HISTORY AND TRADITION

The 18^th Czech-Slovak Spectroscopic Conference (18^th CSSC) is a proceeding based on a long-term scientific cooperation between Ioannes Marcus Marci Spectroscopic Society and The Slovak Spectroscopic Society. The meetings organized by the former Czechoslovak spectroscopic society (1949 – 1993) in the past and the continuation in the tradition of the national Slovak and Czech spectroscopic conferences now, since 2008, exist as a joint event. 

The Czech spectroscopic conference was repeated every four years, while the Slovak spectroscopic conference took place as a biennial. Joint scientific meetings are now held every two years alternately in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The order may change if this conference is combined with the European Symposium on Analytical Spectrometry (ESAS). To make the tradition of the original separate national conferences clear, the conferences held in the Czech Republic retain their original serial numbering, and the same is true of the conferences held in Slovakia. To recall history, it is possible to take a look at some of the conferences of the past twenty years. 

• 12^th Czech Spectroscopic Conference, 2003, Prague, Czech Republic; 
• XVII^th Slovak Spectroscopic Conference, 2004, Tatranské Zruby, Slovakia; 
• XVIII^th Slovak Spectroscopic Conference, 2006, Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia; XVIII. Slovak Spectroscopic Conference (spektroskopia.sk) 
• 13^th Czech Spectroscopic Conference, 2007, Lednice na Moravě, Czech Republic; 
• XIX^th Slovak-Czech Spectroscopic Conference, 2008, Častá-Papiernička, Slovakia; 
• 14^th Czech-Slovak Spectroscopic Conference, 2010, Litomyšl, Czech Republic (under the auspices of the Czech Commission for UNESCO); 
• XX^th Slovak – Czech Spectroscopic Conference, 2012, Tatranská Lomnica, the High Tatras, Slovakia.; joint meetings of SCSC and European Symposium on Atomic Spectrometry 2012 
• 15^th Czech-Slovak Spectroscopic Conference (CSSC), 2014, Prague, Czech Republic (under the auspices of the Czech Commission for UNESCO); joint meetings of CSSC and European Symposium on Atomic Spectrometry 2014 
• XXI^th Slovak – Czech Spectroscopic Conference, 2016, Liptovský Ján, the Low Tatras, Slovakia 
• 16^th Czech-Slovak Spectroscopic Conference, 2018, Luhačovice, Czech Republic home | 16th Czech - Slovak Spectroscopic Conference 2018 (spektroskopie.cz) 
• 17^th Czech-Slovak Spectroscopic Conference, 2022, Brno, Czech Republic; home | ESAS - CSSC 2022 (spektroskopie.cz); joint meetings of CSSC and European Symposium on Analytical Spectrometry 2022 

Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Materials Sciences  up to now, took place in :

• 1994 – Kočovce (Slovakia)
• 1996 – Valtice (Czech Republic)
• 1998 – Senec
• 2000 – Velké Losiny
• 2002 – Smolenice
• 2004 – Všemina
• 2006 – Kočovce
• 2008 – Hlohovec u Břeclavi
• 2010 – Liptovský Ján
• 2012 – Olomouc
• 2014 – Hlohovec u Břeclavi
• 2016 – Liptovský Ján
• 2018 – Prague. In 2020, the conference was not organized due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• In 2022, the International Symposium on the Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ISIAME 2022), as a prestigious international symposium, has been organized in Olomouc, Czech Republic instead of the MSMS.
• In 2024, the MSMS colloquium will be organized as a section of the 18^th Czech-Slovak Spectroscopic Conference