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35th UIT (Italian Union of Thermo-fluid dynamics) Heat Transfer Conference – Ancona (Italy) 26-28 June 2017PrefaceThe 35th UIT (Italian Union of Thermp-Fluid Dynamics) Heat Transfer Conference was organized by Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University (Itay) and was held at Faculty of Engineering of the same University, Ancona, June 26-28, 2017.The annual UIT Conference, which has grown over time, comes back in Ancona after 27 years.The scope of the conference covers a range of major topics in theoretical, numerical and experimental heat transfer and related areas, ranging from energy efficiency to nuclear plants. The Organizing Committee was also honored to continue the initiative about the new section devoted to Technical Seminars introduced 2015 within UIT conferences. In particular a seminar regarding the adoption of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Thermo-Fluid Dynamics research was held. Moreover a photo exhibition supported by “Aeronanutica Militare Italiana” was also offered to the participants.In this conference edition, 73 papers were contributed by about 300 authors on eight different topics: micro and nano scale thermo-fluid dynamics; multi-phase fluid dynamics, heat transfer and interface phenomena; computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer; heat transfer in nuclear plants; heat transfer and efficiency in energy systems, environmental technologies and buildings; natural, forced and mixed convection; conduction; heat transfer in fire engineering.The conference program scheduled plenary, oral and poster sessions. The two invited plenary Keynote Lectures were given by Prof. Giovanni Latini (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy) and Prof. Peter Stephan (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany). A Technical Seminar was given by Prof. Renato Ricci (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy). There were also 9 oral sessions and a poster sessions.This special issue collects a paper presented in a keynote lecture plus 56 papers selected from those presented and discussed during the congress.The UIT 2017 conference was a useful occasion to stimulate discussion, further the understanding of heat transfer and related phenomena, present the state-of-the-art of some topics, discuss emerging trends and promote collaborations. We hope this issue will maintain and extend some of these features.A special thank you is due to the Organizing and Scientific Committees, to the sponsors and to all the participants.Renato Ricci and Valerio D’Alessandro, editors.List of Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee, UIT Sterring Committee, UIT Accounting Auditors, UIT Conferences are available in this pdf.

The organizing committee is at the centre of the sport event's planning. The complex nature of sports events and their organizing committees require the assistance of multiple theoretical perspectives to grasp its nature and functioning. This chapter provides an overview of what an organizing committee is, its structure and functions, and who is included within it. The types of workforce an event can have vary; they include full-time or part-time paid staff, pre-event and event-time volunteers, secondees, consultants, contractors, and event gypsies. The chapter briefly presents the various stakeholder relationships the organizing committee has. The organizing committee goes through three modes – planning, implementation, and wrap-up during its lifecycle and deals with many different issues. The chapter critically discusses research associated with organizing committees, focusing notably on their role in relation to normative aspects such as legacy. It concludes by suggesting future research directions.

The 37th UIT Heat Transfer Conference was organized by the Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Padova (Italy) and held at Centro Linguistico di Ateneo, Padova, on June 24-26, 2019.The annual UIT Conference, which has grown over time, was held in Padova for the first time since the foundation of this conference.The scope of the conference covers a range of many topics in theoretical, numerical and experimental heat transfer and related areas, ranging from energy efficiency to nuclear plants. This time the UIT Conference included an International Symposium on “Refrigerants: heat transfer and applications”. This Symposium was held on June 26, 2019, which was the first World Refrigeration Day, and was organized in collaboration with CNR, Istituto per le Tecnologie della Costruzione.In this conference edition, 99 papers were contributed plus three keynote lectures. The keynote lectures were given by Srinivas Garimella (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Alberto Cavallini (Emeritus professor at University of Padova) and Enrico Nobile (University of Trieste). For the Symposium on Refrigerants, invited lectures were given by Pega Hrnjak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Bjorn Palm (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Petter Neksa (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) and José Miguel Corberan (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain).These proceedings collects two keynote lectures and 58 papers selected from those presented and discussed during the Conference.The conference was an important occasion to stimulate discussion, improve the understanding of heat transfer and related phenomena, present the state of the art of some topics, discuss emerging trends and promote collaborations.A special thank is due to the Organizing and Scientific Committees, to the Sponsors, to the Reviewers of the papers and to all the Participants.Davide Del Col, Luisa Rossetto and Stefano Bortolin - Editors List of Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee and Sponsors are available in this PDF.

