''AIP Conference Proceedings'' is a serial published by the

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since 1970. It publishes the

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from scientific meetings, including large international

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s and small specialist workshops. Emily Prendergast is the current Manager of ''AIP Conference Proceedings.'' In addition to the series' own

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, each volumes receives its own

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. ''AIP Conference Proceedings'' publishes more than 100 volumes per year, with back-file coverage to 1970 which encompasses 1,330 proceedings volumes and 100,000 published papers.

Scope

Broad subject coverage spans the physical sciences, including

physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

math Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

materials science Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials. Materials engineering is an engineering field of finding uses for materials in other fields and industries. The intellectual origins of materials sci ...

, and

engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...

Abstracting and indexing

This series is indexed in the following databases, amongst others *

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* Scitation *

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* Web of Knowledge

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://proceedings.aip.org/
American Institute of Physics
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