Results of the questionnaire Kirchberg 09

1. The winterschool scientific program

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Collected free comments:
  • Although it is a conference on electronic properties - and thus physics - I strongly enjoyed the talks of Fukushima (2008) and Nakanishi (2009). I would appreciate (some) more talks from the chemist`s point of view. (No nanoelectronics without nanomaterials.)

  • As all of the invited talkes seem to have been recorded, it would be nice to have the possibility to review them.

  • The quality of the invited talks did vary a fair bit (3 times)

  • It will be a good idea if more and more young people are also given an opportunity to have oral presentation, even if it is for 15-20 minutes.

  • The invited talks were ok, but they fall within a certain type of speakers who like skiing. But the posters were much worse this year than previous years. If you look at the poster subjects, you find that there are much fewer on mainline subjects, and many on strange aspects of nanotubes, nanosystems or composites, 'nanojunk', whose only function was to allow the person to attend. This suggests that the non-invited attendees fall into a clique and are not the top in their fields. May be a bit more selective.

  • The poster session time is too short for us to see all.

  • Too much spectroscopy devoted reports/posters

  • Truly excellent!

2. The winterschool atmosphere

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Collected free comments:
  • Everything nice.

  • We must be realistic, if you want a conference in a ski resort, not pay a fortune (eg Davos), you are not going to get a fantastic lecture hall. (8 times)

  • The temperature in lecture hall was high.

  • Only one regret: the banquet on former IWEPNMs used to be interactive.

  • People in the bar slept during the sessions

  • The organizer could have been less rude. I was not amused when he tried to pull me out of my seat just before my talk (wrongly) accusing me of having taken his seat during coffe break.

3. The housing during the winterschool

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Collected free comments:
  • Sometimes the WLAN worked properly (5 times)

  • I could not access to my company through VPN.

  • There was only one key for a three bed room.

  • One of the beds in a three bed room in a hotel was really uncomfortable couch.

  • Triple rooms are (still) acceptable...

  • It would be nice to have some sandwiches (and perhaps more tea and coffee) available after the morning session for those participants who don't go skiing. It's a little too much time between the coffee break and the dinner, especially on Friday.

  • There was a food problems, I think some kind of bacteria, because a lot of people had stomach problems and bad movements

  • Meals too salty.

  • Hotel service is efficient, friendly and competent, the willingness to help is very good.

4. The registration for the winterschool

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Collected free comments:
  • Fine! My compliments!

  • Problems with subscripts and superscripts at abstract submition.

  • The organizers should inform the participants as soon as the participation fees are received on the bank account of iwepnm.

  • When I checkin, I wait for more than two hours after the scheduled check-in time. The control of hotel is not sufficient. However, This is not a serious problem.

5. General comments

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Collected free comments:
  • I missed the presentation of winterschool photos at the farewell-party.

  • Best wintershool ever :)

  • If I were to attend only one conference per year, it would be the winterschool. Kirchberg is truly a "school" where one can refresh themselves in science with the leading researchers in the field. Please continue your outstanding work. There is nothing else like it.

  • It is one of the best and the most confortable conference.

  • It is one of the best international meetings, perfectly organized with a special cooperative atmosphere, thank you! (3 times)

Supporting companies:

PHB

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sineurop-nanotech

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