PARTICIPANTS

The ProIMAGE Contest is open to anyone over the age of 18, currently using Scanning Probe Microscopy and being NT-MDT probes customer.

Employees of NT-MDT Co. and its agents, retailers, distributors, suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies and their families are not eligible to participate.

Each participant can submit as many images as he/she has.

IMAGES TOPICS

Images should be obtained by NT-MDT probes. The SPM models and the SPM techniques (STM, AFM, MFM, SNOM, etc) are not regimented.

IMAGES PROPERTY

The person entering the competition must be the owner of the images and be able to provide evidence of this on request.

Images may not be under consideration for publication or prizes elsewhere.

Only original work may be submitted. If the image has been published, appropriate written permission from the journal editor to participate in the prize, to post the image on a web site, or to any other activity related to this competition must be submitted along with the image.

By submission the image the author transfer the copyright to Organizers. Thereafter submitted images can be used in NT-MDT Co. advertising materials without any compensation to author.

RELEVANT DATES

ProIMAGE Contest will start at 15th of June and will be running till 31 of December. Winners will be selected every month (see Judge section).

The participants will submit their images any day of the month using the online submission system. Throughout the next month the on-line voting will be available. Winner of the month will be announced not later than a week after the end of the next month.

IMAGE SUBMISSION

Images and some additional information (author’s personal data, image description, etc) must be submitted using the online submission system. Organizers guarantee the confidentiality of the personal data. No information (except the author name and the image details) will be published without author permission.

Images are entered at the entrants risk and Organizers cannot accept liability for any loss or damage occurring to any images received.

Each images can participate in ProIMAGE Contest only once.

IMAGE FORMATS

Only electronic files will be accepted. Please do not send your images in another type (photographic prints, slides, CDs etc).

Author names, titles, references to the author or author’s group, etc., should not appear either on the SPM image or in the scientific description caption. Organizers will accept only those images without any graphics/text elements on them (scales, axis, etc).

Electronic image files must be in jpeg (.jpg) format, with good image resolution (72 dpi). The maximum file size must be 1MB per image.

ProIMAGE Contest Organizers may request to the participants images higher resolution for advertising purposes.

PRIZES

Prize certificates to the amount of USA 1000 dollars will be awarded to ProIMAGE Contest winners. Using this certificate winner can order accessories production of NT-MDT, get support in sponsoring of trip to conferences and exhibitions, pay publishing fees or get other possibilities.

All applicable federal, national, state and local taxes, if any, on the prize are the winner's sole responsibility.

Should the quality of images fall below the standard required, the ProIMAGE Contest Organizers reserves the right not to award prizes.

JUDGE

Winner will be selected by ProIMAGE Contest Organizers from top-10 images (the most rated during the on-line voting) on contest web-site.

ADDITIONAL RIGHTS

By participating, winners agree to allow the organization of the ProIMAGE Contest to post their names online as a contest winner without further compensation.

ProIMAGE Contest Organizers save the rights for changing duration of Contest.