As you already know if you are following us on twitter, the 2014 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry was held on January 6 – 11 in Amelia Island, Florida, USA. The conference, chaired by JAAS Advisory Board member Ramon Barnes, was very successful, as approximately 500 participants presented 5 Plenary lectures, 37 invited lectures, 75 oral contributions and 180 posters, while more than 25 companies participated in the exhibition. 6 Heritages lectures were also imparted by Barry L. Sharp, Nicoló Omenetto, Les Ebdon, Michael J. Collins, Andrew T. Zander and Freddy Adams. In addition, more than 80 short courses were organized.
Among the highlights of the conference, the Plasma Spectroscopy Symposium, in which JAAS Editorial Board member Gary Hieftje received the Winter Conference Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry, has to be featured. The laureate discussed on Advances in instrumentation and methods for plasma spectrochemistry. Congratulations, Gary!
JAAS sponsored a poster Award consisting in one personal electronic subscription to JAAS, an iPod Nano and a certificate, and the winner was Allen White, from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, for his work on an Application of a High-Frequency Spark Discharge as an Ion Source for Ambient Mass Spectrometry, coauthored by Steve Ray, Kevin Pfeuffer and Gary Hieftje. Congratulations!
We would like to remind you that there is a JAAS Themed Issue devoted to this conference. If you want to submit a work that was presented in Amelia Island, please remember that the deadline for submission is 17th February 2014.
Finally, the next European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry will be hosted in Munster, Germany, chaired by Uwe Karst and Michael Sperling.
Prof. Dr. Gary Hieftje, Plasma Award laureate (picture obtained from http://www.indiana.edu/~gmhlab)
First inductively coupled plasma-distance-of-flight mass spectrometer: instrument performance with a microchannel plate/phosphor imaging detector
Alexander Gundlach-Graham, Elise A. Dennis, Steven J. Ray, Christie G. Enke, Charles J. Barinaga, David W. Koppenaal and Gary M. Hieftje
