It focuses on all aspects of spectroscopic methods and techniques (including applications), as well as computational and theoretical approaches for the investigation of structure, dynamics, and properties of molecular systems.
The European Molecular Spectroscopy Group, which was constituted informally after the Second World War to bring together spectroscopists from across Europe, met for the first time in Konstanz in 1947.
[2] Reinhard Mecke was at the time working in temporary accommodation at Wallhausen, a small village on the shores of Lake Constance, and the meeting (initiated by invitation of Professors Jean Lecomte and Alfred Kastler from Paris) was attended by French, German and Austrian spectroscopists.
[3] However, the meeting which has since become regarded as the first of the EUCMOS series was organised under the auspices of Ernst Miescher in Basel in 1951, followed every two years by conferences in Paris (1953), Oxford (1955), Freiburg (1957), Bologna (1959), Amsterdam (1961), Budapest (1963), Copenhagen (1965), Madrid (1967) and Liége (1969).
At EUCMOS XXII held in Essen (1994), William James Orville-Thomas retired as President of the International Committee and Austin Barnes was elected to this post.