International Advisory Committee Research Articles

28th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2022)

The 28th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2022) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa from 11 to 16 September 2022, marking the first time the conference was held on the African continent. This event, overseen by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), coincided with three major scientific events: The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD), the centenaries of the Nobel Prize awarded to Niels Bohr and the establishment of IUPAP.The conference program spanned a wide range of topics across the breadth of Nuclear Physics, from hadrons to nuclei, from fundamental science to applications, covering topics such as Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy and QCD Partonic Phenomena, Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter, Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions, Nuclear Astrophysics, Applications and Societal Impact, Neutrinos and Nuclei, Fundamental Interactions and Symmetries, New Facilities and Instrumentation, Outreach and Science Education, and Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Physics.The in-person conference was the largest to bring our scientific community together since the COVID-19 pandemic, and provided an excellent opportunity for the 468 delegates to explore the latest progress in the field and reconnect with colleagues. The INPC2022 was a great success, providing an excellent platform for the delegates to share their latest research work, techniques, experiences, challenges, and innovative solutions with colleagues from around the world and provided an opportunity for over 40 African students to be exposed to the field. The conference coincided with the completion of many projects that constitute the pillars of the 2017-2022 Long-Range Plan of iThemba LABS. The delegates had the opportunity to visit the facility and appreciate the advancement and completion of many of these pillars.The INPC2022 was sponsored and supported by the South African National Convention Bureau, Department of Science and Innovation, National Research Foundation, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Western Cape, University of Cape Town, Metrological and Applied Sciences University Research Unit, IUPAP, NuPECC, ACF Metals, XIA and IBA.List of Local Organizing Committee, International Advisory Committee, Session Conveners are available in this pdf.

Recommendations From the 2023 International Evidence-based Guideline for the Assessment and Management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

Recommendations From the 2023 International Evidence-based Guideline for the Assessment and Management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

Recommendations from the 2023 International Evidence-based Guideline for the Assessment and Management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome†.

Recommendations from the 2023 International Evidence-based Guideline for the Assessment and Management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome†.

Use of Information and Communication Technology Strategies to Increase Vaccination Coverage in Older Adults: A Systematic Review.

Coverage rates of routinely recommended vaccines in older adults still fall below the targets established by international and national advisory committees. As a result, related diseases still have a high incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) could provide useful tools to improve immunization rates by bringing information directly to the target user at a relatively low cost. The present research aims to systematically review recent literature on interventions applying ICT to improve the uptake of influenza, pneumococcal, COVID-19 and herpes zoster immunization rates among older adults. Studies published in English between 1 January 2000 and 10 November 2022 were identified by searching electronic medical databases (PubMed, Scopus) and were independently reviewed by two different authors. A total of 22 studies were included in this review. Interventions applied the following ICT tools: phone calls, text messages, messages sent via personal electronic medical records, automated phone calls, remote patient monitoring in a home telehealth program and emails. In terms of the vaccines promoted, 11 studies prompted the influenza vaccine, four prompted the influenza and pneumococcal vaccines, three the pneumococcal vaccine, two the herpes zoster vaccine, one the COVID-19 vaccine and one both the pneumococcal and herpes zoster vaccines. Overall, more than half of the studies (n = 12) found some level of effectiveness of these ICT strategies in increasing vaccination rates among older adults, while five studies were partially effective (for specific vaccines or population subgroups), and five reported no significant effect. Prevention programs using ICT tools could be effective in promoting immunizations among older adults.

