The 7th Vacuum and Surface Sciences Conference of Asia and Australia (VASSCAA-7) will be held from October 5th (Sunday) to 9th (Thursday), 2014 at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

The VASSCAA series is organized to create a new forum in Asia and Australia to discuss vacuum, surface and related sciences, techniques and applications. The conference is officially endorsed by the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA), and has subsequently been organized once every three years, and later every two years, starting from 1999, and has ever since expanded its activity to encompass numerous eminent speakers worldwide. More than 300 papers are expected to be presented in oral and poster sessions covering frontline research of Vacuum and Applied Surface Sciences. Collected papers through review presented in the conference will be published in the special issue of Applied Surface Science and VACUUM.

Topics

• Surface Science (SS)
• Surface Engineering(SE)
• Applied Surface Science (AS)
• Electronic Materials & Processing (EM)
• Nanostructures & Photocatalysis (NP)
• Thin Film (TF)
• Vacuum Science & Technology (VS)
• Plasma Science & Technique (PS)
• Biointerfaces (BI)
• Renewable Energy Technologies (RE)

• Workshop 1: High-Resolution RIXS and NanoARPES
• Workshop II: Coherent X-ray Scattering
• Workshop III: Applications of Synchrotron Radiation to Structural Biology
• Workshop IV X-ray Nano-analysis on Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science

Scope

The joint conference will cover a wide range of topics related to functional imaging of nanomaterials by various techniques including Scanning Probe Microscopy (Piezoresponse Force Microscopy â€" PFM, Electrochemical Strain Microscopy â€" ESM, Kelvin Probe Microscopy â€" KPM), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Optical Microscopy (Confocal Microscopy â€" CM, Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy â€" SNOM, and Raman Microscopy â€" RM). The Youth Conference will consist of an extensive tutorial and scientific conference on nanoscale phenomena in ferroelectrics, ionic conductors, and polar biomaterials.

PFM-2014 main topics

• Instrumental aspects of PFM, ESM, KPM, SNOM, and related techniques as applied to functional nanomaterials
• Ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, and ionic conductors on the nanoscale
• Multiferroic phenomena and magnetoelectric coupling on the nanoscale
• Disordered ferroelectrics, domains, and mesoscopic effects
• Ferroelectric data storage and polarization lithography
• Ferroelectric photovoltaics and tip-enhanced phenomena
• Interface and domain engineering
• Biocompatible & organic polar materials on the nanoscale
• 1D and 2D nanostructured materials
• Theory and modeling

Workshop in celebrating the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr2014), aims to provide a forum for exchange of knowledge in order to get the latest developments in structure determination and characterization of nanomaterials. The main objective is to highlight the powerful capabilities of Synchrotron radiation (SR) in nanomaterials research aspects. During this occasion, Nanomaterials fabrication methods will be demonstrated and combined with the advanced SR applications covering different techniques such as X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Small Angle Scattering (SAXS) and Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS). Hands-on computer training on some programs in the field will be also arranged.

• Synchrotron Radiation Concepts and Applications.
• Synchrotron applications in Nanomagnetic Materials
• High-Performance Computing for Synchrotron Applications
• Small Angle X-ray Scattering of Nanomaterials
• EXAF: From Theory to Applications
• Nanomaterials ab initio Structure Determination
• Microstructure Determination
• RDF Applications in Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Materials
• Synthesis Techniques for Nanomaterials Preparation

Challenges in Nanoscience ISACS 15 will bring together leading scientists from across the world to discuss the latest advances in nanoscience, which encompasses a broad range of disciplines, including chemistry, biology, physics and engineering. This meeting follows the successful ISACS 9 conference held in Xiamen, China in 2012

The conference will take place at the University of California, San Diego and the Scientific Committee warmly invites you to take part in ISACS 15.

• Nanomedicine/Bionanotechnology
• Programmable Materials / Self Assembly
• Energy and Catalysis
• Characterisation and preparation - new materials       Â
  

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New Developments in Polymer Dynamics, Crystallization, Self-Assembly, and Interface/Confinement Effects

The 2014 Gordon Research Conference on Polymer Physics will feature outstanding lectures and discussions in this interdisciplinary field that impacts diverse industrial sectors, including electronics, transportation, medicine, textiles, and energy. The focus of this international meeting is on new experimental, simulation, and theoretical developments in polymer physics, with particular emphasis on the following areas:

• Dynamics of Polymer Melts and Glasses
• Crystallization and Self-Assembly
• Interfacial, Surface, and Nanoconfinement Effects
• Biomacromolecular Physics
• Polymers for Energy and Electronic Applications

The conference will feature nineteen lectures by senior researchers, whose talks will include a ten-minute introduction designed for a general polymer audience, as well as one session highlighting new work by six young scientists. Poster sessions and informal activities will provide ample opportunity to share and discuss the latest advances in polymer physics.

