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13th Workshop on Progress in Trace Metal Speciation for Environmental Analytical Chemistry: Abstracts Due March 15

The 13th Workshop on Progress in Trace Metal Speciation for Environmental Analytical Chemistry is to be held in Pau, France from May 18-20, 2011.

13th workshop on elemental speciation

Sponsored by the University of Pau, the European Virtual Institute for Speciation Analysis (EVISA), the International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry (IAEAC), and the CNRS, the meeting seeks to focus on aspects of speciation analysis that relate to speciation and bioavailability, direct and in-situ speciation analysis, speciation of metal species in colloidal and nano-materials, metal speciation in the environment and legal aspects, speciation in industrial applications, new analytical strategies for metal speciation including isotopic information.  Abstracts can be submitted online at: http://www.tracespec2011.com/ (deadline is March 15).

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Metallomics 2011 Reminder: February 28 Deadline

(Carsten Engelhard) The deadline for abstract submissions to the Third International Symposium on Metallomics  is February 28.

Metallomics 2011

The conference will be held from June 15 – 18, 2011 in Muenster, Germany.  After two successful conferences in Japan and the USA,  it is the first time that the conference will be held in Europe. Chairman Uwe Karst (University of Muenster, Germany) and co-chair Michael Sperling (EVISA) are assembling a program that will highlight the interdisciplinary character of the science involved in answering questions about the abundance of metal and metalloid species in biological systems. A number of distinguished experts will present the state-of-the-art in metallomics research.

Submissions can be made online by February 28, 2011 at the conference website: http://www.metallomics2011.org. The submission deadline for late poster contributions is March 31, 2011.

Muenster is a wonderful place to visit and was awarded the 2004 International Award for Liveable Communities. Historic buildings from nine centuries, a lot of opportunities for shopping/dining, and approx. 250 km of bicycle tracks make the city a truly unique experience.

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European Winter Conference 2013

The next European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry will be held 10-15 February 2013 in Krakow, Poland.

Chair of the meeting will be JAAS Editorial Board member Joanna Szpunar from the Laboratory of Bio-Inorganic and Environmental Analytical Chemistry at CNRS, Pau, France.  She will be supported by Co-Chair Paweł Kościelniak from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow.

Krakow is known as one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in Central Europe, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  The EWCPS is being organised with the support of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Society of Chemistry, the President of the City of Krakow and the Rector of the Jagiellonian University.

To find out more, visit www.chemia.uj.edu.pl/ewcps and keep an eye on JAAS News – we’ll give you more updates as we have them.

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The Future of Plasma-Based Analytical Instrumentation

European Winter Conference 2011

EWC 2011

(Carsten Engelhard) At the European Winter Conference Ryszard Lobinski (Laboratory of Analytical Bioinorganic and Environmental Chemistry, University of Pau, France) hosted a round table discussion on the current status and future of plasma-based analytical instrumentation.  Participants from instrument manufactures included Dirk Ardelt (Spectro Analytical Instruments), Kaveh Kahen (Perkin Elmer), Paul Neal (Thermo Fisher Scientific), Andrew Ryan (Bruker), and Steven Wilbur (Agilent Technologies).

Four major topics were covered: a) current challenges in plasma source instrumentation, b) how to choose a plasma source spectrometer, c) plasma source spectrometry and society: new markets and applications, and last but not least, d) teaching and training in ICP spectroscopy.

During an enjoyable one-hour discussion, it was stated that plasma-based analytical instrumentation has come a long way since its first introduction, but that there is still a lot of room for improvement.  In the future, it will presumably become more important to improve the absolute sensitivity, to reduce the required sample size, and to detect major constituents next to ultra trace elements with high precision.  Moreover, environmental considerations and consumer needs might require the reduction of carbon footprint, and the use of low gas flow or miniaturized plasma-based analytical instrumentation.

It is clear that an interesting future lies ahead of plasma-based analytical instrumentation.  The ideal analytical instrument that provides us with both atomic and molecular information with high precision and high sensitivity is still a vision. However, instrument manufactures as well as university researches are continuously working on the improvement of existing and the development of new instrumentation. There is still a lot to be done. Lets get started!

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CSI XXXVII Conference Call For Papers: April 30 Deadline

CSI

The Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XXXVII will be held August 28-September 2, 2011 in Buzios, Brazil.  This is quite an auspicious occasion, since it will be the first time the CSI conference will be held in a Latin American country.  Chairman Reinaldo C. Campos (Department of Chemistry, PUC-Rio, Brazil) and his co-organizers are assembling what is sure to be a great conference – and they have issued the first call for papers.

