Analyst, January 1995, Vol. 120 7N Conference Diary Date Conference Locat ion 1995 February 6-8 7-10 9-1 1 9-1 1 15 19-24 International Conference on Arsenic in Ground Water: Cause, Effect and Remedy Calcutta, India 4th International Conference on Automation, Montreux, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Applied to Switzerland Analytical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine Fourier Transform Spectroscopy: New Methods and Applications USA Santa Fe, Modern Spectroscopy of Solids, Liquids, and Gases USA Santa Fe, Alternatives to Chemical Solvents Restricted by the Montreal Protocol UK London, OFC '95: Optical Fibre Communication Conference USA San Diego, 6-10 9-10 13-16 24 28-31 28-30 29-30 April 3-6 PITTCON '95, Pittsburgh Conference On Analytical Chemistry and Applied USA Spectroscopy Advances in Genetic Screening and Diagnosis of Human Diseases USA New Orleans, San Fransisco, Trace Elements, Free Radicals, Cytokines, Chromosomal Analysis and Tumour Markers in Clinical Medicine and Biochemistry Kuwait City, Kuwait The L.H.Sutcliffe Magnetic Resonance Symposium, covering ESR and NMR Guildford, UK Scanning 95 Seventh Annual International Microscopy Meeting USA California, Applications of Modern Mass Spectrometric Methods to Plant Science Research Swansea, UK Atomic Spectrometry Updates Bristol, UK 7th Instrumental Analysis Symposium Madrid, Spain Contact D. Chakraborti, School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032, India Tel: +91 33 473 5233. Fax: +91 33 473 4266 SCITEC, Avenue de Provence 20, CH-1000 Lausanne 20, Switzerland Tel: +41 21 624 1533.Fax: +41 21 624 1549 Optical Society of America, Meetings Department, 2010 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC Tel: +1 202 223 0920. Fax: +1 202 416 6100 Optical Society of America, Meetings Department, 2010 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC Tel: +1 202 223 0920. Fax: +1 202 416 6100 Ms. Paula Elliott, Secretary, Analytical Division, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, UK W1V OBN Tel: +44 (0)171437 8656. Fax: +44 (0)171 734 1227 Meetings Department, Optical Society of America, 2010 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, Tel: + 1 202 223 9034. 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Fax: +34 3 423 63488N Analyst, January 1995, Vol. 120 Date 10-13 23-25 2628 May 3 7-10 7-1 1 7-1 1 9-12 14-18 16-18 21-26 2 1-26 21-26 22-24 28-216 June 5-8 11-14 Conference Annual Chemical Congress (with Analytical Session) 6th International Symposium on Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 6th International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination New Techniques in Bioanalysis Handling of Environmental and Biological samples in Chromatography 86th AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo Seventeenth International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography and Electrophoresis Metal Compounds in Environmental and Life Location Edinburgh, UK St. Louis, USA St.Louis, USA Bradford, UK Lund, Sweden Texas, USA Virginia, USA Jiilich, &Analysis, Speciation and Specimen Banking Germany EMAS 95 on Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis France Fourth International Conference on Progress in Analytical Chemistry in the Steel and Metals Industry St Malo, Luxembourg CLEO '95: Conference on Lasers and Elect ro-Op tics USA Baltimore, QELS '95: Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference USA Baltimore, ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry Atlanta, USA Eighth International Symposium on Polymer Analysis and Characterization (ISPAC-8) USA Sanibel Island, 19th International Symposium on Column Liquid Chromatography Austria Innsbruck, 5th Symposium on our Environment and 1st Asia-Pacific Workshop on Pesticides Singapore Convention City, 1995 International Symposium, Exhibit & Workshops on Preparative Chromatography USA Washington DC, Contact Dr.J. 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Fax: + 1 301 898 5596Analyst, January 1995, Vol. 120 9N Date Conference Contact 13-16 ESIS 95-New Infrared Spectroscopy and Microspectroscopy: FTIR and Raman July 2-6 VII International Congress of Toxicology 2-7 12th International NMR Meeting 9-13 3rd International Symposium on Applied Mass Spectrometry in Health Sciences and 3rd European Tandem Mass Spectrometry Conference 13th Australian Symposium on Analytical Chemistry/4th Environmental Chemistry Conference 9-14 9-15 SAC 95 10-13 Vth COMTOX Symposium on Toxicology and Clinical Chemistry of Metals 30-518 XXIInd International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases August 5-10 13-17 20-25 27-219 27-119 27-1/9 27-30 1995 International Symposium on Soil and Plant Analysis 7th International Conference on Flow Injection Analysis 12th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry CSI XXIX: Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale 46th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE46) Third International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy EUROTOX Location Lyon, France Seattle, USA Manchester, UK Barcelona , Spain Darwin, Australia Hull, UK Vancouver, Canada Hoboken, USA Wageningen , The Netherlands Seattle, USA Minneapolis, USA Leipzig, Germany Xiamen, China Wiirzburg, Germany