Helen A. Castro

The 36th FACSS conference, sponsored by the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, will be held October 18–22, 2009, at the Marriott Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. 

 
The conference program will open with a plenary lecture by Carina Alles, DuPont Engineering Research & Technology (Wilmington, Delaware). Her lecture is titled 

Sustainable Growth Through Sustainable Solutions

 and will be presented on Monday morning, October 19. Monday afternoon’s plenary lecture, 

Quantitative Analysis Based on Imaging and Counting Single Molecules

, will be delivered by Joel Harris, University of Utah (Salt Lake City).

During the remainder of the conference, each day will begin with a plenary session by internationally recognized speakers and FACSS award winners. After the daily plenary lectures, there will be eight concurrent sessions. Each of those sessions will be composed of poster and oral presentations. Prizes will be awarded daily for outstanding poster presentations.


This year’s Tomas A. Hirschfeld Scholar Award will be presented to Matthew Lockett, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, Wisconsin). The FACSS Student Award will be presented to Yuze Sun, University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri).


Among the professional awards being presented this year, the Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy is given to an individual who has demonstrated advancements presented at FACSS in the field of applied Raman spectroscopy. This year’s recipient is Pavel Matousek of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Oxfordshire, UK).

The Anachem Award is presented annually to an outstanding analytical chemist based on activities in teaching, research, administration, or other activity that has advanced the art and science of the field. Earning the honor for 2009 is E. Neil Lewis, Malvern Instruments (Worcestershire, UK).

Additional award listings and recipient biographies can be found at 


More than 50 companies will showcase their products in the exhibit hall during the week. As in the past, the exhibit will open on Monday evening with a reception. Tuesday and Wednesday breaks and posters sessions will also be held in the exhibit hall.


For more information and to register online, visit the FACSS website at 

FACSS International Office 
PO Box 24379
Santa Fe, NM 87502 
Phone: (505) 820-1648
Fax: (505) 989-1073
Email: facss@facss.org

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Spectroscopy previews the 36th FACSS, to be held October 18–22, 2009, in Louisville, Kentucky.

FACSS 2009 Preview

The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) will be held at 

 Lake Buena Vista, Florida, from September 24 to September 28, 2006. Taking advantage of the unique entertainment opportunities available at the Walt Disney World Resort, the FACSS will hold its Wednesday evening event at the Adventurers Club at Walt Disney World's Pleasure Island. In addition, conferees can purchase specially priced Disney Meeting and Convention tickets for the theme parks when they register. 

Harry McSween, Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, and a co-investigator for the Mars Exploration Rovers, will open the program with his presentation, 

Spectroscopy on the Red Planet: More than Meets the Eye.

 Professor Alan Marshall of Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, will present the closing plenary lecture for the conference, 

Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry for Separation and Identification of Complex Analytical, Biological, and Environmental Organic Mixtures. 

Each daily plenary lecture will be followed by poster sessions and oral presentations from all areas of analytical chemistry and spectroscopy.  

Morning, afternoon, and full-day workshops and short courses covering a wide range of topics in analytical chemistry and spectroscopy will be conducted by leading experts in their respective fields. A complete list of all workshops being held at this year's conference is available at 

https://facss.org/facss/workshops_list.php

For the first time, the Anachem Award, presented annually since 1953, will be given posthumously. Being recognized with this honor is the late Richard D. Sacks, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

The 2006 Recipient of the Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy is Michael Morris, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan.  

The Lester W. Strock Award will be presented to Paul Farnsworth. 

 William F. Meggers Award are the authors of the outstanding paper appearing in 

 They are Pavel Matousek, Ian Clark, Edward Draper, Michael Morris, Allen Goodship, Neil Everall, Mike Towrie, William F. Finney, and Anthony Parker.  The recipient of the 2006 Ellis R. Lippincott Award will be announced at the conference. 

The 2006 Tomas A. Hirschfeld Award will be presented to Andrea Rae Tao, University of California, Berkeley, California, and Tim M. Brewer, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. 

Daniel B. Bassil, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, is the 2006 Recipient of the FACSS Student Award. 

Finally, 2006 FACSS Student Award Honorable Mentions will be given to Marion Lawrence-Snyder, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, and Maria F. Mora, University of Texas at San Antonio. 

Instrument exhibition is one of the focal points of FACSS. It is always exciting to see how the research discussed during FACSS symposia becomes modern, innovative instrumentation, software, and supplies. One of the exhibit features is the "What's Hot" Vendor Symposium, which will be held Monday, September 25, beginning at 1:30 PM. Exhibitors can share brief PowerPoint presentations on the latest news or products from their companies. 

				Monday: Exhibit opening reception 4:00–6:00 PM 

Tuesday and Wednesday: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM 

For more information and to register on-line, see the FACCS web page at http://

September 2006. Spectroscopy previews the 33rd Annual Meeting of the FACSS, to be held September 24-28 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Helen A. Castro

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FACSS 2009 Preview

33rd Annual FACSS Meeting