Conference

    The Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Non-Destructive Testing and Engineering Diagnostics Society, the Goverment of the Sverdlovsk district, the National Testing and Welding Association, the Institute of Engineering Science (RAS, Urals Branch), the Institute of Physics of Metals (RAS, Urals Branch), the Urals State Technical University (USTU – UPI) are to hold the 17th Russian-International Scientific-Technological  Conference on Non-Destructive Testing and Diagnostics, together with an exhibition on NDT URAL of equipment for non-destructive testing, engineering and antiterrorist diagnostics, in Ekaterinburg on September 5 to 11, 2005. The exhibition is organized by the Primexpo company (partner of the ITE Group Plc exhibition company, U.K.). The Conference and the Exhibition are aimed at presenting the latest achievements and discussing current problems in the field of non-destructive testing and engineering diagnostics.

    The Conference is devoted to the 100th anniversary of Mikhail N. Mikheyev, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, an outstanding scholar in the field of physical methods for non-destructive testing, one of the founders of Academy science in the Urals, who headed the Institute of Physics of Metals, (RAS, Urals Branch) for more than fifty years.