Dear colleague

This is to inform you that the Call for Abstracts for the forthcoming
International Meeting on Applied Physics (APHYS-2003), to be held
during October 14-18th 2003 in Badajoz (Spain), is now opened. All
the information regarding this interdisciplinary conference can be
found at the Conference website

www.formatex.org/aphys2003/aphys2003.htm

Some of the topics to be covered will be

- Surfaces, Interfaces and Colloids
- Imaging Techniques, Microscopy
- Nano-sciences and Technologies
- Materials Science & Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials Science&Engineering
- Biophysics, Biological & Medical Physics
- Computational Physics
- Radiation Physics, Applied Nuclear Physics/chemistry, Radiation
Protection

In addition to the regular Scientific Program, several International
Workshops will be held as pre-conference events. The following three
Workshops are presently confirmed:

1. Workshop on Modern Applied Microscopy in Molecular and Cell
Biophysics Research
2. International Interdisciplinar Workshop on Bioengineered Non-
crystalline Solids
3. International Workshop on Occupational Radiation Protection

The Conference will be specifically interested in receiving reports
on Interdisciplinary researches relating Physics with other Sciences
such as Biology, Chemistry, Information Technology, Medicine, etc or
relating different Physics areas. In other words, we are specially
(but not exclusivelly) interested in reports applying the techniques,
the training, and the culture of physics to research areas usually
associated with other scientific and engineering disciplines

APHYS-2003 will also serve as a platform to search for partners for
transnational collaboration projects, specially for the EU Sixth
Framework Program (NETworks of Excellence and Integrated
Projects). "Projects Presentations" and "Call for Partners"
presentations proposals are therefore encouraged and welcomed. If you
are interested in taking part of this Conference feature, please send
us the corresponding form available at the website.

In addition to the "traditional" oral contributed and posters
presentation, a Virtual Participation modality has been established
for those researchers unable to attend it in person. A limited number
of works can be presented in this way. Please refer to the Conference
website for details.

If you are interested in taking part of APHYS-2003, please send us
your PRE-REGISTRATION FORM (at the main website of the conference) as
soon as possible. The pre-registration form is also available through
the direct URL http://www.formatex.org/aphys2003/preregistration.htm

Deadline for abstracts submission is April 15th 2003 although we
highly recommend you to submit your abstracts as soon as possible to
avoid saturation during the days before the deadine (more than 800
researchers are expected to attend this large Applied Physics
Conference).

Proceedings
Accepted and presented papers will be reviewed for publication in
special issues of several international Journals such as Journal of
Microscopy, Journal of Non-crystalline Solids, Microelectronics
Journal, Physica Scripta, Applied Surface Science, Radiation
Protection Dosimetry and Applied Physics A (Materials Science &
Processing, to be confirmed). Also a book "Advances in Applied
Physics" will be published by an international publisher with those
papers accepted for presentation but not suitable for the journal
issues. For up-to-date information on publications participating at
the Conference as publishers, please visit regularly the Conference
website (Proceedings sections).

For any question or suggestion, please do not hesitate to contact us
at secretariat@formatex.org, or visit
www.formatex.org/aphys2003/aphys2003.htm (Bookmark the page!!) We
would also appreciate if could disseminate this Call for Papers
through your Department or Institution.

We hope to meet you at this exciting and interdisciplinar meeting!

A.M#233#ndez-Vilas
APHYS-2003 Organizing Committee