The 16^th International Conference on Liquid and Amorphous Metals (LAM-16) will be held at the town hall of Bonn – Bad Godesberg, Germany, from September 04-09, 2016.

The conference aims to provide a forum for scientists interested in liquid and amorphous metals in order to discuss recent advances and future directions in this intriguing field of condensed matter physics, chemistry and materials sciences. Apart from papers on metallic systems, the LAM conferences traditionally also welcome contributions on liquid and amorphous semi-conductors as well as on molten salts.

The series of LAM conferences has a long standing history dating back to the liquids metal conference LM-1 in Brookhaven (1966). It was followed by the liquid metals conferences in Tokyo (1972) and Bristol (1976). The scope of the conference series was complemented by topics of amorphous metals in the following LAM conferences held in Grenoble (1980), Los Angeles (1983), Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1986), Kyoto (1989), Wien (1992), Chicago (1995), Dortmund (1998), Yokohama (2001), Metz (2004), Ekaterinburg (2007), Rome (2010) and Beijing (2013).

We are planning plenary sessions on hot topics and future advances in the field and there will be thematically focused sessions with invited and selected contributed talks as well as a poster session.

The following topics will be covered by the conference:

• structural and dynamical properties of liquid and amorphous phases
• bulk amorphous glasses (development and properties)
• liquids under extreme and/or highly metastable conditions
• thermophysical properties of metallic melts and amorphous matter
• experimental techniques for investigating liquid and amorphous
  matter (including state of the art in-situ techniques for studying non-equilibrium states, phase transitions or chemical reactions in liquid and amorphous matter)
• simulation techniques for studying structure, dynamics and properties of liquid and amorphous systems
• investigations on liquid metals under the unique conditions of reduced gravity
• applications of amorphous materials.

Conference website: https://dlr-mp.meetingmasters.de/LAM16

Abstract submission deadline: March 31, 2016

The Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology has a long tradition and is usually held biennially. This will be the 27th Symposium. It was originally founded for the presentation of results of the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (IPP CAS) in 1967. Since 1969 it has gradually become a Czechoslovak forum in this branch and many famous foreign scientists have made presentations. Since 1993 it has been held in co-operation with the Department of Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University (FEE CTU) in Prague. Last symposia were granted the label European Physical Society Sponsored Conference.
Since 2000 the SPPT participants had the possibility to offer their original papers based on the SPPT contributions for publication in various journals (Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, European Physical Journal D, Acta Technica), since 2012 Acta Polytechnica and Plasma Physics and Technology.
The symposium is of the European importance. There will be about 150-200 participants.

Website of the Symposium

NEXT PAMIR CONFERENCE
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(from Augusto Montisci, Cagliari, Italy)

The next PAMIR conference will be organized by the University of Cagliari, Sardinia Italy, from June 20 to June 24, 2016.

The conference will take place in Cagliari and will regroup if possible in the same location, conference rooms and accommodation. The topics will be Basic MHD, Space Technologies, Ferrofluids, Applied MHD for Materials, Liquid metal technologies for coolant applications, MHD energy conversion. In parallel with the conference, a summer school will be also proposed with the topics centered on MHD for Space Applications.

The detail of the organization, deadlines, and main topics, both for conference and summer school, will be included in the next Hydromag letter.

VIEWS OF CAGLIARI

Augusto Montisci,
Università di Cagliari
e-mail: amontisci(at)diee.unica.it
tel: +39 070 675.5848
fax: +39 070 675.5900

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(from Oleg Zikanov, USA)

The program of the 2016 congress of the ECCOMAS (European  Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and  Engineering) includes a mini-symposium on Computational Methods in Magnetohydrodynamics (see http://www.eccomas2016.org/content/accepted-minisymposia#600-interdisciplinary-coupled-and-contact-problems).

The focus of the minisymposium is on the computational  challenges in modeling MHD flows. All areas of MHD are covered  including but not limited to: models of MHD turbulence,  methods for flows at high Hartmann numbers, numerical analysis  of MHD effects in astro- and geophysics, MHD instabilities and magnetoconvection.

The congress is on June 5-10, 2016 on the island of  Crete, Greece. The submission of abstracts is now open and  will continue till November 29, 2015.

Thanks and best regards

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Dr. Oleg Zikanov
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan – Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, MI 48128-1491
Ph: (313) 593-3718 Fax: (313) 593-3851

https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/olegzikanov/home

Welcome,

on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee, I am pleased to invite you to attend the 22nd International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices (22nd PSI) that will be held from May 30 to June3, 2016 in Rome,Italy.

This conference is organized by ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development.

I think it is not necessary to remind you the great beauty of Rome: it is a very attractive city, well known all over the world, and late spring is the best period to visit it. Let me only say that Rome represents also one of the most important scientific poles of Italy: close to Rome (20 km) is the Frascati Research area including, besides ENEA, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the European Space Agency (ESA).

I am looking forward to your participation and contribution for making the XXII PSI conference a great success.

Giorgio Maddaluno

Chairman of the 22nd PSI Local Organizing Committee