46N ANALYST, APRIL 1993, VOL. 118 Conference Diary Date April 19-22 May 2-7 3-5 3-5 4-6 4-5 4-6 04 6-12 9-14 9-13 10-13 11-15 20-21 23-28 24-26 Conference Location ECIO '93: European Conference on Integrated Neuchatel, Optics Switzerland CLEO/QELS '93, The Thirteenth Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics concurrently with the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference EuroResidue 11: Residues of Veterinary Drugs Veldhoven, in Food The Netherlands Baltimore, MD, USA Fifth Symposium on the Analysis of Steroids Szombathely , Hungary Deauville Conference and Symposium on Analytical Sciences-SAS 93 France Deauville, ASTM Symposium On Quality And Statistics: Atlanta, GA, Total Quality Management USA 9th Optical Fibre Sensors Conference Florence, Italy Capillary Chromatography: the Spring Greenford, Symposium and Annual General Meeting of the Middlesex, Chromatographic Society UK Interpack'93 (Environmentally Justified Diisseldorf, Packaging) Germany HPLC '93, 17th International Symposium on Hamburg, Column Liquid Chromatography Germany EMAS '93-Modern Developments and Rimini, Applications in Microbeam Analysis Italy International Environment '93 and Analysis '93 UK London , IV Encontro de Usuarios de RMN Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4th International Meeting on Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy , Tomography and Germany Microscopy Heidelberg, 41st ASMS Conference on Mass Spectroscopy Las Vegas, NV, USA 11th Dechema Annual Meeting on Biotechnology Germany Frankfurt, Contact 0.Parriaux, Conference Chair, Centre Suisse D'Electronique et de Microtechnique, Maladiere 71, Case Postale 41, CH-2007, Neuchatel, Switzerland Tel: +41 38 205 111.Fax: +41 38 205 630 Meetings Department, Optical Society of America, 2010 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC Tel: +1 202 223 9034. Fax: +1 202 416 6100 Dr. N. Haagsma, Department of the Science of Food of Animal Origin, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.175, NL-3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands Tel: +31 30 535 365. Fax: +31 30 532 365 Professor S. Gorog, c/o Chemical Works of Gedeon Richter Ltd., P.O. Box 27, H-1475 Budapest, Hungary Tel: +36 1 157 4566. Fax: +36 1 157 1578 Sabine Lauras, Nicko & Cri Associes, 7 rue d'Argout, F-75002 Paris, France Tel: +33 1 42 33 47 66. Fax: +33 1 40 41 92 41 Scott Orthey, ASTM, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, 215/299-5507, USA Annamaria Scheggi, Instituto di Ricerce, Sulle Onde Elettromagnetiche, del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Pancialichi, 64, Florence, Italy Tel: +39 55 43 78 512.Fax: +39 55 41 08 93 The Executive Secretary, The Chromatographic Society, Suite 4, Clarendon Chambers, 32 Clarendon Street, Nottingham, UK NG14BU Tel: +44 602 500596. Fax: +44 602 500614 Diisseldorfer Messegesellschaft mbH 'NOWEA', P.O. Box 32 02 03, Stockumer Kirchstrasse 61, D-W-4000 Diisseldorf 30, Germany Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Abteilung Tagungen, Varrentrappstrasse 40-42, Postfach 90 04 40, D-6000 Frankfurt am Main 90, Germany Tel: +49 69 79 17 360. Fax: +49 69 79 17 475 Abraham Boekestein, Mansholtlaan 12, Postbus 356, D-6700 Wageningen, Germany Eileen Davies, IE '93,12 Alban Park , Hatfield Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK AL4 OJJ Tel: +44 727 855574.Fax: +44 727 841694 The Associacao de Usuarios de Ressonancia Magnetica Nuclear (Auremn) , A/C Sonia Maria Cabral de Menezes, Petrobras/Cempes/Diquim, Radial 2, Quadra 7,21910.240 Cidade Universitaria, Ilha Do Fundao, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Reinhard Burk or H. E. Volcker, Augenklinik, Ruprecht-Karles-Universitat Heidelberg, Im Neunheimer Feld 400, 6900 Heidelberg, Germany Tel: +49 6221 56 66999. Fax: +49 6221 56 5422 American Society for Mass Spectrometry, P.O. Box 1508, East Lansing, MI 48826, USA Tel: +1 517 337 2548. Dechema, P.O. Box 970146, D-W-6000 Frankfurt am Main 97, Germany 20036-1023, USAANALYST, APRIL 1993, VOL. 118 47N Date 24-29 24-27 25-27 25-27 27-28 27-28 30-416 June 2-4 3 3-4 7-9 8-1 1 13-17 13-17 14-18 14-16 14-20 Conference Location XV Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry Byelorussia Minsk, 15th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC) Italy Riva del Garda, Vth International Symposium on Quantitative Ghent , Luminescence Spectrometry in