Dear Colleagues & Friends,

This is a reminder to inform you about:

the 5-th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT2007)
September 10-12, 2007
House of Scientists, Odessa, Ukraine

Conference Topics:
   - Theoretical concepts in thermoelectricity and  basic approaches
   - New and improved thermoelectric materials
   - Low dimensional thermoelectric structures
   - New developments in measurement techniques and preparation methods

+- M-CALC V
The Fifth Industry Assessment Workshop Discussing
Military & Commercial Applications for Low-Cost Cryocoolers
June 12-13, 2006 Annapolis, MD
http://www.sainc.com/MCALC5
Contact: Daryl Treger, Strategic Analysis, Inc.
treged [at] sainc [dot] com

APS March Meeting 2006: TE Session (R16) and TE Tutorial (T4)
March 13-17, 2006 Baltimore, MD
http://www.aps.org/meet/MAR06/
Session R16: Thermoelectrics, Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 2:30PM - 2:42PM
Sponsoring Units: FIAP
Chair: Joseph P. Heremans, Ohio State University
15 Abstracts are available online:
APS March Meeting
Tutorial on Thermoelectrics: Session T4 Thermoelectric Energy Conversion
Sunday, March 12, 2006, 8:30am - 12:30pm
Organizer: Ali Shakouri. UC Santa Cruz; email: ali-at-soe.ucsc.edu
TE Tutorial

APS Tutorial on Thermoelectrics: Session T4 Thermoelectric Energy Conversion
Registration: $100 ($40 for students)
TE Tutorial

Mutual interaction of heat and electricity is the origin of Seebeck and
Peltier effects which are used in thermocouples for temperature sensing and
in thermoelectric modules for solid-state refrigeration or power
generation. An overview of recent advances in bulk and thin film
thermoelectric materials and devices will be given. Material optimization
is focused on reducing the lattice thermal conductivity without reducing
electrical conductivity and/or increase the Seebeck coefficient. Recent
development in skutterudites, clathrates, half-heusler alloys and oxides
will be reviewed. Nanoscale engineering of materials gives the opportunity
to modify the fundamental thermoelectric transport properties beyond what
can be achieved in bulk materials. These include quantum confinement due to
wave nature of carriers and interface effects such as thermionic emission
and evaporative cooling at heterostructures. Significant improvements based
on superlattices and embedded quantum dots have been achieved. Bipolar
thermoelectric effects will be introduced. They could be used for internal
cooling of electronic and optoelectronic devices. Finally fundamental
efficiency limitations of thermoelectric energy converters and practical
system optimization will be discussed.

Instructors:
Ali Shakouri, UCSC - Introduction to Thermoelectrics and Solid-state
Thermionics
Ctirad Uher. UMich - Novel Bulk Thermoelectric Materials
Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT - Low Dimensional Thermoelectrics
Rajeev Ram, MIT - Bipolar Thermoelectrics and System Optimization

ECT2006
4th European Thermoelectric Conference
April 10-11, 2006
Cardiff, Wales UK
http://www.thermoelectrics.com/ECT2006/

Contact: hyettpa [at] cf [dot] ac [dot] uk>hyettpa [at] cf [dot] ac [dot] uk
Further Details See website

The ECT2006 organizer (Mike Rowe in Cardiff, Wales) informs us the two day program is nearly full and they only have room for 5 more abstracts. Anyone intending to attend should e-mail hyettpa [at] cf [dot] ac [dot] uk>hyettpa [at] cf [dot] ac [dot] uk as soon as possible as places at the social functions are strictly limited.

Full details and online registration are available at the website above.

Click here for a *.pdf file with the full graphics and formating of this announcement: http://www.zts.com/pub/Volta-2005.pdf

The Workshop "Thermoelectricity, from Alessandro Volta to Nanotechnologies"
will be held on July 14, 2005 in Italy, the city of Como, the birthplace of Alessandro Volta,
in the building of City Council.

The Workshop is organized on the initiative of the International Thermoelectric Academy
that at its General Meeting on September 10, 2004 confirmed that Alessandro Volta
discovered the effect of origination of electromotive forces and adopted a decision to
immortalize his memory as the pioneer of thermoelectricity.

The 3rd European Conference on Thermoelectrics: ECT2005
September 1-2, 2005
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy, Nancy, France     
http://www.lpm.u-nancy.fr/ect2005
Contact: ect2005 [at] mines [dot] inpl-nancy [dot] fr>ect2005 [at] mines [dot] inpl-nancy [dot] fr

The deadline for abstracts is extended to May 13, 2005
On line registration is open. Deadline for reduced fees is June 15,
2005.

6th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology — PacRim6
American Ceramics Society
Electronics Division

Introduction & Overview:

PacRim 6, is the sixth in a series of international conferences that provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest scientific and technological developments in ceramic, glass and related materials. The conference series began in 1993 and was last held in the United States in 2001. PacRim Conferences have established a strong international reputation for information exchange on the state-of-the art, as well as future research directions in materials technology. PacRim 6 is no exception.

September 11-16, 2005
Marriott Wailea Resort
Maui, Hawaii

http://www.ceramics.org/meetings/pacrim6/technicalprog.asp#016

Electronics Division Symposium # 16
Thermoelectric and Energy Harvesting Materials for Solid State Power Conversion

Abstract Deadline: January 31, 2005

More details follow ...