ANALYTICAL PROCEEDINGS, JANUARY 1993, VOL 30 63 Analytical Division Diary FEBRUARY Tuesday, 9th, 4.15 p.m.: Loughborough Midlands Region, jointly with the East Midland Section of Poisoning- Crack, Glue or Lighter Fluid. Speaker: R. J . Flanagan. Lecture Room F002, Chemistry Department, University of There are no registration formalities. Contact: Dr. R. M. Smith, Department of Chemistry, University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire LEI 1 3TU. (Tel. 0509-222563; Fax 0509-233163). the RSC. Technology, Loughborough. Wednesday, loth, 10 a.m.: Wolverhampton Chemometrics Group. Finding Patterns in Analytical Data. ‘Chemometrics-Analysis of Large Data Sets’. by P. J. Tayler. ‘Finding Patterns in Chromatographic Data’, by R. Aries. ‘Neural Networks’. by L. Buydens. ‘Fuzzy Cluster Analysis’, by M.Adams. Software Demonstrations and Reviews. University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolvcrhampton. Registration is necessary. Cost f30 for RSC members, f45 for non-members and 215 for student, retired and unemployed members. Contact: Dr. M. Adams, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB. (Tel. 0902-3 1300 1 ) . Friday, 12th, 5.15 p.m.: Plymouth Western Region, jointly with the Peninsula Section of The Ammonia and Methylamine in the Global Nitrogen Cycle. Speaker: F. C . Mantoura. Lecture Theatre 5 , Babbage Building, University of There are no registration formalities. Contact: Dr. S . J. Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA. (Tel. 0752-233012; Fax 233035).RSC. Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth. Tuesday, 16th, 10.30 a.m.: London Analytical Division. Something in the Air - Industrial Atmospheric Monitoring. ‘FT-IR Atmospheric Monitoring About Industrial Sites’. by W. ‘The Use of Scanning Lidar to Monitor Plume Rise and Dispersion’, ‘Air Quality in the UK’, by D. Laxen. ‘An Industrial Perspective of Atmospheric Monitoring’, by H. ‘Policy Formulation Through Atmospheric Monitoring‘. by D. ‘Range Resolved Measurements of Air Pollution Using Lasers’, by Scientific Societies Lecture Theatre, New Burlington Place, Fately. by M. Bennett. Hermann. Whyatt. M. Milton. London W1. Registration is necessary. Cost &40 for members of the RSC, f65 for non-members and f20 for retired and student members. Contact: Miss P.E. Hutchinson, Analytical Division, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V OBN. (Tel. 071-437-8656; Fax 07 1-734- 1227). Wednesday, 17th, 10.40 a.m.: Hull Atomic Spectroscopy Group and North East Region. Annual General Meeting of Atomic Spectroscopy Group; Annual General Meeting of North East Region; 10.30 a.m. Recent Developments in X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry. ‘Industrial and Environmental Applications of XRF’. by A. T. Ellis. ‘Application of XRF Techniques in Process Analysis’, by P. Warren. ‘On-line EDXRF Analysis Using a Thermoelectrically Cooled Si(Li) Detector’, by D. Leland. ‘Chemical State Analysis: Chemical Effects in Soft X-ray Spectra’, by D. S. Urch. ‘Quantization in EDXRF: Hard Physical Models versus Soft Multivariate Models’, by P.van Espen. ‘New Applicative Possibilities by Using Polarized Excitation in X-ray Fluorescence’, by M. Haschke and J . Heckel. ‘The Application of Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence to Multi- trace Elemental Analysis and Surface Analysis’, by S. J . Haswell. ‘Synchrotron X-ray Microprobes’, by C. R. Thomas. BP Chemicals, Hull. Registration is necessary. Cost 250 for members of the RSC; f75 for non-members and free to students, retired members and the unemployed. Contact: Dr. J. Crighton, British Petroleum Co. plc, Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex TW 16 7LN. (Tel . 0932-763732). 