Introduction

   This meeting continues a series of Discussion Meetings initiated by Prof. Gert Strobl. The first meeting took place in 1999 in Jostal, a small valley near Freiburg, followed by the four famous meetings (2001-2007) in Waldau, also in the Black Forest.

   From there the series traveled around the world: Shanghai  2009, Beijing 2011, Kyoto 2013, Honolulu 2015, Halle-Wittenberg 2017, and San Sebastián 2019. In 2024 the meeting was held in Yamagata, Japan. This time the meeting returns to its origin in Freiburg im Breisgau.

   Professor Strobl's central goal was to stimulate discussions on disputed issues of polymer crystallization. Therefore, ample time was always allocated for debating. We will continue this tradition and allow plenty of time for discussion after the talks and during poster sessions.