ISMAR is a society devoted to the advancement of magnetic resonance and its applications. Its main public function is in piloting the organization of an international meeting, at present triennial. This is one of the largest such meetings, and the only one of its size that brings together magnetic resonance practitioners from many countries and from all domains, including NMR, NQR, ESR, MRI, ICR and aspects of coherent optics. Junior scientists are particularly encouraged to participate.
What's New?
The 17th triennial ISMAR Conference will be held July 4-9, 2010 in Florence, Italy jointly with the annual EUROMAR Conference. Prof. Ivano Bertini will chair the organizing committee. A web site for the conference is under development.
The 16th ISMAR Meeting at Kenting, Taiwan in October, 2007. The 16th ISMAR meeting was held at Kenting, Taiwan, October 14-19, 2007, under the chairmanship of Prof. Tai-huang Huang (Academia Sinica). The Honorary Chair of the conference is Dr. Yuan-Tseh Lee, Nobel Laureate and President of Academia Sinica. There were a total of 479 participants from 28 countries. The final program of the conference and abstracts of all presentations and posters can be downloaded from the conference web site at www.ismar2007.sinica.edu.tw.
Seiji Ogawa is the winner of the 2007 ISMAR Prize sponsored by Cambridge Isotopes. The presentation was made at the ISMAR Conference in Kenting, Taiwan on October 14, 2007. Prof. Ogawa described his research career from studies of hemoglobin chemistry to his discovery of the BOLD method for identifying active brain sites by magnetic resonance imaging.