NAMES a multidisciplinary Conference series

Abstract

The NAMES conferences traditionally aim at reviewing and discussing current developments in the field of Materials Science, Natural resources and environmental sciences by researchers from Russia and Lorraine Region of France. More specifically and as set up by the organizers of the Conferences (Université de Lorraine and National University of Sciences and Technology “MISIS”), the Seminar’s goals are the following:- development of scientific and academic contacts by giving a new impulse to bring together fundamental research and technology transfer;- development and consolidation of scientific, technical and business collaboration between regions of Russia and Lorraine through direct contacts between the universities, institutes and companies involved.The First Seminar took place on October 27-29, 2004 at the « Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine » (on the premises of the « Ecole Européenne d’Ingénieurs en Génie des Matériaux », Nancy, France). The first Seminar demonstrated a high quality and diversity of oral presentations and posters responding to highest international standards. Indeed, the first Seminar gathered 30 oral presentations and 72 posters, presented by:• 19 participants from 5 Universities and 3 Institutes of the Russian Academy of Science,• Participants from 11 laboratories of 3 Universities from the Lorraine region,• Three industrial companies, including European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company - EADS, and ANVAR (“Agence nationale de valorisation de la recherché”).The 75th Anniversary of Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISIS) had been the occasion to set up the Second Seminar in Moscow, Russia, on November 10-12, 2005. The efficiency of scientific partnership between the groups of researchers from both Russia and France and initiated during the First Seminar had been brilliantly demonstrated during this Second Seminar. As a consequence of the presentations high standards and the Seminar widest organisation, the Second Seminar doubtlessly met the main standards of an international conference.Reviews of the state-of-the-art developments in Materials Science were given by leading scientists from Moscow and from the Lorraine region. The three days long seminar was structured around four main topics:- Functional Materials;- Coatings, Films and Surface Engineering,- Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies,- Environment;and three Round Tables:- defining practical means of carrying out Franco-Russian collaborations in technology transfer and innovation;- Materials Science;- ARCUS: Lorraine-Russian collaboration in materials science and environment.The event totalised 32 oral and 25 poster reports spread between the four abovementioned topics and set out by 110 participants.NAMES 2007, the 3rd France-Russia Confrence on “New Achievements in Materials and Environmental Sciences” took place in Metz (France) on November 7-9, 2007. The conference emphasized fundamentals and development of the five main themes linked to the Lorraine –Russia ARCUS project with possible extension to other topics.The five mains subjects included in Arcus Project are the following:• Bulk-Surface-Interface material sciences,• Nanomaterials and nanotechnologies,• Environment and Natural resources,• Plasma physics —ITER Project, and• Vibrational dynamics.The 3rd conference totalised 46 oral and 52 poster presentations during 3 days with 154 participants.The First, the Second and Third NAMES Seminars were financially supported by the following organisations- Ambassade de France à Moscou and Région Lorraine,- Communauté Urbaine du Grand Nanc and Conseil Général de Meurthe et Moselle- Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Université de Metz, Université Henry Poincaré- CNRS and ANVAR- Federal Agency on Science and Innovations of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation and Moscow Committee on Science and Technologies;- National university of sciences and technology “MISIS”.The 4th NAMES Conference was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France and the Lorraine Region Council.The Conferences set out new perspectives for further research and stimulated the opportunities for enhanced cooperation between scientists from Lorraine and Russia. The participants of the Conferences reviewed the remarkable worldwide progress with numerous breakthroughs in areas of basic research and industrial applications, particularly in the fields of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, surface engineering, biomaterials and multifunctional coatings, functionally graded materials, new materials for microelectronics and optics, nanostructured thin films and nanodispersion strengthening coatings, combustion synthesis, new micro- and nanosystems and device, natural resources environmental sciences, clean technology, and recently, natural fibrous materials etc.Lev Filippov,Coordinator of NAMES conferences