Helvetica Chimica ActaEarly View e202300033 EditorialFree Access Editorial of the Bürgenstock Organization Committee First published: 23 March 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.202300033AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Graphical Abstract The Bürgenstock conferences started in 1965 and have taken place yearly since then with only three interruptions due to hotel reconstruction in 1990 and the COVID pandemics in 2020–2021, making it one of the oldest conferences in chemistry. Originally focusing on the concept of stereochemistry, central to both chemistry and biology, it evolved over the year to an interdisciplinary conference, where synthetic chemistry meets chemical biology, materials science, theoretical chemistry or even art, stretching everyone's boundaries and inspiring out of the box ideas. With the JSP (Junior Fellowship Program) and an increasing involvement of industry participants and speakers, the conference has become a meeting point between different generations and career paths with the support of the Swiss Chemical Society. The continuing success of the conference, which is often already overbooked in December of the preceding year, may be explained by not only scientific excellence, but also a set of unique traditions together with a drive to evolve to stay in contact with the most exciting research areas. Among these traditions, one can mention the not disclosed program and participant list, uninterrupted exchanges and discussions after the lectures, as well as the special role of the Bürgenstock president. In fact, the latter plays a central role by selecting the speakers for the conference and participating to the selection of the JSP fellows together with the organization committee. He or she will participate three times in a row to the conference, first as vice-president ‘in charge of the weather', then as the president and finally as a more relaxed past president. During the fifty-five editions of the Bürgenstock conference, many leading European, Swiss and Israeli scientists have acted as presidents and contributed to its legend.1 As the organizing committee of the Bürgenstock conference, we are now very pleased to start this collaboration with Helvetica Chimica Acta, the journal of the Swiss Chemical Society at Wiley, to publish each year a special issue as a tribute to the president of the Bürgenstock conference. Past and present participants and speakers of the conference will have the occasion to submit a scientific contribution to this special issue, with full freedom of format (research article, synthetic procedure, perspective or review). This first special issue is dedicated to Prof. Janine Cossy, president of the 55th Bürgenstock conference. It is the occasion for the organization committee to thank Prof. Cossy for her great leadership, especially in the difficult context of the COVID pandemics, which led to two cancellations of the in-person conference in 2020 and 2021. The 55th edition in 2022 was finally a full success, as the scientific community could finally meet again in the exceptional settings of the Swiss Alps in Brunnen.2, 3 In the spirit of the Bürgenstock conference, the contributed articles cover a broad range of topics, from synthetic methods to catalysis to chemical biology, and come from both academia and industry. We hope you will enjoy reading them! The Bürgenstock organizing committee Dr. Fabrice Gallou, Prof. Cristina Nevado, Prof. Francesca Paradisi, Dr. Maud Reiter, Prof. Thomas R. Ward, Prof. Jérôme Waser References 1K. Müller, ‘50 Years in the Sun of Bürgenstock – On the Success Factors of a Famous Conference', Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 5012– 5017. 2A. Nowak-Król, P. Dydio, ‘The 55th Bürgenstock Conference under the Banner of Sustainability', Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202214722. 3A. Archambeau, M. Delbianco, ‘Highlights from the 55th Bürgenstock Conference on Stereochemistry 2022', Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 9806– 9810. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issuee202300033 ReferencesRelatedInformation

