Analyst, December 1996, Vol. 121 171N Conference Diary Date Conference 1997 January 4-9 12-16 12-17 20-24 25-28 26-30 29-3 1 Location The Fourth International Symposium On: Analytical Chemistry in National Development International Conference on Flow Injection Analysis-ICFIA 97 USA Giza, New Trends in Chemistry The Role of Egypt Orlando, 1997 European Winter Conference on Plasma Gent, Spectrochemistry First Asia-Pacific EPR/ESR Symposium 9th Sanibel Conference on Mass Spectrometry ‘Quadrupole Ion Traps’ 9th International Symposium on High Performance Capillary Electrophoresis and Related Microscale Techniques Validation in Pharmaceutical Analysis February 2-6 The Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry 16th Conference (ANZSMS 16) 3-5 2nd Symposium on Macromolecules Used as Pharmaceutical Excipients-New Opportunities, Characterization and Applications 18-1 9 Inbio ’97 Industrial Biocatalysis: The Way Ahead 19 Advances in Analytical Chemistry: Miniaturisation and Sensors Belgium Hong Kong Sanibel Island, FL, USA Anaheim, USA York, UK Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Stockholm, Sweden Manches ter, UK Hudders field, UK Contact 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: +I 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.hk. American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 1201 Don Diego Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA Tel: +I 505 989 4517. Fax: +1 505 989 1073. Shirley Schlessinger, Symposium Manager, HPCE ’97, 400 East Randolph Street, Suite 1015, Chicago, IL 60601, USA Tel: +1 312 527 2011. Dr. J. Clements, Room 403, Pharmaceutical Society, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN, UK Tel: +44 (0)171 735 9141. Fax: +44 (0)171 735 7629. 98039-0026, USA Mures Convention Management, Victoria Dock, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia Tel: +61 002 312121.Fax: +61 002 344464. E-mail: mures@hba.trumpt.com.au; WWW:http://www.csl.edu.au/ANZSMS/anzsms 16.html. The Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, P.O. Box 1136, S-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: +46 8 723 50 00. Fax: +46 8 20 55 11. E-mail: academy@swepharm.se or visit http://www .swepharm.pharmsoft.se. Spring Innovations Ltd., 185A Moss Lane, Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, UK SK7 1BA Tel: +44 (0)161 440 0082. Fax: +44 (0)161 440 9127. Dr. Roger Jewsbury, Dept. Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Yorkshire HD1 3DH Tel: +44 (0)1484 472177. Fax: +1 (0)1484 472182. E-mail: r.a.jewsbury@hud.ac.uk Internet: http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/ applied-sciences/chem/aac97 .htm.172N Analyst, December 1996, Vol. 121 Date Conference 20 Validative Methods in the Pharmaceutical Industry March 9-14 16-21 17-19 23-27 April 13-17 14-19 19-22 21-25 28-29 30-2/5 May 4-8 CANAS '97 Colloquium Analytische Atomspektroskopie 48th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Fundamentals and Applications of Total-Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence Electrophoresis '97 213th American Chemical Society National Meeting Genes and Gene Families in Medical, Agricultural and Biological Research: International Congress on Isozymcs Scanning 97 9th Seventh International Symposium on Biological and Environmental Reference Materials (BERM-7) Computer & Process Validation in the Location Cork, Ireland Freiberg/S achsen, Germany Atlanta, GA, USA Dortmund, Germany Seattle, WA, USA San Francisco, CA.USA Texas, USA Monterey, CA, USA Antwerp, Belgium Manchester, Pharmaceutical and Fine Chemical Industries UK Flavours and Fragrances Warwick, UK PBA '97, 8th International Symposium on Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis USA Orlando, FL, Contact Dr.Gerry Montgomery, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London