An Historical Perspective on the Toughness of Ceramics -- Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) of High Performance Ceramics -- Electronic States and Absorption of Light in a Lemniscate Shaped Quantum Dot Molecule -- Plasma devices and preparing of nonconductive materials -- FAMA - Facility for Modification and Analysis of Materials with Ion Beams -- Magnetic interactions and magnetotransport in Ge1-xTMxTe diluted magnetic semiconductors -- A Method for Simulation of Grain Coarsening Due to Diffusion in Capillary Liquid Bridge -- Electrical characterization of nanostructured ferrite ceramics by using AC impedance spectroscopy -- Piezoceramic Smart Aggregates for Active Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete Structures -- Electrical Characteristics of Nb doped BaTiO3 Ceramics.