From 27^th to 29^th of September, Prof. ZHANG Tao and Prof. WANG Junhu attended the 31st International Conference on the Applications of Mössbauer Effect (ICAME2011) held in Japan. As a guest-member of the International Board on the Applications of Mössbauer Effect (IBAME), Prof. Zhang was invited to give a report with the title of "Report on the Mössbauer Effect Data Center (Transition from Asheville to Dalian), Plans for the Future" on the IBAME meeting. Then, on September 29, Prof. Zhang gave an impromptu talk on the ICAME-2011 banquet.

Moreover, during the conference, Profs. Zhang and Wang had moderated a Consultation Committee meeting of the Mössbauer Effect Data Center, and introduced to the committee members on the development status of the MEDC as well as the preparatory work on the organizing of the International Symposium on the Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ISIAME-2012), which is to be held in Dalian next year. Valuable ideas and comments were given by the approximately 30 committee members, including Prof. D.L. Nagy, Chairman of the IBAME.

On the ICAME-2011, Prof. Wang delivered an invited talk on the MEDC Mössbauer database, while Dr. Lin from DICP delivered an oral presentation on the recent research in catalysis characterization by Mössbauer spectroscopy.