Four International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) Board Director positions will be opened for election at the 32nd International Conference on Thermoelectrics, to be held in Kobe, Japan, June 30th-July 4th, 2013. (Initially it was announced as three positions, however, an extra vacancy was opened by the retirement of Harald Boettner.)
It has come to our attention that the Great Firewall of China has blocked access to the ITS websites, especially this one (http://www.its.org) and the ICT2013 website (http://ict2013.its.org).
The 32nd International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2013) will be held in Kobe of Japan at June 30-July 4, 2013.
All attendees must register for the conference and pay the registration fee. Please register by May 1st 2013, to benefit from the reduced rates. The full registration fee will be applied after May 1st 2013.
The US Patent Office has inducted John Birden (1918-2011) and Ken Jordan (1929-2008) into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for developing the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator in the 1950s, sayiing in their announcement:
Final Call for Abstract Submission Deadline for ICT2013;
15th March 2013
The 32nd International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT2013) will be held in Kobe of Japan at June 30-July 4, 2013. The deadline for abstract submission is looming,