21N ANALYST, FEBRUARY 1993, VOL. 118 Conference Diary Date Conference March 8-1 2 9-10 16-17 19 23-25 23-26 25 29-30 29-30 30 30-1/4 April 3-4 4-8 5-7 5-8 5-9 6-7 Location PITTCON ’93,44th Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Atlanta, GA, USA Industrial Waste Water Treatment Esher, UK Groundwater Pollution London, UK Symposium on Possibilities and Limitations of Antwerp, Chiral Separation Techniques Belgium International Symposium on Advanced IR Spectroscopy (AIRS) Japan Tokyo? 7th International Symposium on Instrumental Brighton, Planar Chromatography Sussex, UK Instrumental Technique Developments: Cambridge , Atomic Spectrometry Updates Atomic UK Spectroscopy Group Good Automated Laboratory Practice Barcelona, Symposium Spain 1993 European Seminar on Offshore Water and Environmental Management UK The Laboratory Environment: Working with Dangerous Substances London, UK 12th Pharmaceutical Technology Conference Elsinore, Denmark VDI-Meeting on Progress in Thermic, Catalytic and Sorptive Exhaust Cleaning Mannheim, Germany XIIIth World Congress on Occupational Safety New Delhi, and Health India 3rd International Conference on Ion-Beam and Namur, Surface Specific Analysis Techniques Belgium Annual Chemical Congress, ‘New Materials: New Toxicology’ UK Southampton , 4th International Meeting on Trace Elements in Chamonix, Medicine and Biology France BTS Colloquium (of the British Toxicology Society) on Early Markers of Carcinogenesis Canterbury, Kent, UK Contact Mrs.Alma Johnson, Program Secretary, Pittsburgh Conference, 300 Penn Center Boulevard, Suite 332, Pittsburgh, PA 15235-5503, USA Tel: +1 412 825 3220.Amanda Wright, IBC Technical Services Ltd., 57/61 Mortimer Street (1st Floor), London, UK WIN 7TD Jane Worman, IBC Technical Services Ltd., 57/61 Mortimer Street (1st Floor), London, UK W1N 7TD Royal Flemish Chemical Society (KVCV), Working Party on Chromatography, c/o Dr. R. Smits, BASF Antwerpen N.V., Central Laboratory, Scheldelaan, B-2040 Antwerp, Belgium Tel: +32 3 568 2831. Fax: +32 3 568 3250 Hirokazu Toriumi, AIRS Organizing Committee, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153, Japan Tel: +813 3467 1171, ext. 309. Fax: +813 3485 2904 Mrs J. A. Challis, Chromatographic Society, Suite 4, Clarendon Chambers, 32 Clarendon Street, Nottingham, UK NG1 5JD Tel: +44 602 500596.Fax: +44 602 500614 Ms J. M. Cook, Analytical Geochemistry Group, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, UK NG12 5GG Tel: +44 602 363330. Fax: +44 602 363200 Juan Sabater, Laboratorio Dr. J. Sabata Tobella, Calle de Londres 6, 08029 Barcelona, Spain Lisa Bilby, Business Seminars International, 56-60 St. John’s Street, Farringdon, London, UK EClM 4DT Pauline A. Sim, Gascoigne Secretarial Services, 24 Southfield Drive, Hazlemere, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK HP15 7HB Tel: +44 494 713664. Fax: +44 494 714516 The 12th Pharmaceutical Technology Conference, 24 Menlove Gardens North, Liverpool, UK L18 2EJ VDI, Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (Kommission Reinhaltung der Luft), Graf Recke-Strasse 84, P.O.Box 1139, D-W-4000 Dusseldorf 1, Germany National Safety Council, P.O. Box 26754, Siom, Bombay 400022, India Professor G. Demortier, Facultes Universitaires, N-D de la Paix, 22 rue Muzet, B-5000 Namur, Belgium Mervyn Richardson, BASIC, 6 Birch Drive, Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, UK WD3 2UL Tel: +44 923 774187. Fax: +44 494 714516 A. Favier, Laboratoire de Biochimie C., Hopital A. Michallon, B.P. 217X, F-38943 Grenoble Cedex 09, France Tel: +33 76 76 54 07. Fax: +33 76 42 66 44 Dr. E. S. Harpur, Sterling Winthrop Research Centre, Willowburn Avenue, Alnwick, North Cumberland, UK NE66 2JH22N ANALYST, FEBRUARY 1993, VOL. 118 Date 13-17 18-21 19-21 19-22 19-23 20-23 20-23 25-29 26-2/5 27 May 2-7 3-5 3-5 4-5 4-6 6-12 9-13 9-14 10-13 Conference Location International Meeting on the Effects of War Zadar, Activities in the Environment Croatia 4th International Symposium on Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis USA Baltimore, MD, Anakon ’93 Baden-Baden, Germany Annual Physics Congress: Spectroscopy, The Changing Face of Physics UK Brighton, Focus ’93: The Association of Clinical Biochemists Annual National Scientific UK Meeting and Exhibition International Symposium on Electroanalysis in Loughborough, Biomedical, Environmental and Industrial Leicestershire, Sciences UK Birmingham, 5th European