Progress in materials science is made possible both by the development of novel
materials
with unusual properties and by the invention of new experimental techniques.
Subsequently,
the competitive investigation and successful exploitation of such new trends
requires to
mobilize and bring together in a short time joint research activities in several
leading research
institutions with complementary experience and equipment. In this way a wide
experimental
spectrum from materials preparation and analysis to modern methods and facilities
for
measurements can be combined to a fruitful collaboration for the advancement of
materials
which are of fundamental and technical importance.
This bilateral symposium has the purpose to extend and deepen the scientific
exchange and
collaboration between research institutions working in Germany and in Russia on the
physics
of materials science. It stands in the line of a number of previously organized
bilateral
symposia organized both in Russia and Germany. The following topics have been
selected,
because of their timeliness and international significance, and because of the
already existing
fruitful collaborations established during the past years:
A. Preparation and characterization of low dimensional materials and cluster matter
B. Transport properties of materials with strong coupling phenomena
C. Cooperative phenomena in strongly correlated systems with multicomponent order
parameters
During 3 days of this symposium the state of the art and new perspectives in the
field shall be
presented, reviewed, and critically discussed for their relevance for future joint
programs. The
results of the collaboration during the last period shall be presented and
critically reviewed.
The symposium shall be followed by a seven day information visit to laboratories in
the
Dresden area, which have particular competence in any of the areas of collaboration
and
which like to present their experimental or theoretical capabilities for the
bilateral
cooperation.