78N Analyst, June 1996, Vol. I21 Conference Diary Date 1996 July 1-3 3-4 5-1 1 8-12 14-18 15-17 15-19 17-19 21-26 22-23 22-25 23-26 28-1/8 Conference Location 9th International Symposium on Polymer Analysis and Characterization (ISPAC-9) UK Oxford, Atmospheric Chemistry of Sulfur in Relation to Aerosols, Clouds and Climate London, UK 14th Analytical Chemistry Division Adelaide, Conference Australia XVI International Congress of Clinical Chemistry UK London, International Symposium on Environmental Sydney, Chemistry and Toxicology Australia 4th European Conference on Thermal Plasma Athens, Processes Greece 9th International Conference on Quantitative Surface Analysis UK Surrey, 8th Biennial National Atomic Spectroscopy Symposium (BNASS) UK Norwich, 38th Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry USA Denver, CO, 33rd R & D Topics Meeting Nottingham, UK Sixth International Meeting on Chemical Sensors USA Gaithersburg, 12th Annual Waste Testing and Quality Assurance Symposium USA Washington, DC, AACC 48th Meeting and Clinical Laboratory Exposition USA Chicago, IL, Contact Professor John Dawkins, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK LE 1 1 3TU Fax: +44 (0)1509 233163 The Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, London SWlY 5AG, UK Tel: +44 (0)171 839 5561.Paul Lindon, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Analytical Chemistry Group (SA) Tel: +61 8 226 6414. Fax: +61 8 226 6316. E-mail: pwl@hcl.health.sa.gov.au Mrs. Pat Nielsen, XVIth International Congress of Clinical Chemistry, P.O.Box 227, Buckingham, UK MK 18 5PN Fax: +44 (0) 1280 6487 InterSECT '96, P.O. Box 787, Potts Point, NSW 201 1, Australia Tel: +61 2 357 2600. Fax: +61 2 357 2950 Dimitrios Rapakoulias, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Patras, P.O. Box 1470, Rio Patras, Greece Tel: +30 61 993361. E-mail: http://armodios.chemeng.upatras,gr. Professor J. E. Castle, University of Surrey, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Guildford, Surrey UK GU2 5XH Tel: +44 (0)1483 259150. Fax: +44 (0)1483 259508. E-mail: j .castle@surrey:ac.uk Ms. Brenda Holliday, BNASS Secretariat, Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, UK CB4 4WF Tel: +44 (0)1223 420066. Fax: +44 (0)1223 423623 Glenda E. Brown, USGS NWQL, 5293 Ward Road, Arvada, CO 80002, USA Tel: +1 303 467 8122.Fax: +1 303 431 8331 The Secretary, Analytical Division, Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London WlV OBN, UK Tel: +44 (0)171 437 8656. Fax: +44 (0)171 437 8883 Howard H. Weetall, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 222/A353, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, USA Tel: +1 301 975 2628. Fax: +1 301 330 3447. E-mail: weetall@micf.nist.gov Department of Meetings, Attn. ACS/EPA Symposium, American Chemicl Society, 1155 16th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA Tel: +1 202 872 6286. Fax: +1 202 872 6128. E-mail miscmtgs@ acs.org 1996 AACC Annual Meeting, American Association for Clinical Chemistry, 2101 L Street NW, Suite 202, Washington, DC 20037- 1526, USA Fax: +1 202 833 4576Analyst, June 1996, Vol.121 79N ~- Date Conference August Location 10-13 11-15 11-16 11-16 20-23 2 1-23 25-29 25-30 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 and Biomedical Analysis Japan (PBAT '96) Pittsburgh, Fourth International Symposium on Capillary York, . - Electrophoresis 212th American Chemical Society National Meeting XXIII EUCMOS September 1-7 1 -7 4-6 8-1 1 8-12 8-1 3 Cellular and Molecular Biology 2nd World Congress Euroanalysis IX Traceability and Comparability of 'Amount of Substance' Measurements 22nd Annual Meeting of the British Mass Spectrometry Society 4th International Conference on Nanometer Scale Science and Technology CLEO '96: European Conferences on Lasers and Electro-Optics UK Orlando, FL, USA Balatonfured, Hungary Ottawa, Canada Bologna, Italy Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands Swansea, UK Beijing, China Ham burg, Germany Contact Martin Stillman, University of Estern 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: +l 508 563 121 I . 