SUMMARY
It has been a great honour for the Laboratory of Electrical Machines and Power Electronics and the Laboratory of Manufacturing Technology of the National Technical University of Athens to host the 3rd Japanese-Mediterranean Workshop on Applied Electromagnetic Engineering for Magnetic and Superconducting Materials, (JAPMED`03), including the 3rd Superconducting Flywheel Workshop, in Athens, Greece, May 19-21, 2003. This Conference, held every two years, is jointly organized by the NTUA and the Japanese Society of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics and follows the two very successful previous 1st and 2nd Japanese-Greek Joint Workshops, held in Athens in May 1999 and in Oita, Japan in May 2001, respectively. This time it was extended to the Mediterranean and International participation and cooperation. These workshops provide a forum for specialists from universities, research centers and industry of various countries worldwide to establish cooperation, to share knowledge and experience and the cross-fertilization of new ideas and developments in the design, analysis, new materials utilization and optimisation techniques in the areas of manufacturing of advanced materials and their industrial applications in modern technology.
The high-temperature superconductivity constitutes a preferential subject of the Workshop, focusing on the recent progress in physics, mechanics, materials and applications of high-temperature superconductors, with a projection to the emerging and future areas in science and technology.
Magnetic materials, such as magneto-resistance and ferroelectric materials, as well as conventional ferromagnetic materials and electromagnetics, constitute another preferential subject, with results that appear to exhibit a breakthrough either conceptually or in the applications they generate.
The scope of the Conference has been further expanded this year to include the modern exciting areas, like Nanotechnology and Ultraprecision Engineering, with the strong belief, that we have to enhance our efforts and cooperation towards these advanced technologies, which may greatly affect our lives in the future.
It has been a great pleasure for us to warmly welcome more than 150 participants presenting 80 papers to this landmark in the development of materials, manufacturing and electrical engineering. We are sure that their participation in this Conference has been an exciting experience with many benefits to all of us.
We are also glad to announce that the 4th Japanese-Mediterranean Joint Workshop on Superconductivity and Magnetic Materials will be held in Cairo, Egypt in May 2005.
Associate Professor A.G. Kladas
Scientific Secretary of JAPMED03
Athens, Greece
May 2003