We are very pleased to report you that ENDE2015 finished successfully. There were 108 participants, including 33 students and 12 accompanying persons, from 17 countries: China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Republic of China, Slovak Republic, Thailand, UK, and USA.
The workshop started with welcome speech by Dr. Noritaka Yusa who is the chairman of ENDE2015.
Several special sessions were arranged with a theme of 'Origin, Legacy, and Future Directions of ENDE'.
The start of the workshop invited Professor Kenzo Miya who is the founding father of ENDE Workshops. His keynote lecture, titled 'Why we established ENDE Workshops 20 years ago', was followed by an invited lecture, 'History and development of ENDE Workshops', by Professor Toshiyuki Takagi.
A keynote lecture by Professor Gerd Dobmann titled 'Global trend of ENDE studies' was held on 22nd to review the development of studies of electromagnetic non-destructive evaluations in the last couple of decades. The recent trends of the studies were then discussed in a subsequent panel session titled 'ET&ENDE - Where we are and where we want to go?' where three distinguished professors, Professor Antonello Tamburrino, Professor Gui Yui Tian, and Professor Lalita Udpa, were invited as panelists.
Another panel session inviting ENDE ISC members was organized to discuss the future directions of ENDE Workshops as the last session in ENDE2015. The panelists of the panel session are Professor Zhenmao Chen who is the chairman of ENDE ISC, Professor Toshiyuki Takagi, Dr. Christophe Reboud, and Dr. Noritaka Yusa who facilitated the discussion.
There were 33 presentations over seven oral sessions and 26 presentations in one poster session.
Banquet was held at Sendai Kokusai Hotel on 22nd in the evening. At the banquet three shamisen players from Sangen Odashimaryu showed wonderful performance.
Another special session, named 'Student Session', was held on 23rd. The Student Session consisted of short oral presentations without Q&A and subsequent poster presentations. The presentations were evaluated by attendee. One student from Germany and three students from Japan were awarded the 'ENDE ISC Award' and 'ENDE2015 Award', respectively, at the closing ceremony.
At the closing ceremony,
were awarded 'ENDE2015 Award' on the basis of voting by ENDE2015 attendee. After a brief announcement of the next ENDE, the workshop was announced to be closed.
We would like to express sincere gratitude to all the participants. We do hope that the participants found that ENDE2015 was enjoyable and memorable.