Preface - Francesco VetereSection I: Timescales and Time-Sensor1. Rates and timescales of magma transfer, storage, emplacement, and eruption Maurizio Petrelli and Georg F. Zellmer2. Boundary layer melts entrapped as melt inclusions? The case of phosphorus and CO2-rich spinel-hosted melt inclusions from El Hierro, Canary Islands Marc-Antoine Longpre, John Stix and Nobumichi Shimizu3. Apatite as a Monitor of Dynamic Magmatic Evolution at TorfajÃkull Volcanic Center, Iceland Mary Elizabeth Connors, Tamara L. Carley and Adrian Fiege4. Control of magma plumbing systems on long term eruptive behavior of Sakurajima volcano, Japan: Insights from CSD (Crystal Size Distribution) analysis Shimizu Yamashita and Atsuki ToramaruSection II: Physical properties in magma5. Dynamics of volcanic systems: physical and chemical models applied to equilibrium versus disequilibrium solidification of magmas Letizia Giuliani, Gianluca Iezzi and Silvio Mollo6. Architecture of the magmatic system in the Main Ethiopian Rift Sabrina Nazzareni, Stefano Rossi, Maurizio Petrelli and Luca Caricchi7. Rheological behavior of partly crystallized silicate melts under variable shear rate Francesco Vetere and Francois Holtz8. Investigating the crystallization kinetics via time-resolved neutron diffraction Marco Zanatta, Caterina Petrillo and Francesco Sacchetti9. Axial melt lens dynamics at fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges Jurgen Koepke and Chao ZhangIndex