Analyst, July 1996, Vol. 121 lOlN Conference Diary Date Conference 1996 August 4-9 10-13 11-15 11-16 11-16 20-23 21-23 25-29 25-30 Location Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation USA Denver, CO, 42nd International Conference on Analytical London, Science and Spectroscopy Canada Microscopy and Microanalysis '96 Minneapolis, MN, USA Gordon Research Conference on Plasma New Hampton, USA Processing Science NH, ICORS '96: XV International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy USA 7th International Symposium on Osaka, Pharmaceutical an<; Biomedical Analysis Japan (PBAT '96) Pittsburgh, Fourth International Symposium on Capillary York, Electrophoresis 212th American Chemical Society National Meeting XXIII EUCMOS September 1-7 Cellular and Molecular Biology 2nd World Congress 1-7 Euroanalysis IX 4-6 Traceability and Comparability of 'Amount of Substance' Measurements 8-1 1 22nd Annual Meeting of the British Mass Spectrometry Society UK Orlando, FL, USA Balatonfured, Hungary Ottawa, Canada Bologna, Italy Noordw ijkerhout, The Netherlands Swansea, UK Contact SPIE, C/O HIB-INFONET, P.O.BOX 4463, N-5028 Bergen, Norway Tel: +1 47 55 54 37 84. Fax: +I 47 55 96 21. E-mail: spie@hibinc.no Martin Stillman, University of Eastern Ontario, Department of Chemistry, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada Tel: +1 519 661 3821. Fax: +1 519 661 3022. E-mail: stillman@uwo.ca Microscopy and Microanalysis '96,4 Barlow Landing Road, Suite 8, Pocasset, MA 02559, USA Tel: +1 508 563 1155. Fax: +1 508 563 1211. E-mail: businessoffice@msa.microscopy.com; WWW: http://www.msa.microscopy.com S.L. Girschick, University of Minnesota, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 11 1 Church St. S., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Tel: +1 612 625 5315. Fax: +1 612 624 1398. E-mail: sig.@maroon. tc .umn.edu Professor S. Asher, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA Professor Susumu Honda, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kinki University, Kowakae 3-4-1, Higashi Osaka 577, Japan Fax: +81 6 721 2353 Dr. T. L. Threlfall, Industrial Liaison Executive, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK YO1 5DD Tel: +44 (0)1904 432576. Fax: +44 (0)1904 4325 16 E-mail: js20@york.ac.uk Department of Meetings, American Chemical Society, 1155-15th NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA Tel: +1 202 872 4396. Fax: +1 202 872 6128. E-mail: natlmtgs@acs.org Professor Dr.J. Mink, Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of VeszprCm, P.O. Box 158, H-8201 VeszprCm, Hungary Congress Secretariat, Sutie 353, 2660 Southvale Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1B 4W5 Tel: +I 613 247 1344. Fax: +1 613 247 2187/9317. E-mail: mhamelin@ottawa.net Professor Luigia Sabbatini, Euroanalysis IX, Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita di Bari, Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy Tel: +39 80 544 2020. Fax: +39 80 544 2026 Linda Catterson, Workshop Secretary, Laboratory of the Government Chemist, Queens Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW 11 OLY, UK Tel: +44 (0)181 943 7423. Fax: +44 (0)181 943 2767. E-mail: lc@lgc.co.uk Dr. Fred Mellon, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich, UK NR4 7UA Tel: +44 (0)1603 255299.Fax: +44 (0)1603 452578 E-mail: fred.mellon@bbsrc.ac.uk102N Analyst, July 1996, Vol. 121 Date 8-1 2 8-12 8-1 3 9-1 1 9-1 3 10-14 11-13 15-17 15-20 15-20 15-20 16-18 16-19 16-20 Conference Location 110th AOAC International Annual Meeting and Exposition Kissimmee, FL, Orlando/ USA 4th International Conference on Nanometer Scale Science and Technology China Beijing, CLEO '96: European Conferences on Lasers Hamburg, and Electro-Optics Germany Sixth International Symposium on Field Flow Ferrara, Fractionation Italy PRAHA96: 14th International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy Prague, Czech Republic International Symposium and Exhibition on Biomedical Optics IV Austria Graz, International Symposium on Biological Espoo, Monitoring in Occupational and Finland Environmental Health Third European Congress of Pharmaceutical Sciences