The USA-CIS Seminars on Ferroelectrics have developed into an effective scientific exchange between American and former Soviet theoretical and experimental scientists studying ferroelectricity and related phenomena. There are some 500 to 1,000 scientists in the former Soviet Union working in this area. The Second Seminar, to be held June 22-26, 1992 in St. Petersburg, Russia, will be devoted to the physics of ferroelectrics and related materials and will focus on the optics and spectroscopy of ferroelectrics. Emphasis will also be given to the structure and properties of new classes of ferroelectrics, including connections with high temperature superconducting oxides. The U.S. Committee of the Second Seminar will be chaired by Dr. George W. Taylor of Princeton Resources (Princeton, N.J.) and Professor Stewart K. Kurtz of the Pennsylvania State University; the CIS Committee is chaired by Nobel Laureate A.M. Prokhorov of the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and Academician K.S. Aleksandrov of the RAS L.V. Kirenskiy Institute in Krasnoyarsk. This project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading researchers in the United States and the U.S.S.R. to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence in the field of basic scientific research on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.
