International Conference on Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys
November 14 - 16, 2007
S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences,
Kolkata 700098, India

The conference is now finally and successfully over. Thanks for participation and making it a memorable event.
Some photographs of the conference are here.
The oral presentations are available here.
Prof. V.Chernenko gave a series of three lectures at S.N.Bose Centre. The talks are here.
Please note that the lectures will be available only till 31/Dec/2007.
Objective: The purpose of this meeting is to bring together experimentalists and theoreticians working on this exciting new area of Ferro Magnetic Shape Memory alloys. Alongwith established scientists giving invited talks, it would also encourage young researchers and students to present their work. It should provide a forum to discuss and exchange various ideas among the workers from different countries. The proceedings will be refereed and published in Advanced Materials Research from Trans Tech. It will be held at Hotel Hyatt Regency, Kolkata and is within a walking distance from the hosting centre, the S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences.
Please see the Author Check List, Author Instructions and Copyright Transfer files for submitting papers for AMR. Please remember to bring the manuscript in microsoft word format and give the soft copy to us before leaving.
Please find the accommodation details and travel guide here.
We are also happy to announce that Prof. V.Chernenko has agreed to stay a week more at SNBNCBS and would deliver basic lectures for students in the mean time. Please leave your name at the reception counter or better yet, in the email for registration for that. Out of Station candidates need to pay for boarding and lodging only.
The program list and the contents are available here.
List of invited speakers -
|
S. R. Barman, India |
A. Planes, Spain |
| E. Cesari, Spain | U. Ramamurthy, India |
|
V. Chernenko, Ukraine |
S. Roth, Germany |
|
R. Gopalan, India |
V. Sampath, India |
|
C. Jiang, China |
C. Segui, Spain |
|
K. Madangopal*, |
V. Seshubai, India |
|
M. Mahendran, India |
B. K. Sharma, India |
|
L. Maņosa, Spain |
A. Srinivasan, India |
|
A. Mitra, India |
P. Vorderwisch, Australia |
| D. Pandey, India |
In addition to the invited talks, we are going to have sessions of contributory papers (oral/ poster).
Registration fee: INR 1,000/-
Industry sponsorship is hereby solicited. The rates are available here.
Time Schedule -
1st. August, 2007 - First circular and call for abstracts
1st. September, 2007 - Second circular and call for abstracts
15th. September, 2007 - Last date for receipt of abstracts
8th. October, 2007 - Intimation for the acceptance of abstracts
17th. Novermber, 2007 - Last date for receipt of full manuscript
The format for the abstract is available here
International advisory committee:
G. H. Wu, China
T. Lograsso, U.S.A
L.
V.
A.
Planes,
L.
National Organizing committee:
P. K. Mukhopadhyay, SNBNCBS, Kolkata (Jt. Convenor)
S. R. Barman, UGC-DAE CSR, Indore (Jt. Convenor)
A. Srinivasan, IIT/Guwahati, Guwahati
D. Pandey, BHU, Banaras
S. N. Kaul, Central University, Hyderabad
P.Chaddah, UGC-DAE CSR, Indore
A. Mitra, NML, Jamshedpur
A. Basumallik, BESU, Kolkata
R. Gopalan, DMRL, Hyderabad
Local organizing committee
P. K. Mukhopadhyay, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
D.Das, UGC-DAE CSR, Kolkata
R.Chaudhury, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
B.Rajanikanth, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
Website: http://www.bose.res.in/~fsma_con Email: fsma_con@bose.res.in
* To be confirmed