In memoriam Jean‐Claude Dousse

‘Πάντα ῥεῖ’—‘everything flows’ A saying in Ancient Greek, attributed to the philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, states ‘τὰ πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει’. It may be translated to ‘everything flows, and nothing stays’. Late 2020, a few months after the passing of Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Dousse, we published an editorial to commemorate his scientific carrier. In this short summary,1 we anticipated the launch of a special issue ‘In Memoriam Jean-Claude Dousse’. It took us time to put it together, to involve and give time to all colleagues who wanted to contribute to this special issue, especially in view of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, and we are happy to present it here. We truly believed that it was important that the Special Issue is seeing the light. Many scientists have contributed to this Special Issue, which will give the readers of Wiley X-Ray Spectrometry journal an overview of the fields of science in which the imprints and legacy of Jean-Claude Dousse may be found. We would like here to thank all the authors, the reviewers, the editorial team at X-ray Spectrometry, for their time, their work, for their will to contribute to this venture. We would also like to express our appreciation of the numerous expressions of support to this initiative, whether these were followed by a contribution or not. We also recall with a lot of emotions, the feedback received after the special session ‘In Memoriam Jean-Claude Dousse’ we organised during the European X-Ray Spectrometry (EXRS) 2022 Conference,2 under the auspices of EXSA3 and of its members part of the EXRS’ International Advisory Committee. This session, widely attended, has been the opportunity to elaborate on present scientific achievements in various fields of research linked to high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy, while grounding them into the past, and looking towards future developments. The common threads to all these works, were the impact that Jean-Claude's scientific journey had on the science, and that his generous personality, one that has forged trust, that has led to scientific respect he had on his colleagues, collaborators and alumni. A sentence was repeated by all speakers ‘I was one of the lucky persons who […]’ learnt, worked, collaborated, knew Jean-Claude. Indeed, the passion with which Jean-Claude was dealing with science, learning and acting on the world using his scientific imagination and curiosity while providing a heart-centred scientific education and collaboration to his pairs, shined during this session. It is mirrored in this Special Issue. Engraved in the trophy given to him in 2018 at the occasion of the attribution of his title of emeritus professor by the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, were these words: ‘X-Rays are forever’. Without doubt, the scientific legacy of Jean-Claude will be remembered in the X-ray Spectrometry community, and his works will continue to lay the foundations to many upcoming scientific breakthroughs. Science will keep providing advancement, and impacting our lives, while simultaneously, ‘Πάντα ῥεῖ’—‘everything flows’. But this XRS Special Issue will stay in the literature, and we hope that with it, together with all contributors, to have honoured Jean-Claude Dousse.

XXII International Conference and School on Quantum Electronics: “Laser Physics and Applications”

The International School on Quantum Electronics “Laser Physics and Applications” was held for the first time as far back as 1980. Since then it has taken place biennially and has become an important international event in the field of laser physics and laser applications attracting participants from many countries, especially from south-eastern Europe. Traditionally, its program includes lectures delivered by prominent scientists dealing with investigations of basic physical phenomena, processes of interaction of laser radiation with matter and latest scientific results obtained in the research areas of quantum electronics and optics, as well as the technological practical applications of new ideas, devices, instruments and laser systems. Special attention is paid to the active participation of students and young scientists who have the opportunity to present their results and meet and share experience with outstanding professionals in their particular fields of research.The topics include the following:• Laser-matter interactions • Laser spectroscopy and metrology • Laser remote sensing and ecology • Lasers in biology and medicine • Laser systems and nonlinear optics • Alternative techniques for material synthesis and processing The 22nd edition of the ICSQE was held as a virtual forum due to the restrictions related to COVID-19 pandemic from September 19th to 23rd, 2022. The Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, located in Sofia, Bulgaria, hosted the conference organization. The Big Blue Button on-line system was used as a technical platform for the meeting. The technical sessions of the International School on Quantum Electronics included 22 invited talks (30 min + 5 min Q&A), a Mini-Symposium “Extreme light infrastructure”, 11 oral contributions (30 min + 5 min Q&A) and in total 51 poster presentations divided into 5 sessions (1 hour each). The platform was available 24 hours, allowing discussions in addition to the technical program. The total number of participants was 90 from 16 countries.The XXII International Conference and School on Quantum Electronics: “Laser Physics and Applications” was held by the financial support from the Bulgarian National Science Fund under Project No. KP-06-MNF/4, 20.07.2022.List of Committees, International Advisory Committee, Program Committee, Local Organizing Committee, Lecturers, Oral Presentations, Poster Presentations are available in this pdf.

