Field Best Presentation Awards (U36) The Organizing Committee of WTC IV has planned "Field Best Presentation Awards (U36)." The details of this award are as follows: 1. Objective Field Best Presentation Awards (U36), supported by the Organizing Committee of WTC IV, is intended to recognize young tribologists' great contributions to the field of Tribology, and to promote their research. 2. Conditions and eligibility This Award is made for both oral and poster presentations in technical sessions. Eligible presentations must be carried out by the candidate author. In the case of a paper with multiple authorship, an author who is a candidate for the Award must be the author named in the programme as the presenter (but who need not necessarily be the first-named author of the paper) who also satisfies the age criterion. 'Young' or 'younger' should be understood to mean an author under the age of 36 as of September 6th 2009. 3. Selection of winners The Award is judged on the basis of both the extended abstract and the presentation at the conference. The criteria for judging and assessing are: Originality Innovativeness Usefulness Completeness Presentation 4. Prizes for the winners The winners will be awarded the following; * Certificate * Memento The prizes will be mailed to the recipients after the congress. 5. Announcement of the winners The WTC IV Organizing Committee would be pleased to announce that "Field Best Presentation Awards (U36)" should be given to the winners in the list below. Taiho Encouraging Award for Young Tribologists The Organizing Committee of WTC IV would like to support young tribologists and encourage their participation in the Congress. The committee has therefore planned "Taiho Encouraging Award for Young Tribologists" based on the "TTRF (Taiho Kogyo Tribology Research Foundation) Support for Young Tribologists." The details of this award are as follows: 1. Outline "Young Tribologists" would be defined as 36 years old or younger at the time of the World Tribology Congress IV, but excluding young tribologists from industry or other for-profit organizations. The grants would be $500 per awardee. The number of awardees is 10. The number of awardees from any one country would be limited to not more than three. This award will be presented at Banquet to be held on Wednesday, 9th September. 2. Selection of Awardees Committee of commendation will select the awardees by reviewing the contents of extended abstracts. 3. Announcement of Awardees The WTC IV Organizing Committee would be pleased to announce that "Taiho Encouraging Award for Young Tribologists" should be given to the awardees in the list below. TTRF Support for Young Tribologists Purpose Support young tribologists through financial assistance for attendance at meetings and conferences *Details are appeared in the TTRF web site. http://www.ttrf.org/