Nanoscale properties of condensed matter

probed by resonance phenomena

15-19 August 2004, Kazan, Russia

Honorary chairman:                                                K. Alex Müller, Zurich University

Co-Chairmen:       Program Committee                    B.I. Kochelaev, Kazan State University
                              Organizing Committee                 M.S. Tagirov, Kazan State University

Scientific Secretary:                                                D.A. Tayurskii, Kazan State University

International Advisory Committee

H.Alloul (France)
S.E.Barnes (USA)
A.Bianconi (Italy)
A.Bishop (USA)
A.Bussmann-Holder(Germany)
T.Imai (Canada)
A.Janossy (Hungary)
H.Keller (Switzerland)
D.Khomskii (Germany)
D.Mihailovic (Slovenia)
D.Pavuna (Switzerland)
A.Rigamonti (Italy)
C.Slichter (USA)
F.Steglich  (Germany)
M.Tachiki (Japan)
 

Invited Lectures

The renewing list of invited lectures can be found here

Scope

The focus will be on local properties of strongly correlated systems: high-temperature superconductors, magnetoresistive manganites, low-dimensional and layered materials, Jahn-Teller and similar systems probed by NMR, EPR, optics, ARPES and other related methods.

The Conference is devoted to 200 years of establishing of Kazan State University and the 60th anniversary of EPR discovering. Here a non-Euclidian geometry was created by Lobachevsky (1826), a theory of organic compounds was developed by Butlerov (1861), the electron paramagnetic resonance was discovered by Zavoisky 60 years ago (in 1944!). Among students were a writer Lev Tolstoy, a composer Miliy Balakirev, a politician Vladimir Ul'yanov-Lenin. Among honored professors are naturalist Alexander Humboldt, astronomer and physicist Dominique Arago, mathematician Karl Gauss, physicists Anatol Abragam, Brebis Bleaney, Alex Müller

Kazan is located on Volga river at a half way between Moscow and Ural mountains.

There are regular flights from Kazan International Airport to Frankfurt (Germany) operated by Lufthansa. The timetable can be found here (UPDATED!!!).

Supported by

• Russian Ministry for Industry, Science and Technologies

• Russian Academy of Science

• Government of Tatarstan Republic

• NIOKR Fund, Tatarstan Academy of Science

• Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

• Bruker

• Varian

• CRDF

Visa

Foreign participants must have a valid passport and must obtain an entry visa before coming to the Russian Federation. To get visa in the nearest Russian Embassy or Consulate the official invitation letter should be presented. The Organizing Committee will prepare such  letters for every participant just after receiving the copy of participant's passport. The copy can be sent as some graphical file (preferably in JPEG format) by e-mail of by fax: +7 8432 387201. Please note that procedure for getting the official invitation letter  is rather lengthy so the passport' copy should be sent as soon as possible! 

Registration fee

The registration fee (300 Euro) should be paid at the Registration Desk.

 Important dates

Abstracts

All abstracts should be prepared in Microsoft Word format and sent by e-mail to Scientific Secretary Dmitrii.Tayurskii@ksu.ru or dtayursk@hitv.ru. The length of the Abstract is limited by one page. Please type your text by using the following parameters: page size A4, margins – top 1”, bottom – 1.24”, right and left – 1”, font Times New Roman, size 12pt, line spacing 1 line. The pictures should be inserted to the text in the frame. The files with pictures can be attached also separately as the packed (Zip, Rar etc.) TIFF of Bitmap files. The template for abstracts can be downloaded here or as Zip-archive here. If you have the troubles with Microsoft Word format the abstract can be prepared in LaTeX format.

Oral talks and Posters

The renewing list of the contributions selected for oral presentation can be downloaded here. The time schedule for oral presentation will be posted at Web site in the end of June, 2004.  All lecture halls are equipped by multimedia projectors, overheads. If you need something else please do not hesitate to contact with the Organizing Committee well before Conference.

The list of posters can be downloaded here. The size for poster is 120 cm x 120 cm.

Final Schedule

The final schedule for the conference can be downloaded here.

Proceedings

The full original papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Superconductivity. The papers will undergo a refereeing procedure during NanoRes-2004 conference. Deadline for submission is August 15–19, 2004. The paper length for regular contribution is 4 pages and 6 pages for key speakers. Below you can find some additions to the Instruction for Authors:
1. The paper should be prepared as double-spaced one-column paper.
2. The text font is Times New Roman, 12pt.
3. The figures should be attached separately, one per page and
the figure captions should also be alltogether on a separate sheet.
4. 4 journal pages correspond about 7-8 pages in the style indicated
above.
5. The copyright-transfer form should be signed and be presented with paper.

The copyright-transfer form can be downloaded here.

Accommodation

The information about hotels and prices can be found here.

Registration and travel information

The registration desk will be opened on Saturday, August 14, from 9 a.m. till 9 p.m. and on Sunday, August 15, at Physics Department of Kazan State University (Kremlevskaya str., 16).

Kazan can be reached by train or via Kazan International Airport. We recommend to take the bus from Kazan International Airport to to airport Kazan-2 (the old airport situated in the city) The university campus can be reached from Railway Station by walk or by taking trams or trolleybus (see map), from airport Kazan-2 by taking the trolleybus N 2 (stop "Leninskii Sad").

On 14th of August the shuttle bus will operate for Lufthansa flight and flights from Moscow. On 15th of August the shuttle bus will operate for train 28 Moscow-Kazan.