JAAS News

Good Friends at the Great Wall: Martin, Ashley, Rebeca, and Steve

Beijing, China: Invited speakers began to arrive in Beijing for the special one-day symposium celebrating the 25 anniversary of JAAS to be held on the campus of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.  Many took advantage of the great weather (and a bit of extra time) to visit the city and see the sights!

Above, the stalward group of Prof. Martin Resano (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Prof. Ashley Townsend (University of Tasmania), Dr. Rebeca Santamaria-Fernandez (Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain) – along with yours truly – had the chance to visit (and climb) on the Great Wall.

Many Thanks to our kind hosts and JAAS (particularly Prof. Xinrong Zhang, Niamh, and May) for arranging the tour!

Just a quick reminder– The conference registration deadline for the 2011 European Winter Conference in Zaragoza, Spain is November 30.  After that date, registration rates increase–so do it ASAP!  More information can be found online at:

http://www.winterplasmazaragoza2011.es/registration_info.php

JAAS Presenters: (L-R), Dr George Chan, Dr Norbert Jakubowski (Presider), Dr Charlotte Giesen, Mr. Jake Shelley, Dr May Copsey (Ed.), Dr Jorge Pisonero, Prof. Carsten Engelhard, Dr Daniel Proefrock

The 25th anniversary of the journal was marked at the FACSS conference with a celebratory session dedicated to young investigators in atomic spectrometry.  It turned out to be one of the highlights of the atomic program at FACSS.

Many thanks to the FACSS conference for hosting the event, and to all the participants for presenting their latest research results-the future is indeed bright!

Professor Houk from Iowa State University presented the plenary lecture on Tuesday, October 19 at the 2010 FACSS conference.

Professor Sam Houk

The title of Sam’s presentation was “Celebrating 30 years of ICP-MS”, Sam provided much of the early history of ICP-MS and many wonderful anecdotes about the early years of ICP-MS.

Check out Sam’s Editorial in the Journal: “Thirty Years ago this month…”

The FACSS conference was host to an anniversary symposium marking the first paper published on ICP-MS.  The paper by Houk and coworkers (R.S. Houk, H.J. Svek, V. A.Fassell,C. Taylor, and A. Gray, Anal Chem,(1980), 52,2282.) was a watershed moment in modern atomic spectrometry, and was cited as the one of the 60 most influential papers published in Analytical Chemistry.  The occasion was marked by a full day of presentations, Speakers included:

• Prof. Don Douglas, University of British Columbia
• Dr. David Koppenaal, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Prof. Paul Farnesworth, Brigham Young University
• Prof. John Olesik, The Ohio State University
• Dr. Dan Weiderin and Dr. Chuck Douthitt, Elemental Scientific and Thermo
• Prof. Norbert Jakubowski, BAM, Berlin, Germany
• Mr. Jeremy Felton, Indiana University
• Prof. Naoki Furuta, Chuo University
• Dr. Steve Wilbur, Agilent Technologies
• Dr. Kaveh Kahen, Perkin Elmer
• Dr. Dirk Ardelt, Spectro Instruments
• Dr. Steven Ray, Indiana University

Happy Birthday ICP-MS!

RSC and JAAS are proud to announce a symposium celebrating the 25th anniversary of the journal that will take place on Tuesday 23^rd November at Tsinghua University, Beijing, hosted by Professor Xinrong Zhang.  Speakers include:

• Steven Ray, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
• Xinrong Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• Rebeca Santamaria  Fernandez, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
• Takafumi Hirata, Kyoto University, Japan
• Martín Resano, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Shan Gao, China University of Geosciences
• Ashley Townsend, University of Tasmania, Australia
• Norbert Jakubowski, BAM Berlin, Germany
• Meike Hamester, Thermo Fischer Scientific
• John Williams, Nu Instruments
• Steve Wilbur, Agilent Technologies
• Tai Zhao, Analytik Jena

More information can be found at: http://www.rsc.org/jaas-symposium.

The abstract submission deadline for the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry has been extended to October 22. The conference will be held Jan. 30-Feb. 4 in Zaragoza, Spain.  More information can be found at: www.winterplasmazaragoza2011.es.