The Institute of Atomic Physics (IFA) has certainly a Past, a bright one. Most personalities and the main achievements of the Romanian physics over the last decades are, more or less, related to IFA. Today, IFA is in full process of reshaping. Its new mission is to provide an adequate and stimulating policy for the development of the atomic and subatomic field. IFA is a NAME, a SYMBOL which must last into the Future. IFA can ensure the consistence and the coherence of the Romanian physics research. IFA can give us the hope of a future measuring at least the past. It rests upon all of us to successfully accomplish this aim.

Florin D. Buzatu
Director General IFA