The Voronezh State Technical University in cooperation with Russian Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Science and Education of Russian Federation organized the 24th International Conference on relaxation phenomena in solids (RPS-24), which was held in Voronezh, Russia, from September 24 to September 27, 2019.
The aim of the RPS-24 conference was to allow the exchange of knowledge and cooperation between experts in the field of physics of relaxation phenomena occurring in condensed materials and across different related topics, as well as to realize new trends and problems.
There were 96 attendees from Iraq, Syria, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Egypt, Poland, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Russia and other countries. During the conference, 125 papers were presented in the form of plenary talks, oral and poster presentations.
Despite the relatively small total number of participants, new papers were presented at the RPS-24 in almost all areas of relaxation physics. An analysis of the reports at the conference shows that the problem of dielectric relaxation in solids attracted the greatest attention of researchers (51 reports). Significant interest of the conference participants was caused by relaxation in low-dimensional systems (13 reports). This is not surprising, since such materials have a number of unique properties that are significant for basic science and important for practical applications. Traditionally, a large number of reports were devoted to the theory of relaxation phenomena (10), mechanical relaxation (10), magnetic relaxation (9), and other issues.
In my opinion, in general, RPS-24 made an important contribution to the establishment and development of scientific cooperation between scientists in Russia itself, as well as between scientists from Russia and other countries. I hope that the RPS series will continue irs work in future and will lead to advancement in the relaxation physics in science materials.
The organizing committee of the international conference on relaxation phenomena in solids expresses its deep gratitude to all colleagues who helped in organizing the conference, to all participants for their great contribution to the success of the conference, and to the Taylor & Francis Group LLC who provided substantial support to RPS-24.
By tradition, one part of all papers after reviewing is published in this issue of the journal Ferroelectrics and the other part will be published in the Russian journal Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Physics (Vol. 84, No. 9, 2020).
Voronezh State Technical University
Voronezh, Russia