ANALYST, JULY 1993, VOL. 118 87N Conference Diary Date Conference August Location 9-1 1 9-1 3 9-13 19 22-25 22-27 22-27 22-27 23-27 23-27 23-27 23-27 26-1 J9 29-319 30-419 3rd Soil and Sediment Residue Analysis Winnipeg, Workshop Manitoba, Canada Asianalysis 11: Second Asian Conference on Analytical Chemistry China Changchun, ILC '93: International Conference on Luminescence and Optical Spectroscopy on Condensed Matter Rocky Mountain Chapter Annual Symposium Storrs, CT, USA Arvada, CO, USA EUROTOX'93 (32nd Congress of Toxicology) Uppsala, Sweden Gordon Research Conference on Reactive Polymers, Ion-exchangers and Adsorbents USA Newport, RI, 206th ACS National Meeting (with Sessions of the Divisions of Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Health and Safety, etc.) Third International Symposium on Separation Technology Belgium Chicago, IL, USA Antwerp, 9th Meeting of EURO CVD Tampere, Finland 9th International Conference on Fourier Calgary, Transform Spectroscopy Alberta, Canada 6th Hungardtalian Symposium on Lillafured, Spectrochemistry , Advances in Environmental Sciences 9th Danube Symposium on Chromatography Hungary 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 Contact 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 Tom Christensen, University of Colorado, Physics Department, P.O. Box 7150, Colorado Springs, CO Tel: + 1 719 593 3130. Fax: + 1 719 593 3542 Dr. R. A. Ettlin, EUROTOX Secretary General, Sandoz Pharma Ltd., Toxicology, Building 881, P.O. Box, CH-4002 Basle, Switzerland Professor Cs.Horvhth, Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, P.O. Box 2159, Yale Station, New Haven, CT06520, USA Tel: + 1 203 432 2217. Fax: + 1 203 432 4360 Mr. B. R. Hodson, American Chemical Society, 115516th 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. Box 527, SF-33101, Tampere, Finland Lois Kokoski, Conference Office, The University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 Tel: + 1 403 220 5051. Fax: + 1 403 284 5696 Dr. Gy. Zaray, Institute of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Eotvos University, P.O.Box 32, H-1518 Budapest 112, Hungary Professor L. Szepesy, Hungarian Chemical Society, Budapest, Hungary Tel: +36 1 186 9000. Fax: +36 1 181 2755 J. J. Pireaux, LISE, rue de Bruxelles, 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium Assoc. Prof. Jozef Polonsky, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Slovak Technical University, Radlinskeho 9,812 37 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia Tel: +42 7 560 43. Fax: +42 7 49 31 98 Dr. C. F. McConville, ECOSS-13, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK CV4 7AL Tel: +44 203 523353. Fax: +44 203 692016 80933-7150, USA88N ANALYST, JULY 1993, VOL. 118 Date Conference Location Contact 30-1/9 15th International Symposium on Safety in Lugano, Interaction with Quality, Productivity and Economy 30-2/9 Second European Conference on Near Infrared Kolding, Spectroscopy Denmark Switzerland Secretariate ISSA, Section Chemistry, c/o BG Chemie, P.O.Box 10 14 80, D-W-6900 Heidelberg 1, Germany Lone Vejgaard, Biotechnological Institute, Holbergsvej 10, P.O. Box 818, DK-6000 Kolding, Denmark Tel: + 45 75520433. Fax: + 45 75529989 J. Barek, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Charles University, Albertov 2030,12840 Prague 2, Czechoslovakia Tel: +42 2 292051, +42 2 297541. Fax: +42 2 291958 31-1/9 106th Annual International Meeting and Prague, Exposition of AOAC International Czechoslovakia September 2nd UK International Meeting on Biological and Biomedical Applications of Scanning Probe Microscopy Nottingham, UK The SPM Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK NG7 2RD Tel: +44 602 515101.Fax: +44 602 515102 The Conference Secretary (RE), Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK LS2 9JT Professor Th. Theophanides, National Technical University of Athens, Department of Chemical Engineering, Zogratou 15780, Athens, Greece Dr. Shang-Shyng Yang, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106, Republic of China; or Dr. Domy C. Adriano, University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Drawer E, Aiken, SC 29802, USA Miss P. E. 