Symposium on B-7: "Advanced Materials and Processing of Superconductors"
Co-organized by National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and International Superconducting Technology Center (ISTEC)

Scope
Research and development of High Temperature Superconductors have been developed for aiming at practical applications and industrial popularization. Furthermore research activities for materials have increasingly risen since recent epochal discoveries of novel materials, MgB₂ etc. In this symposium many invited papers and contributed papers will be presented for the following topics. Also a joint symposium of B-6, 7, 8 will be organized one day.

Topics
* Materials Properties and Processing of Novel Superconductors
* Advanced Characterization of Superconductors
* Growth and Processing of Bulk Materials, Tapes and Wires
* Superconducting and Related Thin Film Processes (Joint Symposium B-6, 7, 8)
* Electric Applications
* Electronic, Microwave, Optical Devices
* Others

Invited Speakers (Tentative)
Prof. J. Akimitsu, Dr. H. Fuke, Dr. T. Hasegawa, Prof. A. Ishiyama, Dr.A. Izumi, Prof. K. Kishio, Dr. H. Kumakura, Prof. T. Matsusita, Prof. U.Mizutani, Dr. H. Naitoh, Dr. T. Oka, Dr. N. Saho, Dr. N. Sakai, Dr. K.Satoh, Dr. Y. Shiobara, Dr. K. Tanabe, Dr. Y. Tomita, Dr. K. Yamanaka, Prof. B. Cao, Prof. D. Cardwell, Prof. S.X. Dou, Prof. E. E. Hellstrom, Dr. J. D. Jorgensen, Dr. G. Krabbes, Prof. S. Y. Lee, Prof. J. Mazierska, Dr. M. Muralidhar, Dr. W. Prusseit, Prof. K. Salama, Dr. G.Schmitz, Prof. L. M. Wang, Prof. P. H. Wu, Prof. L. Zhou

Chairpersons
Prof. Hiroshi Yamamoto^1,2) (Nihon University, hyama@ecs.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp)
Prof. Shigetoshi Ohshima (Yamagata University, ohshima@yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp)
Dr. Hiroaki Kumakura (National Institute for Materials Science, KUMAKURA.Hiroaki@nims.go.jp)
Dr.Masato Murakami (Superconductivity Research Laboratory, murakami@istec.or.jp)
Prof. Norio Terada (Kagoshima Univ, terada@eee.kagoshima-u.ac.jp)
Prof. Lian Zhou (Northwest Institute for Nonferrous, Metal Research, lzhou@xanet.edu.cn)
Prof. Eric E. Hellstrom (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, hellstrom@engr.wisc.edu)