Novel materials are the key to new technologies in areas from aerospace to electronics and computer hardware. Often such novel materials are complex in their behavior. Synthesis of new materials and discovery of new properties has made this field vibrant. Among the important properties exhibited by these materials are magnestism, superconductivity, ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity: in many cases these properties appear simultaneously, one being driven by another. The purpose of this meeting is to build bridges and foster collaborations between scientists all over the world in the fields of complex materials exhibiting magnetism, superconductivity and novel phase transitions. The present meeting is the sixth in the approximately biennial series on superconducting and magnetic materials with the first held in 1999 in Tehran, Iran; the latest was in Khiva, Uzbekistan (October 2007). Towards this end, approximately 50% of the participants will be experimentalists from the novel materials communities while the remainder will be from the materials specific theory community. Communication between the two communities will be fostered at the meeting by having no parallel sessions and by a schedule with substantial time for discussion. Further, the workshop will concentrate on certain materials classes, specifically (1) oxides, (2) carbon materials, (3) magnetic materials and (4) superconductors and care will be taken to ensure a program with theoretical and experimental participants that overlap in their specific materials interests. We anticipate that the meeting will help to initiate many collaborations among scientists from various countries, both involving scientists in their respective fields and involving experimentalists and theorists.

            In addition to invited talks, there will be contributory talks and posters. Interested persons may write to msm09@bose.res.in BEFORE 30-TH AUGUST 2009.