Congress on Biopharmaceutics Brussels, and Pharmacokinetics Belgium Eurolab 93, 12th SFBC National Meetingloth Nice, IFCC European Congress of Clinical France Chemistry Exhibition and Congress ‘Wasser’, AMK Germany Berlin’93 Validating Multicomponent Analysis London, 1 JK CLEO ’93, Conference on Lasers and Electro- Baltimore, MD, Optics USA Euroresidue 11, International Conference on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Food Veldhoven , The Netherlands 5th International Symposium on the Analysis of Szombathely , Steroids Hungary ASTM Symposium On Quality And Statistics: Atlanta, GA, Total Quality Management USA Deauville Conference SAS 93 Deauville, France Interpack’93 (Environmentally Justified Diisseldorf , Packaging) Germany EMAS ’93-Modern Developments and Rimini, Applications in Microbeam Analysis Italy HPLC ’93, 17th International Symposium on Column Liquid Chromatography Germany Hamburg, International Environment ’93 and Analysis ’93 UK London, Contact Mervyn Richardson, BASIC, 6 Birch Drive, Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, UK WD3 2UL Tel: +44 923 774187.Fax: +44 494 714516 Shirley E. Schlessinger (Symposium Manager), Suite 1015,400 East Randolph Drive, Chicago, IL 60601, USA Tel: +1 312 527 2011. Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Abteilung Tagungen, Postfach 90 04 40, Varrentrappstasse 40-42, D-6000 Frankfurt am Main 90, Germany Spectroscopy, The Changing Face of Physics, The Conference Department, The Institute of Physics, 47 Belgrave Square, London, UK SWlX SQX Tel: +44 71 235 6111. Fax: +44 71 259 6002 Pat Nielsen, Pipers, Main Street, Akeley, Buckingham, UK MK18 5HW Dr. Arnold Fogg, Electroanalysis Conference, Chemistry Department, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK LEll3TU Mrs. F.Rey, 3/17 Avenue de I’Observatoire, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +31 2 375 1648. Fax: +31 2 375 3299 Groupe SEPFI, Technoexpo, 8 rue de la Michodihre, 75002 Paris, France Tel: +33 1 47 42 92 56. Fax: +33 1 42 66 14 28 Company of Exhibitions, Fairs and Congresses, Messedamm 22, P.O. Box 191740, D-W-1000 Berlin 19, Germany Mr. T. Frost, The Wellcome Foundation, Dartford, UK DA1 5AH Meetings Department, Optical Society of America, 2010 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA Tel: +1 202 223 9037. Fax: +1 202 416 6140 Dr. N. Haagsma, Section of Food Chemistry, Department of Food of Animal Origin, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.175, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands Tel: +31 30 535 365,535 367.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 Scott Orthey, ASTM, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, 215/299-5507, USA 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 Dusseldorfer Messegesellschaft mbH ‘NO WEA’ , P.O. Box 32 02 03, Stockumer Kirchstrasse 61, D-W-4000 Diisseldorf 30, Germany Abraham Boekestein, Mansholtlaan 12, Postbus 356, D-6700 Wageningen, Germany Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Abteilung Tagungen, Postfach 900440, Varrentrappstrasse 40- 42, W-6000 Frankfurt am Main 90, Germany Tel: +49 69 7917 360. Fax: +49 69 7917 475 Eileen Davies, IE ’93,12 Alban Park, Hatfield Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK AL4 OJJ Tel: +44 727 855574.Fax: +44 727 841694ANALYST, FEBRUARY 1993, VOL. 118 23N Date 11-15 23-28 24-26 24-27 24-29 25-27 25-27 27-28 27-28 June 2-4 3 3-4 7-9 8-1 1 13-17 13-17 14-16 14-20 Conference IV Encontro de Usuarios de RMN Location Contact Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 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 American Society for Mass Spectrometry, P. 0. 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 Professor Dr. P.Sandra, IOPMS, Kennedypark 20, B-8500 Kortrij k, Belgium Tel: +32 56 204960. Fax: +32 56 204859 Dr. V. N. Makatun, Organizing Committee of the Mendeleev Congress, Presidium of Byelorussian Academy of Sciences, 66, F. Scorina Avenue, Minsk, Byelorussia Professor Dr. Willy R. G. Baeyens, University of Ghent, Pharmaceutical Institute, Harelbekestraat 72, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium 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. 