2nd announcement

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SPIN WAVES

Saint-Petersburg, May 21 - 24, 2002

Scope of the Symposium

1. Spin waves in nanostructures
2. Nonlinear phenomena and relaxation processes
3. Magnetic excitations in low-dimensional substances
4. Magnetic excitations in disordered media
5. Interactions of spin waves with elastic waves and other excitations
6. Neutron scattering by spin waves
7. Dynamics of magnetic-domain walls
8. Other new topics in magnetic dynamics

The Symposium will include
- lectures (45 min.),
- oral contributed papers (15 min.),
- poster contributed papers.

Note. Abstracts of lectures and all papers, oral and poster, will be posted up on a stand during the whole day of the corresponding session.

Abstracts
Two copies of abstracts of all papers are to be handed at the registration.
The form of abstracts must meet the following requirements:
- size - one or two pages A4 including formulae and figures,
- language - English,
- names of all authors and their affiliations are to be indicated,
- the font size of text, formulae, and inscriptions on the figures must be large
enough for reading at a stand.

Illustrations
The illustrations for lectures and oral papers are transparencies for standard over-head projector.
The transparencies should be in English and contain all the information necessary to show the main ideas of the paper.

Program
The program of the Symposium will be handed to the participants at the registration. The list of all submitted papers will be soon available in our web site http://www.ioffe.rssi.ru/SPINWAVE/index.html

Location of the Symposium
Symposium sessions will be held in the Main Building of Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 26 Politekhnicheskaja str., St. Petersburg.

Transport:
From airport "Pulkovo"
- buses 13 and 39 or fixed-route taxi up to the metro station "Moskovskaja",
- then, metro up to the station "Tekhnologicheskii institut",
- then, change to metro line 1 and up to the station "Lesnaja",
- then, bus 80 to the end stop "Ploshchad' Muzhestva",
- then, all kinds of transport or on foot (5 min.) to the metro station
"Politekhnicheskaja"
From railway station "Moskovskii vokzal"
- metro line 1 up to the station "Lesnaja",
- then, as pointed out above.

Accommodation
Hotel (5 min. walk from the Symposium location)
single room - 400 roubles per night
double room - 240 roubles for one person per night.

Registration
Registration will take place in the Main Building of Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute (main entrance, 26 Politekhnicheskaja str.)
on Monday, May 20 from 9 am till 11 pm,
on Tuesday, May 21 from 8 am till 6 pm.
Participants who will arrive at the time when registration does not take place are asked to get information about accomodation by phone:
272 57 97 - Vadim Viktorovich Volkov or
135 09 14 - Olga Anatol'evna Chivileva
Registration fee - 100 roubles for participants from Russia and CIS and $100 for participants from other states - is to be paid at the registration.
Note. Some participants, especially young ones and lecturers, will be able to get partial compensation of the transport and lodging expenses.
Accompanying persons are cordially welcome and need not pay any registration fee.

Opening of the Symposium - Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 2 pm.

Addresses
Post: O.A. Chivileva, Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 194021 St.-Petersburg,
Russia
Fax: (812) 515 67 47
e-mail: chivileva@pop.ioffe.rssi.ru

Enclosed:
1. Registration form (must be filled in and sent by each participant of the
Symposium not later than March 15, 2002)
(Please, if possible, send it by e-mail )
2. Information about acceptance of your papers.

Organizing Committee