International Conference on Material Science, Mechanics and Technology (ICMMT2022)

India, December 23-24, 2022 Editor-in-chief Dr. Ravi K. Dwivedi,Professor, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, IN Dr. Premanand S. Chauhan,Director, Sushila Devi Bansal College of Technology, Indore, IN Editors Dr. Elammaran Jayamani,Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, Malaysia Dr. Damodar Tiwari,Director, Bansal Institute of Science & Technology, Bhopal, IN Dr. Vikesh Gupta,Head, Applied Science & Humanities, Sushila Devi Bansal College of Engineering, Indore, IN Preface An International Peer-reviewed Academic Conference on Material Science, Mechanics and Technology (ICMMT 2022) was held during December 23-24, 2022 at Sushila Devi Bansal College of Technology, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.It is well known that technological advancements have made our learning continuous even when the entire world is facing unexpected circumstances. It is high time for engineers and technocrats to think innovate and contribute to technological advancements. Technological advancements at an exceptional rate could only take place by exchanging thoughts, ideas, innovations, problems, real-time solutions to the problems and technologies. ICMMT2022 has provided such a platform to researchers, engineers, academicians, industrial professionals, and practitioners of the Material Science, Mechanics and Technology field from all over the globe. It has kindled validated discussions on the technological advancements, recent trends, various issues of sustainability, and the solutions adopted to address these issues in the amalgamating field of Engineering, Technology & Science by embodying innovative ideas and pivoting advanced technologies. Emphasis was attributed to the recent developments in the field of Materials Science, Mechanics, and Technology.The conference was made stimulating and informative both by four plenary keynote speeches by the pioneers of their field from different corners of the world. In this wonderful array of invited talks Prof. Raghu Echempati, Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (USA) delivered his talk on Lightweight Materials–Applications and Research Issues, Prof. Priya Baboo Senior Director Corporate & Industry Engagement in College of Eng, Pennsylvania State University, USA, delivered her talk on Materials Science–Advances, Applications and Opportunities, Dr. Elammaran Jayamani, Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak, Malaysia, delivered his talk on Doing more with less: Planning our future with Earth’s Interest and Prof. B. V. Chowdary, Professor, University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago, enlightened the gathering on Additive Manufacturing Practice-A Classification, Research Contributions to Date and Suggestions for Future research.The organizing committee addresses the thanks to esteemed associates of the conference, eminent speakers, the technical committee members, session chairs, reviewers, participants, and all the members who have supported the conference. Dr. Vikesh Gupta, Coordinator Dr. Atul Agarwal, Organizing SecretaryList of International Advisory Committee, National Advisory Committee, Organizer, Sponsors are available in this pdf.

Preface: 2023 International Conference on Researches of Humanities and Educational Engineering (RHEE 2023)

The 2023 International Conference on Researches of Humanities and Educational Engineering (RHEE 2023) was successfully held during March 11-12, 2023 in Budapest, Hungary to spur the exchange of knowledge and ideas in the fields of anthropology, history, humanities, literature, arts, linguistics and educational engineering. The conference was a convergence of scientists, research investigators, students, and other professionals from diverse backgrounds who deliberated upon various current issues related to different branches of social sciences.
 The primary aim of this conference was the presentation of current research being adopted to address local and international challenges. RHEE 2023 provided an ideal environment for young researchers as well as practitioners to promote discourses regarding new advances in every facet of social sciences. This conference also provided an ideal platform to build productive coordination between the academia and the applications, which was very much the need of the hour.
 We are thankful to peer reviewers who contributed to improve the quality of research papers. We are very grateful to the international and national advisory committee, session chairs, student volunteers and university management who helped for the grand success of this conference.
 RHEE 2023 Conference Scientific Committees
 Budapest, Hungary