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: +I 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, Suite 353, 2660 Southvale Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1B 4W5 Tel: +1 613 247 1344. Fax: +I 613 247 2187/9317. E-mail: mhamelin@ottawa.net Professor Luigia Sabbatini, Euroanalysis IX, Dipartimento di Chimica, Universith 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 1 1 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.uk 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 8QX80N Analyst, June 1996, Vol. 121 Date Conference Location Contact 9-1 1 Sixth International Symposium on Field Flow Ferrara, F. Dondi, Department of Chemistry, University of Tel: +39 532 291154. Fax: +39 532 240709 Dr. Vladimir Spirko, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, The J. Heyrovsky Institute of Fractionation Italy Ferrara, Via L.Borsari, 46, 1-44100 Ferrara, Italy 9-1 3 PRAHA96: 14th International Conference on Prague, High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy Czech Republic 10-14 International Symposium and Exhibition on Graz, Biomedical Optics IV Austria 1 1-1 3 International Symposium on Biological Espoo, Monitoring in Occupational and Finland Environmental Health 15-17 Third European Congress of Pharmaceutical Edinbrugh, Sciences Scotland 15-20 21st International Symposium on Stuttgart, Chromatography Germany 15-20 1996 European Workshop in Chemometrics Bristol, UK 15-20 XV National Reunion of Spectroscopists Oviedo, Spain 16-18 The Third International Conference on Nantes, Applications of Magnetic Resonance in Food France Science 16-19 International Ion Chromatography Reading, Symposium UK 16-20 5th International Conference on Plasma Durham, Source Mass Spectrometry UK 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 Physical Chemistry, Dolejskova 3, CZ- 18223 Praha 8, Czech Republic Fax: +42 2 858 2307.E-mail: praha96@ jh-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 ITS, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9000 or +44 (0)117 928 7658. Fax: +44 (0) 1 17 925 7295 Conference Secretariat,, XV Reuni6n Nacional de Espectroscopia, Grupo EspaAol de Espectroscopia, C/Serrano 12 1, 28006 Madrid, Spain Fax: +34 (9)1645557 G. J. Martin or V. Foucault, FacultC des Sciences, Laboratoire de Resonance MagnCtique NuclCaire et RCactivitiC Chimique, U.R.A.- CNRS 472, 2 rue de la Houssini?re, 44072 Nantes Cedex 03, France Tel: +33 4037 3169. Fax: +33 4074 9806 Century International, P.O. Box 493, Medfield, MA 02052, USA. Tel: +1 508 359 8777; Fax: +I 508 359 8778 or Phil Jones, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233000. Fax: +44 (0)1752 233035 Dr. Grenville Holland, Department of Geological Sciences, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham City, UK DHl 3LE Fax: +44 (0)191 374 2510 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 Julich, 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 29-04 23rd Annual Conference of the Federation of Kansas City, FACSS, 201B Broadway Street, Frederick, MD Tel: +I 301 846 4797. Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy USA 21701-6501 USA Societies (FACSS)Analyst, June 1996, Vol. 121 8 IN ~- Date Conference October Location 2-4 3-4 14-18 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 Y ork, UK 7th International Beijing Conference and Shanghai, Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis (BCEIA) China Expoquimia Equiplast Eurosurfas Barcelona, Spain Pollutec 96 Lyon, France 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 12-1 5 International Exhibition and Conference for Basel, Chemical Technology, Analytical Technology Switzerland and Biotechnology 13 Capillary Electrophoresis Meeting Hertfordshire, UK 13-15 13th Montreux Symposium on Liquid Mon treux, Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Switzerland 17-22 1996 Eastern Analytical Symposium Somerset, NJ, USA 21 Spectroscopic Detection in Process Analysis Hull, (11) UK