[Wien] Conference announcement

[Peter Blaha]

Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to participate to the Second International 
Symposium on Structure-Property Relationships in Solid State Materials 
(SP-SSM 2008) to be held in Nantes from June 29th to July 3rd , 2008. 
All the information regarding this interdisciplinary conference can be 
found at the conference website: http://www.cnrs-imn.fr/SP-SSM_2008/.

The goal of the symposium is to highlight the relationships between 
specific physical properties of the materials and their structure and/or 
chemical composition as well as how these properties may be modified by 
varying the nature of the chemical bonds, the strength of the 
electron-electron interaction, the concentration of dopants, etc. The 
meeting will be devoted mainly to structure-property relationships in 
magnetic, optical, electronic, thermoelectric and functional materials. 
Within the scope of this symposium, further topics in fuel cell and 
photovoltaic solar cells will be encouraged. This symposium will provide 
opportunities for experimental and theoretical solid state chemists, 
physicists and materials scientists to share their knowledge and expertise.


Important dates:

October 2007: Announcement, Pre-registration
December 31st , 2007: Abstract submission deadline
January 31st : Abstract acceptance notification
February 15th : Final program
March 1st : end of early registration
June 29th : paper submission deadline

Invited speakers:

*M. Asensio, Madrid / Paris, Spain / France
*A. Belik, Ibaraki, Japan
*X. Blase, Villeurbanne, France
*M. Drillon, Strasbourg, France
*C. Elsasser, Freiburg, Germany
*C. Ewels, Nantes, France
*L. Forro, Lausanne, Switzerland
*D. Gourier, Paris, France
*L. Hammarström, Uppsala, Sweden
*H. Hosono, Tokyo, Japan
*J. Irvin, St Andrews, Scotland
*M. G. Kanatzidis, Evanston, IL, USA
*J. Lucas, Rennes, France
*A. Maignan, Caen, France
*A. Meijerink, Utrecht, The Netherlands
*M. Pouchard, Bordeaux, France
*L. Reining, Palaiseau, France
*A. Rockett, Urbana, IL, USA
*B. Sales, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
*W. Schnick, München, Germany
*A. Simon, Stuttgart, Germany
*A. Villesuzanne, Bordeaux, France

For any question or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us at 
SP-SSM_2008 at cnrs-imn.fr <mailto:SP-SSM_2008 at cnrs-imn.fr>. We would also 
appreciate if you could disseminate this First Announcement through your 
Department or Institution.

We hope to see you in Nantes in June !

On behalf of the organizers

Dr. Stéphane Jobic