Successful Aging W. Vogel & M. Büttner GmbH The scienti fio committee approved van Oystaeyen The scienti fio committee approved of the scope of the Symposium having considered the changes in the directions of the stUdies which took place since the First Symposium this volume provides a detailed view of the building blocks for new magnetic oxide materials already advancing research and development of nano scale technologies are increasingly interested in gaining a deeper understanding of aging in Asia These demographic forces in vast populations such as China are expected to make Asia the main driver of global aging in the coming decades