Title: Dear Dr
Author: Alexander Shishlov
Last saved by: Ekaterina
Company: HCEI

Dear colleagues,

We wish to extend a cordial invitation to the 2^nd International Congress on Radiation Physics and Chemistry of Inorganic Materials, High Current Electronics, and Modification of Materials with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows will be held in Tomsk, Russia, on September 10—15, 2006.
The Congress unites three mutually related traditional International Conferences being regularly held in Tomsk: the 13^th International Conference of Radiation Physics and Chemistry of Inorganic Materials (13^th RPC), the 14^th International Symposium on High-Current Electronics (14^th SHCE), and the 8^th International Conference on Modification of Materials with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows (8^th CMM).
Traditionally, the program of three conferences covers a wide range of technical areas including physical and chemical non-linear processes in inorganic dielectrics under the action of particle and photon beams, pulsed power technology, ion and electron beams, high-power microwaves, plasma and particle beam sources, modification of materials, and pulsed power applications in chemistry, biology and medicine.
The five-day conference format will provide excellent opportunity for both formal presentation and informal discussion about topics of interest to conference participants.
The conferences will be held at the Rubin Congress Center, the Institute of High Current Electronics, and the Institute of Atmospheric Optics; all of them are located in the Academic Town of the Tomsk Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The conference location is 30 minutes (by bus) from Tomsk downtown. Tomsk is an old Siberian city which celebrated its 400^th anniversary in 2004. You will enjoy the atmosphere of its renewed historical center.
The conference organizers, committee members, and session organizers of these conferences welcome you to our meeting. We look forward to your participation and sincerely hope that you will enjoy the scientific program and that your stay in Tomsk will be memorable. 

Topics of the Congress:

13^th International Conference on Radiation Physics and Chemistry of Inorganic Materials (13^th RPC)
1. Physics and chemistry of condensed state under the action of weak radiation: formation patterns, accumulation, evolution of exposure, radiolysis, and ageing of materials.
2. Nonlinear physical and chemical processes in strong radiation action, including breakdown, destruction, explosion, etc.
3. Physical and chemical radiation-enhanced processes on a solids surface.
4. Physical basis of radiation-related technologies.
5. Methods and technical equipment for radiation-related technologies of modification and research.

14^th Symposium on High Current Electronics (14^th SHCE)
1. Fundamentals of emission properties, emission from plasma, cathode technology, intense beam transportation
2. Z-pinches, X-pinch, plasma radiation sources, fusion, neutron productions, wire explosion, theory and modeling
3. Generation of voltage and current pulses, power conditioning, components of high-current devices (energy stores, switches, transmission lines, etc.), compact modulators, repetitive pulsed power, explosive generators
4. Vacuum and plasma HPM sources, Cherenkov and gyroresonant devices, vircators, superradiance, microwave pulse compression, problem of pulse shortening
5. Pulsed power application in technology, chemistry, biology, and medicine

8^th International Conference on Modification of Materials 
with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows (8^th CMM)
1.	Sources of charged and neutral particle beams; plasma sources for modification purposes; hybrid devices and installations for complex material treating
2.	Particle-solid and plasma-solid interactions; structural transformations (theory, modeling, experiments)
3.	Modification of mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical and corrosion properties of materials; hybrid methods of modification; novel technologies for industry
4.	Deposition by particle beams, magnetron sputtering, and arc evaporation; surface cleaning, etching, and activation; multi-layer coatings; hybrid processes
5.	Beam and plasma nanoscience and nanotechnology

Key Dates:

Second Announcement:  December 19, 2005
Conference on-line registration and abstract submission deadline:  February 6, 2006
Notification of paper acceptance: February 20, 2006
Manuscript submission deadline:  May 5, 2006
Obligatory final conformation of presentation by author(s): June 19, 2006
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Sincerely, yours,
Nikolay Sochugov,
Chairman, Local Organizing Committee
Phone: +7-3822-491-651
Fax: +7-3822-492-410
e-mail: congress@hcei.tsc.ru

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