General Information

The ESR Group was founded in 1968 as a forum within the Chemical Society for scientists to share, disseminate and promote knowledge about ESR-EPR-EMR phenomena. In 1980 the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute of Chemistry, together with the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry were amalgamated to become the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), so that we became a special interest group (SIG) of the RSC. The RSC now has over 70 such SIGs. We are also associated with the EFEPR, the European Federation of EPR Groups.

The main aim of the ESR Group is to promote innovation, share and advance knowledge, and to encourage applications of ESR in chemistry and a broad range of sciences and their applications. These aims are achieved with the aid of an annual international meeting, often with subsequent publication of research presented in a respected international journal. At the meetings, we organise prizes to highlight excellence in magnetic resonance research (the Bruker Lecture) and to encourage promising younger scientists starting in their careers (the JEOL Student Lectures)

This years conference is breaking with tradition by being held at a dedicated conference centre within the Ramada Hotel in Norwich (see Travel & Venue for further details). The format of the meeting, however will remain very similar to previous years. The meeting will begin with supper on Sunday evening (19^th), followed by a wine reception hosted by the UK ESR group. The meeting closes after lunch on Thursday (23^rd), with Tuesday afternoon being left free to explore the "fine" city of Norwich before the presentation of this years Bruker Lecturer in the evening. The banquet sponsored by the science faculty of the University of East Anglia will be held on Wednesday evening.