The Institute of Technical Sciences of SASA organized a presentation of selected papers from the Ninth Conference of the Materials Research Society of Serbia YUCOMAT 2008 on October 27, 2009. The presentation was held within the 54th International Belgrade Book Fair.

The presentation featured special issues of the journals Materials and Manufacturing Processes (Taylor & Francis) and Acta Physica Polonica A (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics) dedicated to the YUCOMAT 2008 Conference, and the Book of Abstracts of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Materials Research Society of Serbia – YUCOMAT 2009. The publications were presented by Prof. Dr. Dejan Raković, Dr. Slobodan Milonjić, Prof. Dr. Nenad Ignjatović and Dr. Nebojša Romčević.

Prof. Raković (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade) made an overview of the activities of the Materials Research Society of Serbia aimed at the dissemination of scientific achievements presented at the YUCOMAT Conferences.

Dr. Milonjić (Vinča Institute of Nuclear Science) presented the Book of Abstracts of the YUCOMAT 2009 Conference, held between August 31 and September 4, 2009 in Herceg Novi, Montenegro. He particularly highlighted statistical data showing an increased international interest in the Conference: it was attended by researchers coming from 37 countries and featured 213 presentations (out of 275 submitted), authored by 850 researchers: 18 invited lectures (within three plenary session), 59 oral presentations and 136 posters. Foreign researchers made two thirds of the total Conference participants.

Prof. Ignjatović (Institute of Technical Sciences of SASA) gave a brief overview of the 31 papers published in Vol. 24, Issue 10-11 of Materials and Manufacturing Processes. He also drew attention to the cooperation between Google and the Institute of Technical Sciences of SASA under the Google Book Search Partner Program. The books of abstracts from seven YUCOMAT Conferences (2003-2009) are now available on Google Books.