Scotland Edinbrugh, 21st International Symposium on Stuttgart, Chromatography Germany 1996 European Workshop in Chemometrics Bristol, UK XV National Reunion of Spectroscopists Oviedo, Spain The Third International Conference on Applications of Magnetic Resonance in Food Science Nantes, France International Ion Chromatography Reading, Symposium UK 5th International Conference on Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry UK Durham, Contact Margreet Lauwaars, P.O.Box 153, 6720 AD Bennekom, The Netherlands. Tel: +3 1 3 18 4 18725; Fax: +31 318 418359; or Derek Abbott, 80 Chaffers Mead, Ashtead, Surrey KT2 lNH, UK Tel: +44 372 274856.Fax: +44 372 274856 Shijin Pang, Beijing Laboratory of Vacuum Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2724, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China Tel: +86 10 256 8306. Fax: +86 10 255 6598. E-mail: pang@image.blem.ac.cn CLEO/Europe '96, Institute of Physics, Meetings and Conferences Department, 47 Belgrave Square, London, UK SWlX 8QX F. Dondi, Department of Chemistry, University of Ferrara, Via L. Borsari, 46, 1-44100 Ferrara, Italy Tel: +39 532 291 154. Fax: +39 532 240709 Dr. Vladimir Spirko, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, The J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Dolejskova 3, CZ- 18223 Praha 8, Czech Republic Fax: +42 2 858 2307. E-mail: praha9mjh-inst.cas.cz. or praha96@ wcpj.chemie.uni-wuppertal.de Francoise Chavel, Executive Secretary, European Optical Society, B .P.147-9 1403 Orsay Cedex, France Tel: +33 1 69 85 35 92. Fax: +33 1 69 85 35 65. E-mail: francoise.chavel@iota.u-psud.fr Kristiina Kulha, Finish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliukenkatu 41 a A, FIN-00250 Helsinki, Finland Tel: +358 4747 551. Fax: +358 4747 548. E-mail: kku@occuphealth.fi; WWW: http://www .occuphealth.fi 3rd EUFEPS Congress, Marshwood House, 52 Gresham Road, Staines, Middlesex, TW18 2AN, UK Tel: +44 (0)1784 464106. Fax: +44 (0)1784 455078 GDCh-Geschaftsstelle, Abt. Tagungen, Varrentrappestr. 40-42, Postfach 90 04 40, D-6000 Frankfurt am Main 90, Germany Tel: +49 69 791 7358. Fax: +49 69 791 7475 Caroline Hutcheon, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol B58 lTS, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9000 or +44 (0)117 928 7658. Fax: +44 (0)117 925 7295 Conference Secretariat,, XV Reunih Nacional de Espectroscopia, Grupo Espaiiol de Espectroscopia, C/Serrano 121,28006 Madrid, Spain Fax: +34 (9)1645557 G.J. Martin or V. 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Fax: +44 (0)1752 233035 Dr. Grenville Holland, Department of Geological Sciences, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham City, UK DH1 3LE Fax: +44 (0)191 374 2510Analyst, July 1996, Vol.121 103N Date Conference Location 23 12th ICP-MS Applications Meeting Julich, Germany 24-26 Mass Spectrometry Processes for the Julich, Determination of Trace Elements Germany 26-27 4th International Symposium on Bucharest, Biotechnology Now & Tomorrow Romania 29-04 23rd Annual Conference of the Federation of Kansas City, Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy USA Societies (FACSS) October 2-4 3 3 14-1 8 20-25 22-25 22-25 28-29 29-30 30-3 1 Second Australian Conference on Vibrational Brisbane, Spectroscopy Australia Validation in Capillary Electrophoresis York, UK 7th International Beijing Conference and Shanghai, Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis (BCEIA) China Expoquimia Equiplast Eurosurfas Barcelona, Spain Pollutec 96 8th Conference and Exhibition on Analytical Instrumentation Spain Barcelona, Monitor '96 Manchester, UK Third European Symposium on Near Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy.On-Line Use Kolding, Denmark International Workshop on Metallothioneins Geel, Belgium November 4-8 International Symposium on the Industrial Johannesburg, Application of the Mossbauer Effect South Africa Contact Dr. J. S. Becker, Forschungszentrum fur Chemische Analysen, D-52425 Julich, Germany Tel: +49 2461 612698. Fax: +49 2461 612560 Dr. J. S. Becker, Forschungszentrum fur Chemische Analysen, D-52425 Jiilich, Germany Tel: +49 2461 612698. Fax: +49 2461 612560 Ioana Spirescu, Romania Biotehnos S.A., Str. Dumbrava Roslo, nr.18, Bucuresti 70254, Romania Tel: +40 1 210 20 15. Fax: +40 1 210 97 05. E-mail: dcornel@ cbb.bth .ro FACSS, 201B Broadway Street, Frederick, MD Tel: +1 301 846 4797. 