Some impressions of ICNMTA 2020 participants
ˮI'd like to congratulate your courage and resilience in the preparation of this virtual conference. It was really good! I must grant I was a little skeptical about it but in the end everything turned up right!ˮ
Prof. Dr Johnny Ferraz Dias, Instituto de Física da UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brasil
ˮIn the time of discussions of the International ICNMTA committee about the ICNMTA and the year 2020, I was quite sceptical about the ideas to organise a virtual conference at all. In spite of the sadness that there will be no opportunity to meet other microprobers, the need for the virtual event was not at all clear to me at that time. Fortunately, JSI team has carefully started a planning of the virtual conference which at the end took place this week. I must say I was very very positively impressed by the whole event. There was a great need to update ourselves what is going on in the community, and waiting another 2 years without being at least partly informed would be damaging for the quality of our research for certain. And to be honest, it was nice to see and hear colleagues again, although only virtual. So, congratulations Paula and Primož, your whole team, virtual ICNMTA is surely success story, and you did great job. However, we are still missing a real conference, so hope that we will all meet in reality at the conference in Bled!ˮ
Dr Milko Jakšić, Laboratory for ion beam interactions, Ruder Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
ˮThank you for a great conference! Despite the minor technical issues I felt it all went very well and it was a pleasure to take part.ˮ
Dr Robert Frost, Nuclear Physics, Lund Universitiet, Sweden
ˮThis week the world’s nuclear microprobe community enjoyed the hospitality of our Slovenian colleagues who hosted the 17th International Conference on Nuclear Microprobe Technology and Applications. Because the pandemic, our resourceful hosts organised an excellent on-line meeting featuring invited reviews, presentations on current research projects and snappy poster previews. A notable feature was the lively question and answer sessions where the on-line audience could discuss the presentations during the breaks. It was interesting to see the impressive work being done on biomedical applications using focused ion beams to make novel microfluidic devices and luminescent sensors. There were also a lot of innovations in the applications of single ion techniques from quantum technologies to radiobiological studies. As well as the scientific sessions, our hosts also provided some short videos introducing the audience to the spectacular environment of Lake Bled where, hopefully, we will meet again in person in the near future.ˮ
Prof. Dr David N Jamieson, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Australia