Preface

Proceedings of the joint 13th and 14th International Conferences on Polarized Neutrons for Condensed-Matter Investigations The international Conference on Polarized Neutrons for Condensed-Matter Investigations (PNCMI) started its long journey in Dubna, Russia in 1996 and has taken place biennially since then. The present volume of proceedings represents the 13th and 14th editions of this series. The 13th PNCMI was originally suggested by the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of PNCMI to be held in Maryland, USA in 2020, and was postponed due to the fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic. The IAC later suggested, due to the still evolving pandemic, to replace PNCMI 2020 with a virtual PNCMI in 2021 and an in-person PNCMI in 2022.The 13th PNCMI, organized by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), was held online from July 27-30, 2021. One of the main objectives was to keep up the frequency of PNCMI conferences for the community, staying up to date on emerging topics using polarized neutrons and on related instrumentation development. 110 participants from 40 institutions and 15 countries crossing Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America attended the virtual conference. The conference was limited to invited speaker and poster sessions since it was run two- and one-half hours daily to accommodate different time zones for the international attendees.The 14th PNCMI was held in-person from July 25-29, 2022 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA and jointly organized by the University of Maryland and NIST. The number of conference participants was affected by international travel restrictions due to the pandemic. The conference attendees included 62 participants from 30 institutions and 10 countries crossing Europe, Asia, and North America. The scientific program featured a Keynote lunch presentation, titled “Polarization can be good”, given by Dr. Charles Majkrzak (NCNR), invited, and contributed oral talks, and poster presentations.The PNCMI conference covers the latest condensed-matter investigations using polarized neutrons and state-of-the-art methodologies and techniques of polarized-neutron production and utilization for novel instrumentation and experiments. The 13th and 14th editions covered the following traditional topics: multiferroics and chirality, strongly correlated electron systems, frustrated and disordered systems, magnetic nanomaterials, thin films and multilayers, imaging, polarized neutron instrumentation and polarized neutron techniques and methods. Quantum materials as an emerging topic was included in the 13th PNCMI as well. A new session, -- polarized quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) driven by recently growing interest and benefitting from modernized polarized neutron spectroscopies, was also included for the first time in the 14th PNCMI.A two-day Polarized Neutron School, for 12 graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers familiar with scattering techniques, was held at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) preceding the 2022 in-person conference.We would like to take this opportunity again to thank all participants for their attendance, and the International Advisory Committee for guidance in developing an excellent scientific program. We’d like to extend a special thank you to the University of Maryland and the NIST conference services for all their hard work and planning to help organize and ensure it ran smoothly. The 14th PNCMI was made possible with the generous support of Cryogenic Limited, HTS-110, Mirrotron, ORNL, and SwissNeutronics.List of International Advisory Committee, Local Organizing Committee are available in this Pdf.

GIREP Malta Webinar 2021

Preface After the success of the GIREP Malta Webinar 2020, both GIREP Board members and the organisers/hosts from the University of Malta decided to plan for another meeting for GIREP members, to be organised in 2021. Restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic had automatically led the organisers of the first meeting to decide in favour of organising a webinar. There was hope, from both organisers and participants, that the 2nd meeting would be held face-to-face in Malta. But even this idea had to be abandoned in 2021. So a second webinar was organised instead. Seeing that participants of the first webinar indicated the need for further discussion related to physics teacher education, this being such an important topic, the GIREP Board decided that Webinar 2021 would still focus on ‘Physics Teacher Education: What matters?’ This was the title of the GIREP Malta Webinar 2021.During the Webinar, various keynote speeches were presented. Participants were then sub-divided into groups, according to the workgroups of their interest. The workgroups dealt with specific topics for discussion, led by experts in the field. Participants had time at their disposal to present their work and research. They actively interacted with each other and the group leaders, during discussions. A number of papers were submitted, post-webinar. Each paper was independently and anonymously reviewed by two experts.The workgroups dealt specifically with the following topics:• Preparing teachers for TPACK (technological, pedagogical and content knowledge) and Lab work;• Developing and evaluating teacher PCK (Pedagogical Content Knowledge) in Quantum Mechanics (tools and approaches);• In-service Physics teacher education for early childhood and primary levels;• Pre-service Physics teacher education at all levels;• In-service Physics teacher professional learning for second and higher level education.The topic titles shown above have been used as Section Titles for this Journal of Physics: Conference Series publication. Published papers have been sectioned according to the working group in which they were originally presented.Once again, we must admit that organising the GIREP Malta Webinar 2021 and finalising the editing process for the post webinar publications has been quite a challenge. We have worked with passion and enthusiasm. We firmly believe that discussions, interactions and publications of this kind can help improve teaching and learning at all levels, offering creative ideas that can be used personally by teachers to enhance the class environment, both physically and mentally, as well as creating the important link between theory and practice. We would like to thank all those who contributed to the publication of these papers, including the GIREP board, the authors and reviewers. Thank you for your time and effort.List of International Advisory Committee and Scientific Programme Committee, Local Organising Committee, The Editors are available in this Pdf.