WIV OBN, UK Tel: +44 (0)171 437 8656. Fax: +44 (0)171 440 3320. E-mail: montgomery@rsc.org. G. Werner, Universitat Leipzig, Institut fur Analytische Chemie, Linnestrasse 3, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany Tel: +49 0341 973 6101. Fax: +49 0341 973 61 15. Linda Briggs, The Pittsburgh Conference, 300 Penn Center Blvd., Suite 332, Pittsburgh, PA 1523.5-5503, USA Tel: +1 412 825 3220, +I 800 825 3221. Fax: +1 412 825 3224. Mrs M. Becker, Institut fur Spektrochemie und Angewandte Spektroskopie, Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Str.1 1,44 139 Dortmund, Germany Tel: +49 23 1 1392 230. Fax: +49 23 1 1392 120. David Wiley, Electrophoresis Society, P.O. Box 1987, Lawrence, KS 66044-8897, USA Tel: +1 913 843 1221. Fax: +1 913 843 1274. E-mail: dwiley@allenpress.com. Department of Meetings, American Chemical Society, 115516th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA Tel: +1 202 872 4396. Fax: +1 202 872 6128. E-mail: natlmtgs@acs.org. Mrs. Janet Cunningham, Barr Enterprises, 101 20 Kelly Road, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793, USA Tel: + I 301 898 3772. Fax: +1 301 898 5596. Mary K. Sullivan, FAMS Inc., SCANNING 97 Program Committee, Box 832, Mahwah, NJ Tel: + I 201 818 1010. Fax: + I 201 818 0086. E-mail: fams@holonet net; Internet: http://www.scanning-fams.org. J.Pauwels, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Retieseweg, B-2440 Geel, Belgium. Tel: +12 14 571 722; or Wayne Wolk, US Department of Agriculture, 10300 Baltimore Blvd, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA Tel: + I 301 504 8927. Spring Innovations Ltd,, 185A Moss Lane, Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, SK7 1BA Tel: +44 (0)161 440 0082. Fax: +44 (0)161 440 9127. Elaine Wellingham, Conference Secretariat, Field End House, Bude Close, Nailsea, Bristol BS19 2FQ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1275 8533 1 1. Fax: +44 (0)1275 85331 1. E-mail: confsec@dial.pipex.com. 07430-0832, USA Shirley E. Schlessinger (Symposium Manager), Suite 1015, 400 East Randolph Drive, Chicago, IL, 60601, USAAnalyst, December 1996, Vol. 121 173N ~~~~ Date 12-13 12-16 18-22 27-28 June 1-4 1-5 1-5 2-4 2-5 3-5 15-19 15-2 1 16-20 ~~ Conference Chiral USA '97 Location Boston, USA European Symposium on Photonics in Manufacturing I11 19th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography and Electrophoresis IInd Miniaturisation in Liquid Chromatography versus Capillary Electrophoresis Conference 1997 International Symposium, Exhibit & Workshops on Preparative Chromatography, Ion Exchange, and Adsorption/Desorption Processes and Related Techniques 45th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics Paris, France Wintergreen, VA, USA Ghent, Belgium Washington, DC, USA Palm Springs, CA, USA Geoanalysis '97,3rd International Conference Vail, CO, on the Analysis of Geological and Environmental Materials 5th Symposium on Analytical Sciences 6th Annual Course on Practical Methods of Digestion for Trace Analysis LIMS '97, 11th International LIMS Conference and Exhibition 27th International Symposium on Environmental Analytical Chemistry International Conference on Analytical Chemistry European Symposium on Environmental Sensing I11 USA Nice, France Amherst, MA, USA The Hague, Netherlands Jekyll Island, GA, USA Moscow, Russia Munich, Germany Contact Spring Innovations Ltd, 185A Moss Lane, Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, UK SK7 1BA Tel: +44 (0)161 440 0082.Fax: +44 (0)161 440 9127 or Brandon Associates, PO Box 1244, Merrimach, NH 03054, USA. Tel and Fax: +I (630) 424 2035. 