Prague, Czech Republic G.Lachenal, Laboratoire des Materiaux Plastiques et Biomateriaux, Universitk Claude Bernard Lyon 1,43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France Jada Hill, The Sterling Group, 9393 W, 110th St., Suite, Overland Park, KS 66210, USA Tel: + 1 913 345 2228.Fax: + 1 913 345 0893 Dr. J. E. Gibson, Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, UK W1V OBN Professor Emilio Gelpi, Palau de Congressos, Departamento de Convencions, Avda, Reina Ma Christina, 08004 Barcelona, Spain 13AC/4EC, Symposium Secretariat, Convention Catalyst Int., GPO Box 2541, Darwin NT 0801, Australia Tel: +61 89 811 875. Fax: +61 89 411 639 Analytical Division, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, UK W1V OBN Tel: +44 (0)171437 8656. Fax: +44 (0)171 734 1227 F. William Sunderman, Jr., M.D., Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Connecticut Medical School, P.O.Box 1292, Farmington, CT 06034-1292, USA Tel: +1 203 679 2328. Fax: +1203 679 2154 E. E. Kunhardt, Physics Department, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA Tel: +1 201 216 5099. Fax: +1201216 5638 Soil and Plant Analysis Council,, Georgia University Station, P.O. Box 2007, Athens, GA Tel: +1706 546 0425. Fax: +1706 548 4891 Gary D. 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Fax: +42 2 24 216836 30612-2007, USA10N Analyst, January 1995, Vol. 120 Date Conference September Location 1-4 3-6 3-8 5-8 10-14 12-15 17-21 24-28 25-28 CSI XXIX, Post-symposium ICP-MS and 11th German ICP-MS Users Meeting Wernigerode , Germany Third International Meeting on Recent Louvain la Neuve, Advances in Magnetic Resonance Application Belgium to Porous Media 6th European Conference on the Spectroscopy Villeneuve of Biological Molecules d' Ascq, France RSC Autumn Meeting.Analytical and Faraday Sheffield, Symposium: Ions in Solution UK Ion-Ex '95, The Fourth International Conference and Industrial Exhibition on Ion Exchange Processes Wrexham, UK 5th International Symposium on Drug Analysis Leuven, Belgium 30th Annual Meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy USA Societies 11th Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry-Molecular Structure USA Determination: Activation, Mass Analysis and Detection 5th Symposium on 'Kinetics in Analytical Chemistry' (KAC '95) Russia Philadelphia, Pacific Grove, Moscow, October 1-5 21st World Congress of the International The Hague, Society for Fat Research (ISF) The Netherlands 9-13 ECASIA '95 Montreux, Switzerland 15-20 22nd Annual Conference of the Federation of Cincinnati, Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy USA Societies 24-27 BCEIA '9S-The International Sixth Beijing Beijing, Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis China November 5-10 OPTCON '95 San Jose, USA 14-15 International Conference for Chemical Manchester, Information Users UK Contact Professor Lieselotte Moenke, Department of Chemistry, Martin-Luther University, Halle- Wittenberg, Institute of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, Weinbergweg 16, D-06120 Halle, Germany Professor J.M. 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Box 88, Manchester, UK M60 1QD Tel: +44 (0) 61 200 4491.Fax: +44 (0) 61 228 1250 DC 20036-1023, USAAnalyst, January 1995, Vol. 120 11N Date Conference Locat ion Contact December 17-22 International Symposium on Environmental Hawaii, Biomonitoring and Specimen Banking USA 20-21 2nd LC/MS Symposium Cambridge, UK 1996 January 8-13 1996 Winter Conference on Plasma Florida, Spectrometry USA 21-25 VIth Latin American Congress on Caracas, Chromatography Venezuela February 6-9 Fourth International Symposium on Bruges, Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography Belgium (HTC 4); Hyphenated Chromatographic Anal ysers March 17-21 3 1 4 4 April 23-36 May 7-9 June 16-21 July 8-12 47th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy USA Atlanta, 7th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluid Chromatography and Extraction USA Indianapolis, Analytica Conference '96 Munich, Germany VIIth International Symposium on Monte-Carlo, Luminescence Spectrometry in Biomedical Monaco Analysis-Detection Techniques and Applications in Chromatograph and Capillary Electrophoresis HPLC '96: 20th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Chromatography USA San Francisco, XVI International Congress of Clinical Chemistry UK London, September 1-7 Euroanalysis IX Bologna, Italy K.S. 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Fax: +1301898 5598 Congress Center, Messegelande, D-80325 Miinchen, Germany Tel: +49 89 5107 159. Fax: +49 89 5107 180 Prof. Dr. Willy R. G. Baeyens, University of Ghent, Pharmaceutical Institute, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Harelbekestraat 72, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium Tel: +32 9 221 8951. Fax: +32 9 221 4175 Mrs. Janet Cunningham, Barr Enterprises, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793, USA Tel: +1 301 898 3772. Fax: +1301 898 5596 Mrs. Pat Nielsen, XVIth International Congress of Clinical Chemistry, P.O. Box 227, Buckingham, UK MK18 5PN Fax: +44 (0)280 6487 Professor Luigia Sabbatini, Euroanalysis IX, Dipartimento di Chimica, Universith di Bari, Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy Tel: +39 80 242020. Fax: +39 80 242026