Biomedical Belgium Sciences Control and Instrumentation Exhibition ’93 2nd European Symposium on Analytical Supercritical Fluid Chromatography and Extraction (ESASF) European Conference on Environmental Pollution, Aquatic and Atmospheric Environment, Airwater Quality, Hazardous Wastes and Hydrology 41st ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics Birmingham, UK Riva del Garda, Italy Helsinski, Finland San Francisco, CA, USA International Symposium on Analysis of Peptides Sweden Stockholm? NMR Symposium Turku, Finland European Conference on Analytical Brno, Chemistry, Chromatography and Czechoslovakia Spectroscopy and Thermal Analysis ESIS ’93: European Seminar on Infrared Lyon, Spectroscopy France The Seventh International LIMS Conference Egham, Surrey, UK 6th European Congress on Biotechnology Firenze , Italy 3rd Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics Arhus, Denmark EOQ ’93 World Quality Congress: Information, Communication, Knowledge and Finland Quality PREP-93, 10th International Symposium on Preparative Chromatography USA Helsinki? Arlington, VA, European Organization for Quality Control Helsinki , Suomi-Finland Contact Dr.V. N. Makatun, Organizing Committee of the Mendeleev Congress, Presidium of Byelorussian Academy of Sciences, 66, F.Scorina Avenue, Minsk, Byelorussia Professor Dr. P. Sandra, IOPMS, Kennedypark 20, B-8500 Kortrijk, Belgium Tel: +32 56 204960. Fax: +32 56 204859 Professor Dr. Willy R. G. Baeyens, Symposium Chairman, University of Ghent, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Institute, Harelbekestraat 72, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium Tel: +32 91 21 89 51 ext. 246. Fax: +32 91 21 79 02 Stephen Ward, Enterprise Public Relations, 165 Kensington High Street, London, UK W8 6SH Professor Dr. P. Sandra, IOPMS, Kennedypark 20, B-8500 Kortrijk, Belgium Tel: +32 56 204960. Fax: +32 56 204859 Dr. V. M. Bhatnagar, Alena Chemicals of Canada, P.O. Box 1779, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada K6H 5V7 Tel: +1 613 932 7702.Judith A. Sjoberg, ASMS, 815 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA Tel: +1 505 989-4517. Fax: +1 505 989-1073 The Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences Symposium on ‘Analysis of Peptides’, P.O. Box 1136, S-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: +46 8 24 50 85. Fax: +46 8 20 55 11 Professor J. Mattinen, Abo Akademi, Institution for Organisk Kemi, Akademig 1, SF-20500 Abo 50, Finland Dr. V. M. Bhatnagar, Alena Chemicals of Canada, P.O. Box 1779, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada K6H 5v7 Tel: + I 613 932 7702. G. Lachenal, Laboratoire d’Etudes des Materiaux Plastiques et des Biomateriaux, Universitk Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cddex, France Tel: +33 72 43 12 11. Fax: +33 78 89 25 83 The Conference Registrar, 18 Portway Drive, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK HP12 4AU Tel: +44 494 448048.Fax: +44 494 448154 Congress Secretariat, c/o Professor Laura Frontali, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Rome ‘La Sapienze’, P. le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy Tel: +39 6 445 3950. Fax: +39 6 499 12351 SSC3 Secretariat, Department of Chemical Technology, Danish Technological Institute , Teknologiparken, DK-8000 Arhus C, Denmark Tel: +45 86 14 24 00. Fax: +45 86 14 74 45 Ann-Kristin Bergh, EOQ ’93 Congress Secretariat, P.O. Box 1, SF-02731 Espoo, Finland Tel: +358 (9)800 08254. Fax: +358 0 509 1807 Ms. Janet Cunningham, Barr Enterprises, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793, USA Tel: + 1 301 898 3772. Fax: + 1 301 898 5596 Mrs. Tarja Jalasto, Finnish Society for Quality Control, Laaksolahdentie 41, P.O.Box 1, SF-02730 Espoo, Suomi-Finland Tel: +358 800 08254. Fax: +358 0 509 180748N ANALYST, APRIL 199.7, VOL. 118 Date 16 16-18 17-18 27-117 28-29 29-417 29 29 Conference Substances and Processes Dangerous to the Environment Location Preston, Lancashire, UK Contact Dr. Paul Illing, Health and Safety Executive, R425 Magdalen House, Stanley Precinct, Bootle, UK L20 3QZ Tel: +44 51 951 3420. Fax: +44 51 922 7918 Dr. Ivan E. Leigh, CertainTeed Corp., 1400 Union Meeting Road, P.O. Box 1100, Blue Bell, PA Tel: +1 215 341-6622. Fax: +1 215 341-6291 Dr. V. M. Bhatnagar, Alena Chemicals of Canada, P.O. Box 1779, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada K6H sv7 Tel: +1 613 932 7702. Gill Spear, Pergamon Seminars, c/o Elsevier Advanced Technology, Mayfield House, 256 Banbury Road, Oxford, UK OX2 7DH; Tel: +44 865 512242.Fax: +44 865 310981 or for North America, Kim Cavellero, Pergamon Seminars, 660 White Plains Rd., Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153, USA XXVIII CSI Secretariat, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University of Technology, Leicestershire, UK L E l l 3TU Tel: +44 509 222575. Fax: +44 SO9 233163 Dr. B. I,. Sharp, Loughborough University of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK L E l l 3TU XXVIII CSI Secretariat, Dcpartment of Chemistry, Loughborough University of Technology, Leicestershire, UK L E l l 3TU Tel: +44 509 222575. Fax: +44 509 233163 XXVIII CSI Secretariat, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University of Technology, Leicestershire, UK LEI 1 3TU Tel: +44 SO9 222575.Fax: +44 SO9 233163 19422-0761, USA 5th Symposium on Chemically Modified Surfaces Malvern, PA, USA International Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Chromatography/ Spectroscopy Toronto, Canada Fullerenes '93, 1st International Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Science and Technology of the Fullerenes Santa Barbara, CA, USA XXVIII CSI Pre-Symposium: Analytical Spectroscopy in the Earth Sciences Kingston, UK XXVIII Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale York, UK XXVIII CSI Pre-Symposium: Introductory Chemometrics York, UK XXVIII CSI Pre-Symposium: Vapour Generation Techniques York, UK July 4-9 4-8 4-7 4-9 4-6 4-6 4-7 11th International Meeting on NMR Spectroscopy Swansea, UK Dr. J. F. Gibson, Secretary (Scientific), The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, UK W1V OBN Tel: +44 71 437 8656.Fax: +44 71 437 8883 Professor Olli Seppanen, SF-021 SO Espoo, Finland 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Indoor Air'93 XXVIII CSI Post-Symposium: Graphite Atomizer Techniques in Analytical Spectroscopy Helsinki, Suom i-Fin 1 and Durham, UK XXVIII CSI Post-Symposium, Department of Chemistry. (CSI Secretariat), Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK L E l l 3TU Tel: +44 509 22575. Fax: +44 SO9 233163 Dr. Stefan Nordlund, FEBS '93, Department of Biochemistry, Arrhenius Laboratories, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden XXVIII CSI Secretariat, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University of Technology. Leicestershire, UK LEI 1 3TU Tel: +44 SO9 222575.Fax: +44 509 233163 Kym E. Jarvis or John G. Williams, NERC ICP-MS Facility, Department of Geology, Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey, UK TW20 OEX Tel: +44 784 44383514. Fax: +44 784 443836 XXVIII CSI Secretariat, , Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University of Technology, Leicestershire, UK L E l l 3TU Tel: +44 509 222575. Fax: +44 509 233163 22nd Meeting of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies Stockholm, Sweden XXVIII CSI Post-Symposium: Spectroscopic Data-Handling York, UK XXVIII CSI Post-Symposium: 5th Surrey Conference on Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry Durham, UK XXVIII CSI Post-Symposium: Analytical Applications of Glow Discharges in Optical and Mass Spectrometry York, UKANALYST, APRIL 1993, VOL.118 49N Date 7 11-15 11-14 11-15 12-14 19-21 19-23 25-29 Conference Location XXVIII CSI Post-Symposium: Trace Elements Durham, in Clinical Chemistry UK 25th Conference of the European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy France Caen, International Symposium on Polymer Analysis Crete, Greece and Characterization Chemometrics 111, 3rd Czechoslovak Brno, Chemometric Conference Czechoslovakia R & D Topics Meeting 1993 Bradford, W. Yorkshire, UK 6th Symposium on Handling of Environmental Guildford, August and Biological Samples in Chromatography 12th International Symposium on Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions 107th AOAC Annual International Meeting and Exposition 9-1 1 9-13 9-13 22-2s 22-27 22-27 23-27 23-27 3rd Soil and Sediment Residue Analysis Workshop Asianalysis 11: Second Asian Conference on Analytical Chemistry ILC '93: International Conference on Luminescence and Optical Spectroscopy on Condensed Matter Surrey, UK Zurich, Switzerland Washington, DC, USA Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Changchun, China Storrs, CT, USA EUROTOX'93 (32nd Congress