3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "SMART MATERIALS, STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS" June 8-13, 2008 Acireale, Sicily, Italy
Online registration for the 3rd International Conference "Smart Materials, Structures and Systems" in Acireale, Sicily, is now open at: http://www.cimtec-congress.org/2008/ Register before April 20 to enjoy discounted rates. HOT POSTER SUBMISSION is now open at: http://www.cimtec-congress.org/2008/abstract_submission.asp Deadline for submission is April 20 Including well over 700 scientific and technical contributions, the Conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of forefront information and ideas in this rapidly advancing research area. Technical sessions will span most recent leading developments in smart materials and microsystems, smart and adaptive optics, intelligent autonomous structures, and DNA technologies, biomedical applications, bioinspired materials and bionic systems. The PDF (3.1 MegaBytes) of the Final Announcement of the Conference including title of papers, provisional sessions flowsheet and relevant information for participation may be downloaded at CIMTEC 2008 website: http://www.cimtec-congress.org/2008/ Featured are the following Symposia: A - SMART MATERIALS AND MICRO/NANOSYSTEMS B - SMART OPTICS C - SMART STRUCTURES AND INTEGRATED SYSTEMS D - BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF SMART MATERIALS, NANOTECHNOLOGY AND MICRO/NANO ENGINEERING E - MINING SMARTNESS FROM NATURE and Focused / Special Sessions: - Recent Development in Electrical Writable Organic Memory Devices - State-of-the-art Research and Application of SMAs Technologies - Smart Textiles - Artificial Muscle Actuators using Electroactive Polymers - Biomimetic Flow Control in Aquatic Systems and its Application to Bioinspired Autonomous Underwater Vehicles The Conference - a "Junior" edition of the recognized CIMTEC series of international conferences - will gather together a qualified audience of materials scientists, physicists, chemists, biologists, physicians and engineers, as well as experts of a wide range of the most advanced and demanding research and application areas of smart materials and related technologies. On the top of this premier event in materials, Sicily will offer its wonderful landscape and its immense, unique artistic heritage!