Contact Peter Fredericks, School of Chemistry, Queensland University of Technology, P.O.Box 2434, Brisbane, Queensland 400 1, 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 4325 16 E-mail: js20@york.ac.uk BCEIA '97 General Service Office, Room 585, Chinese Academy of Sciences Building, P.O. Box 2143, Beijing 100045, China Tel: +86 10 6851 1814. E-mail: bceia@aphyOl .iphy.ac.cn Expoquimia Equiplas Eurosurfas, Fira de Barcelona, Avda. Reina Ma Cristina, E-08004, Barcelona, Spain Michele Jackson or Vinod Mahtani, Promosalons (UK) Ltd., 82 Bishops Bridge Road, London W2 6BB, UK Tel: +44 (0)171 221 3660.Fax: +44 (0)171 792 3525 8as Jornadas de Analisis Instrumental (JAI) Expoquimia, Av. Reina Ma Christina-Palacio No. 1, 08004 Barcelona, Spain Tel: +93 233 20 00. Fax: +93 233 23 11, +93 423 63 48 Spring Innovations, 185A Moss Lane, Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, UK SK7 1BA Tel: +44 (0)161 440 0082. Fax: +44 (0)161 440 9127 Biotechnological Institute, Holbergsvej 10, P.O. Box 8 18, DK-6000 Kolding, Denmark, Attn: Lone Vejgaard (Chairman) Tel: +45 75 52 04 33. Fax: +45 75 52 99 89 Dr Guy Bordin, European Commission-Joint Research Centre-IRMM, Retieseweg, B-2440 Geel, Belgium Fax: +32 14 584 273. E-mail: bordin@irmm.jrc.be Herman Pollak, Mossbauer Laboratory, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa Tel: +27 11 716 4053/2526.Fax: +27 11 339 8262. E-mail: isiame@physnet.phys.wits.ac.za L. 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 NG1 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: +1 302 738 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 89217182N Analyst, June 1996, Vol. 121 Date Conference Location Contact 24-30 4th Rio Symposium on Atomic Spectrometry 1997 January 4-9 The Fourth International Symposium On: Giza, New Trends in Chemistry The Role of Egypt Analytical Chemistry in National Development Buenos Aires, Argentina 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 12-16 International Conference on Flow Injection Orlando, Analysis-ICFIA 97 USA 12-17 1997 European Winter Conference on Plasma Gent, Spectrochemistry Belgium 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 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 May 12-16 European Symposium on Photonics in Manufacturing I11 Professor Dr.M. M. Khater, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt ICFIA 97, Sue Christian, P.O. Box 26, Medina, WA Fax: +1 206 454 9361. E-mail: sue@flowinjection.com L. Moens, Secretariat, 1997 European Winter Conference, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, University of Gent, Proeftuinstraat 86, B-9000, Gent, Belgium Tel: +32 9 264 66 00.Fax: +32 9 264 66 99 E-mail: plasma97@rug.ac.be Professor C. Rudowicz, Chairman, LOC & IOC, City University of Hong Kong, Department of Physics and Materials Science, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: +852 2788 7787. Fax: +852 2788 7830. E-mail: apsepr@cityu.edu.& Shirley Schlessinger, Symposium Manager, HPCE '97, 400 East Randolph Street, Suite 1015, Chicago, IL 60601, USA Tel: +1 312 527 2011. 98039-0026, USA Hong Kong Anaheim, USA Freiberg/Sachsen, Germany G. Werner, Universitat Leipzig, Institut fur Analytische Chemie, Linnestrasse 3, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany Tel: +49 0341 973 6101. Fax: +49 0341 973 6115 Linda Briggs, The Pittsburgh Conference, 300 Penn Center Blvd., Suite 332, Pittsburgh, PA 15235-5503, USA Tel: +I 412 825 3220, +1 800 825 3221. Fax: +1 412 825 3224 Atlanta, GA, USA San Francisco, CA, Department of Meetings, American Chemical USA Society, 115516th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA Tel: +I 202 872 4396. Fax: +I 202 872 6128. E-mail: natlmtgs@acs.org Mrs. Janet Cunningham, Barr Enterprises, 10120 Kelly Road, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793, USA Tel: +1 301 898 3772. Fax: +1 301 898 5596 Texas, USA Paris, France Francoise Chavel, Executive Secretary, European Optical Society, B.P. 147-91403 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