Meetings 3rd Miniaturization in Liquid Chromatography Versus Capillary Electrophoresis Conference
May 25-28. Ghent, Belgium Contact: Willy R. G. Baeyens, University of Ghent, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Lab. of Drug Quality Control, Harelbekestraat 72, B-9000 Ghent (Belgium) (32-9-264-8097; fax 32-9-264-8196;
[email protected])
11th International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination (ISCD ’99)
Short Courses
July 25-28. Chicago, IL Contact: Janet Cunningham c/o Barr EnterThe following courses are being offered by the prises, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793 Rochester Institute of Technology's Munsell (301-898-3772; fax 301-898-5596; janetbarr@aol. Color Sciencceaboratory, Rochester, NY com; http://www.chiral.com) 14623-5604 (716-475-7189; fax 716-4755988) Colorimetry and Color Measurement
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21st International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography and Electrophoresis
June 20-24. Park City, UT Contact: Joy Wise, P.O. Box 4153, Frederick, MD 21705-4153 (301-473-8311; fax 301-4738312;
[email protected]) 10th International Conference on Flow Injection Analysis (ICFIA ’99)
June 20-25. Prague, Czech Republic Call for Abstracts: All abstracts due by May 3. Contact: Sue Christian, P.O. Box 26, Medina, WA 98039-0026 (425-454-9361; fax 425-6881565;
[email protected]; http://www. flowinjection.com)
June 7-9. Rochester, NY Instrument Color Matching
1st International Conference on Scanning Probe Microscopy of Polymers
Aug. 27-29. Santa Barbara, CA Contact: Terry Mohr, 112 Robin Hill Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93117 (805-967-1400; fax 805-967-7717;
[email protected]; http://www.di. com/poly)
June 10. Rochester, NY The following course is being offered by the Universite Montpellierl, Faculte de Pharmacie, Montpellier, France (33-04-67-54-45-20; fax 33-04-67-52-89-15) ECOSEP 4—Quality Control of Drugs by Capillary Electrophoresis: Practical Approach
June 14-17. Montpellier, France-
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