News General Information Scope Organizing Committee Advisory Committee Background & Organisation List of participants Venue Programme Registration Accommodation Abstracts & Proceedings Deadlines Sponsors Contact Us		GENERAL INFORMATION BACKGROUND AND ORGANISATION In 1995, Prof. M. Shiojiri, Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT) and Prof. J. Kątcki, Institute of Electron Technology (ITE) initiated a joint project, which was authorised by the agreements of the Committee on Co-operation of Science and Technology between the Polish and Japanese Governments. In September 1997, Polish-Japanese (Pol-Jpn) Joint Seminar on Materials Analysis was held at ITE as one of the activities related to the project. The Seminar was co-organized by Profs. Shiojiri and Kątcki, and attracted 30 participants with 21 presentations. The 2nd Jpn-Pol Joint Seminar was held in KIT in December 1998, joined with the International Symposium 'Hybrid Analyses for Functional Nanostructure'. The symposium was organized by Prof. Shiojiri and had about 200 participants, with 36 invited lectures and 48 poster presentation. Since the Japanese partner of the joint project was succeeded by Prof. T. Okabe, Toyama University (TU), the 3rd Pol-Jpn Joint Seminar held in Krakow-Zakopane in July 2000 was co-organized by Prof. Okabe and Prof. Dutkiewicz (Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science). It attracted 20 Polish, 24 Japanese, 3 Swiss and 1 Czech Republic participants. All the participants agreed to have the next Seminar in the coming two years to keep up with the recent rapid progress and steady advances of the materials analysis techniques. The 4th Jpn-Pol Joint Seminar, organized by the co-chairs of Prof. Okabe: Prof. Ikeno (TU) and Prof. Dutkiewicz, took place at Toyama-Tateyama in 2002. The 5th Pol-Jpn symposium on advanced methods of materials characterization on materials analysis was held in Krakow-Niedzica in 2004, organized by the co-chairs of Prof. Dutkiewicz: Prof. Czyrska-Filemonowicz, (AGH University of Science and Technology) and Prof. Matsuda (TU). The 6th Jpn-Pol Joint Seminar on Materials Analysis was organized by the co-chairs: Prof. Ikeno and Prof. Dutkiewicz and took place, again, in Toyama-Tateyama. The incoming 7th and 10-year commemorative Pol-Jpn Seminar, devoted to the overall discussion of the developments in nano-structural analysis techniques and their applications for functional materials and devices, will be hosted by The Institute of Electron Technology (Instytut Technologii Elektronowej - ITE) in Warsaw.