of Toxicology) Uppsala , Sweden 206th ACS National Meeting (with Sessions of Chicago, IL, the Divisions of Analytical Chemistry, USA Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Health and Safety, etc.) Third International Symposium on Separation Antwerp, Technology Belgium 9th Meeting of EURO CVD Tampere, Finland 9th International Conference on Fourier Calgary, Transform Spectroscopy Alberta, Canada Contact XXVIII CSI Secretariat, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University of Technology, Leicestershire, UK LE11 3TU Tel: +44 509 222575.Fax: +44 509 233163 25th EGAS Secretariat, IS-MRA, Labo. Spectro. Atom., Boulevard Markchal Juin, F-14050 Caen, France Judith A. Sjoberg, Professional Association Management, 815 Don Gaspar, Sante Fe, NM 87501, USA Tel: +1 505 989 4735. Fax: +1 505 989 1073 Dr. Josef Havel, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, CS- 61137 Brno, Czechoslovakia Tel: +42 5 712984. Fax: +42 5 740108 Miss P. Hutchinson, Analytical Division, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly , London, UK W1V OBN Tel: +44 71 437 8656. Fax: +44 71 734 1227 M. Frei-Hausler, IAEAC Secretariat. Postfach 46, CH-4123 Allschwil 2, Switzerland Tel: +41 61 632789. Fax: +41 61 4820805 Professor D.Brinkmann, Physik-Insti tut, University of Zurich, Schonberggasse 9, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland Margaret Ridgell, AOAC, 2200 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 400, Arlington, VA 22201-3301, USA Dr. G. R. Barrie Webster, Pesticide Research Laboratory, Department of Soil Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2. Tel: + 1 204 474 6039. Fax: + 1 204 275 6019; or Professor Dr. Joseph Tarradellas, IGE, Federal Technical Institute EPF-L, CH-1015 Lausanne Ecublens, Switzerland Professor Erkang Wang, Asianalysis 11, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 1022, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China Tel: +86 431 682 801 (ext. 562). Fax: +86 431 685 653 Professor Douglas Hamilton, Physics Department, 2152 Hillside Road, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046, USA Dr.R. A. Ettlin, EUROTOX Secretary General, Sandoz Pharma Ltd., Toxicology, Building 881, P.O. Box, CH-4002 Basle, Switzerland Mr. B. R. Hodson, American Chemical Society, 1155-16th Street N.W., Washington, DC 20036, USA Tel: + 1 202 872 4396. Mrs. M. Stalmans, University of Antwerp (UIA), Department of Chemistry, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerp-Wilrijk, Belgium Tel: +32 3 820 23 75. Fax: +32 3 820 23 74 Ms. Raili Siekkinen, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. 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Fax: + 1 403 284 5696SON ANALYST, APRIL 1993, VOL.118 Date 23-27 23-27 26-119 29-319 3 0 4 9 30-119 30-219 Conference Location 6th Hungaro-Italian Symposium on Spectrochemistry, Advances in Environmental Hungary Sciences 9th Danube Symposium on Chromatography Lillafur ed , Budapest , Hungary 5th International Conference on Electron Spectroscopy Ukraine 9th International Symposium: Advances and Application of Chromatography in Industry Kiev , Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 13th European Conference on Surface Science Warwick, UK 15th International Symposium on Safety in Interaction with Quality, Productivity and Economy Second European Symposium on Near Infrared Spectroscopy September 2-3 5-10 5-10 5-1 1 5-10 5-11 6-10 6-10 6-10 6-10 2nd UK International Meeting on Biological and Biomedical Applications of Scanning Probe Microscopy Ninth International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Symposium Lugano , Switzerland Kolding , Denmark Nottingham, UK Leeds, UK 5th European Conference on the Spectroscopy Lontraki , of Biological Molecules Greece Euroanalysis VIII: European Conference on Analytical Chemistry UK Edinburgh , Second International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China Pharmacy World Congress '93 Tokyo, Japan 18th International Conference on Infrared and Colchester, Millimetre Waves UK Defect Recognition and Image Processing in Santander, Semiconductors and Devices Spain 1 lth Specialised Colloque Ampere on Magnetic Menton, Resonance in Homogeneous and France Heterogeneous Catalysis Second International Conference on Magnetic Heidelberg, Resonance Microscopy Germany Contact Dr.Gy. 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