|Articles|October 1, 2009

Spectroscopy

  • Spectroscopy-10-01-2009
  • Volume 24
  • Issue 10

Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events

October 2009

18–22

36th Annual Conference of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS), Louisville, KY;

Contact: FACSS, P.O. Box 24379, Santa Fe, NM 87502; Tel. (505) 820-1648, E-mail: [email protected],

Web site: www.facss.org

18–23

ECASIA'09, 13th European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis, Antalya, Turkey;

Contact: Sefik Suzer, Chair of the Conference, Bilkent University, Chemistry Department, 06800 Ankara, Turkey; Tel. 90 312 2901476, E-mail: [email protected]

19–22

25th Annual International Conference on Contaminated Soils, Sediments, and Water, Amherst, MA;

Contact: Denise Leonard, Environmental Health Sciences, N344 Morrill, University of Massachusetts, 639 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003-9298; E-mail: [email protected]

Web site: www.umass-soils.com

27–29

L.A.B. Exhibition and Conference, Birmingham, UK;

Contact: Tel. 011 49 341 678 8195; E-mail: [email protected]

Web site: http://www.lab-ik.co.uk

30–November 1

International Conference on Optics and Photonics, Chandigarh, India;

Contact: E-mail: [email protected]

November 2009

2–5

ICALEO — 28th International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics 2009, Orlando, FL;

Contact: Amanda Criner, Laser Institute of America, 13501 Ingenuity Drive, Suite 128, Orlando, FL 32826; Tel. (407) 380-1553;

Web site: http://www.laserinstitute.org/store/course/ICAL09

5–6

ASMS 2009 Fall Workshop: Bioinformatics for Protein Discovery, Baltimore, MD;

Contact: American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2019 Galisteo Street, Building I-1, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Tel. (505) 989-4517, Fax: (505) 989-1073; E-mail: [email protected],

Web site: http://www.asms.org

7–16

14th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy (ICNIRS 2009), Bangkok, Thailand;

Contact: Sirinnapa Saranwong, General Secretariat (Asian NIR Consortium), National Food Research Institute, 2-1-12 Kannondai Tsukuba JAPAN 305-8642; Tel. 81 29 838 8088, Fax: 81 29 838 7996; E-mail: [email protected],

Web site: www.nir2009.com

9–13

The Eleventh Kyoto Conference on New Aspects of Organic Chemistry (IKCOC-11), Kyoto, Japan;

Contact: Dr. Toshiki Nokami, Kyotodaigakukatsuta, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan; E-mail: [email protected],

Web site: www.sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/yoshida-lab/

15–17

2nd International Congress on Biodiesel: The Science and the Technologies, Munich, Germany;

Contact: AOCS, 2710 S. Boulder Dr., Urbana, IL 61802-6996; E-mail: [email protected]

Web site: www.aocs.org/meetings.biodiesel09

16–19

Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition, Somerset, NJ;

Contact: E-mail: [email protected],

Web site: www.eas.org

18–22

16th Annual Meeting SFRBM — The Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine, San Francisco, CA;

Contact: Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 8365 Keystone Crossing, Suite 107, Indianapolis, IN 46240; Tel. (317) 205-9482; E-mail: [email protected],

Web site: www.sfrbm.org/annualMeetings.cfm

19–23

30th SETAC Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA;

Contact: Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 1010 N. 12th Avenue, Pensacola, FL 32501-3367; E-mail: [email protected],

Web site: www.setac.org

24–27

LILS — Light in Life Sciences Conference, Melbourne, Australia;

Contact: Web site: http://www.physics.mq.edu.au/research/fluoronet/LILS09/

January 2010

4–9

2010 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Fort Myers, FL;

Contact: Ramon Barnes, University Research Institute for Analytical Chemistry, P.O. Box 666, Hadley, MA 01035-0666; E-mail: [email protected],

Web site: http://icpinformation.org

23–28

SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA;

Contact: Tel. (888) 504-8171; E-mail: [email protected],

Web site: http://spie.org/x2584.xml

31–February 3

Applications of Lasers for Sensing and Free Space Communications, San Diego, CA;

Contact: Kristin Mirabal, E-mail: [email protected]

February 2010

28–March 5

Pittcon 2010, Orlando, FL;

Contact: Web site: http://www.pittcon.org

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