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JAAS 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!

The 4th Asia Pacific Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Chengdu, China

The 4th Asia-Pacific Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry started yesterday with an excellent program of speakers.

This featured a plenary presentation from JAAS Editorial Board member Gary Hiefjte, on novel mass spectrometers for plasma spectrochemistry.

JAAS are delighted to annouce that the journal will be publishing a themed issue from the conference, and warmly invite all delegates to submit their work as either a Paper or Technical Note.

The submission deadline is 5th January 2011, and articles can be uploaded for submission via the link on the journal homepage. All authors should indicate that their article is to be considered for the APWC 2010 themed issue.

Please contact us if you have any questions on the preparation or submission of your article.

(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 1^st October 2010.

Submit your article via the JAAS website!

The themed issue from the 2010 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry is now available online. The articles in the issue are from the conference, which was held earlier this year in Fort Myers, Florida, USA, on January 3-9.

Highlights from the issue include:

• Frank Vanhaecke and co-workers determine platinum group metals and gold in hot liquid lead
• A Critical Review on applications of chemical vapor generation in non-tetrahydroborate media to analytical atomic spectrometry by Xiandeng Hou and co-workers
• Ramon Barnes provides his perspective on the conference, and highlights why this Winter Conference may have been one of the best so far.

Read the other articles in the issue, and for the latest content published in JAAS, visit the website.