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Some remarks from the organization and program committees
Journal of Luminescence 18/19 (1979) © North-Holland Publishing Company
SOME REMARKS FROM THE ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES Daniel CURIE Laboratoire de Luminescence, Université de Paris. France
First I have to transmit to all authors of submitted papers the apologies from the members of the Program Committee. We have been obliged to reject approximately 100 papers of a quite satisfactory level and degree of interest, and to put drastic limitations for all oral and written presentations. As a matter of fact, the members of the Program Committee were simultaneously wishing: 1) to accept all communications of interest; 2) to allow each author to speak during the necessary amount of time for a good description of his topic; 3) to favour the discussions and to publish them. Unfortunately, I plead guilty because I said that it was not possible to satisfy all these requirements. I made the following calculation: —31 invited papers of 6 pages 186 pages 188 contributed papers of 4 pages 752 pages table of contents, list of delegates, author and subject indexes 50 pages Total 988 pages Because of limitations on the total number of pages, we finally decided not to publish the discussions. The choice was indeed, either not to publish the discussions, or rejecting a lot of additional papers of interest. I confess that personally I do not regret this decision very much, because I felt that the “true” discussions perhaps take place rather during private meetings than in the auditoria. Now I turn to the limitations of the manuscripts. We apologize once more for the invited authors, who had been previously permitted to use 8 pages and finally have been reduced to 6 pages. For contributed papers, 4 pages have been attributed and this is the same as in Tokyo. The same number of 4 pages is given for oral contributions and for posters, because we wanted to make clear that poster contributions are the same quality as those presented orally. I must insist on the fact that in Tokyo the 4 pages limitation was in some cases rather theoretical. Many papers were indeed surpassing this limit. This cannot be accepted for the Paris Conference. If you find that you cannot reduce reasonably your paper to 4 pages and still be understood by your readers, then we can publish it in a regular issue of the Journal of Luminescence, with the additional mention “presented at the I.C.L.”. Now I turn to quite different considerations. First, it is the first time in the history of the I.C.L.’s conferences that we have the pleasure to receive delegates — —
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from the Chinese republic. Professor Hsu-Hsu-Jung agreed to act as Chairman during one of the sessions of the Conference. I am welcoming them especially. I address also my regards to the delegate of Viet-Nâm, Professor Nguyen-van Hieu. Perhaps I should remember that during the Paris Conference in 1956, it was the first time since the end of World War II that we had the pleasure to receive in western countries the delegates from Soviet Union. We are very proud of the part played by the Paris l.C.L.’s in arranging contacts between scientists of so many distant countries. Second, it is also the first time that ladies have been asked to chair sessions of the Conference. This also is quite new in the history of our Conferences. Therefore I welcome particularly Madame Gaume and Madame Reisfeld you will surely observe that in our program we mentioned Chairpersons and not Chairmen as during the preceding 1.C.L.’s. We hope that you will be happy with the Conference and enjoy your stay in —
Paris.
Note added in proof. The Publisher (North-Holland Publishing Company) kindly accepted to begin each paper either on the left page or on the right page. in order to save space in the Proceedings. In addition, a few interchanges have been performed between neighbouring papers. As a matter of fact, flo paper was strongly overpassing the limits: therefore this procedure made finally possible to accept all submitted manuscripts. Prof. F. Williams and I thank very heartily the Publishers, and especially Dr. B. Quanjer, Desk Editor.
SOME REMARKS FROM THE ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES Daniel CURIE Laboratoire de Luminescence, Université de Paris. France
First I have to transmit to all authors of submitted papers the apologies from the members of the Program Committee. We have been obliged to reject approximately 100 papers of a quite satisfactory level and degree of interest, and to put drastic limitations for all oral and written presentations. As a matter of fact, the members of the Program Committee were simultaneously wishing: 1) to accept all communications of interest; 2) to allow each author to speak during the necessary amount of time for a good description of his topic; 3) to favour the discussions and to publish them. Unfortunately, I plead guilty because I said that it was not possible to satisfy all these requirements. I made the following calculation: —31 invited papers of 6 pages 186 pages 188 contributed papers of 4 pages 752 pages table of contents, list of delegates, author and subject indexes 50 pages Total 988 pages Because of limitations on the total number of pages, we finally decided not to publish the discussions. The choice was indeed, either not to publish the discussions, or rejecting a lot of additional papers of interest. I confess that personally I do not regret this decision very much, because I felt that the “true” discussions perhaps take place rather during private meetings than in the auditoria. Now I turn to the limitations of the manuscripts. We apologize once more for the invited authors, who had been previously permitted to use 8 pages and finally have been reduced to 6 pages. For contributed papers, 4 pages have been attributed and this is the same as in Tokyo. The same number of 4 pages is given for oral contributions and for posters, because we wanted to make clear that poster contributions are the same quality as those presented orally. I must insist on the fact that in Tokyo the 4 pages limitation was in some cases rather theoretical. Many papers were indeed surpassing this limit. This cannot be accepted for the Paris Conference. If you find that you cannot reduce reasonably your paper to 4 pages and still be understood by your readers, then we can publish it in a regular issue of the Journal of Luminescence, with the additional mention “presented at the I.C.L.”. Now I turn to quite different considerations. First, it is the first time in the history of the I.C.L.’s conferences that we have the pleasure to receive delegates — —
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from the Chinese republic. Professor Hsu-Hsu-Jung agreed to act as Chairman during one of the sessions of the Conference. I am welcoming them especially. I address also my regards to the delegate of Viet-Nâm, Professor Nguyen-van Hieu. Perhaps I should remember that during the Paris Conference in 1956, it was the first time since the end of World War II that we had the pleasure to receive in western countries the delegates from Soviet Union. We are very proud of the part played by the Paris l.C.L.’s in arranging contacts between scientists of so many distant countries. Second, it is also the first time that ladies have been asked to chair sessions of the Conference. This also is quite new in the history of our Conferences. Therefore I welcome particularly Madame Gaume and Madame Reisfeld you will surely observe that in our program we mentioned Chairpersons and not Chairmen as during the preceding 1.C.L.’s. We hope that you will be happy with the Conference and enjoy your stay in —
Paris.
Note added in proof. The Publisher (North-Holland Publishing Company) kindly accepted to begin each paper either on the left page or on the right page. in order to save space in the Proceedings. In addition, a few interchanges have been performed between neighbouring papers. As a matter of fact, flo paper was strongly overpassing the limits: therefore this procedure made finally possible to accept all submitted manuscripts. Prof. F. Williams and I thank very heartily the Publishers, and especially Dr. B. Quanjer, Desk Editor.