The submission method
will be changed to on-line submission through the conference website.
Details will be announced in the final announcement as well as on the
website by the end of March 2003.
Paper
Deadline is May 8, 2003.
EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will
be printed without opportunity for further change in the extended abstracts,
which will be distributed on the opening day of the Conference.
Authors of papers accepted for SSDM 2003 are encouraged to submit the original
and significant part of the papers to the Special Issue of the Japanese
Journal of Applied Physics. The special issue will be published in 2004.
AGREEMENT NOT TO PRE-PUBLISH
ABSTRUCTS
Submission of an abstract
for review and subsequent acceptance is considered by the committee as an
agreement that the work will not be published by the author prior to the
presentation at the conference. This policy will be enforced by automatic
withdrawal of the paper by the conference committee.
CONFERENCE FORMAT
The conference has
been organized to provide as much interaction and discussion among the participants
as possible. The program will include a plenary session along with technical
sessions comprised of invited and contributed papers for oral or poster
presentation.
RUMP SESSIONS
Two rump sessions are
planned to be held on September 17 (Wednesday). The detail of the rump sessions
will be announced in the final announcement.
SHORT COURSES
One-day short courses
are scheduled after the conference, i.e., September 19 (Friday) which offer
tutorial lectures on important topics.
