General Information

Schedule
(2008.6.21 revised)
October 19 (Sun) 15:00-Registration
17:30- Get together Party
October 20 (Mon) 9:30-10:00 Opening Address
10:00-11:00 Plenary Lecture 1
13:30-18:00 Oral Presentations
19:00-21:00 Poster presentations
October 21 (Tue) 9:00-12:00 Oral Presentations
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00- Excursion
18:00- Banquet (Kacho-en: <--Sorry for Japanese)
October 22 (Wed) 9:00-10:00 Plenary lecture 2
10:00-11:00 Plenary lecture 3
13:00-18:00 Oral presentations
19:00-21:00 Poster Presentations
October 23 (Thr) 9:00-17:00 Oral presentations
17:00-18:00 Farewell ceremony

Important Dates
Abstract submission    Closed
Registration
     Closed
Proceeding submission  August 31, 2008
Advanced payment September 1, 2008

All participants need to entry from the JTB website by May 31(GMT+9:00).  Submission of abstracts, proceeding manuscripts, hotel reservation, and payments of registration fee are accepted in the website.
Presentation
Sufficient time to get acquainted among each other will be allocated after the talks for discussion and in the poster session.  The program will consist of Plenary, Keynote, and Invited lectures which are designated by organizing committee, and oral presentations (20 min include Q&A) and poster presentations.  Authors can choose oral or poster presentations before arrangement of the technical program. However in some case, the preference will be changed under the circumstance of program arrangement. Technical program will be decided after April 1.
-Oral Presentation:
Presentation time is approximately 20 min. Equipment for presentation is limited by LCD Projector (Beamer).
-Poster Presentation: Poster format is A0 (W 841mm ~ H 1189mm) of 1 pages.  Poster should be displayed from Oct.20(Mon) morning to Oct. 23(Thr) Morning.
Publication
All presentation will be published in Proceedings of 2008 Joint Symposium on Molten Salts from Organizing Committee by CD-R media on the Symposium site.
The Electrochemical Society of Japan will issued special volume of "Electrochemistry" for Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids at vol.77, No.8 on August, 2009.  The presented papers on 2008 Joint Symposium and its proceeding volume are permitted for submission as an original contributions to the issue of "Electrochemistry, Vol.77, No.8".  Deadline of the paper submission will be announced after the Symposium.
Events
Get together party will be held at 17:30 on October 19 at Nichii Gakkan.  The day will be kicked off by light meal  after registration time. All participants are recommended to attend. Excursion is now planned in the afternoon on October 21(Changed).  At the same day, Banquet will be held in the restaurant in "Kacho-en" whicrh is a neighboring facility. Attendance fee of Excursion and Banquet are included in registration fee. More information will be posted here and sent via email in the weeks to come.
Award
Outstanding presentations of young researcher under 40-year-old and students will be awarded by sponsorship of Molten Salt Committee of The Electrochemical Society of Japan, and Kansai Branch of The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan.  The parson who want to become a candidates should register at the submission of the abstract.
Contact Information
Program Chair - Shigehito Deki, Prof.
Department of Chemical Science & Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University
1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
E-mail: deki@kobe-u.ac.jp
Phone & FAX: +81-78-803-6160
Secretariat - Minoru Mizuhata, Dr.
Department of Chemical Science & Engineering
Graduate Schoolof Engineering, Kobe University
1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
E-mail: mizuhata@kobe-u.ac.jp
Phone & FAX: +81-78-803-6186