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 Professor D. J. A. Crommelin, FIP Congress Department, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel: +3170 363 1925.Fax: +3170363 3914 Professor T. J. Parker, Department of Physics, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, UKC04 3SQ Dr. Juan JimCnez, Drip 5, Universidad de Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain Professor J. Fraissard, Laboratoire de Chimie des Surfaces, Universitd P. et M. Curie, 4, Place Jussieu (Boite 196), 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France Dr. Bernhard Bliimich, c/o Max Planck-Institute fur Polymerforschung, Postfach 3148, D-6500 Mainz, 2-3 5-10 5-10 5-10 5-1 1 5-1 1 6-10 6-10 6-10 6-10 7-8 7-10 7-12 8-10 Ninth International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Symposium Leeds, UK 5th European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules Lontraki, Greece Second International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China Euroanalysis VIII: European Conference on Analytical Chemistry Edinburgh, UK Pharmacy World Congress '93 Tokyo, Japan 18th International Conference on Infrared and Millimetre Waves Colchester , UK Defect Recognition and Image Processing in Semiconductors and Devices 1 lth Specialised Colloque Ampere on Magnetic Resonance in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis Second International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy Santander, Spain Menton, France Heidelberg, Germany Germany Environmental Fate of Chemicals Lancaster, UK Verona and Soave , Italy Dr.D. Osborn, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, UK PE17 2LS Dr. Franco Tagliaro, Scientific Secretariat, c/o Istituto di Medicina Legale, Policlinico Borgo Roma, 1-37134 Verona, Italy Tel: +39 45 8074 618.Fax: +39 45 505 259 12th International Symposium on Biomedical Applications of Chromatography and Electrophoresis and 2nd International Symposium on the Applications of HPLC in Enzyme Chemistry 12th International Symposium on Microchemical Techniques Cordoba, Spain Professor M. Valcarcel, Quimica Analitica, Facultad de Siencias, 14004 Cordoba, Spain Tel: +34 57 234453. Fax: t-34 57 452285 M. Frei-Hausler, IAEAC, P.O. Box 46, CH-4123 Allschwil2, Switzerland Tel: +4161632789. Fax: +4161482 08 05 4th Workshop on Chemistry and Fate of Modern Pesticides and Related Pollutants Prague, CzechoslovakiaANALYST, JULY 1993, VOL. 118 89N Date 8-1 1 9-15 11-15 12-15 12-17 13-17 13-17 19-22 19-22 20-24 20-26 21-22 21-23 22-24 26-1/10 26-1/10 26-1/10 Conference Location 14th International Symposium on Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons USA Tan-Tar-A, MO, ISEC '93, International Solvent Extraction Conference: Solvent Extraction in the Process Industries EIRELEC 1993: Electrochemistry to the year 2000 Limerick , Surfaces in Biomaterials '93 York , UK Adare , Co.Ireland Cambridge, MA, USA 9th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment Canada Toronto, International Conference on Nuclear Analytical Methods in the Life Sciences Prague , Czechoslovakia Workshop in Liquid Scintillation Counting Loughborough, Leicestershire , UK 4th International Symposium on Chiral Montreal , Discrimination Quebec, Canada 2nd International Symposium on Planar Chromatography: Modern Thin-Layer Chromatography Dioxin 93: 13th International Symposium on Chlorinated Dioxins and Related Compounds Research Triangle Park, NC, USA Vienna, Austria 173rd Annual Meeting of the Swiss Academy of CH-1936 Natural Sciences (including Symposia of the Bagnes-Verbier, Swiss Society for Analytical and Applied Switzerland Chemistry, the Swiss Society for Microchemistry and Instrumental Analysis, the Swiss Association on Environmental Research, and other Societies, in German and French) 4th German Symposium on Near Infrared Spectroscopy Germany Essen , The Royal Society of Chemistry 1993 Autumn Meeting UK Warwick, XIIth Conference of Analytical Chemistry of Romania Romania Constanta, 15th International Nutrition Conference Adelaide, Australia 1993 European Workshop in Chemometrics Leuven, Belgium 12th Australian Symposium on Analytical Chemistry incorporating 3rd Environmental Australia Chemistry Conference Perth, Contact Professor E.Cavalieri, Epply Institute, Medical Center, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68198- 6805, USA Tel: + 1 402 559 4090. Fax: + 1 402 559 4651 Conference Secretariat, SCI, 14/15 Belgrave Square, London, UK SWlX 8PS Tel: +44 71 235 3681. Fax: +44 71 823 1698 Professor M. R. Smyth, School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland Tel: +353 17045308. Fax: +353 17045503 ARDEL Management, P.O. Box 26111, Minneapolis, MN 55426, USA Tel: + 1 612 927 6707. Fax: + 1 612 927 8127 Heavy Metals Secretariat, CEP Consultants Ltd. , 26-28 Albany Street, Edinburgh, UK EH1 3QH Tel: +44 31 557 2478.Fax: +44 31 557 5749 Jan Kucera, Nuclear Research Institute, CS-250 68 Rez near Prague, Czechoslovakia