Chapter Chair:
Yuri I. Belov (12/98)

Radio Physics Research Institute
Bol'shaya Pecherskaya 25
Nizhny Novgorod 603600 Russia

Phone: 7-83-12-336751

Fax: 7-83-12-369902

E-mail: belov@nirfi.nnov.su

PROBE MICROSCOPY-99 International Workshop
9 -12 March 1999
Institute for Physics of Microstructures RAS
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Organization of the Workshop is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Ministry for Science and the Ministry for Education of the Russian Federation. Co-sponorship of IEEE MTT/ED/AP/CPMT SS Chapter Nizhny Novgorod.

PROGRAM
The PROBE MICROSCOPY-99 International Workshop is being organized with the aim of dissiminating the results of the leading research groups and exchanging experience in the solid surface research by means of scanning probe microscopes. The scope of the meeting will include presentations in the following areas:

• - scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy
• - probe microscopes as applied to development and study of nanostructures properties
• - atomic-force microscopy
• - optical near-field microscopy
• - physics of microcontacts
• - emission electronics
• - original microscope designs and novel methods of surface research.

GENERAL INFORMATION
The Workshop will be held in four days, 9-12 March 1999 including arrival/departure dates, at the Institute for Physics of Microstructures RAS. Every participant will be offered an opportunity to present an oral communication and a desired amount of poster papers. The time limit for an oral presentation is 20 min. which can be extended by preliminary arrangement with the Organizing Committee. Accomodation and meals for the non-resident participants will be provided in a sanatorium located at 20 km from Nizhny Novgorod. The Organizers will cover all of the expenses involved. Participants will be offered an extra night accomodation in the sanatorium in case their immediate departure after the Meeting is impossible due to railway/airlines schedules.

PUBLICATION
All contributed papers will be published in the Proceedings Volume by the beginning of the Workshop, followed by publication in the SURFACE Journal. Contributing authors are requested to inform the Organizing Committee of the title and form of their presentation (oral or poster) , authors' names and e-mail addresses before 1 January 1999. By 8 February 1999 the authors are to submit their manuscripts of not more than 14 pages for an extended oral presentation (20+20 min.) and not more than 7 pages for a standard oral presentation (20 min.) in Word for Windows 6.0/7.0 or ASCII format by electronic or regular mail. At registration the contributing authors are to submit to the Organizing Committee the materials prepared in compliance with the publication requirements of the SURFACE journal. Papers failing to meet these standards will not be considered.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair: S.V.Gaponov, IPM, Nizhny Novgorod
Committee Members:
N.N.Salashchenko, IPM RAS, Nizhny Novgorod
V.I.Panov, The Lomonosov State University, Moscow
V.A.Bykov, The Close Joint-Stock Company "Nanotechnology", Moscow
G.A.Maksimov, The State University of Nizhny Novgorod
V.V.Rumyantsev, Ministry for Science and Technologies, Moscow
M.N.Libenson, GOI, St.Petersburg
V.I.Shashkin, IPM RAS, Nizhny Novgorod
I.A.Dorofeyev, IPM RAS, Nizhny Novgorod
E.S.Gribkova, IPM RAS, Nizhny Novgorod
A.I.Kuzmichov, IPM RAS, Nizhny Novgorod
S.A.Malofeyev, IPM RAS, Nizhny Novgorod

Address and phone numbers to contact the Organizing Committee:
Elena Sergeyevna Gribkova,
Illarion Anatolievich Dorofeyev
Institute for Physics of Microstructures RAS
603600 Nizhny Novgorod, GSP-105, Russia
phone: (8312)675120
fax: (8312)675553
e-mail: micro@ipm.sci-nnov.ru
websites: http://www.ipm.sci-nnov.ru
http://www.nanoworld.org/russian/sem_conf.htm