41st ASMS Conference on Mass Spectroscopy Las Vegas, NV, USA 11th Dechema Annual Meeting on Biotechnology 15th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC) Frankfurt, Germany Riva del Garda, Italy XV Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry Minsk, Byelorussia Vth International Symposium on Quantitative Luminescence Spectrometry in Biomedical Sciences Control and Instrumentation Exhibition ’93 Ghent, Belgium Birmingham, UK Riva del Garda, Italy 2nd European Symposium on Analytical Supercritical Fluid Chromatography and Extraction (ESASF) European Conference on Environmental Pollution, Aquatic and Atmospheric Environment, AirNater Quality, Hazardous Wastes and Hydrology Helsinski, Finland International Symposium on Analysis of Peptides Stockholm, Sweden The Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences Symposium on ‘Analysisof 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 SO, Finland Dr. V. M. Bhatnagar, Alena Chemicals of Canada, P.O. Box 1779, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada K6H 5v7 Tel: +1 613 932 7702. G. Lachenal, Universite Lyon 1, Laboratoire des Materiaux Plastiques et des Biomateriaux, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France Tel: +33 72 43 12 11. Fax: +33 78 89 25 83 John Boother (Programme Chairman), JB Scientific, P.O. Box 5 , Riseley, Reading, UK RG7 1YL Tel: +44 734 883125. Fax: +44 734 885604 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 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 NMR Symposium Turku, Finland European Conference on Analytical Chemistry, Chromatography and Spectroscopy and Thermal Analysis Brno, Czechoslovakia European Seminar on Infrared Spectroscopy LY on , France 7th International LIMS Conference Egham, Surrey, UK 6th European Congress on Biotechnology Firenze, Italy 3rd Scandinavian Symposium on C hemometrics Arhus, Denmark PREP-93, 10th International Symposium on Preparative Chromatography Arlington, VA, USA European Organization for Quality Control Helsinki, Suomi-Finland24N ANALYST, FEBRUARY 1093, VOL.118 Date 17-18 27- 117 29-47 July 4-7 4-8 11-14 11-15 12-14 19-21 19-23 25-29 Conference International Conference on Analytical Chemistry & Applied Chromatography/ Spectroscopy Fullerenes ’93, 1st International Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Science and Technology of the Fullerenes XXVIII Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XXVIII CSI Post-Symposium: Graphite Atomizer Techniques in Analytical Spectroscopy 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Indoor Air’93 International Symposium on Polymer Analysis and Characterization Chemometrics 111, 3rd Czechoslovak Chemometric Conference R & D Topics Meeting 1993 6th Symposium on Handling of Environmental and Biological Samples in Chromatography 12th International Symposium on Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions 107th AOAC Annual International Meeting and Exposition Location Contact Toronto, Canada 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, Dr. B. L. Sharp, Loughborough University of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK LE11 3TU Santa Barbara, CA, USA NY 10591-5153, USA York, UK Durham, UK Chemistry, CSI Secretariat, Loughborough XXVIII CSI Post-Symposium, Department of University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK LEll 3TU Tel: +44 509 22575. Fax: +44 509 233163 Professor Olli Seppanen, SF-02150 Espoo, Finland Helsinki, Suomi-Finland Crete Brno, Czechoslovakia Bradford, W. Yorkshire, UK Guildford, Surrey, UK Zurich, Switzerland Washington, DC, USA August 9-11 3rd Soil and Sediment Residue Analysis Winnipeg, Workshop Manitoba, Canada 9-13 Asianalysis I1 Changchun, China 22-25 EUROTOX’93 (32nd Congress of Toxicology) Uppsala , Sweden Judith A.Sjoberg, Professional Association Management, 815 Don Gaspar, Sante Fe, NM, USA Dr. Josef Havel, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, CS- 61 137 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-Institut, 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 Xnstitute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. 0. Box 1022, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China Tel: +86 431 682 801 (ext. 562). Fax: +86 431 685 6.53 Dr. R. A. Ettlin, EUROTOX Secretary General, Sandoz Pharma Ltd., Toxicology, Building 881, P.O. Box, CH-4002 Basle, Switzerland Entries in the above listing are at the discretion of the Editor and are free of charge. If you wish to publicize a forthcoming meeting please send full details to: The Analyst Editorial Office, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, UK CB4 4WF. Tel: +44 (0)223 420066. Fax: +44 (0)223 420247.