The Second International Symposium "Dynamic Nuclear Polarization:
Theory - Hardware-Applications- Radicals" will be held during September 2- 4,
2009 in Königstein, Germany. The venue of the meeting will be the Conference
Center Königstein KTC,
situated about 20 minutes from Frankfurt's city centre.
Königstein is located at the foot of the Feldberg Mountain in the midst of
beautiful woodland surroundings. DNP symposium 2009 is organized by the Goethe
University, Frankfurt.
The DNP symposium started as an international symposium in Nottingham, UK
in 2007. The intention of this symposium is to bring scientists on EPR, NMR
and microwave engineering communities together to discuss progress in
research that involves DNP. The symposium cover as many aspects of DNP as
possible with sessions focusing on hardware development, different DNP
strategies and theoretical considerations, in vitro applications of DNP in
spectroscopy and imaging as well as in vivo applications in the medical MRI
area. Dynamic Nuclear Polarization has received in the last few years
increased attention by the EPR, NMR and microwave engineering community
since a string of recent papers has demonstrated that DNP strategies in
conjunction with appropriate hardware could be used to enhance sensitivity
in a wide range of NMR and MRI experiments.