4th International Conference on Cryocrystals and Quantum Crystals (CC 2002)
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4th International Conference on
Cryocrystals and Quantum Crystals (CC 2002)
(Preface)
The conference on Cryocrystals and Quantum
Crystals, CC 2002, was a continuation of a series of
conferences, which was started in 1995 in Almaty,
Kazakstan by professor Andrei Drobyschev. The origi-
nal intent of the conference was to provide a platform
for scientists from the former Soviet Union, and from
countries of Eastern Europe to meet and exchange in-
formation with their western colleagues, and in partic-
ular to make it possible for the younger investigators
to get directly acquainted with the most recent re-
search and results done in their respective fields else-
where in the world. With nearly a hundred partici-
pants the conference was a resounding success, and
therefore it was decided to organize two years later a
second similar conference, this time chaired by Prof.
Andrzei Jezowski in Polanica-Zdroi in Poland.
The scientists present there have voiced their pref-
erence for organizing the third conference in 1999 in
Germany, and suggested that in particular Munich or
the surrounding Bavarian region, with their central
location and easy accessibility from east or west would
provide a suitable venue. Severe funding difficulties
have, however, prevented organizing the conference as
planned, but fortunately Prof. Jezowski came again to
the rescue, and was able to obtain sufficient funding
to organize in 2000 the conference again in Poland,
this time in the attractive «Karkonoze» mountains re-
gion, in Szklarska Poremba.
For the next issue of the conference, CC 2002, we fi-
nally managed to obtain some funding from the Ger-
man funding agancy, Deutsche Forschungsgemein-
schaft, so that with additional support from the Fonds
der Chemischen Industrie, as well as some funds from
several industrial sponsors we could go ahead. Let me
note that when I say we, I am adhering to the practice
common in the academic world, where if a professor
says we did this or that, he (or she) actually means that
his students and coworkers did it. This fully applies in
the present case, and I would at this point like to ex-
press my gratitude to my coworkers who took care of
most of the difficult and time consuming tasks and
chores necessarily involved in organizing a conference.
At this point, we would at this point like to express
our gratitude to a number of our colleagues and
friends invited as participants or speakers at the con-
ference, who have, in view of the very tight financial
situation, agreed to come on their own money, with-
out any support from the conference organizers. I am
also very pleased to acknowledge the help of the orga-
nizers of the previous issues of this conference, who
provided me with the lists and addresses of former par-
ticipants, both agreed to participate in the CC 2002
conference, and were always generous with their help
and advice. Finally, our sincere thanks go also to the
members of the organizing committee, as well as the
colleagues on the international advisory committee for
their assistance, advice, and countless helpful sugges-
tions.
The Conference was held in the «Kardi-
nal-Döpfner-Haus» in Freising, and several of my col-
leagues have asked me why on Earth did we organize
it in some small dump they have never heard of, rather
than in Munich. Actually, if one looks back into his-
tory, one can easily find time when there was no Mu-
nich at all, while Freising already existed as a prosper-
ous seat of Bishop and an important commercial
crossroad. The «Marienkirche», church adjoining the
conference site and located on a hill called Domberg,
as well as another church, «Stephanskirche» on a
nearby «Weihenstephaner» hill, were both built al-
ready at the beginning of the 8th century. Freising at
that time also boasted the only bridge over the river
Isar in this area, and was an important crossroad long
before Munich is ever even first mentioned, or appears
on the map.
Only several hundred years later, an insignificant
Benedictine Monastery was built some twenty miles
south of Freising. The monks living there, as well as
the Duke of Bavaria, viewed with some displeasure
the generous income which Freising and its Bishop
collected from the numerous business travelers moving
along the important East-West salt-road, and crossing
the bridge in Freising. In 1158, the monks, and the
Duke, who was perhaps appropriately called Henry
the Lion, decided on a three step plan to remedy this
situation. In the first step they constructed their own
bridge near their monastery, and in the second one,
they burned down the one in Freising. In the third,
and perhaps most important step, they had the whole
procedure sanctioned by the Emperor, Henry Bar-
barossa, and in fact the day this happened, June 14,
1158 is considered the day of founding of Munich. If
one considers the methods employed in founding the
place, one might even come to the conclusion that or-
ganizing the Cryocrystal meeting in Freising rather
than Munich might have been a wise choice.
In addition to being now distinguished for hosting
this conference dealing with low temperature solids,
Freising is also well known in the area of liquids. Be-
sides its long history and ancient churches, Freising
also presumably boasts the oldest continuously ope-
rating brewery, the Weihenstephaner «Kloster
Brauerai», which got its license to brew bier in 1040,
long before Munich came into existence. Initially, the
brewery belonged to the monastery, but since beer is
in Bavaria a rather precious commodity, the worldly
authorities did not particularly like seeing all the
profits go to the church and its monks. In the 19th
century the brewery was therefore, as a sign at its en-
trance proudly states, «secularized», and is now oper-
ated by the state for the enjoyment of all, as many par-
ticipants of the conference who visited the adjoining
«Biergarten» may have experienced themselves.
However, the major reason for organizing the con-
ference obviously was science, rather than just enjoy-
ment of the relaxed Bavarian lifestyle, and this is the
topic to which we would now briefly like to turn.
Overall over one hundred scientists from at least six-
teen different countries took part in the conference,
presented more than thirty oral presentation, as well
as numerous posters in the evening poster sessions.
True to the original goals of the conferences, nearly
one half of the participants came from countries of the
former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, with young
scientists and graduate students being strongly repre-
sented. In view of these goals, the decision was also
made to publish, in contrast with the previous confer-
ences of the series, the proceedings of CC 2002 in the
«Fisika Nizkikh Temperatur» («Low Temperature
Physics») journal based in Kharkov, Ukraine, rather
than in a western commercial journal.
In spite of the name, which would suggest a rela-
tively narrow, tightly focused conference, its topical
coverage was, similar to the previous conferences of
the series, relatively broad. Strongly represented were
again studies of spectroscopy and dynamics of
cryocrystals and low temperature matrices. Like in the
previous conferences, number of talks also dealt with
the interesting topic of spectroscopy and behavior of
condensed systems at ultra high pressures. Also
strongly represented were presentation dealing with
quantum solids, condensed systems where amplitudes
of the zero point motions are not negligible compared
with the interatomic distances, and where quantum ef-
fects become increasingly important, with in particu-
lar the isotopes of hydrogen and helium falling into
this category. Besides three dimensional solids, a ses-
sion was included dealing mainly with surfaces,
monolayers and two dimensional systems. One session
dealt with the thermodynamics of the low temperature
systems, and new to this conference were presenta-
tions dealing with fast dynamics on the femtosecond
time scale, as well as several studies of biological sys-
tems at low temperature, including among other top-
ics relaxation of proteins at ultra-low temperatures.
Obviously, the most important ingredient of any
conference are its participants, and the main factor in
deciding if a conference is a success or not, is the qual-
ity of the science presented there. I personally have
found most of the presentation at the conference ex-
cellent, and in my opinion the CC 2002 was from this
point of view a resounding success. We are therefore
deeply indebted to all of the participants, whether au-
thors of oral presentations, session chairmen, or con-
tributors to the poster sessions, or whether just taking
part in the ample discussions. We sincerely hope that
everyone had an enjoyable time in Freising, and are
looking forward to meeting you all at the next confer-
ence, presumably in the year 2004.
Vladimir E. Bondybey
Elena V. Savchenko
940 Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2003, v.29, Nos. 9/10
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