The Silver Anniversary of the journal was marked by a special one-day session held in Beijing today!
Over 100 members of the analytical chemistry community from around the world participated in a day of great research and discussion, making the event a great success. The symposium title ‘Highlighting the past, present, and future of atomic spectrometry‘ was indeed the theme, as speakers covered a wide range of topics, from Glow Discharge spectroscopy (myself), to the use of ICP-MS for biological and DNA-based analysis (Prof. Xinrong Zhang), and the use of isotope ratio for a number of elements (C and S included) for forensic and food-science analysis (Dr Rebeca Santamaria Fernandez), new laser ablation strategies for ICP-MS analysis (Prof. Takafumi Hirata), novel applications and instrumentation with continuum-source ETAAS (Prof. Martin Resano), and the role of isotope ratio ICP-MS in a number of unique applications related to the natural environment (Prof. Ashley Townsend).
Manufacturer representatives gave some wonderful technical presentations about the latest instrumentation developments in ICP-MS from Thermo Scientific (Dr Lothar Rothman), ICP-MS from Nu instruments (Dr. John Cantle), ICP-MS from Agilent Technologies (Dr. Steve Wilbur), and the continuum AAS platform from Analytic Jena (Dr. Tai Zhao). The program closed with two interesting presentations: one from Prof. Zhaochu Hu and Prof. Shan Gao that described the recent evolution of analytical chemistry in China over the last 25 years – and another from Dr Niamh O’Connor and Dr Norbert Jakubowski detailing the inner workings and procedures (and philosophy) of manuscript editing at the RSC.
With over 100 participants, the room was full and discussion was stimulated by the promise of a candy for each question posed to the authors! Another great Jakubowski innovation!
JAAS Silver Anniversary Symposium Speaker Lineup
