ISMANAM STEERING COMMITTEE

 Michael Atzmon, Univ. of Michigan, USA

REGISTRATION DETAILS First Announcement
 Maria D. Baró, Autonomous Univ. of Barcelona, UAB, Please send the following details along with the
Spain
 Walter José Botta Filho, Federal Univ. of Sao Carlos,
registration fee: International Symposium
Brazil
 Andrzej Calka, Univ. of Wollongong, Australia
 Name: on Metastable, Amorphous
 Affiliation:
 Mingwei Chen, Johns Hopkins University, USA/Tohoku
University, Japan  Complete Address:
and Nanostructured
 Jürgen Eckert, Erich Schmid Inst. of Mater. Sci., Austria
 Giorgos A. Evangelakis, Univ. of Ioannina, Greece  Country: Materials
 A. Lindsay Greer, Univ. of Cambridge, UK (Chair)
 Akihisa Inoue, Josai Int. Univ., Japan
 E-mail:
(ISMANAM-2019)
 Sergey Kaloshkin, National Univ. of Sci. and Technol.,  Passport details (for overseas participants):
MISiS, Russia
 Kenneth F. Kelton, Washington Univ., St. Louis, USA Registration Fee: The Raintree, Anna Salai
 Tadeusz Kulik, Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Poland
 Jörg F. Löffler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Overseas India Chennai, India
 Nicoleta Lupu, National Inst. of Res. and Dev. for
Participant 400 Euro 10000 INR
Technical Physics, Romania
 John Perepezko, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Spouse 200 Euro 5000 INR
July 8-12, 2019
 Paola Maria Tiberto, Nanoscience and Mater., Division,
INRIM, ​Italy Student 200 Euro 5000 INR
NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Conference fee includes registration kit, conference
 D. Banerjee, IISc, Bangalore attendance, lunches, welcome dinner banquet, hosted
 S. Banerjee, BARC, Mumbai
 K. Chattopadhyay, IISc, Bangalore dinners and a subsidized tour. For payment gateways,
 P.P. Chattopadhyay, NIFFT, Ranchi please visit conference website.
 G.K. Dey, BARC, Mumbai
 R. Divakar, IGCAR, Kalpakkam ACCOMMODATION
 Rajiv. O. Dusane, IIT Bombay
 S. Ganesh Sundara Raman, IIT Madras (Chair) A special room tariff has been negotiated with the
 Vikram Jayaram, IISc, Bangalore conference venue, The Raintree, Anna Salai, for the
 U. Kamachi Mudali, HWB, Mumbai accommodation of participants. In addition, we have
a special rates for the conference with various hotels
Organized by
 Rakesh Kumar, NML, Jamshedpur
 S. Lele, IIT BHU, Varanasi near to the conference venue such as Ramada Plaza Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
 Bhaskar Majumdar, DMRL, Hyderabad Chennai, The Westin Chennai Velachery, Trident, GRT,
 I. Manna, IIT Kharagpur Feathers, Holiday Inn Chennai OMR IT Expressway,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
 S.P. Mehrotra, IIT Gandhinagar The Gateway Hotel, Park Hyatt, Taj Coromandel,
 B.K. Mishra, IIT Goa Taj Fisherman’s Cove, etc. The special tariff details
 Amitava Mitra, NML, Jamshedpur
will be available on the conference website along with
 K. Muraleedharan, CGCRI, Kolkata
 S.V.S. Narayana Murty, VSSC, Trivandrum the contact details of the hotels. You can book your
