Editorial Foreword

A.F. PASQUEVICH; M. RENTERÍA ; E.BAGGIO-SAITOVITCH; H.M. PETRILLI

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Hyperfine Interactions and 18th International Symposium on Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions

Springer

Lugar: Dordrecht; Año: 2008; p. 1 - 7

The joint meeting of the XIV International Conference on Hyperfine Interactions and the XVIII International Symposium on Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions took place at Iguassu Falls in August 2007, at the Argentina?Brazil border, as a joint organization of both countries. The event was held at the Mabu & Thermas Resort in Foz de Iguaçu (Brazil).The scientific program had the pattern set at the more recent conferences in the series (Utah 2001, Bonn 2004), and the contributions focused on hyperfine interactions detected by nuclear radiations. The majority of the contributions were related to Solid State Physics, mainly in topics as "HFI probes in Semiconductors, Metals and Insulators" and "Magnetism and Magnetic Materials-Bulk and thin Layers" .Topics as "Surfaces, Interfaces, Thin Films, Nano-structures", "Theory of Hyperfine Interactions and Nuclear Moments" and "Investigations in Biology, Chemistry, and Medicine" were relevant. The number of contributions presented in topics like "Resonance Methods", "Nuclear polarizarion and Nuclear properties", and "New Directions and Developments in Methodology" were in a third level. One hundred and thirty delegates participated in the meeting. There were around 20 participants from Japan, 20 from Argentina, 20 from Brazil and 17 from Germany, the rest came from USA, Russia, Israel, South Africa, Perú, Belgium, India, Poland, Australia and Denmark. There were 186 contributions distributed in 15 invited talks, 33 oral presentations, and 138 poster presentations. Afterwards, we got 103 manuscripts finally accepted for publication.