Call for Poster Presentations

General Remarks
A Poster Session for graduate students and young researchers will be held at the Multiscale and Functionally Graded Materials Conference (FGM2006). The purpose of this session is to encourage graduate students and young researchers to present the results of their research. This session will also offer an opportunity for all participants to exchange information and interact with young researchers in a relaxed atmosphere. Special prizes called FGM Poster Awards will be awarded for meritorious presentations. FGM Poster Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students and young researchers whose academic achievements and current FGM research activities display high levels of excellence and distinction.

FGM Poster Awards
FGM Poster Awards are newly established awards to recognize exceptional abilities of young researchers who demonstrate promise for significant achievement in their future FGM research activities. All poster presentations at the FGM2006 Conference will be evaluated by the jury consisting of invited speakers, symposium organizers and FGM committee members. Prize winners will receive award certificates and plaques at the conference banquet.

Eligibility
Applicants for the Poster Session must be graduate students or young researchers who register for the FGM2006 Conference. The age of applicant should be 35 years or less as of December 31, 2006. There is no age limit for the poster presentation co-authors.

Rules
To be eligible for an award, the applicant himself/herself must make the poster presentation; presentations made by alternate presenters will not be considered for awards. The Poster Session is planned to be held at a specified time during the conference. Presenters will be requested to remain in the allocated poster session room during the entire session to provide explanation and discussion as needed.

Notice
The FGM Poster Award Committee has no plans to publish proceedings of the Poster Session presentations. The Poster Session applicants/contributors are encouraged to contribute oral presentations of their poster session research topics to the planned mini-symposia or regular sessions and submit full paper manuscripts for publication in the conference proceedings.

Application
Completed application forms must be submitted by e-mail to Prof. Kirihara (kirihara@jwri.osaka-u.ac.jp), the FGM Poster Award Administrator. The deadline for application submissions is July 30th, 2006.

Application Form
(a) Poster title:
(b) First Name, Middle Initial and Last Name:
(c) Age of Applicant (as of December 31, 2006):
(d) Institution:
(e) Department:
(f) Address:
(g) Tel and Fax Number:
(h) E-mail :
(i) Abstract ( 350 words or less )
(j) Are you also submitting to an oral session? : Yes (Both Poster and Oral Session) / No (Only Poster Session)

FGM Poster Award Administrator
Prof. Soshu Kirihara
Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University
E-mail: kirihara@jwri.osaka-u.ac.jp