2021 1st International Ninevah Conference on Engineering and Technology (INCET2021) was successfully held at Ninevah University, Mosul, Iraq during April 05-06, 2021. Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, the organizing committee and scientific committee decided to follow the guidelines of World Health Organization (WHO), and local government agencies on the current situation. Thus, the INCET 2021 was held virtually this year. All sessions that were held on day 1 and day 2 of the conference schedule were conducted successfully through online platform (Zoom Webinar).The main target of INCET 2021 was to provide an opportunity for researchers and professionals from electronics and electrical engineering (EEE) fields and with cross-disciplinary interests to circulate information on the latest developments of the electronics and electrical engineering. Keynote speakers from United State of America, United Kingdom and Australia were invited to deliver their latest information in electronics and electrical engineering fields. The keynote speakers presented various topics and discussed various challenges in electronics and electrical engineering fields.In this proceeding, papers selected from various submitted papers to the conference and from many universities and industries. All submitted papers were subjected to double-bind peer-review by international reviewers and members of conference committees. In this proceeding, papers were selected based on their originality, novelty, quality and relevancy to the conference. This proceeding presents to the readers the recent various fields of electronics and electrical engineering such as Electronics Engineering, Communication Engineering, Wireless and Mobile Communication, Information Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Embedded Systems, Control Engineering, Power Electronics, Solid state Engineering and Robotics and Automation.List of Conference Chairman and Co-Chairman, Conference Committees, Organizing and E-Management Committee, Scientific Committee, International Advisory Committee are available in this pdf.

It is our great pleasure to present this proceedings volume of the 7th International Symposium on Laser Ultrasonics and Advanced Sensing (LU2024), held in Nanjing, China, in 2024. Since its inception, this biennial symposium has served as a premier platform for scientists, engineers, and practitioners from around the world to share and discuss the latest developments in laser ultrasonics, optoacoustics, phononics, and the broader realm of light-matter-sound interactions. By assembling leading researchers, LU2024 continues to build upon its mission of fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and driving innovation in both fundamental research and industrial applications. A key focus of LU2024 lies in the laser generation and/or detection of acoustic waves, nondestructive testing (NDT), ultrafast optoacoustics, and emerging instruments for biomedical applications. Moreover, we have witnessed significant advancements in guided waves, micro/nanoscale or nonlinear measurements, and the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into laser ultrasonic testing and sensing. These research topics highlight the transformative role of laser ultrasonics as an interdisciplinary field that bridges fundamental science, technological innovation, and practical solutions for diverse industries and societal needs. We would like to express our gratitude to all the authors, reviewers, and session chairs for their dedicated work and insightful discussions that have shaped this proceeding. We also extend our sincere thanks to the Organizing and Scientific Committees for their tireless efforts in making LU2024 a reality. We hope that the findings presented here will inspire continued collaboration and contribute to the further advancement of laser ultrasonics and advanced sensing technologies in the future. List of International Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee are available in this pdf.

Preface The 4th International Conference on Green Environmental Engineering and Technology (IConGEET 2022) was a hybrid conference and physically took place in Seoul, Korea on 17-18th November 2022. IConGEET2022 was jointly organised with the 4th International Conference on Green Engineering and Technology (IConGeTech2022). The conference was organized by the Sustainable Environmental Research Group (SERG), Centre of Excellence Geopolymer and Green Technology (CEGeoGTech), Universiti Malaysia Perlis. The conference received international and local collaboration, support and participation from the National Institute for Research and Development in Environmental Protection (INCDPM) Romania, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam as well as local universities in Malaysia.It brought together researchers, practitioners, engineers and students worldwide in hope to extend networking, integrate knowledge and exchange ideas among participants. This year, the theme “Driven Technologies toward Sustainable Environment” is driving exciting breakthroughs to help sustaining our planet. Overcoming the engineering challenges of high performance, interoperability and security is critical to delivering next-generation solutions for decreasing emissions, minimizing waste and preventing pollution. Over 70 distinguish researchers, practitioners, engineers and students from across the country have presented their current and intriguing research in the scope of civil and environmental technologies and management, which evolved around five major areas: water and wastewater technology, green technology, air pollution and climate change, environmental management and protection as well as environmental sustainability and development.The conference has gained incredible success due to collective efforts from the organizing committees, the co-organizers, the reviewers, presenters, and all participants. We would like to thank all the reviewers involved in ensuring each contributed paper were refereed and accepted based on interests, relevance, innovation and pure contribution towards environmental engineering and technology fields. Putting together, the success of the conference is a team effort. I am grateful to all the committee members who worked very hard to make this event a successful one. Finally special thanks go to the Universiti Malaysia Perlis for the continuous support throughout the conference event.List of Editors, Organisers, Committee, Organizing & Technical Committee are available in the pdf.

