Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2009
Abstract
The XXVIth International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions was held on the campus of Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo during 22-28 July 2009. Kalamazoo, the home of a major state university amid pleasant surroundings, was a delightful place for the conference. The 473 scientific participants, 111 of whom were students, had many fruitful discussions and exchanges that contributed to the success of the conference. Participants from 43 countries made the conference truly international in scope.
The plenary lectures and the progress and special reports bridged the gap between the different fields of collision physics, making it possible for non-experts in a given area to gain insight into new areas. Also, included among the speakers were several young scientists, namely, postdocs and students, who brought new perspectives to their fields. The next ICPEAC will take place in Belfast in 2011, and the ones after that will be in Lanzhou in 2013 and Madrid in 2015. Given the rapidity with which science is advancing in all of the areas covered by ICPEAC, we expect that these future ICPEAC conferences will be as stimulating as this most recent one was, as indicated by the contributions presented in this proceedings volume.
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Published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series 194 (2009) 011001: XXVI International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions doi:10.1088/1742-6596/194/1/011001 Copyright © 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd. Used by permission. http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1742-6596/194/00/001001