 G. Padmanabham, ARCI, Hyderabad accommodation directly with the respective hotels.
 V.S. Raja, IIT Bombay
 V. Ramgopal Rao, IIT Delhi IMPORTANT DATES
 S. Ranganathan, IISc, Bangalore Abstract Submission : December 31, 2018
 G.V.S. Sastry, IIT BHU, Varanasi CO-CHAIRS
Registration Opens : January 31, 2019
 Avanish Srivastava, AMPRI, Bhopal Prof. B.S. Murty, IIT Madras
 Dinesh Srivastava, NFC, Hyderabad Registration Closes : March 31, 2019
 O.N. Srivastava, BHU, Varanasi
Prof. N.K. Mukhopadhyay, IIT BHU, Varanasi
 G. Sundararajan, IIT Madrass
ABOUT ISMANAM WELCOME TO CHENNAI SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
ISMANAM is a prestigious global event ever since its Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, is a culturally, The aim of this conference is to bring together
inception in 1993 (Paris). The subsequent symposia historically and technologically rich city on the academicians, scientists, technologists and students
have been held in Quebec (1995), Rome (1996), Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. It is the 4th working in the field of metastable, nanocrystalline
Sitges (1997), Wollongong (1998), Dresden (1999), largest city in India and a major commercial centre in and amorphous materials to discuss the recent
Oxford (2000), Ann Arbor (2001), Seoul (2002), Foz the region. The city represents an amalgamation of the developments and review the challenges faced in the
do Iguaçu (2003), Sendai (2004), Paris (2005), Warsaw past traditions, culture emanating from the Dravidian field. Best poster papers will be judged and awarded
(2006), Corfu Island (2007), Buenos Aires (2008), civilization, and booming modern industries which during the conference. The topics of interest include
Beijing (2009), Zürich (2010), Gijón (2011), Moscow include automobile, financial services, hardware, but are not limited to:
(2012), Turin (2013), Cancún (2014), Paris (2015), software and textile which is reflected in its skyline
Nara (2016), San Sebastian (2017) and Rome (2018). composed of elegant high-rises as well as ancient Ø Nanostructured materials
ISMANAM 2019 will be the 26th conference in this temples. The famous sightseeing spots in and around Ø Quasicrystals
series, being held in India for the first time. The aim of Chennai include Marina beach, Kapaleeshwarar temple, Ø Glasses (metallic, oxide and polymer)
the conference is to provide a suitable platform for the St. Thomas Cathedral Basilica, Mahabalipuram,
Ø Nanoporous materials
exchange of ideas in the areas of metastable, nano and Pondicherry, etc.
amorphous materials. The symposium not only helps Ø High entropy materials
the scientific community to stay updated with the latest Ø Thin films, coatings and low dimensional materials
developments, but also enables discussion on the key Ø Mechanical alloying
scientific challenges in the field.
Ø Rapid solidification process
ABOUT IIT MADRAS
Ø Mechano-chemical synthesis
Indian Institute of Technology Madras was founded
Ø New processing routes for the synthesis of nano and
in the year 1959 with technical assistance from West amorphous materials
Germany. IIT Madras boasts of a green campus of 2.5
Ø Structure of amorphous materials including clustering
square kilometres, which was a part of the Guindy
and short-range order
National Park (a protected wildlife area) from which
it has inherited the diverse flora and fauna. The Ø Advances in the characterization of nano and amorphous
institute has 16 departments ranging across Science, materials, including in-situ studies
Engineering, Management and Humanities streams Ø Atomistic modelling of amorphous and nano materials
offering undergraduate, postgraduate and research Ø Phase transformations in nano and amorphous materials
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
degrees. It is a residential campus with about 600 Ø Mechanical behaviour of nano and amorphous materials
faculty, 9500 students and 600 supporting staff​. With its The conference will feature oral presentations by
eminent speakers from R&D and academic institutions Ø Magnetic, transport and optical properties of nano and
focus on excellence in teaching, research, technology
around the globe. It will also have poster papers by amorphous materials
development and entrepreneurship, IITM has been
maintaining the 1st rank among Indian Engineering young researchers based on their original work. All Ø Chemical and bio-chemical properties of nano and
Institutes for the last three consecutive years under the peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published amorphous materials
National Institutional Ranking Framework of MHRD, by internationally reputed publishers. Abstract of the Ø Nano materials in energy harvesting, energy efficiency
India. proposed paper (not more than 300 words) should and renewable energy applications
reach us on or before December 31, 2018. Ø Applications of nanomaterials
INFO Ø Applications of amorphous materials
Website: https://mme.iitm.ac.in/ismanam2019 Ø Any other areas related to metastable, amorphous and
Email: ismanam2019@wmail.iitm.ac.in nanomaterials