This is a continuation of the successive SCES conference series: Sendai ('92), San Diego ('93), Amsterdam ('94), Goa ('95), Zurich ('96), Paris ('98), Nagano ('99), Ann Arbor ('01), Krakow ('02), Karlsruhe ('04), Vienna ('05), Houston ('07), Buzios ('08), Santa Fe ('10), Cambridge ('11), Tokyo ('13), Grenoble ('14), Hangzhou ('16), and Prague ('17). Every three years since 1997, SCES has been joining triennial International Conference on Magnetism, held in: Cairns ('97), Recife ('00), Rome ('03), Kyoto ('06), Karlsruhe ('09), Busan ('12), Barcelona ('15), and San Francisco ('18).