Welcome to APCOM 2018
 Asia-Pacific conferences on “Fundamental Problems of Opto- and Microelectronics (APCOM)” started in 2000.  Russia, China, Korea and Japan have been taking turns hosting this great event.

 APCOM 2018 will be held in Tokyo, Japan at at Setagaya Campus, Kokushikan University, from 29 through 31 of August this year.
 Tokyo is the capital city located approximately in the center of the Japan’s main island.  Tokyo is also the center of the nation’s politics, economy, and culture. We believe you enjoy and have fruitful discussion at beautiful and nice city Tokyo.

 Conference site, Setagaya Campus of Kokushikan University is located in Setagaya ward in Tokyo.  The Kokushikan celebrated its 100th anniversary last year express gratitude to those who have contributed to develop, and to those over 160,000 graduates active in the spreading society and is evolving for the further education and research.
FOREWARD
 Asia-Pacific Conference on “Fundamental Problems of Opto- and Microelectronics” will be held on August 29-31, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. It will continue previously opened discussions on recent achievements in the development of optoelectronic, electronic and microelectronics systems, methods and devices for communication, measuring and sensory systems and networks, their application in life-sciences, bio-medicine, social welfare, industrial facilities, including structural health monitoring, etc., as well as technologies for development of new materials and structures and new principles and methods for information processing.
Topics of APCOM 2018
include but not limited to

◊ Optoelectronic sensory and measurement systems
◊ Optoelectronics for medicine
◊ Optoelectronics for life sciences
◊ Optoelectronics for structural health monitoring
◊ New materials and structures for photonics
◊ Micro and nanotechnologies for optoelectronics
◊ Optical information and data processing
◊ Optoacoustics and acousto-optics
◊ Acoustics, hydro-acoustics and seismo-acoustics
◊ Microelectronics sensory and control systems
◊ Electronics system and devices
◊ Informatics and computational methods for information processing and control systems
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
 The APCOM 2018 technical program will include plenary sessions, invited lectures, oral and poster sessions. The official language of the conference is English. All abstracts, report illustrations, and presentations must be prepared in English.
PUBLICATIONS
 Proceedings will be issued on a CD at the beginning of the conference. For timely publication the completed texts of abstract (250 words) and proceedings (4 pages maximum) must be prepared according to the templates available at (available latter). Please send MS Word files as well as Acrobat (PDF) files for preparing the manuscripts. The deadline for the abstract submission is the 20th of July, 2018, and the deadline for the manuscript submission is the 25th of August, 2018.
 Selected papers presented at APCOM-2018 will be published in Proceedings of SPIE (http://spie.org/).
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: July 31, 2018
Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2018
Manuscript submission due: August 25, 2018
Registration deadline: August 20, 2018
Scientific Committee
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Prof. Yoshio NIKAWA, Chair,
Dean, School of Science and Engineering, Kokushikan University, Tokyo, Japan

Prof. Yuri N. KULCHIN, Co-Chair,
Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Vice-President of Far Eastern Branch of RAS (FEB RAS), President of Institute for Automation and Control Processes (IACP) FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia

Prof. Oleg N. KROKHIN, Co-Chair,
Academician of RAS, Lebedev Physics Institute (LPI) RAS, Moscow, Russia

Prof. Jingping OU, Co-Chair,
Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, Dailian University of Technology (DLUT), Dalian, P.R. of China
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
(Under negotiation)

Acad. Yu. N. KULCHIN, FEB RAS, Russia (Chair)
Acad. O. N. KROKHIN, LPI RAS, Russia (Co-Chair)
Acad. Jingping OU, DLUT, China (Co-Chair)
Prof. E. I. AKOPOV, SPIE-RUS, Russia
Prof. Youngdo JOO, Kangnam University, Korea
Prof. A. A. KAMSHILIN, ITMO University, Russia
Prof. S. P. KOTOVA, Samara Branch of LPI, Russia
Prof. M. KOZAKI, Kokushikan University, Japan
Prof. S. KRISHNASWAMY, Northwestern Univ., USA
Prof. Junqing LI, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Prof. Ikai LO, Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Prof. G. LV, Heilongjiang University, China
Prof. V. A. MAKAROV, MSU, Russia
Acad. V. Ya. PANCHENKO, ILIT RAS, RFBR, Russia
Prof. R. V. ROMASHKO, IACP FEB RAS, FEFU, Corresponding member of RAS Russia
Prof. S. M. SHANDAROV, TUSUR University, Russia
Prof. S. N. SHARANGOVICH,TUSUR University, Russia
Prof. V.V. SHEPELEVICH, I.P.Shamyakin MSPU, Belarus
Dr. I.A.SOKOLOV, Ioffe Institute of RAS, Russia
Prof. A. V. SYUY, FESTU, Russia
Prof. O. B. VITRIK, IACP FEB RAS, FEFU, Russia
Prof. I. N. ZAVESTOVSKAYA, LPI RAS, Russia
Prof. A. M. ZHELTIKOV, MSU, Russia
Dr. I. A. ZHURBINA, RFBR, Russia
Prof. Zhi ZHOU, DLUT, China
Organization Committee
LOCAL COMMITTEE
Prof. Y. HONDA, Kokushikan University, Japan (Chair)
Assoc. Prof. H. JIGAMI, Kokushikan University, Japan
Prof. M. JINNO, Kokushikan University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. K. KOUZU, Kokushikan University, Japan
Prof. M. KOZAKI, Kokushikan University, Japan
Prof. T. KUKI, Kokushikan University, Japan
Assist. Prof. T.H. MOFIDI, Kokushikan University, Japan
Assist. Prof. S. NAKAMURA, Teikyo Heisei University, Japan
Prof. K. ODAI, Kokushikan University, Tokyo, Japan
Prof. T. OHYA, Kokushikan University, Tokyo, Japan
Prof. T. OTAKA, Kokushikan University, Tokyo, Japan
Prof. K. OURA, Kokushikan University, Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Y. TERAUCHI, Kokushikan University, Tokyo, Japan
Prof. T. WADA, Kokushikan University, Tokyo, Japan
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Prof. Seungho CHO, Kangnam University, Korea
Prof. N. N. EVTIKHIEV, MEPhI, Russia
PUBLICATION COMMITTEE
Prof. E. I. AKOPOV, SPIE-RUS, Russia
Prof. Youngdo JOO, Kangnam University, Korea
Prof. R. V. ROMASHKO, IACP FEB RAS, Russia
Submission addresses
 Please submit your abstracts, manuscripts or any questions and requests by e-mail: apcom2018@kokushikan.ac.jp
Registration fee
 Registration fee for participation in conference is \20,000 (JPY).
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