6th Biennial International Workshop

Fullerenes and Atomic Clusters
IWFAC'2003

 IWFAC'2002
• St Petersburg, Russia • June 30 - July 4, 2003 •

First Announcement & Call for Abstracts

The first Biennial International Workshop "Fullerenes and Atomic Clusters" (IWFAC) was held in St.Petersburg in October 1993. Since that time, the IWFAC has become one of the most representatives of world meetings in the field of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. One important reason for this is the participation in the 93-01 IWFACs of the founders of this science as well as the scientists having the major influence in this field. More than 300 participants from leading scientific centers and universities around the world take part in IWFACs.
As with previous workshops, the 6th Workshop to be held in 2003 will be organized within the framework of the Russian Research Program "Fullerenes and Atomic Clusters".

All IWFACs are sponsored by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and by the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technologies of Russia. IWFAC 2001 was also supported by INTAS.

Proceedings of former IWFACs have been published as special issues of Molecular Materials (vol.4, 1994; vol.7-8, 1996; vol.10-11, 1998; vol.13, 2000) and Physics of the Solid State (vol.44, N 3-4, 2002).

Organizers

Sponsors

Workshop Committees

International Advisory Committee

  • T. BraunUniversity of Budapest, Hungary
  • F. Diederich, ETH, Switzerland
  • M. Dresselhaus MIT, USA
  • L. Echegoyen University of Miami, USA
  • P. Eklund University of Kentucky, USA
  • M. Heritier University of Orsay, France
  • D.R. Huffman University of Arizona, USA
  • K. Kadish University of Houston, USA
  • W. Kraetschmer Max-Plank Institute, Germany
  • H. Kroto University of Sussex, UK
  • H. Kuzmany University of Wien, Austria
  • E. Osawa Nanocarbon Research Institute Ltd., Japan
  • R. Taylor University of Sussex, UK
  • D. Walton University of Sussex, UK
  • F. Wudl UCLA, USA

Organizing Committee

Chairman:

 Vladislav V. Lemanov , Russia

Program Committee

Chairman:

 Alexander Ya. Vul', Russia

Local Organizing Committee

Chairman:

 Sergey V. Kidalov, Russia

Scientific Programm

The program will traditionally include lectures by invited speakers, oral presentations and several poster sessions. The lectures and oral presentations will generally concentrate on the most recent advances in the following areas:
    		• new approaches for mass production fullerenes and carbon nanotubes
    		• physical properties of endohedral fullerenes
    		• magnetic properties and superconductivity of fullerenes
    		• electronic properties of nanotubes
    		• synthesis and chemical properties of fullerene derivatives
    		• carbon onions
    		• phase transitions in fullerenes
    		• photoelectric and optic properties of fullerenes
    		• fullerene containing polymers
    		• synthesis and properties of new fullerene-like materials
    		• biological aspects of carbon clusters
    		• computer simulation of carbon cluster formation

    Invited speakers will be chosen by the Program Committee and the International Advisory Committee. Reports to be presented will be selected by the Program Committee on the basis of submitted abstracts.

    The list of invited lecturers, deadlines for manuscripts and related information will be given in the Second Announcement scheduled for December, 2002. According to tradition, a panel discussion "Fullerene applications" will be held. Special prizes for the best presentation among young participants (younger than 33 years) also has been planned.

    The Organizing and Program Committees hope that you will enjoy the Workshop and 10 years after the first IWFAC, you will learn of the many new achievements in the wonderful world of carbon clusters.

    Language

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

    Submission of Contributions

    Authors are requested to submit a one-page abstract of their contributions (about 1800 symbols including title, name(s) of author(s) and affiliation(s)) in Word for Windows file.
    The deadline for abstracts is March 1, 2003. All abstracts have to be sent by e-mail: IWFAC@mail.ioffe.ru

    File should be called by the name of the principal author (for example, "Clinton.doc") The name of the principal author who will present a paper at the Workshop - should be underlined. All the abstracts will be reviewed and the criterion of rejection will be a lack of originality.

    Accepted abstracts will be published in the program booklet by the beginning of the Workshop.

    Social Programme

    All IWFACs have been and will continue to be held in St.Petersburg, which is both a scientific and cultural center.
    This beautiful city was designed and built by Russian and Western architects and is often called "the Venice of the North". St.Petersburg will celebrate its 300th anniversary in the year 2003.
    Along with the scientific sessions, a broad social program is planned for participants and accompanying persons.

    Important Dates

    Preliminary registration October 1, 2002
    Second announcement December, 2002
    Abstract deadline March 1, 2003
    Final registration May 25, 2003

    Mailing List

    It is also possible to get the current information on the Workshop by subscription for the Workshop mailing list. Organizing Committee has subscribed for this list all the persons from the database of previous IWFAC Workshops. To do this independently it is necessary to send a message to
         IWFAC@mail.ioffe.ru
    with the following command in the message body:
          subscribe iwfac-list
    Further, the subscriber will automatically get all new available information concerning the Workshop.

    Registration

    To be put on the mailing list and receive the current information on the Workshop, please, fill in the Registration Form or send an appropriate request to the Organizing Committee.

    Registration Form
    Registration Form for Russian and CIS partcipants

    Correspondence

    Organizing Committee
    of the 6th Biennial International Workshop"Fullerenes and Atomic Clusters"     IWFAC'2003
    Phone: 007 (812) 247-9377
    Fax: 007 (812) 247 0073
    E-mail: IWFAC@mail.ioffe.ru     		Ioffe Institute,
    26 Polytechnicheskaya,
    St Petersburg 194021, Russia

    The Organizers are pleased to welcome members of the world fullerene community to St. Petersburg.