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EPJ Web of Conferences Highlight – Multi-line Diagnostics of the Interstellar Medium

Millimeter IRAM-30m picture of the Orion cloud (Credit: Jérôme Pety) overlaid with an optical view (Credit: ESO/Davide De Martin).

The IRAM conference “Multi-line Diagnostics of the Interstellar Medium” took place in Nice (France), from April 4-6, 2022.

Different aspects of the millimeter and submillimeter astronomy were tackled, from the chemical complexity of the interstellar medium in the local and early Universe, to the environment of stars in the earliest stages of formation but also the physical and chemical evolution of galaxies over cosmic time.

This conference enabled discussions on new approaches to fully exploit new astronomical facilities of the (sub)-millimetre domain with a focus on the NOEMA interferometer, with its 12 antennae, and the IRAM 30-meter telescope. NOEMA in particular has now unique capabilities and offers higher sensitivity and spectral coverage than previously available. The technological advances combined with new modelling and analysis methods have changed the nature of research on interstellar matter.

One can now obtain large instantaneous bandwidth but also cover larger areas. This now paves the way for a possible understanding of detailed structure formation, from cosmological scales to the circumstellar environment.

This was our first experience of publishing with EPJ Web of Conferences. We contacted the publisher in the middle of September, just one month prior to the Conference, but everything went through smoothly. We have had published MNPS Proceedings with different publishers in the past, and would like to tell that the EPJ Web of Conferences team was probably the best, very quick, helpful and interactive. Typically, we were getting responses from EPJ Web of Conferences team within less than an hour and have had help at every production stage.
We are very thankful to Solange Guenot, Web of Conferences Publishing Editor, and Isabelle Houlbert, Web of Conferences Production Editor, for their support. These ladies are top-level professionals, who made a great contribution to the success of this issue. We are fully satisfied with the publication of the Conference Proceedings and are looking forward to further cooperation. The publication was very fast, easy and of high quality. My colleagues and I strongly recommend EPJ Web of Conferences to anyone, who is interested in quick high-quality publication of conference proceedings.

On behalf of the Organizing and Program Committees and Editorial Team of MNPS-2019, Dr. Alexey B. Nadykto, Moscow State Technological University “STANKIN”, Moscow, Russia. EPJ Web of Conferences vol. 224 (2019)

ISSN: 2100-014X (Electronic Edition)

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