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Focuses on the possible symposium on ferroelectricity to be held in Russia and Japan. Organizers of the possible symposium; Participants of the possible symposium.

The article presents information regarding the 8th Russia, CIS, Baltic and Japan Symposium on Ferroelectricity that was held in Tsukuba, Japan, May 15-19, 2006. Various important topics that were discussed in the meeting include ferroelectric phase transitions, relaxors, multiferroics, piezoelectric materials, lead free ferroelectrics and elastic and inelastic scattering, advances in theory and others.

Information on the 11th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals in Hokkaido, Japan from September 3-8, 2007 is presented. He asserts that before the conference, five tutorials were given. He notes that the conference was attended by 160 participants who gave oral and poster presentations on polar liquid crystals. He acknowledges the support of several companies, committee members and students who made the conference possible.

The article highlights the 5th Asian Meeting on Ferroelectrics held at the Tokyo University of Science in Noda, Japan on September 3-7, 2006. The meeting program comprises three plenary lectures, three concurrent sessions of oral presentations including invited talks daily and two poster sessions highlighting research areas of current interest. The meeting covered recent advances in the broad and rapidly progressing field of dielectrics, piezoelectrics and ferroelectrics.