The 4th International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses : Refereed and selected contributions 12.1 Neutron rich nuclei Eur. Phys.J.A 25 s01 767 771 (2005) DOI: 10.1140 epjad i2005 06 004 6 EPJ A direct electronic only Concluding remarks of the ENAM04 Conference a ¨ J. Ayst¨ o Department of Physics P.O. Box35(YFL) FIN 40014 University of Jyv¨ askyla ¨ Finland Received: 1 February 2005 Published online: 12 April 2005 c Societa ` Italiana di Fisica Springer Verlag 2005 Abstract. In this talk a summary of the program and scientic highlights of the ENAM2004 conference will be presented. 1Introduction communicate their results andinteract with the rest of theconference participants. Theconference covered basically all of its traditional To start I would like to congratulate Witek Nazarewicz areas. I could not helpnoticing that thecommunity work Carl Gross andthe team fromOak Ridgefor putting ing innuclear spectroscopy especially in in beam sp gether andrunning this magnicentconference. Ofcourse troscopy has been directing its interests toward nuclei far they could not havedonethis withoutthe activeroleof from stability andcontributing in an importantwayto participants in theconference whoareto bethanked as this conference. I estimated that about 30% of thec well. Theconference programhas been really outsta ference contributions havecomefrom the eldofin beam ing andextremely interesting and has demonstrated the spectroscopy providing a nice complementary addition to scienticimpact of the eld in an importantway. I am in the eld. The International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses (ENAM) has gained the status of the premier meeting for the physics of nuclei far from stability. The selected and refereed papers presenting the main results constitute valuable proceedings that offer everyone working in this field an authoritative and comprehensive source of reference.