Foreword

These Proceedings contain invited and contributed papers presented in the 13th International Seminar on Nuclear Physics held in Sant’Angelo d’Ischia from May 15 to May 20, 2022. This Seminar is part of a series of topical meetings started in Sorrento in 1986 on the initiative of Aldo Covello and continued regularly with meetings taking place every two or three years in the Naples area.The main aim of the Seminar, entitled “Perspectives and Challenges in Nuclear Structure after 70 Years of Shell Model”, was to focus on the progress made in recent years in the nuclear structure field from both theoretical and experimental points of view as well as on the role that nuclear structure plays in the context of fundamental physics. The specific topics covered during the conference represent the main lines of investigation in this field:• Advanced methods for nuclear structure• Nuclear structure studies through RIB experiments• Nuclear structure & fundamental physics• Special topicsThere were about 70 participants, which should be considered a great success despite the 30% reduction compared to the previous editions. The 13th Seminar, was, in fact, one of the first in-person meetings after the break due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which hampered, together with the Russia attack in Ukraine, participation from countries outside Europe. It is worth mentioning that six young international researchers between participants benefited from the financial support provided by the “Young Investigator Training Program 2019” funded by ACRI (organization of Foundations of banking origin and Savings Banks), which also allowed them to carry out one-month research activity at Italian Institutions.The Seminar started with a session in memory of Aldo Covello, who passed away on March 31, 2020. Friends and colleagues, as Luigi Coraggio, Giacomo de Angelis, Francesco Iachello, Nicola Lo Iudice, highlighted his human qualities and scientific achievements. A comprehensive overview of the Seminar topics was given in the following sessions through about 60 general talks and more specialized contributions. We had also the opportunity to celebrate Francesco Iachello’s 80th birthday with a special session on Wednesday, before Banquet.The present volume contains 31 manuscripts. All these manuscripts have been peer reviewed. We would like to thank all the colleagues who have acted as referees to assess the suitability of the various articles for publication in Journal of Physics: Conference Series. We are confident that the high quality of all papers contained in these Proceedings will be appreciated by the nuclear physics community.List of Local Organizing Committee, International Advisory Committee, Sponsors of The Seminar are available in this pdf.

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Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Muon Spin Relaxation, Rotation and Resonance28th August to 2nd September 2022 Parma, ItalyEditors: Giacomo Prando and Francis PrattThe 15th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance, µSR2020, took place at the University of Parma, Italy, from August 28th to September 2nd 2022, after a delay of over two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. µSR2020 was promoted by the International Society for µSR Spectroscopy (ISMS) and co-organised by the Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences of the University of Parma in Italy and the ISIS Muon Group at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK.µSR spectroscopy makes use of beams of positive and negative muons that are produced at only a small (but growing) number of accelerator facilities around the world. This conference series, which started in 1978 in Rorschach, Switzerland, and has continued with a triennial cadence until the present day, plays a very important role in fostering the exchanges of a well-established, open community of users, promoting and disseminating new experimental developments, as well as informing on scientific breakthroughs associated with the technique and the theoretical advances that support data interpretation.After the uncertainties of the pandemic years, the organisers welcomed the strong support shown by the community for the meeting, with 183 delegates from 17 different countries attending this 15th edition. Of these, it was good to see over 40 early stage researchers taking part in the conference. At the time of the meeting, delegates from a number of countries were still finding international travel difficult, and therefore hybrid sessions were included in the programme to allow remote participation.The Conference Program was selected with the generous help of an International Advisory Committee of 32 distinguished scientists, chaired by Mauro Riccò, University of Parma, and a Scientific Program Committee, composed of nine distinguished scientists, chaired by Pietro Carretta, University of Pavia. Outreach to the local community was an important aspect of the Conference, which was enhanced by a well-attended public engagement event held on the Thursday evening at the Museo APE Parma.Following a well-established tradition, the conference opened with a Student Day on the Sunday. Starting with a short session of four introductory tutorials, the bulk of the day was given over to the students themselves, to share their research with their peers though 12 selected contributions. The day was very well attended (with up to 70 delegates taking part), with the new format much appreciated by all.The start of the regular event was marked by the award of the Yamazaki Prize to Stephen Blundell, followed by his Yamazaki Prize Lecture on ‘The Quantum Muon’. The program was built around eight plenary keynote talks, covering a diverse range of subjects in condensed matter, materials and molecular sciences, where muon spectroscopy is making a significant contribution. Continuing a tradition started at a previous meeting, these contributions were selected from distinguished scientists who, while friends of µSR, are mostly active in complementary fields. The keynote talks were given by Catia Arbizzani (Bologna, energy materials), Bruce Gaulin (McMaster, spin liquids), Giacomo Ghiringhelli (Milano, strongly correlated electron systems), Reizo Kato (RIKEN, molecular materials), Ioan Pop (Karlsruhe, superconducting quantum circuits), Jorge Quintanilla (Kent, machine learning to analyse muon results), Roberta Sessoli (Florence, single molecule magnets) and Reiner Zorn (Jülich, dynamics of liquids, glasses and polymers).The 49 oral contributions presented during the conference were selected from the submitted abstracts. While many of these were related to the topics of the keynote talks, others extended the discussion to applications of muons in additional areas. Presentations were grouped into sessions covering topical subject areas such as Spin Liquids (seven), Strongly Correlated Electron systems (six), Superconductivity (eight), Energy Materials (five), Semiconductors (five), Molecular Chemistry (six), Site Calculations (five) and New Techniques (three). The conference also introduced a session on Muonic x-rays, with the four presentations covering areas such as cultural heritage and in-operando batteries. A further session was dedicated to six facility reports, testifying to the active developments going on at the established facilities and the progress of future ones. Three poster sessions accommodated 129 further contributions across a similar range of subjects, with an online forum catering for those who could not join us at the meeting. The ISMS awarded two prizes to young scientists for best oral and poster presentations, with three further poster prizes awarded to young scientists by the Conference. The meeting concluded with a Conference Summary talk by Tom Lancaster and a closing ceremony, the latter being led by the Conference Honorary Chair, Cesare Bucci.List of Conference Organisation and Sponsor lists and the confererence photograph are available in the pdf.