Tel: +42 2 685 7831 ext. 2268. Fax: +42 2 685 7567 Dr. Peter Warwick, Nuclear Chemistry Laboratories, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK LEll3TU Tel: +44 509 222585. Fax: +44 509 233163 Chiral Secretariat, Conference Office, McGill University, 550 Sherbrooke St. West, West Tower, Suite 490, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1R9 Tel: + 1 514 398 3770. Fax: + 1 514 398 4854 Ms. Janet E. Cunningham, Barr Enterprises, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793, USA Tel: + 1 301 898 3772. Fax: + 1 301 898 5596 Symposium Secretariat, Dioxin '93 , Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Chemiker, Nibelungengasse 11 , A-1010 Vienna, Austria Tel: + 43 222 587 3980/4249.Fax: + 43 222 587 8966 General Secretary, Swiss Academy of Sciences, Barenplatz 2, P.O. Box 2535, CH-3001 Berne, Switzerland Professor Dr. H. W. Siesler, University of Essen, Schutzenbahn 70, P.O. Box 103764, D-4300 Essen 1, Germany Miss P. E. 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 Dr. Gabriel-Lucian Radu, The Romanian Society of Analytical Chemistry, 13 Bul.Caro1 I, Sector 3, 70346 Bucharest, Romania Congress Secretariat, CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition, P.O. Box 10041, Gouger St., Adelaide 5000, South Australia, Australia Timshel Conference Service, J. B. 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Fax: +1 818 967 1861 Dr. Paul Illing, Health and Safety Executive, R425 L20 3QZ Tel: +44 51 951 3420.Fax: +44 51 922 7918 29 26th Annual Southern California Chapter Pasadena, CA, Tony Tumbrello, Associated Vacuum Technology 30 Duration of Repeated Dose Toxicity S t u d i e e Bath, A Commonsense Approach? 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Le Andrea Doria, 6,I-95125 Catania, Italy Tel: +39 95 221635.Fax: +39 95 339734 W. R. Laing, Technical Program Chairman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, MS 6127, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6127, USA Tel: + 1 615 574 4852. Fax: + 1 615 574 4902 Evan Steadman Communications Group Ltd., 90 Calverley Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK TN1 2UN Professor M. Malet-Martino, Laboratoire IMRCP, Universite Paul Sabatier, 118, route de Narbonne, F- 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France Electrochemical Society Inc, 10 South Main Street, Pennington, NJ 08534-2896, USA Dr. Pradeep Kumar, Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun-248 005, India, and Dr. S. K. Aggarwal, Honorary Secretary-ISMAS, c/o Fuel Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay-400 085, Maharastra, India Michelle Barker, Conference Co-Ordinator, Spectra-Tech Europe Limited, Genesis Centre, Science Park South, Birchwood, Warrington, UK WA3 7BH Tel: +44 (0) 925 830 250.Fax: +44 (0) 925 830 252 Society for Applied Spectroscopy/ICP/MS Users Group, 198 Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite-2, Frederick, MD 21702-4317, USA Tel: + 1 301 694 8122. J. T. Bell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Post Office 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37381, USA FACSS, 198 Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite S-2, Fredericks, MD 21702, USA Tel: + 1 301 846 4789. Fax: + 1 301 694 6860 Dr. Andrzej Kowal, Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Niezapiminajek 1,30-239 Krakow, Poland Fira de Barcelona, Avda. 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B. Baranovsky, Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, 31 Lenin Avenue, Moscow 117907, Russia Dr.T. R. Ralph, Johnson Matthey Technology Centre, Blounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading, Berkshire, UK RG4 9NJJ Tel: +44 734 722811 ext. 2257. Fax: +44 734 723236 Don Clark, Physical Sciences-265, Pfizer Central Research, Ramsgate Road, Sandwich, Kent, UK CT13 9NJ Tel: +44 304 616036. Fax: +44 304 616726 Mrs. Janet Cunningham, Electrophoresis '93, c/o The Electrophoresis Society, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793, USA Tel: + 1 301 898 3772. Fax: + 1 301 898 5596 Dr. N. Weinberg, 72 Ward Road, Lancaster, NY Tel: +17166840513. Fax: +17166840511 Michael A. Matthews, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Wyoming, Box 3295, University Station, Laramie, WY 82071-32, USA Tel: + 1 307 766 5769 Fax: + 1 307 766 4444. Or: Ted W.Randolph, Chemical Engineering Department, Yale University, 9 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Tel: + 1 203 432 4375. Fax: + 1 203 432 7232 K. L. 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