First Announcement
Third Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR
Symposium
APES'01

October 29-November 1, 2001
Kobe University Kobe, Japan
Organized: by Asia Pacific EPR/ESR Society

Kobe port view

The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) on behalf of the International Organizing Committee (IOC) and the APES Council extends a cordial invitation to participate in the third Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Symposium (APES'01), which will take place at Kobe University (Kobe Japan) from October 29 (Monday) to November 1 (Thursday), 2001. The Symposium, although aimed primarily at the Asia-Pacific countries, will be open to participants from all over the world.

Scope of the Symposium

The aim of the APES'01 is to cover all subareas of EPR/ESR. Contributions dealing with any aspects of recent developments and applications in the "Theory", "Applications", "Methodology", "Instrumentation" and "Experimental Techniques" are invited. The focus will be on recent applications of EPR/ESR spectroscopy, including the conventional EPR/ESR, pulsed EPR, high frequency and high field EPR, ENDOR, time resolved EPR, FMR, MRI, CIDEP and ODMR. Four parallel topical sessions are planned.
(1) Biology, Life and Medical Sciences.
(2) Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
(3) Physics and Material Sciences,
(4) New Development and Cross-disciplinary areas.

Language

The official language of the Symposium will be English. No facilities for translation will be available.

Invited Lectures

Nominations are invited for up to 10 invited speakers, who will deliver the plenary lectures on the current most important topics. Self-nominations are also welcome. Please provide us with a short abstract of the lecture and a brief CV of the potential speaker. Nominations should be made to the Chairperson of the LOC before the end of July 2000.

Satellite Meetings and Post Symposium Tours

Satellite meeting(s) may be arranged in the period October 26-27, or November 2-3 at Sengari Seminar House of Kwansei Gakuin University depending on the participants' proposals and demand. Post Symposium tours to Hiroshima and Miyazima, Kyoto, Nara etc. may be arranged.

Place & Accommodations

Kobe University is located in Rokko Mountain area of Kobe city and close to the seashore of Osaka bay. The Symposium will be held at the International Conference Center now under construction, which will be completed by the end of 2000. Limousine bus service, JR and private rail lines are available from Osaka Kwansai airport to Kobe. It takes about 90 min to reach the conference site. Accommodation will be arranged at several hotels close to the Kobe University campus.

Address for Correspondence

All correspondence should be addressed to:
Prof.  Asako Kawamori,   Chairperson of LOC
Third Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Symposium (APES'01)
Faculty of Science, Kwansei Gakuin University
Uegahara 1-1-155, Nishinomiya, 662-8501, 
Japan
Tel. 81-798-54-6383, Fax 81-798-51-0914
E-mail:  kawamori@kwansei.ac.jp

International Organizing Committee

President: Prof. C.Z. Rudowicz (HongKong)
Vice President: Prof. A. Kawamori (Japan)
Members: Prof. A. . Ziatdnov (Russia), 
Prof. H. So (SouthKorea), 
Dr. L.Y. Li (China),
Prof. H. Ohta (Japan), 
Dr. Y.Y. Yeung(Hong Kong), 
Dr. T.T. Nguyen (Vietnam), 
Prof. S.V. Bhat (India), 
Dr. G. Hanson (Australia).

Local Organizing Committee

Chairperson: 
Prof. Asako Kawamori (Kwansei Gakuin Umiv.)
Secretary: Prof. Hitoshi Ohta (Kobe Univ.)
Treasurer: Prof. Takeji Takui (Osaka City Univ.)
Members: Prof. Hiroaki Ohya (Institute for Life Support Technology of Yamagata Technopolis Foundation)
Prof. Jun Yamauchi (Kyoto Univ.)
Prof. Motoji Ikeya (Osaka Univ.)

Important Dates:

Nomination of plenary & 
invited speakers:                  July 31, 2000
Satellite meeting proposals:       July 31, 2000
Reply card to be returned before:  July 31, 2000
Second announcement:               January, 2001
Submission of abstracts:           May 31, 2001
For details and current status check the APES Web site at:
http://www.apes2001.phys.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp/ or
http://www.ied.edu.hk/has/phys/apepr
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Please tick the following boxes
* I plan to attend the Symposium 
* Please send me the Second Announcement
* I am interested in the satellite meeting(s) and propose the following topic(s):
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* I am interested in the post Symposium tours
* I would like to attend the topical session(s):
( (1) Biology, Life and Medical Sciences,  
( (2) Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
( (3) Physics and Material Sciences,
( (4) New Development & Cross-disciplinary areas.

Please return before July 31, 2000.




To:
    Prof. Asako Kawamori
Chairperson of LOC
3-rd Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Symposium (APES'01)

Faculty of Science, Kwansei Gakuin University
Uegahara 1-1-155, Nishinomiya, 662-8501,
Japan

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