Submissions can be made online by April 30, 2011 at the conference website: http://www.csixxxvii.org/index.php.  Buzios is a wonderful locale, with great beaches, nightlife, and food—and there is sure to be alot of great science to boot!

The Beaches of Buzios

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Rebeca Valledor wins Payling Award for best work in Glow Discharge

Award winner Rebeca Valledor with Prof. Nerea Bordel

The European Winter Conference is the traditional home of the Richard Payling Prize, which given to the best contribution on the topic of glow discharge spectrochemistry presented at that conference.  The 2011 award winner is Rebeca Valledor from the University of Oviedo, Spain.

Rebeca presented a poster entitled “Spatially and Temporally Resolved Studies of the Optical Emission in a Pulsed Radiofrequency Glow Discharge” (PC-052) in which she and her coworkers studied the temporal evolution of a pulsed RF glow discharge through spatially resolved spectroscopy, permitting them to deduce ionization and excitation mechanisms that are of critical importance in the design of a glow discharge source for mass spectrometry.

An advanced article just published online in JAAS (Valledor, R., Pisonero, J., Niels, T., and Bordel, N., Spatial characterization of pressure-based plasma regimes in a radio frequency glow discharge by using optical emission spectroscopy, Advance Article) provides a good preview of the work.

The award was sponsored by Horiba Jobin-Yvon, Spectruma Analytik GMbH, Tofwerk AG, Leco Inc., ThermoFischer, and nu Instruments.  Well done Rebeca!

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2011 Hot Plasma Party achieves EPIC proportions

In addition to a great scientific program, the European Winter Conference is known for its social aspects–and perhaps most prominent in this program is the ‘Hot Plasma Party‘ traditionally held on the eve of the first full day of the conference.  This year, the organizing committee took the conferees to the San Valero Winery outside of Zaragoza for dinner and dancing,  with the stipulation that the dress code include some red and black.  After a wonderful dinner, the organizing committee had a surprise planned: None other than Mr. Tom Jones!

Mr Sal Starr and Company entertain the conferees

Actually, this was Salvatore Starr–an ardent follower of Mr. Jones who sounds and looks a lot like Tom–and Salvatore puts on a show with just as much energy as Tom ever did.  You can tell from the pictures that a great deal of fun resulted.  I will not post any pictures that might embarrass anyone besides myself (and my good friend Jorge Pisonero).  Two things occur to me: First, somebody should setup a flickr account to share these photos- they are great; and second- somebody should organize something similar for the US and Asia-Pacific conferences.  These are too much fun!

Mr Jones?

Sal, Steve, and Jorge

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European Winter Conference 2011

European Winter Conference 2011The European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry was held in Zaragoza, Spain from January 30 to February 4.  The conference was organized by Prof. Juan Castillo, who did an exemplary job of creating a mixture of top-flight scientific discussion and amazing hospitality.  Approximately 550 participants enjoyed 24 invited lectures and over 400 contributed papers, along with a exhibition containing over 20 companies and several excellent workshops.  Those that had the pleasure of attending the conference owe the conference chairman, the organizing committee ( Francisco Laborda, Eduardo Bolea, Angelica Fernandez, Maria Gomez, Maria Jimenez, Ana Guitart, Angel Lopez-Molinero, and Martin Resano), and the large number of volunteers many thanks for constructing such a wonderful event.  Kudos!

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JAAS Anniversary Symposium videos online

The video of JAAS’ 25th Anniversary Symposium is now available online!

Find out which of our Advisory Board members likes simple and elegant solutions, who is learning to fly, how analytical science has developed in China in recent years and who it is that needs no introduction (and hear about some good science of course).  Take a look and do post your comments below.

You might also like to read our Editorial from Zhaochu Hu, China University of Geosciences, reporting on his experience of the symposium.

Editorial: A Successful JAAS 25th Anniversary Symposium
Zhaochu Hu
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JA90040K

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JAAS themed issue for 2011 European Winter Conference

European Winter Conference 2011JAAS will be publishing a themed issue from the upcoming European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, and if you are presenting your work at the conference, we would like to invite you to submit an article for the issue.

Articles can be submitted through the journal website, and the submission deadline for this issue is 25th February.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me in the Editorial office.  We will also have an Exhbition stand at the Conference (Stand number 30), so please do drop by if you’d like discuss any aspect of publishing in JAAS.

Also, take a look at the great articles published in the themed issue from the 2010 Winter Conference, now available online.

I look forward to seeing you all in Zaragoza!

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