On behalf of Codes+ISSS 20065 Organizing and Program Committees, we would like to welcome you to the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software Co-Design and System Synthesis.Codes+ISSS is the premier event in design of embedded systems hardware, software, and tools. This year we continued building upon the reputation of a high-quality conference by enforcing a rigorous reviewing process, selecting the best submitted papers, and assembling a very exciting program of keynotes, tutorials, special sessions, panels, and regular papers.We received 183 full paper submissions and selected 46 papers for publication, an acceptance rate of 25%. The Program Committee carefully reviewed all papers, with an average of over 5 reviews per paper. The Committee then met face to face for detailed discussions on the papers. Selections were not based on quotas for each topic area, but instead, papers from one topic area were compared to other topic areas in order to select the absolute best set of papers overall. We hope you will find this year's papers to represent some of the most important advances in theory and practice of system-level design and related areas.Codes+ISSS program is uniquely complemented by tutorials and workshops. This year's tutorials cover state-of-the-art topics such as UML for SoC Design and Automotive Electronics, and like last year, tutorials are free to all registered attendees. CODES+ISSS hosts two full-fledged workshops, namely ESTIMedia and a UML hands-on workshop. ESTIMedia has been very successful in previous years and its special emphasis on multimedia-related topics effectively complements the main Codes+ISSS program. The hands-on workshop on UML is a first of its kind in Codes+ISSS and gives attendees the opportunity to learn UML in practice.After a successful debut last year, Embedded Systems Week (ES Week) takes place again, this time expanded with the addition of CASES (a leading conference on architecture and compilers). Codes+ISSS, EMSOFT and CASES are collocated with all sessions in parallel, and registrants to one conference can attend sessions in all three conferences. Moreover, the technical programs of the three conferences, including keynotes, special sessions, panels, tutorials and workshops, have been carefully planned to avoid major overlaps and complement each other. ES Week is uniquely positioned to offer the best technical content for attendees in the areas of embedded systems design, tools, software, architecture and compilers.Codes+ISSS owes its high technical quality to the dedicated members of the Steering Committee, Organizing Committee, Technical Committee and numerous reviewers who contributed their time and expertise to ensure the quality of the conference. We thank them all full heartedly. We would also like to thank our sponsoring societies, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) and Computer Society (CS) and the Council of Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), the ACM SigDA, SigBED and SigMICRO. Moreover, we would like to thank our several industrial contributors, without which the conference would not be possible. The excellent level of industrial support demonstrates that Codes+ISSS is able to bridge both academia and industry interests. Finally, thanks are due to all the people who submitted their work to the conference and to the attendees whose active participation is relied upon for lively and interesting technical exchanges.

Abstract. In the midst of the current pandemic that challenges our world, scientific research should not keep back, but instead persist, inform, inspire and resolve. In particular, for Geographic Information Science, we cannot help but highlight the relevance of spatial analysis methods and related technologies dating back to Dr. John Snow’s work on identifying the source of cholera outbreak in the district of Soho in London in 1854. Across the centuries, common problems and new perspectives blend to model our changing planet, temporal trends, human behavior and data abundance.The theme of this special collection of research papers rests within the field of Geographic Information Science and Technology. These papers were submitted and accepted as full papers at Agile2020, the 23rd annual international conference of the Association for Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe, originally scheduled to take place in Chania, Greece, on the 16th – 19th June of 2020. However, the known COVID - 19 related conditions led the AGILE Council and the Scientific and Organizing committees, to cancel the Conference, placing above all the safety of the participants. This is the first year that the AGILE Conference proceedings will be published as Open Access online. This coincidence can only partly make up for the loss of personal interaction that the AGILE community enjoys at their annual meetings.AGILE seeks to ensure that new perspectives on research and education in Geographic Information Science are addressed to help shaping the future European research agenda in this field. Hence, these research papers cover a broad range of topics on smart cities, social sensing, commuting, activity patterns, wayfinding and natural language modeling, self-driving cars and tourist recommendation systems, natural disaster and crime patterns, spatiotemporal data processing including interpolation and convolutional neural networks implementations.For the first time in these Conference series, submissions were strongly encouraged to adhere to the AGILE Reproducible Paper Guidelines. In addition to the peer review, a reproducibility review by an independent expert committee took place as part of the Reproducible AGILE initiative (https://reproducible-agile.github.io/). If significant parts of a computational workflow could be reproduced, the paper was awarded the "AGILE Reproducible" badge. The badge links to a report which documents the completed steps and results of a specific reproduction.We would like to express our appreciation and gratitude to the whole AGILE community, authors and reviewers that contributed to the AGILE 2020 Conference, the Local Organizing and Reproducibility Committees and the AGILE Council that was always eager to support all the necessary steps to mitigate these challenging circumstances.

