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The sixth international meeting on MR applications to porous media
Magnetic Resonance Imaging 21 (2003) 159
Editorial
The Sixth International meeting on MR applications to porous media The Sixth International Conference on the Recent Advances in Magnetic Resonance Applications to Porous Media was held at the University of Ulm, Germany, from September 8th to 12th 2002. This was the sixth meeting in an outstanding series of international conferences in which scientists from various disciplines including physics, chemistry, engineering and the life sciences, have met to exchange ideas, results and information in this important and rapidly developing field. The first meeting in the series was organized by Professor Giulio Cesare Borgia and his wife, Paola Fantazzini in November 1990 at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. These two people have provided the common thread linking the organizing committees of successive meetings in Canterbury (UK) 1993, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) 1995 and Trondheim (Norway) 1997. The conference returned to Bologna (Italy) under their personal organization in 2000. It was therefore a great shock to the community to learn, just one week after the end of the Ulm conference, of the untimely death of Professor Borgia. The series of conferences that he, with Paola, inaugurated from Bologna, will stand as a fitting memorial to the considerable contribution that he made to the subject. These proceedings, to which Paola Fantazzini has contributed so much in terms of editorial organization, will stand as a tribute to his memory. A more detailed acknowledgment to Cesare Borgia, written by his friend and colleague R J S Brown, appears in the following pages. The meeting in Ulm was very well attended with about 200 delegates from some 25 different countries spread over five continents. As with previous meetings, both academia and industry were well represented. The topics covered a wide range of magnetic resonance methods and their application to improve the understanding of materials confined
within pores, probing structure, molecular motion and interface interaction. A wide variety of experimental evidence together with theoretical considerations of anomalous or new phenomena were presented in the 21 invited lectures, 23 oral contributions together with 132 poster contributions of which 34 were selected to be presented as short oral contributions also. Most of the lectures and oral contributions have been written up as the papers appearing in this volume, together with the abstracts of other contributions and provide a rich record of an exciting meeting. The organization of the conference under the Chairmanship of Professor Rainer Kimmich was excellent in all respects and the community is indebted to him and his efficient team for a most enjoyable meeting. The vitality and interest was such that the organizing/ advisory committee met during the conference to discuss how best the future organization of meetings for this community might be assured. It was agreed that an interim committee, chaired by Professor Peter McDonald be charged with the responsibility of ensuring the next meeting and with proposing a more formal structure to represent the community so that the continuity and quality of future meetings might be preserved. The next conference, MRPM7, is planned for 4 – 8th July 2004, and will be held near Paris, at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, with Professor Jean-Pierre Korb as Chairman of the organizing committee. The possibility of returning again to Bologna for the 8th meeting was favored by the committee. The intention of organizing a future meeting in the USA also received considerable support. Confirmation of the location of meetings beyond 2004 awaits the Paris meeting but the enthusiasm and interest in continuing this series of conferences is beyond doubt.
For correspondence: Tel.: ⫹39-051-2095139; fax: ⫹39-051-2090457. E-mail address: [email protected] (P. Fantazzini).
0730-725X/03/$ – see front matter © 2003 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/S0730-725X(03)00169-3
John H. Strange
Editorial
The Sixth International meeting on MR applications to porous media The Sixth International Conference on the Recent Advances in Magnetic Resonance Applications to Porous Media was held at the University of Ulm, Germany, from September 8th to 12th 2002. This was the sixth meeting in an outstanding series of international conferences in which scientists from various disciplines including physics, chemistry, engineering and the life sciences, have met to exchange ideas, results and information in this important and rapidly developing field. The first meeting in the series was organized by Professor Giulio Cesare Borgia and his wife, Paola Fantazzini in November 1990 at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. These two people have provided the common thread linking the organizing committees of successive meetings in Canterbury (UK) 1993, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) 1995 and Trondheim (Norway) 1997. The conference returned to Bologna (Italy) under their personal organization in 2000. It was therefore a great shock to the community to learn, just one week after the end of the Ulm conference, of the untimely death of Professor Borgia. The series of conferences that he, with Paola, inaugurated from Bologna, will stand as a fitting memorial to the considerable contribution that he made to the subject. These proceedings, to which Paola Fantazzini has contributed so much in terms of editorial organization, will stand as a tribute to his memory. A more detailed acknowledgment to Cesare Borgia, written by his friend and colleague R J S Brown, appears in the following pages. The meeting in Ulm was very well attended with about 200 delegates from some 25 different countries spread over five continents. As with previous meetings, both academia and industry were well represented. The topics covered a wide range of magnetic resonance methods and their application to improve the understanding of materials confined
within pores, probing structure, molecular motion and interface interaction. A wide variety of experimental evidence together with theoretical considerations of anomalous or new phenomena were presented in the 21 invited lectures, 23 oral contributions together with 132 poster contributions of which 34 were selected to be presented as short oral contributions also. Most of the lectures and oral contributions have been written up as the papers appearing in this volume, together with the abstracts of other contributions and provide a rich record of an exciting meeting. The organization of the conference under the Chairmanship of Professor Rainer Kimmich was excellent in all respects and the community is indebted to him and his efficient team for a most enjoyable meeting. The vitality and interest was such that the organizing/ advisory committee met during the conference to discuss how best the future organization of meetings for this community might be assured. It was agreed that an interim committee, chaired by Professor Peter McDonald be charged with the responsibility of ensuring the next meeting and with proposing a more formal structure to represent the community so that the continuity and quality of future meetings might be preserved. The next conference, MRPM7, is planned for 4 – 8th July 2004, and will be held near Paris, at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, with Professor Jean-Pierre Korb as Chairman of the organizing committee. The possibility of returning again to Bologna for the 8th meeting was favored by the committee. The intention of organizing a future meeting in the USA also received considerable support. Confirmation of the location of meetings beyond 2004 awaits the Paris meeting but the enthusiasm and interest in continuing this series of conferences is beyond doubt.
For correspondence: Tel.: ⫹39-051-2095139; fax: ⫹39-051-2090457. E-mail address: [email protected] (P. Fantazzini).
0730-725X/03/$ – see front matter © 2003 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/S0730-725X(03)00169-3
John H. Strange