees.

2nd TYC WORKSHOP & TUTORIAL ON ENERGY MATERIALS
6-8 June 2012
King’s College London, London, UK

This workshop will bring together experimentalists, theorists and computational scientists working on charge transfer in a broad range of energy materials. The tutorial preceding the workshop will give an in-depth introduction to the topic, that should be particularly helpful for students, researchers in academia and industry.

All participants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a contributed talk or poster.

Registration will open 9th January 2012.

Topics covered
•Organic semiconducting materials
•Dye-sensitised solar cell materials
•Semiconducting oxides
•Thermoelectrics

Preliminary program
Wednesday 6th June Registration, Tutorial, Wine reception
Thursday 7th June Invited and contributed talks, Poster session
Friday 8th June Invited and contributed talks, Concluding remarks

Confirmed tutorial lecturers (in alphabetic order)
Gennadi Bersuker, Sematech, USA
Giulia Galli, University of California at Davies, USA
Abraham Nitzan, University of Tel-Aviv, Israel
Oleg Prezhdo, University of Rochester, USA
Peter Rossky, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Confirmed invited workshop speakers (in alphab

Actuator 12
18-20 June 2012
Bremen, Germany

International conference and exhibition on new actuators and drive systems.

Actuators 2012, the 13th International conference on new actuators and the 7th international exhibition on smart actuators and drive systems, will take place ijn Bremen, Germany on 18-20 June 2012.

More information, can be found at their website: www.actuator.de

International Symposium on Integrated Functionalities
June 18-21, 2012
Hong Kong, China

The International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics (ISIF) has been held every year since its creation in 1987, initially at two main sites (Colorado Springs and Monterrey in the USA), and in recent years opened to sites in Europe and Asia. The ISIF has gathered researchers and engineers from academia, national laboratories, and industries, initially focused on fundamental and applied science of ferroelectric and high-dielectric constant thin films, materials integration, and design & fabrication of advanced devices, such as non-volatile ferroelectric random access memories (FeRAMs), ferroelectric thin film-based tunable microwave components and devices, sensors, photovoltaic ferroelectrics for solar cells, micro-electro-mechanical & nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMs).

ISAF-ECAPD 2012: 21st International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectrics and 11th European Conference on Applications of Polar Dielectrics
9-13 July 2012
Aveiro, Portugal

Joint conference ISAF-ECAPD 2012 is a forum to present and discuss the state-of-the-art developments in the field of ferroelectrics and related materials and their applications.
International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF)

ISAF is continuation of a series of international conferences sponsored by the Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (UFFC) Society of the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). It is aimed to providing a forum to present and discuss the state-of-the-art developments in the field of ferroelectrics and related materials and their applications, including theory and modeling, materials preparation and characterization, device physics and implementation. A special attetion will be devoted to the emerging materials and applications.
European Conference on the Applications of Polar Dielectrics (ECAPD)

ECAPD is the principal European and international forum where the latest research and technological advances in the field of polar dielectric materials are being presented and discussed. The objective of ECAPD-11 is to foster international and interdisciplinary exchange of information and cooperation among researchers in academia, research institutions, and industries, and to stimulate growth in the field of polar dielectric materials and applications.
International Symposium Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials (PFM)

PFM will feature tutorials on the principles and applications of PFM to ferroelectric and multiferroic materials, as well as new areas of PFM applied to strongly correlated oxides and energy storage and conversion materials. In these systems, the local bias-strain coupling is mediated by Jahn-Teller distortions and oxygen or cationic vacancy diffusion, providing a sensitive measure of local dynamics. The recent advances in imaging of conventional ferroelectrics and polar materials as well as time and voltage spectroscopy of static and dynamic domain structures will be presented.

PIEZO 2013 - 1st announcement
17-20 March 2013
Hotel du Golf - Les Arcs 1800, France

The forthcoming Electroceramics for End-users VII conference is the next scientific event in the series of conferences dedicated to advances in electroactive, particularly piezoceramic, materials and devices. It will be combined with a professional exhibition.

Following the tradition of these conferences of combining science, networking between academia and industry and enjoying the beautiful mountains, Piezo 2013 conference will take place in Les Arcs, French Alps. Piezo 2013 will continue its well established traditions of presenting the latest piezoelectric and multifunctional materials, technologies and devices research and development and of bringing together the international community within the field for discussion and networking.

There will be oral sessions, each with an invited keynote presentation. The oral sessions will be accompanied by posters sessions, offering additional opportunity for discussions with the authors and more networking. Tutorials, conducted by international experts are also planned. They will provide unique insights for researchers and those interested in broadening their skills.

More information will follow throughout 2012 – please keep checking back on www.piezoinstitute.com for updates and the dedicated piezo2013 website – due to be launched this spring 2012.
Contact : piezo2013@univ-tours.fr

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