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16th ISMAR meeting
Dear colleagues:
On behave of the organization committee, it is a great
honor and pleasure for me to welcome you to the 16th ISMAR conference
to be held in the beautiful Kenting National Park in Taiwan on October
14-19, 2007.
ISMAR is a society devoted to advance and disseminate knowledge
of the principles, recent developments and applications of magnetic resonance
in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and other disciplines, to foster
scientific interaction among magnetic resonance spectroscopists throughout
the world. The triennial ISMAR conference is one of the largest such meetings,
and the only one of its size that brings together magnetic resonance practitioners
from many countries and from all domains, including NMR, NQR, ESR, MRI,
ICR and aspects of coherent optics.
This year marks the return of ISMAR to Asia since its inaugural more than
30 years ago. Since then the Asian-Pacific region has witnessed a miraculous
growth economically and scientifically. The first Asian-Pacific NMR Conference
(AP-NMR) was launched in 2005 in Yokohama, Japan. To strengthen the tight
between NMR spectroscopists in this region and the NMR community in the
world the second AP-NMR will be held at National Tsinghua University in
Taiwan as a satellite meeting preceding the ISMAR on October 12-14, 2007.
The organizing committee recognizes that young scientists are the hope
of the future. To encourage the participation of young scientists we have
set aside a sizeable amount of travel fund for assisting young scientists
to attend this conference. ISMAR has further initiated an ˇ§Outstanding
Young Scientistˇ¨ award to recognize the achievements of young scientists
under 40 years of age.
If you like me, I am sure you have been amazed by the
constant breakthroughs in the magnetic resonance field over the last sixty
years since its discovery. ISMAR is a platform where people from all disciplines
of magnetic resonances congregate and exchange ideas freely. Our roles
as organizing committee are to provide a comfortable and conducive environment
to foster such exchange activities. Participants, from funding members
to new faces alike, are welcome to the beautiful Kenting National Park
to renew old friendships, hear about new advances, learn from each other,
and to share our continuing love affair with an exciting field that never
ceases to surprise us with its discoveries. It is also an opportunity
for you to explore the oriental culture and Taiwanese hospitality. I hope
to see you in Taiwan in 2007.
Tai-huang Huang
Conference Chair, 16th ISMAR
[ South Taiwan : Kenting National Park ]
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