[institut] YUCOMAT 2015

[Zeljka Nikitovic]

YUCOMAT 2015
May 1st - Abstract Submission Deadline
June 15th - Advanced Registration Fee Deadline (required for oral 
presentations)
July 1st - Preliminary Conference Program
July 31st - Late Registration Fee Deadline (required for poster 
presentations)
August 5th - Final Conference Program

Dear Colleague,
The abstract submission deadline is approaching for the Seventeenth 
Materials Research Society of Serbia Annual Conference YUCOMAT 2015 
(http://www.mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/yucomat-2015m) that will be held 
in a beautiful little place at the Adriatic coast, Herceg Novi, 
Montenegro, August 31st-September 4th, 2015. Conference is organized by 
MRS-Serbia, endorsed by Materials Research Society (MRS), European 
Materials Research Society (E-MRS) and Federation of European Materials 
Societies (FEMS).
Program of the Conference consists of five one-day Symposia dedicated 
to advanced methods in materials synthesis and processing, advanced 
materials for high-technology application, nanostructured materials, 
eco-materials and eco-technologies, and biomaterials. The objective of 
the Conference is to critically consider the most actual problems in 
materials science and engineering 
(http://www.mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/conference-programme).
The most important change is the introduction of the on-line 
registration and abstract submission 
(http://www.mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/registration), so please do not 
send your abstracts and registrations to me by email, but submit them 
on-line! The system automatically confirms the submission.
Since this event celebrates 20th Anniversary of the First YUCOMAT 
conference, we already have an impressive list of confirmed invited 
plenary speakers 
(http://www.mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/confirmed-invited-plenary-speakers). 
Since we expect an exceptional number of participants, we would like to 
most cordially urge you to register and submit an abstract on-line as 
soon as you can.
I am also happy to announce that the recipient of the first 
MRS-Serbia’s 2015 Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to 
Materials Science and Engineering 
(http://www.mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/mrs-serbia-award-for-a-lasting-and-outstanding-contribution-to-materials-science-and-engineering) 
is Dr. Ivan Bozovic of Brookhaven National Laboratory (Condensed Matter 
and Materials Science, Upton, New York, USA) for his achievements in the 
field of new quantum materials with a special emphasis on his seminal 
work in cuprates physics, artificial heteroepitaxial materials and 
interface superconductivity. Dr. Bozovic’s invited plenary lecture will 
open the First Plenary Session of YUCOMAT 2015.
A special issue of Journal of Materials Science will be published, 
mostly comprising papers by Invited Speakers and few Contributed papers 
(http://www.mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/supporting-jms). All submitted 
papers must be regular articles or review papers. The submission window 
will open on September 1 and close on October 1. Review process should 
be completed by January 31 and special issue ready by April 2016. 
Incidentally, Journal of Materials Science will be celebrating its 50th 
Anniversary in 2016, and it will be an excellent year to join 
celebrations!
Please look at the information about conference fees and hotel room 
reservations and prices.
Conference fees are the same as previous years 
(http://www.mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/2015-01-05-13-53-50/conference-fees). 
As always, advance rate fee is available until June 15th, which is also 
a deadline for all oral presentations fees payment. The late rate fee is 
valid until July 31st, which is a deadline for the poster presentations 
as a guarantee that they will be included in the Book of Abstracts, 
published in August. After that day, abstracts for poster presentations 
can still be submitted and fees for them paid through Bank transfer 
before the conference or on site in cash. Those abstracts will be 
included in the on site conference program, but not in the Book of 
Abstracts.
Please note that the number of hotel beds at Sun Resort Hotel 
(conference venue, 
http://www.mrs-serbia.org.rs/index.php/2015-01-05-13-53-50/accomodation) 
reserved for the conference participants is limited at 150, and their 
availability is based on “first-in, first-served”. From the experience, 
all rooms are reserved by the end of June. We expect to receive the 
prices for the secondary hotel, Plaza Hotel, by the end of April.
If you already participated at one of the previous YUCOMAT Conferences, 
please be so kind and send me few sentences with your impressions from 
the conference (scientifically, socially and organizationally) and 
Herceg Novi as a traditional conference venue. Also, if you have any 
suggestions how to improve any aspect of the conference, please write 
that, too.
The Abstract Submission Deadline is May 1st, 2015.
I am looking forward to seeing you at YUCOMAT 2015.
Best regards,

Aleksandra Stojicic
Conference Secretary
yucomat at mrs-serbia.org.rs
Materials Research Society of Serbia
Organizers of YUCOMAT and
Young Researchers’ Conferences –
Materials Science and Engineering
P.O. Box 433, Belgrade, Serbia
www.mrs-serbia.org.rs

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