The
1st Technical Session of the Institute of Physics Sri Lanka was
held on March 29, 1985 in conjunction with the 5th Annual General
Meeting at the auditorium of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement
of Science. From then onwards, the Institute has held its Technical
Sessions in conjunction with the Annual General Meetings. Although
the proceedings of the technical sessions were not initially published
and circulated to members, the Institute maintained the abstracts
of papers presented at the technical sessions in the archives.
In
1997, the Institute decided to publish the full papers of the
technical sessions and disseminate the printed proceedings to
its members, University libraries and relevant research organisations
free of charge. In the year 2006, the abstracts of the technical
sessions were made available on the Institute web site. From 2007
onwards the abstracts and full papers of the proceedings of the
technical sessions were made available to the general public through
the Institute web site.
It
should be noted that abstracts of all papers presented during the
years 1985-1996 have been taken from the archives and made available
online with slight modifications. However, the longer abstracts
were edited to fit into one single page following the IPSL guidelines.
At the time of writing this note, the abstracts related to the 1987,
1992, 1993 and 1994 technical sessions are being processed.
All
references to the abstracts presented at the technical sessions
during the years 1985-1996 should be cited as ‘Proceedings
of the Technical Sessions of the Institute of Physics, Sri Lanka,
session #, (year), paper #’.