The 51st Yamada Conference
on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES ’99) was held in
Nagano, Japan, from August 24 to 28, 1999. We would like to express our
sincere thanks to the Yamada Science Foundation
and Nagano city for their support and encouragement which enabled us
to have such an active conference. SCES ’99 Nagano was the successor
to the series of conferences on the physics of strongly correlated
electron systems held in Sendai (1992), San Diego (1993), Amsterdam (1994),
Goa
(1995), Zürich (1996), and Paris (1998). In 1997, similar subjects
were addressed at the special symposium, ICM97, held in Cairns, Australia.
According to the tradition of the SCES, various aspects of strongly
correlated electron systems were discussed, primarily f-electron systems.
This particular
conference encouraged widening current perspectives on d-electron and
organic systems. Conference topics were: (1) Superconductivity via
Quantum Phase
Transitions, (2) Non-Fermi Liquid Properties, (3) Charge and Orbital
Ordering, (4) Fermi Surface and Optical Properties, (5) Kondo Physics
in New Materials,
(6) Kondo and Valence Fluctuations, (7) Unconventional Super- conductivity
and (8) Low-Density Carrier Systems.
We would like to thank the members of the International Advisory Committee
and the Program Committee for their interesting and fruitful advice.
The scientific program began in the morning of Tuesday, August 24, and
ended on Saturday, August 28 at noon. The meeting was held at the Nagano
Convention Bureau. Registration and a get-together party were also held
at Nagano Convention Bureau on the afternoon of August 23. On Thursday,
August 26 afternoon, there was an excursion followed by a banquet. We appreciate
the chorus of Shinshu University for their beautiful voices.
The conference ran for four and a half days and was organized, as usual,
with oral sessions having both invited and selected talks and poster
sessions. 520 participants came from 24 countries. The number of oral
speakers was
39, including 19 invited speakers, and that of poster presentations
was 423. There were 2 poster sessions per day. The conference concluded
with
two summarizing lectures on the final day, by Professor K. Ueda and
Professor H. von Löhneysen from the theoretical and experimental
viewpoints, respectively. The outstanding poster prizes were awarded
to six winners
selected by International Advisory Committee and Organizing Committee.
Our thanks are also obviously due to all the participants and authors who
contributed to the success of the Conference and to the high scientific
quality of the Proceedings. |
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