10.15 a.m. Thursday, 18th, 4.15 p.m.: Aberdeen Scottish Region, jointly with the Aberdeen and North of Scotland Section of the RSC and the Aberdeen Students’ Chemical Society. A Public Analyst’s Daily Problem: Chemicals in Food and How it Taxes the Analytical Chemist! Speaker: P.Holroyd. Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Meston There are no registration formalities. Contact: Mr. M. F. Godfray, Public Analyst’s Laboratory, 4 Marine Esplanade, Edinburgh EH6 7LU. (Tel. 031-553- 1171; Fax 031-553-5804). Walk, Old Aberdeen. Wednesday, 24th, 6.30 p.m.: London Micro & Chemical Methods Group and South East Region. Do Chemists Need a Microscope? Speaker: D. Castle London School of Economics, Graham Wallis Room, Old There are no registration formalities. Contact: Ms. L. Dixon, CMB Packing Technology plc, Downsview Road, Wantage, Oxfordshire OX12 9BP. (Tel. 081-840-0999, Ex. 2019; Fax 0235-772020).Building, Houghton Street, London WC2. [continued on p . 64164 ANALYTICAL PROCEEDINGS, JANUARY 1993, VOL 30 Analytical Division Diary, continued Glasgow Polytechnic, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 OBA. Registration is necessary. Cost 250 for members; 565 for non-members; f20 for studenthetired members. Contact: Mr. M. F. Godfray, Public Analyst’s Laboratory, 4 Marine Esplanade, Edinburgh EH6 7LU. (Tel. 031-553- 1171; Fax 031-553-5804). MARCH Thursday, 4th, 12.30 p.m.: Mossmorran Scottish Region, jointly with the Edinburgh and East of On Line Analysis. Speaker: J . Gunnell. Tour of Exxon Fife Ethylene Plant. Exxon Fife Ethylene Plant Site, Mossmorran, Fife. Registration is necessary; no charge. Numbers are limited to 36. Contact: Mr. M. F. Godfray, Public Analyst’s Laboratory, 4 Marine Esplanade, Edinburgh EH6 7LU.(Tel. 031-553- 1171; Fax 031-553-5804). Scotland Section of the RSC. Wednesday, loth, 10.30 a.m.: Norwich East Anglia Region and Radiochemical Methods Group. Measurement of Radioactivity in the Human Food Chain. ‘Uptake and Excretion of Caesium in Sheep’, by P. Day. ‘Radiocaesium in Vegetation and Sheep Grazing on Heather Moorlands and Pasture in North Yorkshire after the Chernobyl Accident’, by B. J. Howard. ‘Gamma Spectroscopy: Past, Present and Is There a Future?’, by A. Taylor. ‘Some Studies of Radionuclide Transfer Across the Human Gut’, by G. J. Hunt. ‘Dietary Intake of Radionuclides’, by C. B. Walters. ‘Polonium in the Marine Food Chain’, by D. J. Swift. ‘Artificial and Natural Radionuelides in the UK Coastal Environ- Title to be confirmed by W. A.McKay. Food Science Laboratory (MAFF) , Norwich Research Park, Colney, Nonvich. Registration is necessary. Cost to RSC and RCMG members f40; non-members 250; student members, unemployed or retired members of the RSC 210. Contact: Mr. K. S. Leonard, Directorate of Fisheries Research, Fisheries Laboratory, Pakefield Road, Lowes- toft , Suffolk NR33 OHT. (Tel. 0502-524477). ment’. by P. McDonald. Thursday, llth, 10 a.m: Glasgow Scottish Region and Chemometrics Group. Chemometrics for Analytical Chemists - An Introduction. Chemometrics, the use of mathematical and statistical methods to extract useful, and often hidden, information from chemical data, is fast becoming an invaluable tool for analytical chemists and scientists in general.Modern instru- ments enable vast amounts of data relating to a sample and/ or process to be collected. These data are often complex and difficult to interpret. Chemometric techniques provide a powerful means of extracting the maximum amount of useful information from such data. The benefit of fully exploiting available data is obvious. Chemometrics is now used widely in industry and is also being incorporated into more and more university chemistry courses. This meeting introduces the techniques and applications of chemometrics and will appeal to anyone wanting to know more about what chemometrics has to offer. ‘What Can Chemometrics Do for You?’, by R. L. Tranter. ‘What Data Should I Collect? -Aspects of Experimental Design ‘How to Handle Problem Data’, by J.M. Thompson. ‘Pattern Recognition and Its Applications’, by P. J. Tayler. ‘Using Principal Components to Extract Information From Near ‘Chemometrics- How to Get Started!’