Czech Republic, Brno

September 21 - 24, 2005

Aleš Gottvald

(Institute of Scientific Instruments, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno) :

Story of Georg Placzek (New facts about his remarkable life and work)

Ruth Davis

(Czech & Slovak Jewish Communities Archive, 86-17 139th St., Jamaica, New York, NY 11435, USA) :

George Placzek’s grandfather: A naturalist and his garden

Manuel Cardona

(Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart) :

Einstein, Placzek and the Physics of solids

Helmut Rauch

(Atomic Institute of the Austrian Universities, Vienna) :

Neutron optics

Jiří Kulda

(Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble) :

Neutron inelastic scattering at the edge of 21st century

Petr Spielmann

(Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology) :

Tradition of Czech and German-Jewish culture in Brno

Pavol Mikula

(Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rez near Prague) :

Past and present status of neutron scattering at the Research reactor LVR-15 in Rez

Carlos Granja

(Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University, Prague) :

Nuclear spectroscopy with neutrons

Jan Jakůbek

(Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University, Prague) :

Neutron imaging