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@ i0ta.u-psud.fr. Joy Wise, P.O. Box 4153, Frederick, MD 21705-4153, USA Tel: +1 301 473 8311. Fax: +1 301 473 8312. E-mail: Wisejoy@aol.com. Prof. Dr. Willy R. G. Baeyens, Chairman MINI-LC 11, University of Ghent, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Laboratory of Drug Quality Control, Harelbekestraat 72, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium Tel: +32 9 264 80 97. Fax: +32 9 264 81 96. E-mail: willy.baeyens@rug.ac.be Janet Cunningham, Barr Enterprises, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793, USA Tel: +1 301 898 3772. Fax: +1 301 898 5596. E-mail: Janetbarr@aol.com. American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 1201 Don Diego Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA Tel: +1 505 989 4517.Fax: +1 505 989 1073. Belinda Arbogast, USGS, Dever Federal Center, Box 25046, MS 973, Denver, CO 80225, USA Tel: +1 303 236 2495. Fax: +1 303 236 3200. E-mail: plamothe@helios.cr.usgs.gov. Deauville Conference 97, SAS 5th Symposium on Analytical Sciences, Nicko & Cri Associes, 7 rue d'Argout, F-75002 Paris, France Tel: +33 1 42334766. Fax: +33 1 40419241. E-mail: dcjc@compuserve.com, http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dcja/. Beverly Lissner, Questron Corporation, 4044 Quakerbridge Rd., Mercerville, NJ 08619, USA Tel: +I 609 587 6898. Fax: +1 609 587 0513. Conference Secretariat, LIMS 97, 45 Hilltop Avenue, Hullbridge, Hockley, Essex, UK S S 5 6BL Tel: +44 (0)1702 231208. Fax: +44 (0)1702 230580. E-mail: 101320.161 7@compuserve.com. J. A. de Haseth, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2556, USA Tel: +1 706 542 1968.Fax: +I 706 542 9454. E-mail: jekyllsymp@sunchem.chem.uga.edu. Dr. I,. N. 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E-mail: francoise.chavel@iota.upsud.fr.174N Analyst, December 1996, Vol. I21 Date 16-20 22-27 30-3/7 Conference European Symposium on Environmental and Public Safety I1 HPLC '97, 21st International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques Analytical Science and the Environment 30-3/7 6th European ISSX Meeting July 18-23 2 1-25 23-26 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, Instrumentation 4th International Conference on Laser Ablation 4th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements August 10-15 18-22 25-28 25-29 11th International Conference on Fourier Transform Spectroscopy 13th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry VII Flow Conference IMSC '97-14th International Mass Spectrometry Conference September 7-1 1 111th AOAC International Annual Meeting and Exposition ~~~ ~ Location Munich, Germany Birmingham, UK Newcastle, Northumbria, UK Gothenburg, Sweden San Diego, CA, USA Monterey, CA, USA Berkeley, CA, USA Athens, GA, USA Beijing, China Aguas de Sao Pedro-Piracicaba, Brazil Tampere, Finland San Diego, CA, USA Contact 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. HPLC '97 Symposium Secretariat, ICC, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2EA, UK Tel: +44 121 200 2000. Fax: +44 121 643 0388. The Secretary, Analytical Division, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V OBN, UK Tel: +44 (0)171 437 8656. Fax: +44 (0)171 734 1227. Meeting Secretariat, 6th European ISSX Meeting, c/o The Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, P.O. Box 1136, S-1 1 1 81 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: +46 8 723 5000. Fax: +46 8 20 551 1. SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010, USA Tel: +1 360 676 3290.Fax: +1 360 647 1445. E-mail: spie@spie.org, http://www.spie.org/. Richard E. RUSSO, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, MS 90-2024, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Tel: +1 510 486 4258. Fax: +1 510 486 4260. E-mail: rerusso@ lbl.gov;http://cola97 .ornl.gov. I. K. Iskandar, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 72 Lyme Rd., Hanover, NH 03755, USA Tel: +1 603 646 4198. Fax: +1 603 646 4561. E-mail: iskander@ crrel .usace.army .mil. James