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SIWAN 2012 - summary

10/28/2012

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SIWAN 2012 is over. I was not able to update this blog daily because I was too tired in the evenings to write here, but this is of course an indication of a busy and successful conference :-) Important announcements first:
  1. Hundreds of SIWAN 2012 photos are available for you to download from the facebook page of the event. Please find them here: http://www.facebook.com/Siwan2012
  2. Do not forget that the proceedings of SIWAN 2012 will be published after peer review free of charge in the open access journal Nanopages. The deadline for submission if January 2013.
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Thursday (25th October) was a busy day. We had two plenary lectures, one more keynote and several regular talks as well as the poster session of the conference. Discussions sprung naturally after the talks and both sessions were visited by enough participants. Three posters were selected for poster awards that were presented at the closing ceremony.

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The day winded down nicely with the evening wine-tasting social event which was expertly organized by Balázs Réffy.

Day 3 - Friday, 26th October, 2012. 
Talks in the morning, excursion to Ópusztaszer in the afternoon, farewell dinner in the evening. No major problems encountered and some nice Autumn photos taken. The weather was kind to us, no doubt about that.
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Day 4 - Saturday, 27th October, 2012. 
I was a bit worried that the conference would transform into a ghost town for the fourth day. Some participants had to leave before the closing ceremony and for a while I was unsure even about the availability of sessions chairs. Fortunately, the issue of chairing was solved by the help of my friends Vidya Batra and Christian Kramberger – thank both of you again! :)
As it turned out my worries were not justified. Both sessions were visited by a fair amount of colleagues who could thus enjoy some excellent talks given by e.g. Dimitry Bavykin and József Fortágh.
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The room was filled with participants even at the closing ceremony on Saturday afternoon. The final numbers as given by Prof. Klára Hernádi, the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Informatics of the University of Szeged are: 183 registered participants from 34 countries, 64 talks actually given, 106 posters presented. 

You are certainly aware of the financial/administrative work performed by Erna Sári and Balázs Réffy of Akadémiai Kiadó, and some of you may also recognize Zoltán Kónya and myself as key persons in SIWAN 2012. However, it is also important to acknowledge the support provided by our young colleagues and students in numerous technical issues. Their names in alphabetical order are: Dániel Berkesi, Valéria Bugris, Dorina Dobó, Zoltán Győri, Henrik Haspel, Gábor Kozma, Dániel Madarász, László Nagy, Zita Papp, Róbert Puskás, Péter Pusztai, Andrea Rónavári, Tímea Simon, Mária Szabó.
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All in all, I am quite satisfied with the outcome of SIWAN 2012. Several colleagues congratulated us in person, there were no major problems and the quality of science was fine. I'd like to think that every participant could find interesting topics and establish new contacts here. Moreover, I also hope that they enjoyed their stay at Szeged and will be happy to come back somewhen in the future. Right now we are pretty enthusiastic about SIWAN 2014....see you there!
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8/18/2013 07:37:09 pm

Good to read about SIWAN 2012 and the review that you shared is very useful to know about the event. Thank you for sharing the photos and other articles shared through Facebook. I am also expecting the same in the coming year.

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    Ákos Kukovecz is associate professor of chemistry and Head of the MTA-SZTE Lendület Porous Nanocomposites Research Group. He works at Szeged, Hungary.

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