The Fundamental Research Symposia are held every four years at the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge. For the sixteenth symposium we will, for the first time, have the sym- posium at Pembroke College, Oxford. The title of the symposium is, ‘Advances in Pulp and Paper Research, Oxford 2017’. The Fundamental Research Committee is pleased to announce the review topics and authors:

•  Fiber-fiber bonds. Ulrich Hirn and Robert Schennach, Graz University of Technology
•  Forming of advanced structures in paper. Sören Östlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
•  Barrier coatings for packaging. Lars Järnström and Magnus Lestelius, Karlstad University
•  Non-woven structures. Joel Pawlak, North Carolina State University
•  Creasing and folding. Dough Coffin, Miami University and Mikael Nygårds, Innventia

The committee now invites authors of research articles to submit an extended abstract for con- sideration for the symposium. Abstracts should be no more than four pages long, including all figures, diagrams, equations, etc. Session titles will be determined from the abstracts submitted, not by the review topics. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday 10th October 2016. Late submissions will not be accepted.

As a result of the IPCCS/IPPC event in Tokyo 2015 an alignment between these events and the Fundamental Research Symposia was made. Therefore we would like to emphasise that the Fundamental Research Symposium has a wide scope and submissions from scientists and engineers from all areas of paper science and technology as well as related areas are encouraged.

There are two stages to the refereeing process. Authors will be advised of the outcome of the first stage towards the end of November 2016; those who are successful will be invited to submit full papers by the end of January 2017 for the second stage of refereeing. Comments will be provided to authors towards the middle of March 2017. The deadline for the final fully refereed versions of all papers will be 7th May 2017.

We receive many more submissions for the Fundamental Research Symposia than may be included in the programme. In light of this, a subsidiary event consisting of a poster session, preceded by an introductory and very brief presentation, will be held during the week of the symposium. Contributions to this event, ‘Fundamental Research Communications’, will consist of no more than four typeset pages and will be published separately from the symposium proceedings. Abstracts submitted for the main symposium and considered by the referees to be of good quality but that are not included in the symposium programme may be considered for inclusion in this event. Authors willing to have their work considered for inclusion in Fundamen- tal Research Communications  should indicate this in the email accompanying their abstracts. This information will not be available to referees.

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For enquiries, contact Dr. Daniel Söderberg:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.