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VOL. 118 35N Conference Diary Date Conference March 30-114 April 3-4 4-8 5-7 5-9 5-8 6-7 13-17 18-21 19-2 1 19-22 19-23 19-22 20-23 20-23 25-29 Location 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 4th International Meeting on Trace Elements in Chamonix, Medicine and Biology France Annual Chemical Congress, ‘New Materials: New Toxicology’ UK Southampton, BTS Colloquium (of the British Toxicology Society) on Early Markers of Carcinogenesis Canterbury, Kent, UK International Meeting on the Effects of War Zadar, Activities in the Environment Croatia Fourth 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 ECIO ’93: European Conference on Integrated Neuchatel, Optics Switzerland Birmingham, International Symposium on Electroanalysis in Loughborough, Biomedical, Environmental and Industrial Leicestershire, Sciences UK 5th European Congress on Biopharmaceutics Brussels, and Pharmacokinetics Belgium Eurolab 93, 12th SFBC National Meetingloth Nice, IFCC European Congress of Clinical France Chemistry Contact 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 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 Mervyn Richardson, BASIC, 6 Birch Drive, Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, UK WD3 2UL Tel: +44 923 774187. Fax: +44 494 714516 Dr. E. S. Harpur, Sterling Winthrop Research Centre, Willowburn Avenue, Alnwick, North Cumberland, UK NE66 2JH 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), PBA ’93, Suite 1015, 400 East Randolph Drive, Chicago, IL 60601, USA Tel: + 1 312 527 2011. Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Abteilung Tagungen, Varrentrappstrasse 40-42, Postfach 90 04 40, D-6000 Frankfurt am Main 90, Germany Tel: +49 69 79 17 366. Fax: +49 69 79 17 475 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 0. Parriaux, Conference Chair, Centre Suisse D’Electronique et de Microtechnique, Maladiere 71, Case Postale 41, CH-2007, Neuchatel, Switzerland Tel: +41 38 205 111.Fax: +41 38 205 630 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 Michodiitre, 75002 Paris, France Tel: +33 1 47 42 92 56. Fax: +33 1 42 66 14 2836N ANALYST, MARCH 1993, VOL. 118 Date 25-29 26-115 27 May 2-7 3-5 3-5 4 4-5 4-6 4-6 6-12 9-14 9-13 10-13 11-15 20-2 1 23-28 24-26 Conference Location 84th AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo: A joint meeting with the Japan Oil Chemists’ Society ‘Wasser’, Berlin’93 Berlin, Germany Anaheim, CA, USA Validating Multicomponent Analysis London, UK CLEO/QELS ’93, The Thirteenth Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics concurrently with the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference EuroResidue 11: Residues of Veterinary Drugs Veldhoven , in Food The Netherlands Baltimore , MD , USA Fifth Symposium on the Analysis of Steroids Szombathely , Hungary Capillary Chromatography: the Spring Greenford, Symposium and Annual General Meeting of the Middlesex, Chromatographic Society UK ASTM Symposium On Quality And Statistics: Total Quality Management USA Deauville Conference and Symposium on Analytical Sciences-SAS 93 France Atlanta, GA, Deauville, 9th Optical Fibre Sensors Conference Florence, Italy Interpack’93 (Environmentally Justified Diisseldorf, Packaging) Germany HPLC ’93, 17th International Symposium on Column Liquid Chromatography Germany Hamburg, EMAS ’93-Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis Italy International Environment ’93 and Analysis ’93 UK Rimini , London, IV Encontro de Usuarios de RMN Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4th International Meeting on Scnning Laser Ophthalmoscopy , Tomography and Germany Microscopy Heidelberg, 41st ASMS Conference on Mass Spectroscopy Las Vegas, NV, USA 11th Dechema Annual Meeting on Biotechnology Germany Frankfurt , Con tact American Oil Chemists’ Society, P.O.Box 3489, Champaign, IL 61826-3489, USA Cornelia Wolff, v.d. Sahl, AMK Berlin, Ausstellungs-, Messe- und Kongress-GmbH, Postfach 19 17 40, D-1000 Berlin 19, Germany Mr.T. Frost, The Wellcome Foundation, Dartford, UK DAZ 5AH Meetings Department, Optical Society of America, 2010 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC Tel: + 1 202 223 9034. Fax: + 1 202 416 6100 Dr. N. Haagsma, Department of the Science of Food of Animal Origin, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.175, NL-3508 TD Utrecht , The Netherlands Tel: +31 30 535 365. 