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he 223rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society will be held Sunday, April 7, through Thursday, April 11, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. The meeting will feature more than 460 technical sessions and presentations. The Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) will sponsor or cosponsor 13 technical symposia. Other highlights of the meeting will include the ACS awards, ACS workshops and short courses, and a national employment clearinghouse. Social events will include the DAC poster session on Sunday evening, April 7, and a Sci-Mix on Monday, April 8. On-site registration facilities will be located in the convention center. Hours of operation will be Saturday, April 6, 3–7 p.m.; Sunday, April 7, 7:30 a.m.–7 p.m.; Monday, April 8, 7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; Tuesday, April 9, 7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 a.m.– 4 p.m.; and Thursday, April 11, 7:30 a.m.–12 p.m. Registration is $320 on-site for ACS members, $555 for nonmembers, $165 for emeritus or retired members, and $55 for graduate students. One-day session tickets are $165 for members and $320 for nonmembers. An exposition featuring 487 booths and representing 270 companies will present the latest instruments, books, computer hardware, scientific software, lab equipment, furniture, and safety equipment. Located in halls B1 and B2 of the Convention Center, the exposition will be open Monday, April 8, 9 a.m.– 5 p.m.; Tuesday, April 9, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; and Wednesday, April 10, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Admission is complimentary for meeting registrants; exhibit-only badges can be purchased for $40 ($10 for students with school identification). A series of
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ACS Short Courses The following ACS professional development courses will be offered in conjunction with the ACS national meeting in Orlando, Fla. To request a comprehensive short courses catalog with detailed descriptions, fees, and registration procedures, contact the Dept. of Continuing Education, ACS, 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036 (800-227-5558 or 202-872-4508; fax 202-872-6336;
[email protected]) April 4–5 FT-IR spectroscopy Fundamentals of HPLC April 4–6 Chemical engineering and process fundamentals for chemists Experimental design for formulation Interpretation of mass spectra NMR spectroscopy: Methods, interpretation, and strategies for problem solving Pharmacology for chemists Polymer chemistry Statistical analysis of laboratory data
and the technical staff Good Laboratory Practices: Applications in food, pharmaceutical, and environmental laboratories Integrating ADME/Tox and high-throughput synthesis and analysis strategies for drug discovery Methods development, validation procedures, and conformity assessment in the analytical laboratory Molecular biology and recombinant DNA technology Project management for technical professionals Synthetic organic chemistry
April 6–7 How to achieve sustainable validation of HPLC methods: From development through troubleshooting Organic chemistry of drug design and drug action
April 6 Leadership principles for R&D managers
April 9–11 Interpretation of IR spectra
April 7–8 Beyond the basics: Chemical engineering for chemists April 8–10 Experimental design for productivity and quality in R&D LC/MS: Fundamentals and applications
April 5–6 Dispersion of fine particles in liquids Effective supervision of scientists, engineers,
free exposition workshops on various topics will be offered Monday, April 8–Wednesday, April 10. Additional information will be published in the final program. The technical program will be highlighted by the presentation of the following ACS awards: Award in Chromatography—Edward S. Yeung; Award in Separation Science and Technology— Edward L. Cussler; Award in Analytical Chemistry—Alan G. Marshall; Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in MS— Brian T. Chait; and the E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy—Takeshi Oka. The DAC dinner is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on Monday, April 8th, at the Latin Quarter restaurant (6000 Universal Blvd., Suite 709, Orlando, FL). Tickets are $25 and can be purchased from any DAC officer at the meeting. A so-
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cial hour will precede dinner at 6 p.m. The ACS Dept. of Continuing Education will offer several analytical chemistry-related short courses at the meeting. For additional information, see the listing above or contact the Dept. of Continuing Education. General information can be found in the January 21 issue of Chemical & Engineering News; the complete technical program appears in the March 4 issue of C&EN and on the ACS website (www.acs.org).
