Guide to a longer life

摘要

September 11 continues to cast a shadow on the number of attending participants from particular countries at international meetings. Not only was this evident at the recent meetings ineluding, for example, one on In-Service-Inspection and Structural Integrity held at Sevilla in November, but it was also true at this PLIM +PLEX meeting in London. Nevertheless, the programme for PLIM+PLLX 2001 was a full one (39 papers) so the ratio of attendees:number of papers has changed since the last meeting in Madrid, where there were more participants presenting about the same number of papers. For this London meeting there were 72 participants from 18 countries.