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California Meeting The ACS California Section will hold a meeting-in-miniature Dec. 17 and 18 at the University of California, Berke ley. Three full-day sessions will run concurrently on Monday (organic chemistry, magnetic spectroscopy, and radiation chemistry). Two full-day sessions will run concurrently on Tues day (polymer chemistry and gas phase chromatography). Elliot Bergman is program chair man; Calvin M. Coppinger, chairman for organic chemistry; S. W. Nicksic and R. L. LeTourneau, magnetic spec troscopy; C. D. Wagner, radiation chemistry; W. A. Hewett, polymer chemistry; and K. P. Dimick, gas phase chromatography.
1963 Colloid Symposium The 37th National Colloid Symposium, sponsored by the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, will be held at Carleton University, Ot tawa, Ont., June 24 to 26, 1963. Hosts are the university and the Na tional Research Council of Canada. Chairman of the symposium commit tee is Dr. B. Roger Ray of Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. Di vision members will receive preprints of papers about June 1. A title or letter of intent should go to Dr. E. A. Flood, Division of Pure Chemistry, Na tional Research Council, Ottawa 2, Ont. (solid-gas interface); or to Dr. Eric Hutchinson, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stan ford, Calif. (solubilization phe nomena), by Jan. 15 and two copies of the paper in form for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry should be in the hands of one of the chairmen by Feb. 2 1 . Correspondence on housing and registration should go to J. M. Holmes, Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont. BRIEFS Water Pollution Abatement Workshop will be held in Cleveland, Jan. 16, 1963. It will consist of talks by indus try representatives and federal and state regulatory officials. Sponsor is the Manufacturing Chemists' Associa tion. The workshop is expected to at
tract water quality experts from Ohio, western Pennsylvania, upper New York, and Michigan.
Evolutionary Operation: A Method for Increasing Industrial Productivity is the topic of a two-day course spon sored by the chemical division and the foods and allied industries division of the American Society for Quality Control. It will meet at the Sir Fran cis Drake Hotel in San Francisco, Feb. 1 and 2, 1963. For further informa tion write Norman A. Olson, National Canners Association, 1950 Sixth St., Berkeley 10, Calif.
ACS Southeastern Texas Section will hold its 5th biennial symposium on Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Feb. 28 to March 1 at the Shamrock Hilton Hotel, Houston. A program of eight papers will be given.
Chemical Institute of Canada will sponsor a meeting of the protective coatings division at the Seaway Hotel, Toronto, Ont., March 2 1 , and at the Skyline Hotel, Montreal, Que., March 22, 1963.
Use and Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation in the Control of Plant and Animal Insect Pests is the subject of a symposium to be held, at the invi tation of the government of Creece, April 22 to 26, 1963, in Athens. Spon sors are the International Atomic En ergy Agency and the Food and Agri culture Organization of the United Na tions. For further information write to Edward R. Gardner, Director of Divi sion of Special Projects, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington 25, D.C.
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The use of radioactive isotopes in sci ence and engineering is the subject of a special conference to be held April 1 to 3, 1963, in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Sponsors are the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, Oak Ridge Na tional Laboratory, and the isotopes and radiation division of the American Nuclear Society, in cooperation with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
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