WELCOME TO RUSSIA in Saint-Petersburg

INFORMATION ANNOUNCEMENT

The 8-th International conference “Tribology and Reliability-08” will take place in Saint-Petersburg as usually on the 23-25th of October in 2008.

Among the organizers of this conference there are specialists of the Russian national tribology committee, University of Rail Transport, Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Information technology, mechanics and optics; Academy of Sciences- Interdepartmental scientific council in tribology; firm “Future”.

Dear colleagues!

We kindly invite you and your colleagues to take part in a work of the International conference “Tribology and Reliability-08”.

There are the next basic topics:

1-  theoretic-applied aspects in tribology and reliability of mechanical systems, and modeling;

2-  progressive technology to create and repair for the main pairs of friction;

3-  methods of testing, ways and means to do analyses and control for the tribo-conjunctions and their parts which realize the guarantee terms of operation;

4-  lubricants, oils, additives, special mediums and sealings for different mobile conjugations;

5  - materials for the international encyclopaedia “Tribology”;

6  - know how, including proposals to sign any educational or research contracts.

/According with the another demands or claims the named topics of this conference can be corrected or supplemented/.

Forms of participation

-  appearance with the plenary report- till 20 min.;

-  appearance with the section report- till 15 min.;

-  without any report.

Important dates and terms (2008 year)

15 of May - claim and the thesis of report;

15th of June- presenting the whole research article to publish it in the proceedings of this conference and payment of a fee for your participation.

Moreover you ought to send the next materials in our address till the 15th of May:

-  claim to take part at this International conference (“The Form of Claim”) and your thesis, including the report’s name, author(s), place of working, duties and the full text of a report (not more than 4 pages) and the all text of article; E-mail.

information about author(s), namely full name, the date of birth, academic rank and degree, home and work address with the post code/index, tel/fax with a code.

Footnote. All materials, connected with your article, must be sent as separate files, including figures.

Payment. The fee for three days of working, including organizational dues, living, proceedings, subsistence + coffee-break, excursions along the beautiful streets of our city or around the magnificent suburb will be $320 for double-bed room in a hotel and $360 for a single room. Each additional day of living will add $55 to the mentioned sums /but not more than 2 days beyond/. You can pay via the bank or yourself at the conference after arriving. Address for payment in roubles through the bank:

ООО КБ «Финансовый капитал» Россия, 190000, Санкт-Петербург,

ул. Б. Морская, 67

ИНН 7831001623 БИК 044030741

КИП 783501001 КПП 783501001

ОГРН 1037858008506

Кор/счёт 30101810700000000741

Расч/счёт 40702810100020000173

Для кого: ООО «Будущее» «За участие и консалтинг по конференции «Трибология и Надёжность» и от кого (From whom)

The name of the hotel will be announced in the future (after your claim).

Common claims to preparing of your texts for publication

The work must contain the aim, method of answer, real results and field of utilization/application. Type in Word, page format 210x297 mm.; margins are- top and bottom, left and right- 23 mm. Running title is 12 mm., orientation is as in the book; high of a type is 14; red line is 12mm.; the distance between two nearest lines is single; make an alignment on the width without hyphens. Each page must be full, and not more than 10, including figures, formulas, tables). Each additional pages improves the common sum on 2 Euro.

The title of your article/report is to type in the middle of the first page with the capital letters. After one empty line in the middle of the page type the name(s) of author(s). Below Country, city/town, organization/enterprise, address and E-mail must be typed, too. For identification authors from different organizations/enterprises use asterisks. If your text will be in English, before it you give Russian annotation (not more than 5 lines), and if your text is in Russian, before it you give the annotation in English (not more than 5 lines as well).

Responsible secretaries

Academician, Dr of Sc., professor- Voynov Kirill Nikolaevich (the chairman of committee) and secretariat: Address: RUSSIA, Saint-Petersburg, 190031, the University of Rail Transport, 7 Moskovsky av.; tel/fax 7- 812- 315-41- 08; E-mail:

Claim

I/we want to take part as the participant(s) at the 8th International conference “Tribology and Reliability-08” – 23-25.X.2008 in Saint-Petersburg

Full name and sex______

Title of report/article______

Scientific direction______

Form of participation (plenary or section)______

Speaker______and Form of presentation (CD or…)______

Address from the each person to have a correspondence (work and home with post code, tel/fax and E-mail) ______

Note: routine information you can see soon on our http://tribotehnika.nm.ru .