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 ENAM'04 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 scienti?c 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 magni?centconference. 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 scienti?cimpact of the ?eld in an importantway. I am in the ?eld.