ICT 2010 in Shanghai is ready and you are welcome to join this annual thermoelectric society meeting. Currently, the records indicate that more than 400 people have registered for the conference. Please note that pre-registration will be closed after May 25, 2010, on-site registration will start on May 30th on the 10th floor at Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel.

Up to five International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) Board Director positions will be opened for election at the 29^th International Conference on Thermoelectrics, to be held in Shanghai, China, May 30^th  to June 3^rd, 2010. The ITS Nomination and Election Committee invites you to familiarize yourself with the candidates well in advance of ICT2010. The Committee makes every effort to attract candidates from a variety of geographic, technical fields, and institutions, to best serve the Mission of the International Thermoelectric Society. The list of current Board Directors can be found here.

Professor Evgeniy Konstantinovich Iordanishvili died January, 20, 2010 in St. Petersburg, Russia in the age 81. For thermoelectric community he is known first of all as a close collaborator of Professor A.F. Ioffe on the early stage of development of thermoelectric refrigerators in Institute of Semiconductors in St. Petersburg. He was a coauthor of the pioneer generalizing publication on this subject: A.F. Ioffe “Semiconductor thermoelements and thermoelectric cooling. Part 2: A.F. Ioffe, L.S. Stil’bans, E.K. Iordanishvili and T.S.