MATERIALS AND COATINGS UNDER EXTREME
CONDITIONS: INVESTIGATIONS, APPLICATION,
AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE TECHNOLOGIES
FOR THEIR PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION

On September 18-22, 2000, the International Conference 
"Materials and Coatings under Extreme Conditions: Investigations, 
Application, and Environmentally Safe Technologies for Their Production 
and Utilization" was held in the sea-resort areas of Ponizovka and 
Katsiveli in the Crimea (Ukraine); the Conference was dedicated to 
the memory of Academician Vladimir Fedorovich Utkin, the outstanding 
scientist and designer of space-rocket systems.

The Conference was attended by about 200 scientists from 
Belarus, Germany, China, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Estonia, and Japan. 
Among the participants were seven academicians and corresponding members 
of the National Academies of Sciences, more than 60 doctors of science 
and over 80 candidates of science. The participants of the Conference 
represented the leading science and technology centers of Russia, 
Ukraine, and Belarus ("Yuzhnoe" State Design Office, Dnepropetrovsk, 
Ukraine, I. N. Frantsevich Institute of Problems of Material Science 
of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kiev, N. E. Zhukovskii 
Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute, Zhukovskii, Moscow Region, M. 
V. Khrunichev State Space Science and Production Center, Moscow, "Molniya" 
Science and Production Association, Moscow, "Kompozit" Science and 
Production Association, Korolev, Moscow Region, A. V. Luikov Heat 
and Mass Transfer Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of 
Belarus, Minsk) and also the largest universities (N. E. Bauman Moscow 
State Technical University, T. G. Shevchenko Kiev National University, 
Moscow Aviation Institute, National Technical University of Ukraine 
"Kiev Polytechnic Institute," Kharkov Aviation Institute, Belarusian State 
University (Minsk), etc.) of 34 cites of the countries mentioned. The program 
of the Conference included 470 papers.

Greetings to the participanets were sent by L. D. Kuchma, 
President of Ukraine, M. M. Kas'yanov, Chairman of the Government 
of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences 
M. P. Kirpichnikov, First Deputy Minister of Industry, Science, and 
Technologies, Yu. N. Koptev, General Director of the Russian Aviation 
and Space Agency, V. G. Komarov, First Deputy General Director of 
the National Space Agency of Ukraine, and I. B. Fedorov, Rector of 
N. E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University. The opening of the 
Conference was attended by L. Ovsyatskii, 
Director of the National Center of Technology in Ukraine.

The work of the Program Committee and the course of the 
Conference were greatly influenced by Academician of the Russian Academy 
of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine V. I. 
Trefilov. It is sad that this enthusiastic, bright, and charming person 
passed away so untimely. The main part of the organizing work was 
done by the staff of I. N. Frantsevich Institute of Problems of Material 
Science of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and N. E. Bauman Moscow 
State Technical University. Academician of the National Academy of sciences of 
Ukraine V. V. Skorokhod and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of 
Sciences Yu. V. Polezhaev were co-chairmen of the Organizing Committee; 
L. I. Chernyshev, Candidate of Technical Sciences, was appointed scientific
secretary. 


The program of the Conference included discussions of topical 
scientific-technical problems, such as computer modeling of the processes 
of obtaining materials and coatings, modeling of the extreme operating 
conditions for materials and structural elements, thermal protection, 
processing of domestic and industrial waste, industrial ecology, and 
ecological education of population. Of special interest were papers 
devoted to the promising environmentally safe energy- and resources-conserving 
technologies of obtaining materials and coatings, comprehensive investigation 
of the physical properties of new materials, including composite ones, 
and instrument monitoring of the ecological parameters of the environment.

The Organizing Committee has published the abstracts of 
papers in the English, Russian, and Ukrainian languages. A number 
of papers are published in the present issue of the journal. The next 
conference is being planned for September 2002; the organizers intend 
to time it with the 50th anniversary of I. N. Frantsevich Institute 
of Problems of Material Science of the National Academy of Sciences 
of Ukraine.

N. V. Pavlyukevich, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 
Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus;
S. V. Reznik, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of N. E. Bauman 
Moscow State Technical University; G. A. Frolov, Doctor of Technical Sciences,
Supervisor of the "IPM-Kosmos" Science and Production Center 
of I. N. Frantsevich Institute of Problems of Material Science 
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

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