21701-6501 USA Peter Fredericks, School of Chemistry, Queensland University of Technology, P.O. Box 2434, Brisbane, Queensland 4001 , Australia Tel: +61 7 3864 2341. Fax: +61 7 3864 1804. E-mail: p.fredericks.@qut.edu.au Dr. T. L. Threlfall, Industrial Liaison Executive, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK YO1 5DD Tel: +44 (0)1904 432576. Fax: +44 (0)1904 432516 E-mail: js20@york.ac.uk BCEIA '97 General Service Office, Room 585, Chinese Academy of Sciences Building, P.O. 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E-mail: isiame@physnet.phys.wits.ac.za104N Analyst, July 1996, Vol. 121 Date 12-15 13 13-15 17-22 21 24-30 Conference Location International Exhibition and Conference for Chemical Technology, Analytical Technology Switzerland and Biotechnology Capillary Electrophoresis Meeting Hertfordshire, Basel, UK 13th Montreux Symposium on Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Switzerland Montreux, 1996 Eastern Analytical Symposium Somerset, NJ, USA Spectroscopic Detection in Process Analysis (11) UK Hull, 4th Rio Symposium on Atomic Spectrometry Buenos Aires, Argentina 1997 January 4-9 The Fourth International Symposium On: Giza, New Trends in Chemistry The Role of Egypt Analytical Chemistry in National Development Analysis-ICFIA 97 USA 12-1 6 International Conference on Flow Injection Orlando, 12-17 1997 European Winter Conference on Plasma Gent, Spectrochemistry 20-24 First Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Symposium 26-30 9th International Symposium on High Performance Capillary Electrophoresis and Related Microscale Techniques March 9-14 CANAS '97 Colloquium Analytische Atomspektroskopie 16-21 48th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Belgium Hong Kong Anaheim, USA Freiberg/Sachsen, Germany Atlanta, GA, USA Contact I,.E. Loew, ilmac96, Messe Bassel, CH-4021 Basel, Switzerland Tel: +41 61 686 2707.Fax: +41 61 686 2188 Mrs Gill Caminow, The Chromatographic Society, Suite 4, Clarendon Chambers, 32 Clarendon Street, Nottingham NGI 5JD, UK Tel: +44 (0)115 950 0596. Fax: +44 (0)115 950 0614 M. Frei-Hausler, Postfach 46, CH-4123 Allschwil 2, Switzerland Tel: +41 61 481 2789. Fax: +41 61 482 0805 EAS, P.O. Box 633, Montchanin, DE 19710-0633, USA Tel: +I 302 738 6218. Fax: +1 302 738 5275 Dr. J. S. Lancaster, BP Chemicals, Hull Research Centre, Saltend, Hull, UK HU12 8DS Tel: +44 (0)1482 894803. Fax: +44 (0)1482 892171 Osvaldo E. Troccoli, Quimica Analitica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactasy Naturales, Ciudad Universitaria, (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel: +54 1 783 3025. Fax: +54 1 782 0441. E-mail: troccoli@ trazas.uba.org or batiston@cena.edu.ar Professor Dr.M. M. Khater, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt ICFIA 97, Sue Christian, P.O. 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Fax: +1 412 825 3224Analyst, July 1996, Vol. 121 105N Date Conference April 13-17 213th American Chemical Society National Meeting 14-19 Genes and Gene Families in Medical, Agricultural and Biological Research: 9th International Congress on Isozymcs 21-25 Seventh International Symposium on Biological and Environmental Reference Materials (BERM-7) May 12-16 European Symposium on Photonics in Manufacturing I11 June 3-5 15-2 1 1 5-2 1 16-20 30-3/7 LIMS 97 11th International LIMS Conference and Exhibition International Conference on Analytical Chemistry International Conference on Analytical Chemistry European Symposium on Environmental and Public Safety I1 6th European ISSX Meeting Location San Francisco, CA, USA Texas, USA Antwerp, Belgium Paris, France The Hague, Netherlands Moscow, Russia Moscow, Russia Munich, Germany Gothenburg, Sweden Contact Department of Meetings, American Chemical Society, 1155-16th St.NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA Tel: +I 202 872 4396. Fax: +1 202 872 6128. 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