Synthesis, Characterization, Modeling, and Application

The 2014 Gordon Conference on "Noble Metal Nanoparticles" will strive to provide the same level of cutting-edge science and technology discussion that was the trademark of the 2010 and the 2012 previous two "Noble Metal Nanoparticles" conferences. The synthesis, characterization, modeling, and application of noble metal nanoparticles will be featured in the broadest possible way by creating sessions that put together chemists, physicists, material scientists, engineers, biologists, and doctors. There will be an attempt to create discussions that stem from a variety of disciplines as well as from a mixture of established and young scientists. The Conference will feature a wide range of topics, such as clusters, plasmonics, advanced characterization, assembly, biology, and a variety of applications. Some poster presenters will be selected for short talks. The atmosphere of this Conference, will be tuned to provide as many opportunities as possible for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, so to create avenues for scientists from different disciplines to brainstorm and discuss. A great emphasis will be placed on the presentation and discussion of unpublished, novel, and exciting results.

Forward Thinking: New Approaches, Concepts, and Paradigms Towards Understanding and Predicting EM Response

The 2014 Gordon Research Conference on Energetic Materials, and its associated Gordon Research Seminar, will present the latest fundamental science of the physics and phenomena underlying the performance of energetic materials: explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, and thermites. Presenters and attendees are scientists and engineers associated with government laboratories, research universities, and private industry that come together from across the globe to discuss multidisciplinary fundamental research on energetic materials. Topics of discussion include theory, chemistry, material properties, and physics associated with characterization, initiation, combustion, detonation, ageing, thermal decomposition, synthesis, and sensitivity of energetic materials. The Conference will bring together a collection of investigators who are at the forefront of their field and will provide opportunities for junior scientists and graduate students to present their work in poster format at as well as meet and exchange ideas with leaders in the field. The collegial atmosphere of this Conference, with programmed discussion sessions as well as multiple opportunities for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, provides an avenue for scientists from different disciplines to brainstorm new concepts and paradigms while also promoting cross-disciplinary collaborations in the various research areas represented.

Synthesis, Characterization and Applications

The Gordon Research Seminar on Noble Metal Nanoparticles is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The scientific focus of the meeting will be on the synthesis of novel metal nanostructures, techniques for their characterization, and a range of their applications.

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The Influence of Microstructure on Performance

The Gordon Research Seminar on Energetic Materials is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas. The focus of this meeting is on the response of energetic materials at the microstructural level, which is a complex process involving both mechanical and chemical components that lends itself to a coupled experimental and computational approach. This seminar will discuss both computational and experimental efforts to understand the processes influencing the thermodynamic and constitutive response of energetic materials over multiple length scales.Â

From Fundamental Concepts to Practical Implications.

The GRS on Defects in Semiconductors, to be held for the first time, is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas in this important field.

The focus of this particular meeting will be defects in wide band-gap semiconductors, nanostructured materials, including novel two-dimensional systems, as well as defects for quantum information processing and metrology applications.The program will include a mentorship session on the transfer of knowledge and technology from academia to industry.

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The event is based more to academia than to industry and all papers will be peer reviewed before publication in IOP Conference Series Materials Sciences and Engineering, which is refereed by SCOPUS and many others. The international conference ic-cmtp3 provides a platform among leading international scientists, researchers, engineers, students and PhD students for discussing recent achievements in research and development of material structures and properties of competitive materials like nanomaterials, ceramics, glasses, films and coatings, metals, alloys, biomaterials, composites, hetero-modulus and hybrid-materials, … etc.

Among the major fields of interest are materials with extreme physical, chemical, thermal, mechanical properties and dynamic strengths; including their crystalline and nano-structures, phase-transformations as well as methods of their technological processes, tests and measurements.

Promote new methods and results of scientific researches and multidisciplinary applications of material science and technological problems encountered in sectors like ceramics, glasses, metal alloys, thin films, aerospace, automotive and marine industry, electronics, energy, security, safety and construction materials, chemistry, medicine, cosmetics, biosciences, environmental sciences are of particular interest.

Effect of Disorder and Disordered Materials

This new Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Neutron Scattering, to be held in Hong Kong in 2015, will feature world-leading neutron scattering scientists who will share and discuss their latest discoveries in the GRC (interactive) style. As it is impossible to capture all new activities over a very diverse field of neutron scattering studies, the conference will instead focus on selected topics that have seen rapid developments over the last few years. Innovative instrumentation is the backbone of scientific discoveries, and thus one of the nine sessions will be devoted to discussions of the performance of innovative instruments. A diverse and vibrant user community is vital for the success of the neutron scattering facilities. We thus particularly encourage the participation of young scientists, to learn and profit from interactions with leading scientists in neutron scattering in the casual environment provided by the conference.

