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Dear SMASH 2019 Attendees, Firstly, thank you from everyone on the SMASH organising and executive committees for registering for this year’s meeting, our 20th anniversary event, and a special thank you from both of us for supporting the conference and helping to ensure that Small Molecules stay Hot!! This year we are meeting in the wonderful city of Porto in northern Portugal, an historical city crossed by the Douro River and located on the Atlantic Ocean famed also for its port wine. We have tried to ensure that alongside the fantastic science you will hear about during SMASH 2019, there’s also time for you to be able to enjoy this great location throughout the duration of the meeting. If this is your first SMASH meeting, welcome, and if like many of us you are a SMASH veteran, welcome back - we hope you will all take away with you some great memories. As ever, we have pulled together an excellent and diverse line of speakers for you from across both industry and academia – including world leading experts in their fields and the next generation of early career researchers who are hot on their heels. We’re delighted that this year we have 10 female speakers in the program, the most for a European SMASH meeting, all helping to build the open and engaged community of NMR spectroscopists that is the very heart of SMASH. The formal program starts on Sunday evening with registration, followed by a mixer and dinner at the Palácio da Bolsa (Stock Exchange Palace), in the heart of the centre of old Porto, a wonderful historical building: you will be able to explore the interesting rooms including the Arab Room. This 300-metre sized room decorated in Moorish style, inspired by the Alhambra, is the Palace’s highlight while we will have our dinner in the large central courtyard called Pátio das Nações (Courtyard of the Nations), enclosed by a glass structure which lets in a beautiful light into the whole Palace. This year there are seven oral sessions, two workshops and two poster sessions during which you will hear, learn and read about the latest advances in NMR research including; frontiers in sensitivity, analysis of dynamic systems, the latest NMR hot topics, NMR of small molecules in biological systems, industrial applications, advances in ssNMR, characterisation of pure and mixed materials, anisotropic NMR measurements and computational NMR. On Monday evening we will celebrate 20 years of SMASH with an informal and light-hearted retrospective review of some of the scientific and social highlights of the last two decades and have dinner and wines at Casa Ferreirinha, at the Ferreira Cellars in the Historical Centre of Vila Nova de Gaia, by the Douro river. The Ferreira Cellar is one of the oldest Porto wine family (since 1751), producer of the famous Porto wine Barca Velha named in honour of its matriarch, Dona Antonia Adelaide Ferreira, who was affectionately nicknamed ‘Ferreirinha’ – or ‘little Ferreira’ in Portuguese. Finally, thanks to all our sponsors for helping to support us financially – and please visit our exhibitors during the lunch and cofffee breaks to hear about the latest and greatest developments in NMR hardware, software and consumables.