Advances and Applications in Plasma Physics
(AAPP 2019)

Conference hashtag: #AAPP19

18-20 September 2019
Congress center of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

Organizers
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Nature Physics
Nature Reviews Physics
Nature Communications

ORGANIZERS

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University is pleased to announce the first Nature conference in Russia – Advances and Applications in Plasma Physics. This event aims to provide a platform for the exchange of recent results between plasma scientists working on different plasma-related research topics, to stimulate further breakthroughs in fundamental understanding and advances towards new applications in this fascinating field of research.

In partnership with the leading publishing house Nature Research and the editors of high-profile journals Nature Physics, Nature Communications and Nature Reviews Physics we invited the most important researchers from different plasma-related topics to give their speeches at the conference. The participants will also have a chance to listen to the IAEA, ITER and ROSATOM representatives.

The conference will take place in St. Petersburg, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Europe’s Best Tourist Destination of the year 2017, Europe's Leading Heritage Destination 2018 and Europe's Leading Cruise Destination 2018 at World Travel Awards. The conference package includes a fascinating social program.

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AAPP 2019

Advances and Applications in Plasma Physics

18-20 September 2019

Conference coordinator
Anastasia Kulachinskaya
29 A-F Build, room B 3.17, Polytechnicheskaya str., St.Petersburg, Russia, 195251
10:00 - 18:00 GMT+4

Selected papers will be published in:

Conference papers are indexed in SCOPUS.

Topics

  • Nuclear fusion
  • Low-temperature plasmas
  • Astrophysical plasmas
  • Laser plasmas

Important dates

1
apr
Early registration due
1
june
Notification of acceptance
19
jul
Results of the review process
9
sep
Registration closure
20
may
Abstract submission deadline
1
aug
Full paper submission
25
aug
Final full paper submission

Conference fee

Students

100

Academic

450

Industry

550

Accompanying person

100

Students

150

Academic

500

Industry

600

Accompanying person

150

Conference fee for participation covers (for one person):

  • All scientific sessions
  • Poster sessions
  • Meals as indicated in the conference program
  • Abstract book
  • Proceedings publication

Conference fee for accompanying person covers:

  • All scientific sessions
  • Poster sessions
  • Meals as indicated in the conference program

Conference fee does not include accommodation payment. The costs of travel and accommodation paper presenters cover themselves. All payments from the Russian citizens and organizations are made in rubles in the current exchange rate.

PAPER SUBMISSION

The abstract submission deadline is May 20th, 2019. The full paper submission deadline is August 1st, 2019.

Be sure that your paper is in strict accordance to templates:

Conference papers are indexed in SCOPUS.

Registrants are invited to submit an abstract for consideration for poster or oral presentation. The Scientific Committee will select abstract submissions from conference registrants as posters and oral presentations at the meeting.

Please note: ПYou must register for the conference prior to submitting an abstract. Abstracts received from anyone who has not registered to attend the conference will not be considered.

The manuscript should follow the IMRaD format :

  • Title
  • Authors
  • Keywords
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Materials and methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References

Origin, motivation and contribution

Papers which are prepared for publishing should be original research manuscripts, never published before and not under consideration for publication in any other conference proceeding (journal etc.). All papers are supposed to present novel research results of international interest. Papers need to be related to the main topic of the conference and conference topic fields. We publish papers written in good English only. All papers are reviewed by a native speaker. All papers are thoroughly checked for plagiarism. Acceptable minimum of originality is 90%. All papers should be not less than 6 pages (recommended 8-12 pages).

Ethics

Please read the detailed Elsivier Publication Ethics. (Elsevier recommendations and COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors). If a paper contains figures or tables taken from other sources, the author must get the respective permission for reproduction them from the corresponding publishers.

Authorship

Number of authors in a single paper is not limited. The corresponding author is the person chosen within the group to be responsible for all contact and correspondence with the periodical. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (and no inappropriate co-authors) are included in the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and agree on its submission for publication.



KEY SPEAKERS

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

  • Zoe Budrikis (Nature Reviews Physics, UK)
  • Bishwanath Gaire (Nature Communications, USA)
  • Pavel Goncharov (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia)
  • Sergey Lebedev (Ioffe Institute, Russia)
  • Federico Levi (Nature Physics, UK)
  • Stefanie Reichert (Nature Physics, Germany)
  • Vladimir Rozhansky (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia)
  • Bart Verberck (Nature Research, Germany)

Program

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EXCURSIONS AND VISITS

The boat trip around the rivers and canals of St. Petersburg and visits to key centers and laboratories of the University are included in the Conference fee

We also offer to participants to join to the The Ceremony of Fountains' Closing in Peterhof (Peterhof located in 1 hour from St. Petersburg). The Ceremony means closing of the tourist season in the city. This event is not included in the Conference fee.

The boat trip around the rivers and canals of St. Petersburg

18 September

20:30-22:30

The Ceremony of Fountains' Closing in Peterhof

20-21 September

afternoon

Visit to Supercomputer Center "Polytechnic"

18-20 September

afternoon

Visit to the Globus-M2 Tokamak

20 September

15:00-16:45

Venue and accomodation

The modern congress center with comfortable halls is equipped with everything necessary for conferences and other events. It is located in the heart of the university campus on the north of St. Petersburg within easy walking distance of the metro station Polytechnicheskaya.

St. Petersburg is Europe’s Best Tourist Destination of the year 2017, Europe's Leading Heritage Destination 2018 and Europe's Leading Cruise Destination 2018 at World Travel Awards.

We recommend conference participants to book hotels in the city center near the red metro line (it takes about 20 minutes by metro from the city center to the venue).

You can also choose the hotels that are within walking distance of the venue:

  • Orbita Hotel, Nepokorennyh Prospekt 4, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • «Akademia» Hotel, Prospekt Nauki 15/1, Saint Petersburg, Russia