Hyperfine Interactions: Foreword

Funding

The conference was also used to hold a meeting of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) to select a host for the next conference, which will be held in 2009. It was later on decided that it will take place at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. At this point we would like to thank the members of the IAC for their help in putting together the program of the conference and for the feedback during the organization of the conference. Moreover, we would like to thank the main sponsors, TRIUMF, MDS Nordion and Varian Inc. for additional financial support. The local conference team (Jens Dilling, Makoto Fujiwara, Gerald Gwinner, Matthew Pearson, Martin Comyn, Elly Driessen, Glenn Jones, Dana Giasson, Jana Thomson) was also very well supported by the student volunteers (Mathew Smith, Maxime Brodeur, and Jean-Philippe Lavoie). In particular, Elly Driessen’s contribution as conference coordinator was again extremely important throughout the entire planning and organization phase, and at the conference itself. We also want to thank the team of the Tigh-Na-Mara resort that made the conference a truly memorable event, and last but not least, thank Jana Thomson at TRIUMF and Claudia Magpantay at Springer for their efforts in publishing these proceedings.