XVII International Conference of Students and Young Scientists “Prospects of Fundamental Sciences Development” (PFSD-2020) conf-prfn.org 21-24 April, 2020 Tomsk, Russia The XVII International Conference of Students and Young Scientists “Prospects of Fundamental Sciences Development” (PFSD-2020), held on 21-24 April, 2020 in Tomsk, Russia, is an annual multidisciplinary conference gathering together students, young researchers, post-docs, and experienced researchers working in the different research areas in order to facilitate aggregation and sharing interests and results for a better collaboration.This year the conference took place virtually because of the restriction of travelling inside the country and accepting participants from abroad due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Organizing Committee was mainly located in Tomsk; some members of Organizing and Program Committee were in other cities. The technicians respecting all safety requirements were working at universities to ensure uninterrupted technical support to the Conference.The Model of the conference practically did not change: invited experts and keynote speakers made plenary reports (40-60 minutes), session reports were about 10 minutes, the time for questions and answers was not practically limited. It is worth noting that the virtual conference allowed expanding significantly the geography and the number of participants. The whole research groups took an active part in the work of the sessions and there were no limits for attendees who would like to listen to the speech of their colleagues. The colleagues from other universities, professors and their students were actively involved in discussions. All conference participants had the opportunity to pose and answer questions.

Although the scientific event organization in Ukraine in 2022 as a reality has guidance on how to perform when the rocket strike alarm, the CSIT organizing committee does its best to support our scientists at risk. To draw even more attention, the conference organization committee took an opportunity to improve the overall style of the conference. First, we began by identifying a set of tools for organizing and supporting the conference, which are or can be carriers of the visual components of the corporate style of the conference. From them, relevant corporate identity attributes were selected for the conference taking place in online mode. Among the developed series of the visual components of the conference, identity elements were chosen that will determine the general stylistics. The difficulty in deciding on corporate identity attributes is many experts, i.e., participants of the organizational and program committees of the conference, which led to the use of a group expert approach.

Transactions of the sixth international dental congress. Edited by H. R. T. Brooks. Published by the Committee of Organization, 19, Hanover Square, W Transactions of the sixth international dental congress. Edited by H R TBrooks. Published by the Committee of Organization, 19, Hanover Square, W. British Journal of Surgery, Volume 6, Issue 24, January 1918, Page 611, https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800062414 Published: 08 December 2005

