IMA2026 Nanjing meeting report

IMA Meetings

IMA2026 meeting in Nanjing successfully concluded

We are pleased to announce that the IMA2026 Nanjing has successfully concluded.
The meeting brought together 789 participants from 29 countries around the world and provided a valuable opportunity for scientific discussion and interaction. The scientific program featured 540 oral presentations and 151 poster displays, covering a wide spectrum of topics including deep-Earth, deep-space, deep-sea and deep-time mineralogy, critical metal mineralogy, carbon-neutrality mineralogy, planetary mineralogy, and mineral informatics. We are very grateful to all the participants for their active contributions and would also like to express our sincere appreciation to the Local Organizing Committee for their great dedication and support. In addition to a number of focused Scientific Sessions, the meeting also featured lectures by the following colleagues.

Medalist Lecture:
∙ Tetsuo Irifune (2023 IMA Medalist, Ehime University, Japan)
∙ Hailiang Dong (2024 IMA Medalist, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China)
∙ Bjorn Mysen (2025 IMA Medalist, Carnegie Institution in Washington, USA)

Plenary Lecture:
∙ Robert Hazen (Carnegie Institution in Washington, USA)
∙ Rucheng Wang (Nanjing University, China)
∙ Artem Oganov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia)
∙ Leonid Dubrovinsky (Bayreuth University, Germany)

Technical Progress Report:
∙ Haiyang Xian (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

IMA President Lecture:
∙ Hans-Peter Schertl (IMA President 2022-2024, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
∙ Eiji Ohtani (IMA President 2024-2026, Tohoku University, Japan)

During the meeting, two Business Meetings were held, in which new Council Members, including the 1st Vice President were elected, and a new IMA Council was then constituted with Nancy Ross as the new President. In addition, Vancouver, Canada has been officially selected at the venue of the next IMA meeting. We look forward to seeing you again at IMA 2030 in Vancouver!

Please note that the IMA 2026 website will remain online for at least two more years.
https://ima2026.nju.edu.cn/

All photographs and abstracts will continue to be available for download by participants and interested colleagues during this period. Photos from the meeting can be found here:
https://m.alltuu.com/album/ab7485a8b488a44ec03a673179e8dafc/?from=qrCode&menu=live

Seeking for host for IMA 2034

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We are currently seeking bids from national societies to host IMA 2034. The requirements for an IMA meeting and a guide to the process of bidding to host the meeting are set out in the IMA Meetings Guide. Preliminary bids to host IMA-2034 must be delivered to Council by June 2028. Bids will be reviewed by Council when it meets at the EMC in Brest in July 2028.