Call for Papers

The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that the CEMS International Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry and Functional Materials 2013 will meet December 15 through 17, 2013 at Takeda Hall, The University of Tokyo , Japan.

You are cordially invited to write a paper based on the guideline below. If you wish to submit, you need to prepare abstracts in English and send them via the designated email address no later than November 15, 2013.

The Symposium will provide you a valuable opportunity to explore the new possibilities by collaboration of the domain on Supramolecular Chemistry with the domain on Functional Materials, and to discuss the future of the forefront research on Supramolecular Chemistry.

Process for Abstract Submission

(1) Download “Template of Abstract” from this website.

(2) Write your abstracts with following the guidelines written below.

(3) Confirm abstracts again so that you can follow the guidelines.

(4) Convert your abstracts into PDF file.

(5) Submit via the designated email address no later than November 15, 2013.

Abstract Guidelines

The abstract should be submitted as a PDF file.
It should not exceed one A4 (210 x 297 mm) sheet, with the following margins: top 20 mm, bottom 25 mm, left 25 mm and right 25 mm. Use the text fonts of this template. Do not use macros.

[Download Template]

You can download Template of abstract from the URL below.

Download Template

[Title]

Font size 12 bold and centered. Leave a line after the title.

[Authors]

Font size 10, bold, the presenting author underlined. Leave a line after the authors.

[Affiliation]

In italic with font size 10 and justified. The e-mail address is optional. Leave two lines after the affiliation.

[Abstract text]

Font size 10, justified with single space between lines. Do not insert page numbers.
The insertion of figures, charts, schemes, etc, should be made as “Picture” and “in line with text”. The figures letter size should be ≥ 8 pt. The caption for the figures should be as follows: Fig. 1- Use font size 9.
Leave a line before and after the table and the figure, respectively. Tables are also preferred to be inserted as a “Picture”.

[References]

The references should appear in the text as superscript1,2 and must be placed at the end of the document (font size 10) according to the model below. Do not write the word “references”, and leave a blank line before the first reference.

[Submission Deadline]

24:00 (JST), November 15, 2013

[Before Submission]

Once you write the abstract in Word file, please check the following points before submission.

  • Your abstract is converted into PDF file.
  • Confirm that your abstract has been approved by all the authors.
  • Use the template form to prepare the abstract and follow the submission instructions.
  • All the authors permit the Organizer to publish conference publications such as Proceedings.

[After submission]

To revise your submission:
If you wish to revise an already submitted paper, please send your revised abstract via the email address appointed. You need to change the name of the file and add the date you submit to notify which file is new one, for example, (Title)-rev.1031.pdf.

Instructions for Poster Presenters

The poster session has been scheduled from 16:30 to 18:30 on December 16. The presenting authors are required to stay around their posters during the session. All posters will be displayed for three days, during the period of the Symposium.

Posters will be displayed in the Exhibition Hall in the second floor of the Takeda-Hall. Each poster board is identified by a number corresponding to the list in the Abstract. Size of poster board is 90 cm wide by 210 cm high Portrait style. All posters must be mounted between 12:00 and 14:00 on December 15. For mounting, please use materials prepared at the venue. Posters must be removed by 18:00 on December 17. After 18:00, the organizer will remove posters left at the venue and they shall not be returned.

• Poster Mounting:
12:00 - 14:00, December 15
• Poster Session:
16:30 - 18:30, December 16
• Poster Removal:
From 18:30, December 16
9:30 - 18:00, December 17

Poster Prize

The organizers of the symposium are delighted to awarding prize for the best and most interesting posters. All the poster presenters will be nominated as candidates of the Poster Prize. The Poster Prize will be presented in the Closing Remarks which starts at 16:00 on December 17.

Privacy Policy

We (the Organizing Committee) are committed to protect personal information of applicants.

Your personal identifiable information (personal information) will be collected via this form when you submit an abstract for the “CEMS International Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry & Functional Materials 2013” (hereafter the "Symposium").

Without an applicant's consent, we (the Organizing Committee) will not use such information for the purposes of other than operating and managing the Symposium, responding to inquiries from and providing information about the Symposium and other related conferences to the applicants.

For smooth operation of the Symposium, we (the Organizing Committee) will provide personal information we collected regarding the Symposium to third party company who acts under a confidentiality agreement.

In case there is an error in your personal information collected for the Symposium, please inform the Secretariat Office of the Symposium to have it corrected or deleted.

Please note that we may be unable to process your submission without the necessary information.

Contact Information of the Secretariat Office managing the personal information

c/o RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science
Email: cems-symposium2013@riken.jp

If you agree with the privacy policy shown above, please click the button below and submit your abstract to the designated email address.

Paper Submission
*Send abstracts as attached PDF files

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