Osaka University,21st Century COE Program | Center of Excellence for Advanced Structural and Functional Materials Design

■SCOPE
The ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan started the Priority Assistance for the Formation of Worldwide Renowned Centers of Research - 21 st Century Center of Excellence (21st Century COE) Program. This program is based on the competitive principle where third party evaluation decides to which program to offer the support and to give priority support to the formation of world-class centers of research. Our program “Center of Excellence for Advanced Structural and Functional Materials Design” selected as one of 21 programs in a field of Chemistry and Materials Science. This center is composed of materials related 4 Departments in the Graduate School of Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Processing, Manufacturing Science, and Adaptive Machine Systems, and 3 Research Institutes; Welding and Joining Research Institute, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research and ResearchCenter for Ultra-High Voltage Electron Microscopy.

Recently, material research, particularly that of metallic materials, is specialized only in individual elemental characteristics and narrow specialty fields, and there is a feeling that the original role of material research has been forgotten. The 7 educational and research organizations consisting the COE program cooperatively try to develop new advanced structural and functional materials and achieve technological breakthrough for their fabrication processes from electronic, atomic, microstructural and morphological standpoints, focusing on their design and application: development of high performance structural materials such as space plane and turbine blades operating under a severe environment, new fabrication and assembling methods for electronic devices, development of evaluation technique for materials reliability, and development of new biomaterials for regeneration of biological hard tissues.

The aim of this international symposium is to report the scientific progress in our 21st Century COE program and also to discuss related research topics. The organization committee invites you to participate in this symposium to present your recent results and to discuss with our COE members and also with international attendee.

Professor Yukichi Umakoshi, Chairman of the Symposium
Vice President of OsakaUniversity,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Graduate School of Engineering.
Leader of 21st Century COE Program, OsakaUniversity,
“Center of Excellence for Advanced Structural and Functional Materials Design”

■SPONSOR
21st Century COE Program, Osaka University, “Center of Excellence for Advanced Structural and Functional Materials Design”, supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

■ORGANIZATION

Chairman:		Y. Umakoshi (OsakaUniversity)
Advisory Board:		T. Masumoto (TohokuUniversity) T. Kishi (NIMS) H.-E. Schaefer (University of Stuttgart) P. Veyssiere (CNRS-ONERA)
Organizing Committee :		Y. Umakoshi, M. Asada, K. Fujimoto, S. Fujimoto, Y. Fujiwara, T. Kakeshita, K. F. Kobayashi, Y. Minamino, Y. Miyamoto, H. Mori, H. Nakajima, T. Nakano, R. Nakatani, K. Nogi, Y. Shirai, T. Tanaka, M. Toyoda, N. Tsuji, M. Yamamoto, H. Yasuda and H. Y. Yasuda(Osaka University)
Executive Committee :		Y. Umakoshi, H. Nakajima, T. Kakeshita, S. Fujimoto, and T. Nakano(OsakaUniversity)
Conference Secretariat :		S. Fujimoto(OsakaUniversity)

■DATE
November 10 - 12, 2004

■VENUE
Hotel Hankyu Expo Park, Suita City, Osaka
(1-5 Senri Banpaku-Koen, Suita, Osaka, located near Osaka University)

■TOPICS
1. Advanced structural materials
2. Functional device and system integration
3. Bio-materials
4. Advanced processing and materials characterization

■STYLE OF PRESENTATIONS
Plenary Lectures, Oral Presentations, and Poster Presentations

■REGISTRATION
Registration Fees
Regular registration: 20,000 JPY
Student registration: 3,000 JPY
Registration form will be provided on the web site.

■CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstract Submission
Abstract Submission Those who wish to present either oral or poster presentations are required to submit one page abstract by 16 August 2004 to the conference secretariat. Accepted abstracts will be printed in a booklet and distributed to all participants at the start of the symposium.
Abstract Format
250~350 words, A4 one page, 25 mm margins all round, Times Roman 12pt. Abstract should contain title of paper, author(s) full name(s) (paper speaker should be underlined), affiliation and mailing address of each author, and e-mail address of the corresponding author. Authors are requested to submit the abstract by e-mail as attached Microsoft Word document file. Abstracts should be addressed to:coe21@mat.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

■PUBLICATION
A Proceedings volume is planned to be published in an issue of Materials Science Forum as peer-reviewed papers.

■ORGANIZATION

August 16, 2004		Abstract submission
September 17, 2004		Notification of acceptance
October 29, 2004		Full paper submission

■CORRESPONDENCE
Shinji Fujimoto, Professor
Department of Materials Science and Processing
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan
Phone +81-6-6879-7469 (direct)
Fax +81-6-6879-7512
e-mail coe21@mat.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Further detailed information will be available on the symposium Web Site,
http://www.mat.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/coe21/

Contact coe21@mateng.osaka-u.ac.jp

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