Symposia & Workshops / Call For Papers

E10 Nuclear Technology and Applications

Title: Sixth International Symposium on Small Specimen Test Techniques
Dates: Wednesday January 29 2014 - Friday January 31 2014
Location: Hyatt Regency Houston Houston, TX
Sponsored by: E10
Deadline for Abstract Submittal: Wednesday March 20 2013

ABOUT THE EVENT

Papers are invited for the Sixth International Symposium on Small Specimen Test Techniques to be held January 29-31, 2014. Sponsored by ASTM Committee E10 on Nuclear Technology and Applications, the symposium will be held at the Hyatt Regency Houston in Houston, TX, in conjunction with the January standards development meetings of Committee.

Objective
This sixth symposium will continue the tradition of the small specimen symposia series by specifically addressing the experimental, analytical, or computational aspects of small (and miniature) specimen techniques and their applications. Papers are invited on this topic.

The language of the symposium will be English.

ABSTRACT SUBMITTAL

To participate in the symposium, presenters/authors must submit online the Abstract Submittal Form and attach a 250-300 word preliminary abstract no later than March 8, 2013. Scroll to the top of the page to "Go to Abstract Submittal Form". To ensure your abstract was received into the ASTM database system, please email hsparks@astm.org stating that your abstract was submitted.

The abstract must include a clear definition of the objective and approach of the work discussed, pointing out material that is new, and present sufficient details regarding results. The presentation and manuscript must not be of a commercial nature nor can it have been previously published. Because a limited number of abstracts will be accepted, be sure that the abstract is complete to allow for careful assessment of the paper's suitability for this symposium. Symposium Chairman Mikhail A Sokolov will notify you via postal mail by March 29, 2013 of your paper?s acceptability for presentation at the symposium. If the preliminary abstract is accepted, the presenter/author will be requested to submit a final camera-ready abstract several months before the symposium. The final abstracts will be distributed in an abstract booklet at the symposium.

PUBLICATION

Symposium presenters are required to submit their papers to the Selected Technical Paper (STP), an online and printed, peer-reviewed publication for the international scientific and engineering community. After the final selection of abstracts has been approved, the ASTM Editorial Office will send authors' instructions via email only. Manuscripts to be peer reviewed for the STP are due online no later than January 24, 2014 at the ASTM Editorial Office. The corresponding author (the author who is the main contact with ASTM Headquarters) will receive a copy of his/her paper in portable document format (PDF). All published authors will have the opportunity to purchase reprints of their papers at a nominal cost.

ASTM publishes individual paper(s) in the online STP as they are finalized ASTM also publishes a printed book as a Selected Technical Papers (STP). (A minimum of ten papers is required for a printed STP.) Only those papers submitted by the manuscript due date will be included in the STP.

TECHNICAL CHAIR CONTACT INFORMATION

Additional information about the symposium is available from Symposium Chairman Mikhail A. Sokolov, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, Email: sokolovm@ornl.gov, tel: 865-574-4842 and Symposium Co-Chairman Enrico Lucon, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bolder, CO, email: enrico.lucon@nist.gov.