General Information

 

Important Dates
 
January 2011 – opening the conference website
April – September 2011 – preliminary registration
January 25, 2012 – deadline for abstract submission
March 2012 – accepting the abstracts
May – June 15, 2012 – time for early conference fee payment
June 2012 – preliminary programme of the conference is available in "Conference programme"
July 30, 2012 – deadline for conference fee payment
August 15, 2012 – final conference programme
September 9, 2012 – deadline for manuscripts
September 21, 2012 - NEW DEADLINE FOR MANUSCRIPTS
September 9-16, 2012 – conference dates
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Registration Fee

Type of participation

Early fee

(from May to June 15)

Late fee

(from June 15 to July 30)

Full participation

26000 RUB

28000 RUB

Scientific participation

15000 RUB

17000 RUB

Participation without presentation

11000 RUB

13000 RUB

Students/postgraduate student participation

Only for persons who has indicated his position as student or postgraduate student during registration before January 25

13000 RUB

15000 RUB


The payment of conference fee may be done by bank transfer through the company LLC "Alphs Technologies" or by credit card through the company "Favorit". To find details for payment, please visit section "Payment".


 

Description of types of participations:

 

Full participation includes

Scientific Programme

  1. Attendance of plenary lectures, oral presentations, poster presentations
  2. 8 coffee breaks (September 10, 11, 12, 14)
  3. conference bag
  4. Book of Abstracts
  5.  Publication of one manuscript in special issue of “Materials Science Forum”
  6. Transfer from airport to hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya), Transfer from hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya)

Social Programme

  1. sight-seeing tour (September 9 from 16-00 to 19-00)
  2. Get-together party (September 9 from 19-00 to 22-00) Hotel Holiday Inn
  3. one-day excursion to Petergof (September 13)
  4. 5 lunches (September 10-14)
  5. Conference dinner in Restaurant “Podvorie” (September 13, Pavlovsk).

 

 

Scientific participation includes

Scientific Programme

  1. Attendance of plenary lectures, oral presentations, poster presentations
  2. 8 coffee breaks (September 10, 11, 12, 14)
  3. conference bag
  4. Book of Abstracts
  5. Publication of one manuscript in special issue of “Materials Science Forum”
  6. Transfer from airport to hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya), Transfer from hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya)

 

Participation without publication (or without separate publication)

Visiting Programme

  1. Attendance of plenary lectures, oral presentations, poster presentations
  2. 8 coffee breaks (September 10, 11, 12, 14)
  3. conference bag
  4. Transfer from airport to hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya), Transfer from hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya).

 

Students/postgraduate student participation includes (Only for persons who has indicated his position as student or postgraduate student during registration before January 25)

 

Scientific Programme

  1. Attendance of plenary lectures, oral presentations, poster presentations
  2. 8 coffee breaks (September 10, 11, 12, 14)
  3. conference bag
  4. Book of Abstracts
  5.  Publication of one manuscript in special issue of “Materials Science Forum”
  6. Transfer from airport to hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya), Transfer from hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya)

Social Programme

  1. sight-seeing tour (September 9 from 16-00 to 19-00)
  2. Get-together party (September 9 from 19-00 to 22-00) Hotel Holiday Inn
  3. one-day excursion to Petergof (September 13)
  4. 5 lunches (September 10-14)
  5. Conference dinner in Restaurant “Podvorie” (September 13, Pavlovsk).
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Conference fee for accompanying person

 

Type of participation

Early fee

(from May to June 15)

Late fee

(from June 15 to July 30)

Full participation

19500 RUB

21000 RUB

Social participation

9000 RUB

10500 RUB

Excursion participation

10500 RUB

12000 RUB

 

The payment of conference fee may be done by bank transfer through the company LLC "Alphs Technologies" or by credit card through the company "Favorit". To find details for payment, please visit section "Payment".

 

Description of types of participations of accompanying persons:

 

Full participation includes

Social Programme

  1. sight-seeing tour (September 9 from 16-00 to 19-00)
  2. Get-together party (September 9 from 19-00 to 22-00) Hotel Holiday Inn
  3. one-day excursion to Petergof (September 13)
  4. 1 lunch (September 13)
  5. Conference dinner in Restaurant “Podvorie” (September 13, Pavlovsk).
  6. Transfer from airport to hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya), Transfer from hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya)

Excursion Programme

    1. September, 10.  Monday

        9:30-12:30 – visit of Russian museum.

       12:30-14:00 – Lunch.

       14:00-17:00 – visit of Alexander Nevsky Lavra,

    2. September, 11. Tuesday

        9:30-12:30 – visit of Yusupov Palace

        13:00 – Lunch.

        14:00 – visit of Hermitage Museum.

    3. September, 12.  Wednesday

        9:30 – visit of Peter and Paul Fortress + visit of «Aurora» cruiser

        12:00-13:00 – Lunch

        14:00-18:00 –Boat   trip

    4. September, 14, Friday

        9:30-13:00 – visit of Kazansky Cathedral +visit of metro + shopping.

