Foreword of the KB Broberg symposium issue : Second KBB symposium held at the Trolleholm Castle in Svalöv, Sweden, 2009

To honour the memory of Knut Bertram Broberg, and to promote continuing work on the many ideas which he shared so generously with students and colleagues throughout his lifetime, a symposium was arranged at University College of Dublin in 2007. The idea was to create an informal atmosphere, and to keep the num- ber of participants fairly low. This has now become a bi-annual symposium with the highlight being one or two lectures by outstanding world-class scientists