Program Sunday morning Recent advances in surface plasmon resonance for analysis Analytical instrumentation for the new millennium: Challenges and opportunities for instrumentation development in environmental science, materials, research, and the biological sciences
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Sunday afternoon ACS Award in Chromatography Monday morning ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry I Monday afternoon ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry II Tuesday morning Field and Franklin Award symposium I Tuesday afternoon Field and Franklin Award symposium II Career opportunities in analytical chemistry: Focus on the environment Wednesday morning Materials in bioanalytical chemistry Wednesday afternoon Polymer separations
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Thursday morning Methods for polymer characterization I
1865-843-958;
[email protected]; www.imcs-conference.com
Thursday afternoon Methods for polymer characterization II
Contact: HPLC 2002 Secretariat, 1110 Pine Ave. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A3 (514-398-3770; fax 514-398-4854;
[email protected]; www.med.mcgill. ca/hplc2002)
Conferences 50th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics June 2–6, 2002. Orlando, FL
Analytica 2002 April 23–26, 2002. Münich, Germany Contact: Volker Schwartz, Messe München Gmbh, Messegelände, D-81823 München, Germany (49-89-949-20380/949-20381; fax 49-89-949-20389;
[email protected]; www.analytica.de) European Conference on Analytical Chemistry Sept. 8–13, 2002. Dortmund, Germany Contact: Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker–Euroanalysis, P.O. Box 90 04 40, 60444 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (49-69-7917-358; fax 49-69-7917-475;
[email protected]; http://euroanalysis12. isas-dortmund.de)
2nd North American Bioanalytical Forum (NABF 2002) Sept. 29–Oct. 2, 2002. Kansas City, MO Contact: John F. Stobaugh, 2095 Constant Ave., Lawrence, KS 66047 (stobaugh@ ku.edu; www.cc.ukans.edu/~pbasymp)
9th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS9) July 7–10, 2002. Boston, MA Contact: Jo Walton, IMCS9 Conference Secretariat, Elsevier Science, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, U.K. (44-1865-843-643; fax 44-
26th International Symposium on HighPerformance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2002) June 2–7, 2002. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Contact: ASMS, 1201 Don Diego Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505-989-4517; fax 505-989-1073;
[email protected]; www. asms.org)
15th Annual Conference of the American Filtration and Separations Society April 9–12, 2002. Galveston, TX Contact: Peter G. Mayberry, AFS Society, 252 N. Washington St., Ste. A, Falls Church, VA 22046 (703-538-1000; fax 703-538-6305;
[email protected]; http://www.afssociety.org)
8th Meeting on Supercritical Fluids April 14–17, 2002. Bordeaux, France Contact: Francoise Brionne, ISASF– ENSIC–1, Rue Grandville, B.P. 451, F-54001 Nancy Cedex, France (33-03-8317-5003; fax 33-03-8335-0811;
[email protected]; www.isasf.net/ISASF/meetings) 2nd International Conference on Countercurrent Chromatography (CCC 2002) April 15–20, 2002. Beijing, China Contact: Xibai Qiu, c/o Chinese Chemical Society, P.O. Box 2709, Beijing, 100080, China (86-10-625-68157/64020; fax 86-10625-68157;
[email protected]; www.ccs.ac.cn/2001hy/ccc2002.htm)
13th International Symposium, Exhibit, and Workshops on Preparative/ Process Chromatography (PREP 2000) June 16–19, 2002. Washington, DC Contact: Janet Cunningham, c/o Barr Enterprises, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793 (301-668-6001; fax 301-6684312;
[email protected]; www. prepsymposium.org)
15th International Symposium on Microscale Separations and Analysis (HPCE 2002) April 13–18, 2002. Stockholm, Sweden Contact: The Swedish Chemical Society, HPCE 2002 Secretariat, Wallingatan 24, SE-111 24 Stockholm, Sweden (46-8-4115260/80; fax 46-8-10-6678; monika@ chemsoc.se; www.chemsoc.se/sidor/ KK/hpce2002/hpce2002.htm
29th Annual Conference of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry & Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS 2002) Oct. 7–12, 2002. Providence, RI Contact: FACSS National Office, 1201 Don Diego Ave., Sante Fe, NM 87505 (505-820-1648; fax 505-989-1073;
[email protected]; http://facss.org)
25th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography May 13–17, 2002. Riva del Garda, Italy Contact: Pat Sandra, I.O.P.M.S., Kennedypark 20, B-8500 Kortrijk, Belgium (32-56204960; fax 32-56-204859; pat.sandra@ richrom.com; www.richrom.com)
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