 Please, see the description of excursion programme here

 

Social participation includes

  1. sight-seeing tour (September 9 from 16-00 to 19-00)
  2. Get-together party (September 9 from 19-00 to 22-00) Hotel Holiday Inn
  3. one-day excursion to Petergof (September 13)
  4. 1 lunch (September 13)
  5. Conference dinner in Restaurant “Podvorie” (September 13, Pavlovsk).
  6. Transfer from airport to hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya), Transfer from hotels (Holiday Inn or Rossiya)

 

Excursion particiaption includes

Excursion Programme

    1. September, 10.  Monday

        9:30-12:30 – visit of Russian museum.

        12:30-14:00 – Lunch.

        14:00-17:00 – visit of Alexander Nevsky Lavra,

    2. September, 11. Tuesday

        9:30-12:30 – visit of Yusupov Palace

        13:00 – Lunch.

        14:00 – visit of Hermitage Museum.

    3. September, 12.  Wednesday

        9:30 – visit of Peter and Paul Fortress + visit of «Aurora» cruiser

        12:00-13:00 – Lunch

        14:00-18:00 –Boat   trip

    4. September, 14, Friday

        9:30-13:00 – visit of Kazansky Cathedral +visit of metro + shopping

 Please, see the description of excursion programme here
 
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Visa Application
 

All participants must get a VISA to Russia.

Please, pay attention to the letter of abstract acceptance is not valid to get a Russian VISA. To apply your documents for Russian VISA a special invitation letter is needed. To obtain this letter, please send to the secretariat by e-mail ([email protected]) a copy of your passport  (the page with your PHOTO, SURNAME, NAME, date and place of Birth, PASSPORT NUMBER, DATE OF ISSUE, DATE OF BIRTH) and special form for visa application. If you have problems with filling in the form for visa application please see the example. After preparation of special invitation letter we will send you this letter by ordinary mail and a copy of this letter by e-mail. Moreover, for preparation of special invitation letter it is necessary a confirmation of hotel reservation. The participants who have confirmed their hotel reservation through the company “Favorit” must not send to the secretariat the confirmation. The participants who have not confirmed the hotel reservation through the company “Favorit” must send to the secretariat by e-mail ([email protected]) the confirmation of hotel reservation in Saint-Petersburg. Without these documents (copy of passport, form for visa application and hotel reservation) the invitation letter for VISA application can not be prepared.

 

Please pay attention to the duration for preparation of invitation letter for citizens of European Union is 5-10 days.

The duration for preparation of invitation letter for citizens of other countries is 30-40 days.

 

PAY ATTENTION to without Russian VISA VISIT TO RUSSIA IS PROHIBITED.

The Russian VISA can not be obtained in Russia. You may get a VISA to Russia only in country of your residence.

 
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Abstract Preparation
 
The abstract should be written in full one (A4) page (margins: left – 3cm; right – 2 cm, up – 2 cm, and down – 2 cm). Please use the template for abstract preparation.  Please prepare your abstract using MS WORD 2003 (please not use MS WORD 2007). All text should be written in Times New Roman font.
      The title of the abstract should be written in BOLD CAPITAL 12 pt font. The authors should be written in Bold 12 pt font. If there are authors with different affiliation, please use letters to indicate it. Affiliation should be written in Italic 12pt font. If there are several affiliations, please use the letters before title of affiliation and write each affiliation from the new line.

Example: aSaint-Petersburg State University.

                  bMoscow State University.

     The e-mail of the author who will present this study during ESOMAT conference should be added at new line after affiliation. Moreover, this author should be underlined in the list of authors. The language of abstract is ENGLISH, please check the text of the abstract. One or two figures or one table may be added into the text of abstract. If it is necessary the list of references may be included in the end of the abstract. Please do not include the acknowledgement into the abstract.

      Please be sure that the full length of the abstract including title, authors, affiliation, e-mail, main text and references does not exceed one A4 page (210mm x 297 mm).

 

To submite the abstract through the website esomat-2012.ru please see the instruction.

 
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Manuscript Preparation
 
Conference Proceedings will be published in "Materials Science Forum". This journal specializes in the rapid publication of international conference proceedings and stand-alone volumes on topics of current interest. It covers all areas of Materials Science, Solid State Physics and Solid State Chemistry. The periodical is covered by SCOPUS and documented by all major abstract sources. Indexed by Elsevier: SCOPUS www.scopus.com and Ei Compendex (CPX) www.ei.org/. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) www.csa.com, Chemical Abstracts (CA) www.cas.org, Google and Google Scholar google.com, ISI (ISTP, CPCI, Web of Science) www.isinet.com, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) www.iee.org, etc. The periodical is online available in full text via www.scientific.net platform which is one of the leading and largest online databases in Materials Science.
 

One participant may submit only one manuscript. The manuscript should be written in good English. Please, use template for preparation of your manuscript. The volume of the manuscript for plenary lecturer is 6-7 pages. The volume of the manuscript for oral or poster presenters is 4-5 pages. Please pay attention to the manuscripts with volume less than 4 pages can not be submitted to the Materials Science Forum. Please avoid the colour figures because  figures will be reduced to black and white for the print version. Please find the instruction for manuscript preparation into template file.

 

The submission of the manuscript to the Materials Science Forum though the website www.scientific.net

will be available since July 15 to September 9 2012.