Foreword

The International Conference on Kaon Physics 2022 – KAON2022 – was held on September 13-16, 2022 at the Nambu Yoichiro Hall in the Toyonaka Campus of Osaka University, Japan.At the previous KAON2019 which was held in September 2019 at Perugia, it was decided that the next conference will be held in Osaka in September 2022. At that time, nobody knew what the entire world had to go through between the two KAON Conferences. Many other conferences were canceled or postponed, and many have switched to a pure online style. In November 2021, as we saw some hope for having a face-to-face meeting, the International Advisory Committee (IAC) for KAON2022 decided to hold the Conference as scheduled in hybrid style. Still, due to unpredictable variants of the virus and border restrictions, the expected number of attendants had a large uncertainty. The conference had to be prepared for a wide range of possibilities.At the end, however, the Conference had 53 participants attending in person, of which 29 were from 13 countries abroad. We also had 53 people registered for online participation. There were 47 oral presentations of which 25 were given in person, and 19 poster presentations.Oral presentations covered experimental and theoretical aspects of kaon rare decays, semileptonic decays, radiative decays, the CKM matrix, violations in CP, T, CPT, and lepton number, hadron physics, quantum mechanics, exotic particle searches, and future perspectives. We also had review talks on flavor physics in neighboring fields, including theoretical overview, and experiments on B mesons, neutrinos, and muons.The poster session was also held in hybrid style. All the posters were posted physically in the Nambu Hall, and their PDF files were also posted in a virtual poster session room on a platform called Gather. For each poster in the Hall, a rented iPad was hung next to it. Each iPad was connected to Gather, and showed the same poster. Effectively, the iPad served as a window between the real and virtual worlds. Through the window, the presenter and audience could see each other and have discussions just as if they were standing in front of the poster.List of Conference Home Page, Participants, Posters are available in this Pdf.