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 The Executive Secretary, The Chromatographic Society, Suite 4, Clarendon Chambers, 32 Clarendon Street, Nottingham, UK NG14BU Tel: +44 602 500596. Fax: +44 602 500614 Scott Orthey, ASTM, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, 215/299-5507, USA Sabine Lauras, Nicko & Cri Associks, 7 rue d’Argout.F-75002 Paris, France Tel: +33 1 42 33 47 66. Fax: +33 1 40 41 92 41 Annamaria Scheggi, Instituto di Ricerce, Sulle Onde Elettromagnetiche , del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Via Pancialichi , 64, Florence, Italy Tel: +39 55 43 78 512. Fax: +39 55 41 08 93 Dusseldorfer Messegesellschaft mbH ‘NOWEA’, P.O. Box 32 02 03, Stockumer Kirchstrasse 61, D-W-4000 Diisseldorf 30, Germany Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Abteilung Tagungen, Varrentrappstrasse 40-42, Postfach 90 04 40, D-6000 Frankfurt am Main 90, Germany Tel: +49 69 79 17 360. Fax: +49 69 79 17 475 Abraham Boekestein, Mansholtlaan 12, Postbus 356, D-6700 Wageningen, Germany Eileen Davies, IE ’93,12 Alban Park, Hatfield Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK AL4 OJJ Tel: +44 727 855574.Fax: +44 727 841694 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 Reinhard Burk or H. E. Volcker, Augenklinik, Ruprecht-Karles-Universitat Heidelberg, Im Neunheimer Feld 400, 6900 Heidelberg, Germany Tel: +49 6221 56 66999. Fax: +49 6221 56 5422 American Society for Mass Spectrometry, P.O. Box 1508, East Lansing, MI 48826, USA Tel: +1 517 337 2548. Dechema, P.O. Box970146, D-W-6000 Frankfurt am Main 97, Germany 20036- 1023 , USAANALYST, MARCH 1993, VOL. 118 37N Date 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 16 17-18 Conference Location Contact 15th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC) Riva del Garda, Italy Professor Dr.P. Sandra, IOPMS, Kennedypark 20, B-8500 Kortrijk, 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. 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, Airmater Quality, Hazardous Wastes and Hydrology Helsinski, Finland International Symposium on Analysis of Peptides Stockholm, Sweden The Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences Symposium on ‘Analysis of Peptides’, P.0. 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 50, 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, Laboratoire d’Etudes des Matkriaux Plastiques et des Biomateriaux, Universitk Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Ckdex, France Tel: +33 72 43 12 11. Fax: +33 78 89 25 83 The Conference Registrar, 18 Portway Drive, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK HP12 4AU Tel: +44 494 448048. Fax: +44 494 448154 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 Telt 1+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: t-1301 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 Dr. Paul Illing, Health and Safety Executive, R425 Magdalen House, Stanley Precinct, Bootle, UK L20 3QZ Tel: +44 51 951 3420. Fax: +44 51 922 7918 Dr. V. M. Bhatnagar, Alena Chemicals of Canada; P.O. Box 1779, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada K6H 5v7 Tel: +1 613 932 7702.NMR Symposium Turku, Finland European Conference on Analytical Chemistry, Chromatography and Spectroscopy and Thermal Analysis Brno, Czechoslovakia ESIS ’93: European Seminar on Infrared Spectroscopy Egham, Surrey, UK The Seventh International LIMS Conference 6th European Congress on Biotechnology Firenze , Italy 3rd Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics Arhus, Denmark PREP-93, 10th International Symposium on Preparative Chromatography Arlington, VA, USA European Organization for Quality Control Helsinki, Suomi-Finland Substances and Processes Dangerous to the Environment Preston, Lancashire , UK International Conference on Analytical Chemistry & Applied Chromatography/ Spectroscopy Toronto, Canada38N ANALYST, MARCH 1993, VOL. 118 Date 27-117 29-417 July 4-7 4-8 4-9 11-14 11-15 12-14 19-21 19-23 25-29 Conference 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 22nd Meeting of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies 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 August 9-11 3rd Soil and Sediment Residue Analysis Workshop 9-13 Asianalysis 11: Second Asian Conference on Analytical Chemistry 9-13 ILC '93: International Conference on Luminescence and Optical Spectroscopy on Condensed Matter Location Santa Barbara, CA, USA York, UK Durham, UK Helsinki, Suomi-Finland Stockholm, Sweden Crete Brno, Czechoslovakia Bradford, W.Yorkshire, UK Guildford, Surrey, UK Zurich , Switzerland Washington, DC, USA Contact 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, NY 10591-5153, USA Tel: +44 865 512242.Fax: +44 865 310981 Dr. B. L. Sharp, Loughborough University of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK L E l l 3TU XXVIII CSI Post-Symposium, Department of Chemistry, (CSI Secretariat) , Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK LE 1 1 3TU Tel: +44 509 22575. Fax: +44 509 233163 Professor Olli Seppanen, SF-02150 Espoo, Finland Dr. Stefan Nordlund, FEBS '93, Department of Biochemistry, Arrhenius Laboratories, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, 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- 61137 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 Allschwil2, Switzerland Tel: +4161632789. 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 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Dr. G. R. Barrie Webster, Pesticide Research Laboratory, Department of Soil Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2. Tel: +1204 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. 0. 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