. Software Demonstrations and Sampling’, by D. S. Hawthorn. Infrared Spectra’, by J. McNicol. and Discussion. Thursday, 25th, 10 a.m.: London Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group: Annual General Quality of Generic Products. The meeting will address the supply and quality of generic products from the various standpoints of the clinician, hospital quality control , NHS budgets, the regulatory agency, the role of the pharmaco- poeia, the innovator of a new product and the manufacturer of generics. ‘Generics-A Clinical Viewpoint’. by P. Turner. ‘Registration of Generic Products’, by Doreen Hepburn.‘The Role of Pharmacopoeias’, by R. Hutton. ‘The Innovator’s Viewpoint’, by S. Nichols. ‘The Hospital QC Experience’, by B. Baker. ‘Cost Implications of Generics’, by N. Hough. ‘The Generic Manufacturer’s Viewpoint’, by A. Burbage. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN. Registration is necessary. Cost f45 to RSC and RPSGB, f70 to non-members and &25 to RSC/RPSGB retired or student members. Contact: Dr. J . Clements, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN. (Tel. 071- Meeting; 1.50 p.m. 735-9141). APRIL Monday to Thursday, 5th to 8th: Southampton RSC Annual Chemical Congress. Analytical Division Sym- posium on: Trace Analysis-The Future Limits. Monday 5th- Annual General Meeting of the Analytical Division; 4 p.m.Theophilus Redwood Lecture: ‘Molecular Signals From the Past’, Tuesday, 6th. Trace Analysis in the Environment Keynote Lecture: ‘Trace Analysis by GC and On-line LC-GC’, by ‘Coupled Chromatographic Techniques in Pesticide Residue Analy- ‘The Analysis of Dioxins and Related Compounds’, by C. Rappe. Keynote Lecture: ‘Element Specific Chromatographic Detection for Trace Inorganic Analysis’, by P. C. Uden. ‘Organotin Compound Analysis in the Environment - Still a Critical Challenge’, by 0. F. X. Donard. ‘Voltammetric Traces of Traces in the Sea’, by C. M. G. van den Berg. ‘Determination of Heavy Metals at Ultra-low Concentration Levels in Antarctic and Greenland Ice and Snow’, by C. F. Boutron. Wednesday, 7th. Trace Analysis and the Bio-Sciences Keynote Lecture: ‘Are Capillaries the Ultimate Improvement for the Development of Electrophoretic Techniques?’ by F.M. Everaerts. by G. Eglinton. K. Grob. sis’. by P. van Zoonen. ‘LC-MS in Bioanalysis‘, by J . van der Greef. ‘The Electronic Nose’, by H . V. Shurmer. ‘Design and Applications of Biosensors for Ultra-sensitive and Keynote Lecture: Provisional Title: ‘Drug Testing at the Olympics’, ‘Biological Fluid Analysis by High Resolution NMR Spectroscopy’. ‘Supercritical Fluids as Extractants and Mobile Phases in Trace [continued inside back cover] Highly Specific Analysis’, by P. R. Coulet. by D. Cowan. by I . D. Wilson. Analysis’, by K. E. Markides.ANALYTICAL PROCEEDINGS. JANUARY 1993, VOL 30 Analytical Division Diary, continued April, continued Thursduy, 8th. Lascr Spcctroscopy and Tracc Analysis Keynote Lecture: ‘Current and Futurc Applications of Lascrs in ‘Pcrformancc and Advanccs in Lascr Systcms’. by A. I. Fcrguson. Provisional Titlc: ‘Ionization and Fluorcsccncc -Towards thc Analytical Chemistry’. by R. N. Zarc. Single Atom’, by 0. Axncr. 111 ‘High Spatial Rcsolution Lascr Ablation ICP-MS’, by C. D. Flint. The University, Southampton. Resgistration is necessary. Cost E76.50 for RSC members, El 17.50 for non-members, E23.50 for student, retired and unemployed members and f47 for non-member students. Contact: Dr. J . F. Gibson, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London WlV OBN. (Tel. 07 1-437-8656; Fax 07 1-437-8883).