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The Fifth Latin American Conference on Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, LACAME '96, held in Cusco, Peru, September 9-14, 1996,was co-hosted by the Physics Sciences Faculty of the San Marcos Major University of Lima and the San Antonio Abad National University of Cusco. Contributions related to the traditional scientific subjects connected with applications of the Mössbauer Effect were presented in sixteen plenary talks, twenty-one selected contributions for oral presentation, and eighty-eight posters. The conference was attended by some eighty-five scientists from fourteen countries.
The Proceedings of LACAME '96 consist of two parts. The first includes invited papers and selected contributed papers for oral presentations, which are published in a special issue of the journal Hyperfine Interactions. The second includes forty-eight selected papers for poster presentation, which are published in a special volume of Hyperfine Interactions C (Conferences).The Editor is grateful to the authors and to the referees for their joint effort, contributing to the scientific quality of both these proceedings.
We remember that, since 1988, several Latin American research groups which work with Mössbauer spectroscopy have met at Latin American Conferences in Rio de Janeiro (1988), Havana (1990),Buenos Aires (1992), and Santiago de Chile (1994). LACAME '96 was the fifth of its kind in this series. The attendance at these meetings has been about one hundred physicists from Europe and North America. Presently, in the Latin American scientific community there are about twenty groups working with Mössbauer spectroscopy. In the last six years, the interactions among these different groups have increased due to these meetings. They have allowed the integration of this scientific community. However, we expect to strengthen these relations even more through future new collaborations.
The Latin American scientists attending the Cusco meeting agreed that these conferences are extremely useful in the area and are committed to organizing the sixth LACAME '98 Conference in Columbia.
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Peña Rodríguez, V., Bravo Cebrejos, J. Preface. Hyperfine Interactions 110, 0 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012698925048
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