Preface

Abstract

The International Conference Alt100 - ‘Resonances in Condensed Matter’ was held in Kazan, Russian Federation, from 21–25 June, at Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University. The conference was devoted to the centenary of Professor, Corresponding member of Academy of Sciences of the USSR S A Altshuler (24.09.1911–24.01.1983), well known for his pioneer works together with E K Zavoiskii on EPR, prediction of neutron magnetic moment (with I E Tamm) and acoustic magnetic resonance. The program of the conference covered experimental and theoretical studies of (i) electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic resonances (FMR, AFMR) in condensed matter, enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance in Van-Vleck paramagnets (ENMR), optical spectroscopy of paramagnetic crystals;(ii) magnetic relaxation;(iii) bulk and local magnetic properties of transition metal oxides and intermetallic compounds;(iv) modern applications of magnetic resonance techniques and methods. The conference attracted 120 participants from 14 countries. There were 26 invited talks and 36 regular oral talks in the morning and afternoon sessions, and 70 poster presentations. A book of s is available on the conference website (http://alt100.ksu.ru). The Memorial Session involved talks from B I Kochelaev (Chairman of the Organizing Committee) and A A Manenkov and reminiscences about S A Altshuler given by A A Kaplyanskii, V A Kutuzov, Yu R Pol_skii and I N Pen_kov. The memorial talks and Kaplyanskii_ speech are presented in this volume. The papers submitted for this Proceedings were carefully considered by at least two referees, and we are very grateful to referees for their quick and very thoughtful responses. A few papers were eliminated because of referee reports. Finally 41 papers have been included. We thank the international advisory committee members very much for their recommendations of speakers for Alt100 and especially members of the Program Committee (M V Eremin, S I Nikitin, Yu N Proshin, L R Tagirov, G B Teitelbaum) and the Local Committee Chairman M S Tagirov for their valuable help. We also appreciate the behind-the-scenes work of the Local Committee members in preparing the conference site, web page, mail correspondence, arrangements for travel and accommodation, excursions and conference dinner, and handling the financial support for participants. The conference was supported by the Government and the President of Tatarstan Republic, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Fund for Basic Research and Bruker Ltd (Moscow, Russia).A V Dooglav B Z Malkin D A Tayurskii