Preface

This volume of the IOP Conference Series is dedicated to scientific contributions presented at the 20th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT 2021). In 2021, the motto guiding the scientific program was “AI Decoded: Towards Sustainable, Diverse, Performant and Effective Scientific Computing”. The workshop took place from November 29, 2021 to December 3, 2021 in Daejeon, Korea and virtually through teleconferencing.Due to the ubiquitous travel restrictions, most of the about 600 attendees participated virtually. ACAT is badged as a workshop, rather than a conference, because we believe discussions are a key ingredient. The significant fraction of virtual participation impacted this workshop atmosphere in 2021, despite the tremendous work that the Local Organizing Committee has invested in the successful workshop.To cater to virtual presentations, ACAT 2021 featured a highly focused scientific program with reduced session duration. Nonetheless, the scientific program was rich and varied, bringing together experts of all relevant fields from around the globe. It included fourteen invited presentations, both from High Energy and Nuclear Physics such as on “Normalizing Flows for LHC Theory” and “High Performance Analysis, Today and Tomorrow”, as well as from other fields such as the WHO.The parallel program consisted of three tracks, namely Computing Technology for Physics Research, Data Analysis – Algorithms and Tools, and Computations in Theoretical Physics: Techniques and Methods. These tracks featured 75 oral and 128 poster contributions. The posters were presented in a virtual environment that succeeded in engaging the audience.This was the last edition of ACAT that was unaffected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent statement of support from some Russian Federation Institutes.ACAT 2021 is co-organized by the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), and Soongsil University. IBS is supported by Grant No. IBS-R016-D1 and Soongsil University is supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea Grant No. 2016R1D1A1B02012900. ACAT 2021 would like to thank for the support by the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP), the Daejeon International Marketing Enterprise (DIME), the Korean Physical Society (KPS), Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and Micron Technology, Inc.List of Local Organizing Committee, Scientific Programming Committee, International Advisory Committee, Co-organizers, Sponsors are available in this Pdf.

Preface for the Proceedings of the International Conference on Green energy and Technology (GreenTech21)

The first International Conference on Green energy and Technology (GreenTech21) was held on the campus of Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering in Chennai, India during 26-27 November 2021. The participants from several places had many fruitful discussions and exchanges that contributed to the success of the conference. Participants from different countries made the conference truly international in scope.The 51 abstracts that were presented formed the heart of the conference and provided ample opportunity for discussion. The abstracts were split almost equally between the two main conference areas, i.e., Green Technology and Environment, and Energy development and Utilization. Of the total number of presented abstracts, all are included in this proceedings volume, the first time that abstracts have been published by GreenTech21. On this occasion, 2 distinguished plenary speakers had delivered their outstanding research works in various field of Energy and Environment. These public talks, held on Thursday and Friday mornings, were very accessible to a general audience. These talks covered the full range of the conference topics. The plenary lectures and the progress and special reports bridged the gap between the different fields of Green energy, 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, who brought new perspectives to their fields.Generous support for the conference was provided by the management of SSN, the President’s office, and the Principal. The funds were sizeable, timely, and greatly appreciated, and permitted us to support a significant number of young scientists and persons from developing/disadvantaged countries. We would like to express our gratitude and appreciation for all of the reviewers who helped us maintain the high quality of manuscripts included in the proceedings published by IOP Conference series: Earth and Environmental Science. We would also like to extend our thanks to the members of the organizing team for their hard work. We are now optimistic and full of hope about getting the proceedings of GreenTech21 covered by Scopus in due course. We appreciate that the authors of GreenTech21 may want to maximize the popularity of their papers. And we will try our best to support them in their endeavours. We expect that these future GreenTech conferences will be as stimulating as this most recent one was, as indicated by the contributions presented in this proceedings volume.List of Convenors, Co-Convenors, Editors, International Advisory Committee and National Advisory Committee are available in this pdf.

14th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI 2021), 28 March to 1 April 2022

The International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI) is a unique and significant international forum held every three years in the community of synchrotron radiation (SR) and free electron lasers (FEL). It is the prime forum for fostering connections between cutting-edge synchrotron radiation instrumentation, science, and the requirements of the user community. The SRI 2021 had originally been scheduled to take place in Hamburg in summer 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed to 2022 and held as an online event.More than 1160 international participants from 25 countries met virtually at the SRI 2021. In nearly 290 talks and 450 posters, latest results were presented. Although it was an online-only conference, lively discussions took place in the nearly 40 parallel sessions, and the eight poster sessions were also very well attended.The main topics of the SRI conference were: new SR and FEL facilities, update plans of these facilities, and recent developments in various instrumentation areas like beamline design, X-ray optics, sample environments, detectors and spectrometers, data acquisition, and data analysis techniques or automation. These innovations contributed to new results for a wide range of experimental techniques and scientific applications such as X-ray scattering and spectroscopy, bio- and scanning imaging, structural biology crystallography, coherent techniques, or in-situ/operando methods. A dedicated session concerned industrial applications of synchrotron radiation.The field of synchrotron radiation instrumentation is currently seeing very active development due to various factors. Firstly, the number of SR sources world-wide is increasing significantly, with new sources in particular in Europe and in Asia. Secondly, a new generation of storage rings with new multi-bend achromat lattices are being implemented at a growing number of existing facilities. These facilities offer a significant increase of brilliance and coherence and thereby lead to new and improved applications of synchrotron radiation, in particular in the areas of imaging and high spatial resolution. Thirdly, the increase of soft and hard X-ray FEL sources worldwide and the maturation of their experimental techniques and scientific applications is the background for a strongly increasing number of developments for ultrafast time-resolved investigations of dynamic behaviour of materials and reactions. Most of the keynote speakers and many invited and contributed talks or posters at the conference showed new results directly related to these three major developments.Lists of International Advisory Committee (listed by facility), Scientific Programme Committee (listed by facility), Local Organising Committee (listed by facility) are available in this PDF.