The 59th Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, sponsored jointly by AIP Publishing and the Magnetics Society of the IEEE, in cooperation with the American Physical Society, will be held November 3-7, 2014 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort in Honolulu, Hawaii. Members of the international scientific and engineering communities interested in recent developments in fundamental and applied magnetism are invited to attend the Conference and contribute to its technical sessions. Sessions will include invited and contributed papers, oral and poster presentations, and invited symposia. This Conference provides an outstanding opportunity for world-wide participants to meet their colleagues and collaborators and discuss developments in all areas of magnetism research. In terms of the number of presentations, this will be one of the largest MMM in the history of the Conference, with over 1900 oral and poster presentations.

“Condensed Matter in Paris” is an international conference covering all aspects of condensed matter physics, including soft condensed matter, liquid physics, biophysics, materials science, quantum physics and quantum simulators, low temperature physics, quantum fluids, strongly correlated materials, semiconductor physics, magnetism, surface and interface physics, electronic, optical, structural, and mechanical properties of materials, acoustics, and disordered media. An important place will be granted to interdisciplinary topics as well as to the development of research infrastructure in Europe.

“Condensed Matter in Paris” is jointly organised by the Condensed Matter Divisions of the French Physical Society SFP and of the European Physical Society EPS, and will unite the 14^th Journées de la Matière Condensée (JMC14) and the 25^th Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the EPS (CMD25) in a single event.

 “Condensed Matter in Paris” is the next in the series of biyearly JMC and CMD conferences, the last of which were held in Montpellier and Edinburgh, respectively. It will also host the biyearly French-Singaporean workshop on physics, which, this year, will have “Graphene” as its main theme.

The Sixteenth International Conference on High Pressure in Semiconductor Physics (HPSP-16) is a satellite of the International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS 2014) to be held in Austin (USA) during the following week.

HPSP is a biennial meeting with a long standing tradition. The first two meetings took place in Poland (1985) and Montpellier (1986) as a Polishâ€"French Meeting on High Pressure Applications in Semiconductors. The success of these early conferences made it clear that the topic area of high-pressure semiconductor physics had wide interest. Consequently, in 1988 the series was convened under its present name and has been organized as a satellite meeting of the traditional International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS). Recent HPSP conferences were held in :

• Sapporo, Japan (2000)
• Guildford, UK (2002)
• Berkeley, USA (2004)
• Barcelona, Spain (2006)
• Fortaleza, Brazil (2008)
• Changchun, China (2010)
• Montpellier, France (2012)

Topics

• Electronic structure, X-ray absorption
• Mechanical properties including vibrational, elastic and piezoelectric properties
• Thermal properties including thermoelectric behaviors
• Optical properties
• Electrical transport phenomena
• Defect states
• Structural studies including phase transitions
• Spin dependent properties
• Carbon related semiconductors (clusters, nanotubes, graphene)
• Low-dimensional semiconductor structures
• Novel materials, structures and devices
• State of the art computation of material properties under high pressure
• New experimental and computational techniques

SCES 2014 will be held in Grenoble at the University Campus in Saint Martin d'Hères.

Following the long history and continuity of SCES the conference in Grenoble will cover a wide range of subjects in the diverse field of strongly correlated electron systems. SCES emphasizes the fundamental physics of strongly correlated electron systems that span from bulk materials including f-electron based heavy fermions, d-electron based compounds, and organic materials to artificial materials such as nanoscale structures as well as cold atoms in optical lattices.
The main topics that will be featured in SCES 2014 are listed below.

Topics

• Heavy fermion physics (including valence and/or charge fluctuations)
• Quantum phase transitions and quantum criticality
• Non-Fermi liquid phenomena
• Unconventional superconductivity
• Kondo physics in bulk materials and nanoscale structures
• Metal-insulator transitions
• Quantum magnetism and physics of frustration
• Ferroics and multiferroics
• Correlated atoms in optical lattices
• Topological aspects of strongly correlated systems

Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (a Royal Society of Chemistry Conference) will be the follow-up event to successful conferences ISACS 3 and ISACS 8 held in 2010 and 2012 respectively, by bringing together leading scientists from across the world to share scientific developments.

The Scientific Committee warmly invites you to take part in ISACS 13 and looks forward to welcoming you to Dublin.

Themes

• Main Group Chemistry
  
• Metals in Biology
  
• Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis
  
• Porous and Solid State Materials
  
• Supramolecular Materials

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