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The Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Faraday Discussion will take place 30 August – 1 September 2017 in Glasgow, UK.

This meeting aims to set the agenda for the SERS field for the next 10 years, by bringing the community together to welcome in new emerging priority areas and embracing the diversity of approaches and disciplines which are contributing to the growth and understanding of this optical phenomenon, especially in light of new theoretical and experimental data. It follows the highly successful Faraday Discussion on SERS in 2005, which mainly focused on the origin of the enhancement and the mechanisms behind this using the information available at that time.

Faraday Discussions have a special format where research papers written by the speakers are distributed to all participants before the meeting, and most of the meeting is devoted to discussing the papers. Everyone contributes to the discussion – including presenting their own relevant research. The research papers and a record of the discussion are published in the journal Faraday Discussions.

You can register for the event here.

Submit your oral/paper abstract by 12 December 2016, the final paper submission deadline is 10 April 2017.

Submit your poster abstract by 19 June 2017.

You can check out the Frequently Asked Questions about the format of Faraday Discussions here.

Why not check out the recently published SERS themed issue in Analyst dedicated to showcasing the latest research in this exciting area of analytical chemistry.

Hope to see you there!

The RSC Tokyo International Conference 2016 – Advanced Analytical Science and Technology, Rising Analyst Forum was held at JASIS 2016 in Makuhari Messe, Japan on September 8-9, 2016.

This was the fifth time the RSC, along with the Japan Analytical Instruments Manufacturers’ Association (JAIMA), has supported this event, with Professor Takehiko Kitamori (University of Tokyo) and Professor Koji Suzuki (Keio University) as the conference organizers this year.

The conference hosted 11 invited lectures, flash and poster presentations, with prizes awarded for the top 3 posters (RSC Analyst Best Presentation Award) and a further 10 Poster presentations.

The 11 invited speakers were-

Anthony Killard (University of West England)
Hiromitsu Urakami (Royal Society of Chemistry)
Sung Bae Kim (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Lixia Zhao (Eco-Environmental Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Alison J. Hobro (Osaka University)
Wei-Ssu Liao (National Taiwan University)
Helen J. Cooper (University of Birmingham)
Yasuhide Inokuma (Hokkaido University)
Sang-Hee Shim (Korea University)
Xiaohai Yang (Hunan University)
Yuko Ueno (NTT Basic Research Laboratories)

We are pleased to announce the winners of the RSC Best Presentation Awards as-

Risa Fuji (Shimadzu Corporation) with a poster titled “Analysis of Discoloration and Coloration Using FTIR and EDX”

Atsuko Konishi (Kyoto Pharmaceutical University) with a poster titled “Development of potentiometric sensor based on molecularly imprinted polymer using histamine as a template”

Taisuke Shimada (Nagoya University) with a poster titled “Removing Particulate Matter Using Water Film”

Poster prize winners (centre) from left to right: Taisuke Shimada, Risa Fuji and Atsuko Konishi

Congratulations to the winners!

Are you attending SciX 2016? The RSC are holding symposia sessions at the conference which you will not want to miss!

The RSC and the ACS (American Chemical Society) are holding joint symposia dedicated to solving global health challenges–

Solving global health challenges: elemental techniques towards characterization, diagnostics, and detection

Monday 19 September, 3.50pm, Greenway E

Julian Tyson, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US

Marya Liberman, University of Notre Dame, USA

Sandra Pratt, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Dominic Hare, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Dave Koppenaal, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Solving global health challenges: molecular techniques towards diagnostics and detection

Wednesday 21 September, 1.20pm, Nicollet D2/D3

Jill Venton, University of Virginia, USA

Nick Stone, University of Exeter, UK

Jürgen Popp, University Jena, Germany

Ryan Bailey, University of Illinois, USA

Ji Xi Chen, Purdue University, USA

We are also hosting the RSC Awards Symposium where we honour the winners of the annual RSC analytical awards–

Patrick Hayes, University of Montreal, Canada (winner of the Analyst Emerging Investigators Lectureship)

Jonathan Abbatt, University of Toronto, Canada

Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde, UK (Theophilus Redwood Award 2016)

Karen Faulds, University of Strathclyde, UK

Colin Campbell, University of Edinburgh, UK

Don’t forget to also pop by booth 108 at the conference to chat to Executive Editor, Philippa Hughes, who will be able to answer any questions you have about Analyst, Analytical Methods and JAAS.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

The 4th Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry BMSS SIG meeting (IMMS 2016) will be held at the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology at Birbeck College London on the 4th July 2016.

“Following on from the successful events of the last 3 years, this IM-MS SIG meeting will showcase recent advances in, and applications of, IM-MS research.“

Prof. Edwin De Pauw will deliver the plenary lecture.

Registration closes on Friday 1st July – Register now!

For more information please visit the IMMS website here.