The conference is the 19th in a series that began in Providence (USA) in 1956 and continued in Ithaca (USA, 1961), Manchester (England, 1965), Providence (USA, 1969), Aachen (Germany, 1973), Tokyo (Japan, 1977), Lausanne (Switzerland 1981), Urbana (USA, 1985), Beijing (China, 1989), Rome (Italy, 1993), Poiters (France, 1996), Buenos Aires (Argentina, 1999), Bilbao (Spain, 2002), Kyoto (Japan, 2005), Perugia (Italy, 2008), Lausanne (Switzerland 2011), Hefei (China, 2014) and Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil, 2017).

The ICIFMS-19 event was supposed to take place from 27/06 to 01/07/2022 at the National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”, Moscow, Russia, with Igor S. Golovin as chairman and Francesco Cordero (CNR-ISM, Rome) as co-chairman.

In view of the difficulties to travel to Russia, the organization has been moved to Rome, where the conference will take place both in virtual mode and in presence in the head administration building of CNR, piazzale Aldo Moro 7.