A. de Haseth, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2556, USA Tel: +I 706 542 1968. Fax: +1 706 542 9454. E-mail: dehaseth@dehrsv.chem.uga.edu. Lin He, Secretary ISPC-13, The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 15 Zhing Guan Cun Road, Beijing 1000080, China Fax: +86 10 62559588.E-mail: cstam@sun.ihep.ac.cn. Henrique Bergamin Filho, CENA-USP, Caixa Postal 96, 13400-970 Piracicaba, SP, Brazil Tel: +55 194 335122. Fax: +55 194 228339. E-mail: flow97@aguia.cena.usp.br. 14th IMSC Congress Secretariat, c/o Congress Management Systems, P.O. Box 151, SF-00141, Helsinki, Finland Margreet Lauwaars, P.O. Box 153,6720 AD Bennekom, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 318 418725; Fax: +3 1 3 18 41 8359; or Derek Abbott, 80 Chaffers Mead, Ashtead, Surrey, UK KT2 1NH Tel: +44 372 274856. Fax: +44 372 274856.Analyst, December 1996, Vol. I 2 1 175N Date 7-1 1 7-1 2 8-1 2 8-12 8-12 15-19 21-26 Conference 214th American Chemical Society National Meeting 11th International Conference on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS XI) 4th International Conference on Nanometer Scale Science and Technology Biomedical Optics V World Congress and Exhibition of the International Society for Fat Research (ISF) Locat ion Las Vegas, NE, USA Orlando, FL, USA Beijing, China Poland Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3rd International Symposium on Speciation of Port Douglas, Elements in Biological, Environmental and Toxicological Sciences Australia Queensland, XXX Colloquium Spectroscopicum Melbourne, Internationale Australia October 5-10 4th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry Vail, c o , USA 14-18 BCEIA '97, The 7th International Beijing Shanghai, Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis China 25-31 24th Annual Meeting of the Federation of Providence, RI, Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy USA Societies 26-29 8th Symposium on Handling of Almeria, Environmental and Biological Samples in Chromatography.26th Scientific Meeting of the Group of Chromatography and Related Techniques of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry Spain Contact Department of Meetings, American Chemical Society, 115516th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA Tel: + I 202 872 4396. Fax: +1 202 872 6128. E-mail: natlmtgso acs.org. SIMS XI, 1201 Don Diego Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA Tel: +1 505 989 4735. Fax: +1 505 989 1073. 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. 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. Mary Belding, Meetings & Exhibits Department, ISF Secretariat, P.O. Box 3489, Champaign, IL 61826 3489, USA Tel: +1 217 359 2344. Fax: +I 217 351 8091. E-mail: meetings@aocs.org. Dr. J. P. Matousek, Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Tel: +61 2 3854713. Fax: +61 2 3856141. E-mail: j . matousek@ unsw .edu. au. The Meeting Planners, 108 Church Street, Hawthorn, Victoria 3 122, Australia Tel: +61 3 9819 3700. Fax: +61 3 9819 5978. E-mail: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/CSIconf/XXXCSI.html. R. C. Severson, U.S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Box 25046, MS 973, Denver, CO 80225, USA Tel: +I 303 236 5514. Fax: +1 303 236 3200. E-mail: iseg@helios.cr.usgs.gov. BCEIA '97 General Service Office, Room 585, Chinese Academy of Sciences Building, San Li He, Xi Jiao, P.O. Box 2143, Beijing 100045, China Tel: +86 10 8511133 Ext. 1585, +86 10 8511814. Fax: +86 10 8511814. E-mail: bceia@aphyOl .iphy.ac.cn. Jo Ann Brown, Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, 210B Broadway Street, Frederick, MD 21701, USA Tel: +1 301 694 8122. Fax: +1 301 694 6890. E-mail : jbrownsas@ aol .corn M. Frei-Hausler, IAEAC Secretariat, Postfach 46, CH-4123 Allschwil 2, Switzerland Fax: +41 61 482 08 05.