The 21st International Symposium on Spin Physics (Spin2014) took place in the week of Oct 20-24 on the campus of Peking University (PKU), in Beijing, China. The International Spin Physics Symposium series combined together the High Energy Spin Symposia and the Nuclear Polarization Conferences since 2000. The most recent symposia took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (2008), Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany (2010), and JINR, Dubna, Russia (2012). Spin 2014 was co-chaired by Bo-Qiang Ma (PKU) and Haiyan Gao (Duke).
The scientific program of this symposium included topics related to spin phenomena in accelerator, condensed matter physics, nuclear and particle physics, quantum computing and quantum information, medical imaging, etc. The symposium format consisted of talks in plenary and parallel sessions, a poster session, and a public lecture. About 250 physicists from Armenia, Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan and United States participated in this international symposium. Prof. Warren Warren from Duke Chemistry and Physics gave a plenary talk on medical imaging at this symposium. Prof. Mohammad Ahmed from Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory and Duke Physics reported on Few-body Physics Results from the HIγS facility at the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory in another plenary talk at this symposium.
The International Spin Physics Committee (ISPC), a prestigious panel advising this series of symposia, met during Spin2014 and elected Prof. Haiyan Gao as chair-elect for ISPC. ISPC also selected University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign as the site for the 22nd International Symposium on Spin Physics (Spin2016), which will take place in 2016. Prof. Gao will become chair of ISPC when the committee meets next time during Spin2016. The photo above shows members of ISPC who attended the ISPC meeting during Spin2014 at PKU.
The Hanscom endowment from Duke University sponsored the outstanding poster competition at this symposium where three graduate students from China Institute of Atomic Energy, Tsinghua University, and Institute of Modern Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, respectively, received the first prize, second prize and the third prize.
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