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The Russian open scientific conference “Modern problems of remote sensing, radar, wave propagation and diffraction” (MPRSRWPD) 2021 took place in the Russian Federation in the city of Murom on May 25-27, 2021.The conference has been held at the Murom Institute of Vladimir State University since 1991. The organizers of the Conference MPRSRWPD 2021 are the Russian Academy of Sciences, diverse scientific organizations and a number of leading universities of Russia.Unfortunately, the COVID pandemic limited the travel of scientists and personal participation in the conference. Under these conditions, the Organizing Committee decided to hold MPRSRWPD 2021 completely online with remote meeting control from the Murom Institute.Such a decision required a different organization of the conference itself, the need for more precise compliance with the schedule for presentations, taking into account the differences between the time zones in which the speakers were located. Thanks to the efficient work of the Organizing Committee, these difficulties were successfully overcome.Of course, this format of the conference significantly narrowed the opportunities for personal communication of participants, practically eliminating discussions during breaks and after the end of meetings, which has always been an indispensable attribute of this conference. Nevertheless, the discussion of the reports took place, and at the end of the meetings, a general discussion took place in the format of a “round table”.Sixty two reports on the issues of wave propagation and diffraction, remote sensing, methodological and instrumental issues of sounding, and measurement accuracy were presented at the conference. Thirty four papers of them were recommended by the Program and Organizing Committees for publication in the JPCS collection. Twenty eight articles based on the results of peer review met the standards of IOP Publishing.The Organizing Committee expresses its gratitude to everyone who, at this difficult time, managed to find opportunities to participate in the conference, to everyone the organization of the work of the meetings depended on, and especially to our esteemed experts-I. Nasyrov, PhD, Associate Professor, A. Padokhin, PhD, Associate Professor, V. Pozhidaev, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Chief Researcher, B. Sedunov, PhD, Associate Professor, and I. Yusupov, PhD, Associate Professor, whose high qualifications ensured the compliance of the scientific level of the submitted articles with the requirements of IOP Publishing.We express our sincere regret that Yuri Ya. Ruzhin, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, Chief Researcher, recipient of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, Member of the National Geophysical Committee, one of the active organizers of our conferences for many years, passed away during the preparation of the Conference. We would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and colleagues.On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Committees, Organizing Committee, Executive editor, are available in the pdf

Taishotoyama International Symposium was established to educate and encourage young Japanese scientists. This was accomplished through the great efforts of 4 members of the organizing committee, Prof. T. Takemoto, Prof. K. Kobayashi, Prof. A.S. Tarnawski and Prof. G. L. Eastwood. I was assigned the great responsibility of the post of Secretary General by the organizing committee. The first International Symposium was held in 1987 at Shimoda Central Hotel. After a long series of advanced scientific planning and good organization, the symposium has established a brilliant tradition and a firm place in the scientific community. The 14th Taishotoyama International Symposium on Gastroenterology was planned to be held from April 14th to 16th at Regal Royal Hotel in Tokyo, however, it was canceled due to the massive earthquake that occurred off the coast of East Japan in March, 2011 and the subsequent major tsunami. Accidents at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant of Tokyo Electronic Power Co. resulted in radioactive contamination and residents living near the nuclear power plant had to take refuge in distant locations. As devastated districts in several Tohoku Prefectures are currently undergoing re-construction, the Organizing Committee and Taishotoyama Pharmaceuticals decided to hold the 15th Symposium again in 2013 in order to continue the tradition and provide educational concepts that support and encourage the research minds and scientific prowess on the international stage. On this occasion I am extremely delighted to have the opportunity to discuss the latest topics in gastroenterology, which have progressed over past three years and to inform you again that I will be presiding over the 15th Symposium in Tokyo on September 26–28, 2013. The topics to be discussed by the organizing committee are: 1. GI Mucosal Injury and Repair, 2. GI inflammation and 3. Cancer Research of the GI tract. The organizing committee sincerely requests that all participants submit a large number of papers, and to present the impressive results of their scientific efforts in order to add to the excitement of the final symposium. All things considered, and to our great regret, this international symposium finally came to end this year. However, we take pride in this symposium which has continued to educate and encourage many young Japanese scientists since 1987 and has sent a huge number of contributions on gastroenterology all over the world. All of the papers involving invited foreign speakers will be published in two installments in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the direction of Editor in chief, Prof. Mamoru Watanabe. Finally, on behalf of the Organizing Committee for the Taishotoyama International Symposium, we would like to express our sincere appreciation for the earnest and heart-felt cooperation and strong support we have received especially from Mr. Akira Uehara, The Chairman, Mr. Akira Ohira, The President, and Mr. Yoshiaki Sasaki, executive Director of Taishotoyama Pharmaceuticals.