(Beatriz Fernández, University of Oviedo)
The International Glow Discharge Spectroscopy Symposium 2010 was held at CUFR Jean Francois Champollion in Albi (France), from 22 to 27 August 2010. One of the main objectives of this conference is bring together members of the European Analytical Glow Discharge Network (GLADNET, previous meetings were held in Antwerp, Dresden, Belgrade, Thun, Budapest and Oviedo) and members of the European Working Group on Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (EW-GDS). About 65 scientists participated in the conference from 14 countries worldwide.
During the week, invited lectures, oral communications and poster presentations were scheduled, where international experts, industrialists and students could share in the field of elemental analysis of materials by glow discharge. In addition, the symposium offered a special day dedicated to user-meeting and workshops. Briefly, there were 27 oral presentations, including 8 invited lectures, and several poster presentations from early stage researchers. The invited lectures were given by internationally well recognized researchers from both University and Industry, including Gary Hieftje (Indiana University), Annemie Bogaerts (Antwerp University), Kim Marshall (LECO Corporation), Jean-Pierre Boeuf (Toulouse), Arne Bengtson (Swerea KIMAB), Zdenek Weiss (LECO instruments), Patrick Chapon (HORIBA Jobin Yvon) and Volker Hoffmann (IFW Dresden). Deborah Alberts from the University of Oviedo (Spain), Varvara Efimova from IFW (Germany) and Aranka Derszi from RISSP (Hungary) were respectively awarded with the first, second and third prize for the best oral presentations of the students.
JAAS invite the participant of the conference to submit the work presented for publication in a themed issue. The submission deadline is the 1st October 2010.
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