(Correspondence please send to Prof. Masashi Takahashi, email: takahasi AT chem.sci.toho-u.ac.jp) Call for submission WWW.PACIFICHEM.ORG Pacifichem 2015 Chemical Networking: Building Bridges Across the Pacific January 1 – April 3 | Call for Abstracts February 2 | Housing Opens June 25 | Early Registration Nuclear Probes in Nanoscale Characterization (Symposium ID 254) Oral session: 02.254 1A–3E: Wednesday, December 16 (Hilton Hawaiian Village) Poster session: evening December 16 (Hawaii Convention Center) Characterization of structures and functions at the nano- and subnano-level in materials is critically important to widespread physical and chemical research topics, ranging from fundamental studies in physics, chemistry, biological- and geo-sciences to industrial and material sciences. The ability of nuclear probes to detect and interrogate atoms and molecules offers not only scientific elucidation of structure property relationships but also data acquisition that may someday soon be utilised in a way similar to the tricorder. Nuclear chemical methods including Mössbauer spectroscopy (MS), nuclear inelastic scattering (NIS), nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR), positron annihilation lifetime (PAL), muon spin resonance (µSR) spectroscopy, and perturbed angular correlation (PAC) have been applied to such research. The developments in nuclear chemical methods and their applied results will be discussed across the range of disciplines aiming at the interchange of ideas between different research fields.

First Circular ICAME 2105 International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect 13 – 18 September 2015, Hamburg, Germany Dear colleague, it is our pleasure to announce the International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 2015) be held in the City of Hamburg, Germany, from Sunday 13 September to Friday 18 September 2015. Please visit the conference website for further information: www.icame2015hamburg.de The registration and abstract submission is open from 12 December 2014 to 31 March 2015. Contributed talks and posters will be selected on basis of the submitted abstracts.

Dear colleagues, I would like to inform you about an open Post-Doc position at the Nuclear Resonant Scattering station at P01 at PETRA III in Hamburg. The deadline for applications is October 28 2014. More information can be found here http://www.desy.de/v2/docs/1411121949-e.pdf Pease feel free to forward the information to anybody who might be interested. Thank you, with my best regards, Hans-Christian Wille -———————————————————————– Dr. Hans-Christian Wille Responsible Scientist Dynamics Beamline P01 PETRA III Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Ein Forschungszentrum der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Bldg. 47c Room L107 Notkestr. 85 D-22607 Hamburg Germany

Dear colleague, IBAME, the International Board on the Applications of Mössbauer Effect rewards two merit based prizes: the IBAME Young Scientist Award for researchers up to the age of 35, for high quality contribution to science based on research that involves application of the Mössbauer Effect and the IBAME Science Award for a high quality contribution to science based on research that involves application of the Mössbauer Effect over an extended period of at least 20 years.

Dear Colleagues, We would like to announce that a workshop on Resonant Scattering will be held on November, 7-9, 2014 at Argonne National Laboratory. This workshop is organized as part of the COMPRES Education, Outreach and Infrastructure Development programs to promote the application of the state- of-the-art Nuclear Resonant Scattering (NRS) techniques for characterizing the properties of materials under the high P-T conditions of planetary interiors. During this workshop, we plan to offer an introduction to the two NRS techniques - Synchrotron Mössbauer Spectroscopy (SMS) and Nuclear Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (NRIXS) - and the CONUSS, PHOENIX and SciPhon software used for data evaluation. Much of the workshop will involve hands-on training with the software. Recent instrumentation developments at the Sector 3 beamline at the Advanced Photon Source, and added features to the new version of CONUSS and PHOENIX will also be discussed. Common experimental issues that users are confronted with will be addressed.

Prof. Dr. Philipp Gutlich Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany Dear Professor Gutlich, dear Philipp: It gives me great pleasure to congratulate you, a Honorary Member of the International Board on the Applications of the Mossbauer Effect, on the occasion of your 80th birthday. On this very special day, let me thank you for all that you have done and will do both for Mossbauer spectroscopy and the world-wide community of Mossbauer spectroscopists.

Dear Colleagues, Below I am forwarding the congratulation of the German Mössbauer community to Philipp Gütlich on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Best regards, Dénes L. Nagy Happy Birthday, dear Prof. Gütlich, dear Philipp, On behalf of the German Mössbauer community we congratulate you for celebrating today, 5th August 2014, your 80th birthday. We wish you all the best, have a great day, and we look forward to meeting you on many upcoming Mössbauer and other meetings.

Dear Colleagues, Due to administrative and technical reasons beyond its scope, the Mossbauer Effect Data Center has been forced to relocate its general information web site from the domain mossbauer.org to the domain mossbauer.info. Since 20 May 2014, the service has become available at http://www.mossbauer.info/ Unfortunately, this unavoidable change has resulted in a high number of dead links worldwide in web pages of the Mossbauer community. We apologize for this inconvenience and kindly ask you to replace “mossbauer.org” by “mossbauer.info” throughout your web sites.

Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Materials Science (msms2014) The next in the series of international conferences related to Mossbauer effect will take place on May 26-30, 2014 in Hlohovec near Breclav, Czech Republic. For more information please visit the conference web site: http://www.msms2014.upol.cz/ Deadline for registration and abstract submission is April 30, 2014. Marcel Miglierini on behalf of the organizers prof. Dr. Marcel MiGLiERiNi Slovak University of Technology Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Institute of Nuclear and Physical Engineering Ilkovicova 3, 812 19 Bratislava, Slovakia

Dear colleagues, Can some of you help me to advise a non Mossbauerist colleague about the performance of a Turn key Mossbauer system from Science Engineering and Education Co?? thanks Elisa Saitovitch