Preface.- 1. INTRODUCTION. Some Supplementing Comments on the Proceedings of MEIPIC-5.-
2. COMPOSITE MATERIALS. Magnetoelectric Effects in Ferromagnetic and Piezoelectric Multilayer Composites
.- Magnetoelectric Effects in Ferromagnetic Metal-Piezoelectric Oxide Layered Structures.- Modeling of Magnetoelectric Effects in Ferromagnetic/Piezoelectric Bulk Composites.- Electromechanical Resonance in Multilayer and Bulk Magnetoelectric Composites.- Left-Handed Materials Based on Ferromagnetic-Ferroelectric Composites- 3. MAGNETIC FERROELECTRICS. Computational Design of a New Magnetic Ferroelectric.-Multiferroic Ordering in Hexagonal Manganites.- Magnetostriction in Hexagonal Holmium-Manganese-Oxide.- Optical Second Order Magneto-Electric Susceptibility in the Boracite Cu
3
B
7
O
13
Br.- Magnetic and Magnetoelectric Dynamics in RMn
2
O
5
(R=Gd and Eu).- 4. NONLINEAR OPTICS. Nonlinear-Optical and Magneto-Electric Responses of Transition-Metal Oxides.- Magnetoelectric Interaction in Crystals Observed by Nonlinear Magneto-Optics.- Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Diffraction by Periodic Magnetic Domain Structures: Effects of Magnetic Field.- Ultrafast Magnetic Switching and Nonlinear Optics in NiO(100).- 5. PHOSPHATES. Antiferromagnetism in LiCoPO4 and LiNiPO
4
.- Comparative Raman Scattering Study of Optical Excitations in the Magnteoelectrics LiNiPO
4
and LiCoPO
4
.- Weak Ferromagnetism in Magnetoelectrics L1CoPO
4
and LiN1PO
4
; Yu. Kharchenko et al.- Field-Induced Magnetic Phase Transitions in LiNiPO
4
.- 6. LINEAR FIELD EFFECTS. Magnetic Optical Linear Dichroism in Antiferromagnetic Crystal MnF
2
.- Reciprocal and Non-Reciprocal Linear Magnetic Birefringence in Magnetic Semiconductor y-Dy
2
S
3
.- Theory of the Resonance Magnetoelectric Effect in Iron Borate.- 7. TOROIDAL MOMENTS AND OTHER NEW CONCEPTS. Toroidal Surface Polaritons ofan Insulator at the Contact with a Metal in a Constant Electric Field.- Magnetoelectric Origin of Gyroeffect in Parallel Electric and Magnetic Fields.- Weak Ferromagnetism Discovery at Modulated Structure Destruction for BiFeO
3
.- Magnetic Photonic Crystals as Artificial Magnetoelectrics.- Magnetoelastic Solitons in Tetragonal Magnetoelectrics.- Quantum Oscillations and Peak Effect of Magnetostriction in Superconductor.-