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The X International Geomechanics Conference is jubilee edition of traditional International Geomechanics Conference that Scientific and technical union of mining, geology and metallurgy in Bulgaria with co-operation with other organizations and universities organized.The International Geomechanics Conference has become a traditional scientific event and has proven its authority and importance over the years. The topics of the conference, determined by the members of the National editorial committee, are current and significant. The big challenge facing the mining industry is the rational use of mineral resources.List of Organizing Committee, International Advisory Committee, National Editorial Committee are available in this pdf.

Highlights from the International Twins Congress 2021

Highlights from the International Twins Congress 2021

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The 2020 International Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials (ICDIM2020) was the 20th edition of a series that began in 1956 at Argonne, USA, with the meeting “Color Centers in Alkali Halides”. International conferences (ICDIM) take place every four years and are alternated with Europe-specific conferences (EURODIM). The series is a broad international forum on the science and technology of defect-related phenomena in crystalline and amorphous wide band-gap materials. Recent ICDIM Conferences were held in South Africa (2000), Latvia (2004), Brazil (2008), USA (2012) and France (2016). Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held online. These proceedings represent a sample of the work presented at the conference.We are grateful to the IT department of the Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil, for their help in hosting the website and YouTube channel of the conference.List of ICDIM committees, Programme Advisory Committee, International Advisory Committee are available in this Pdf.

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34th International Symposium on Superconductivity (ISS2021)It is our pleasure to report that the Proceedings of the 34th International Symposium on Superconductivity (ISS2021) held on November 30–December 2, 2021, are now published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). ISS2021 was co-organized by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and the Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). At first, ISS2021 was planned to be held on site in Wellington, New Zeeland. However, owing to the continued travel restrictions by COVID-19 pandemic, the symposium was held online with using the “Cisco Webex Meetings” application. Although most of presentations were smoothly made, several presentations were cancelled probably due to limited speed of a communication line, some of which were re-scheduled and presented at later dates.Total of 342 scientists, engineers, students, corporate executives and so on (107 from abroad) made advanced registrations for ISS2021, and fruitful discussions were made to promote superconductor sciences and technologies. Total of 215 papers were presented, which included 5 plenary lectures (45 min), 76 invited talks (25–30 min) and 134 contributed oral presentations (15–20 min). Among the papers presented in ISS2021, 41 manuscripts were submitted for ISS2021 Proceedings, and 39 papers were accepted for publication. The papers published in JPCS were categorized into relevant topics in the following four fields; (a) Physics and Chemistry, (b) Wires and Bulk, (c) Electronic Devices, (d) Large Scale System Applications.To ensure the high publication standard mandated by JPCS, every paper was peer reviewed by a reviewer with expertise before it was accepted for publication. As editors of the Proceedings, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to all the reviewers involved in the evaluation of the papers for their invaluable contribution. The Editors Physics and Chemistry: Atsutaka Maeda (The University of Tokyo), Hiraku Ogino (AIST)Wires and Bulk: Yoshiyuki Yoshida (AIST), Yasuhiro Iijima (Fujikura Ltd.), Yasunori Mawatari (AIST)Electronic Devices: Mutsuo Hidaka (AIST), Tsunehiro Hato (SUSTEC)Large Scale System Applications: Naoyuki Amemiya (Kyoto University), Tsuyoshi Wakuda (Hitachi Ltd.), Hiroshi Miyazaki (Kyushu University)List of Organization of ISS2021, Committees of ISS2021, International Advisory Committee are available in this Pdf.