Meetings 5th European
ELECTROANALYTICAL Conference on Electroanalysis May 22-26. Venice, Italy Contact: Salvatore Daniele, Dept. of Physical Chemistry, The University of Venice, Calle Larga S. Marta 2137,1-30123 Venice, Italy (39-41-5298503; fax 39-41-5298594) 2nd Alfred O. Nier on Inorganic Mass Spectrometry May 10-12. Durango, CO Contact: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Protocol Office, Los Alamos, NM 87547 (505-667-6574; fax 505667-7530)
MASS SPECTROMETRY Symposium
42nd ASMS Conference on MS and Allied Topics May 29-June 3. Chicago, IL Contact: Judith A. Sjoberg, ASMS, 815 Don Caspar Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505-9894517; fax 505-989-1073) 3th International Symposium on Mass Spectrometry Sept. 13-18. San Francisco, CA Contact: Marilyn F. Schwartz, University of California, San Francisco, Box 0446, San Francisco, CA 94143-0446 (415-476-2582; fax 415476-0688) HPLC'94: 18th International Symposium on Column LC May 8-13. Minneapolis, MN Contact: Janet Cunningham, c/o Barr Enterprises, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793 (301-898-3772; fax 301-898-5596)
SEPARATIONS
20th International Symposium on Chromatography June 19-24. Bournemouth, U.K. Contact: The Chromatographic Society, Suite 4, Clarendon Chambers, 32 Clarendon St., Nottingham, NG1 5JD, U.K. (44-602-500596; fax 44-602-500614)
16th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography Sept. 16-20. Riva del Garda, Italy Contact: P. Sandra, I.O.P.M.S., Kennedypark 20, B-8500 Kortrijk, Belgium (32-56-204960; fax 32-56-204859)
4th Annual Flow Injection Atomic Spectrometry Short Course May 24-26. Amherst, MA Contact: Julian Tyson, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 (413-545-0195; fax 413-545-4846)
5th International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination Sept. 26-28. Stockholm, Sweden Contact: Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, P.O. Box 1136, S-lll 81 Stockholm, Sweden (46-8-245085; fax 46-8-205511)
Protein Purification: Isolation, Analysis, and Characterization June 12-17, July 10-15, and Aug. 7-12. New Brunswick, NJ Contact: Monica Bell, Office of Continuing Education, Cook College, P.O. Box 231, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-0231 (908-932-9271; fax 908-932-8726)
Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry in Environmental Analysis (ISCMS '94) Oct. 3-7. St. Petersburg, Russia Contact: Alexander A. Rodin, State Institute of Applied Chemistry, Dobrolubov Ave. 14, 197198 St. Petersburg, Russia (7-8122389786; fax 7-812-2338989) 6th International Conference on Near-IR Spectroscopy (NIR '94) April 18-22. Lome, Victoria, Australia Contact: Pastoral and Veterinary Institute, Mt. Napier Rd., Private Bag 105, Hamilton, Victoria 3300, Australia (61-55-730915; fax 61-55-711523)
Professional Practice in Toxicology: A Review June 19-23. Cincinnati, OH Contact: Claire House, AACC, 2101 L St., N.W., Suite 202, Washington, DC 20037 (800892-1400 or 202-857-0717) 1994 European Workshop in Chemometrics Sept. 25-30. Bristol, UK Contact: Janice Green, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 ITS, U.K. (44-272-303030 ext. 4421; fax 44-272-251295)
SPECTROSCOPY
lnter/Micro-94 July 18-21. Chicago, IL Contact: Nancy B. Daerr, McCrone Research Institute, 2820 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60616-3292 (312-842-7100; fax 312-842-1078)
Short Courses and Workshops Laboratory Ventilation: Design and Evaluation April 21-22. St. Paul, MN Contact: Registrar, Continuing Education, Midwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety, 640 Jackson St., St. Paul, MN 55101 (612-221-3992) Professional Practice in Clinical Chemistry: A Review April 23-28. Santa Monica, CA Contact: Claire House, AACC, 2101 L St., N.W., Suite 202, Washington, DC 20037 (800-892-1400 or 202-857-0717)
The following courses are being offered by the American Chemical Society. For more information, contact ACS Short Courses, 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036 (800-227-5558,202-8724508; fax 202-8726336) Supercritical Fluid Fractionation/ Extraction/Chromatography May 16-19. Blacksburg, VA Larry Taylor Modern FT-NMR Spectrometry: Principles and Practice May 22-27. Blacksburg, VA Harry Dorn Laboratory Safety and Health May 25-27, San Francisco, CA; Aug. 29-31, New Orleans, LA; Sept. 27-29, Chicago, IL Norman Steere Bench Top Gas Chromatography/ Mass Spectrometry June 27-30. Blacksburg, VA Harold McNair Mass Spectrometry: Principles and Practice July 18-15, July 25-29. East Lansing, MI Jack T. Watson Molecular Modeling: Methods and Techniques July 19-22; July 26-29. Athens, GA J. Phillip Bowen High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Aug. 20-Sept. 2. Blacksburg, VA Harold McNair
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Microwave Sample Preparation: Theory and Methods Aug. 23-26. Pittsburgh, PA H. M. Kingston Practical HPLC Method Development Sept. 23-24. Philadelphia, PA Lloyd Snyder, J. J. Kirkland, and Joseph Glajch GC: Packed and Capillary Columns Oct. 4-7. Blacksburg, VA Harold McNair
Calls for Papers Optical Sensing for Environmental and Process Monitoring Nov. 7-10. Washington, DC This symposium brings together research, regulatory, and industrial groups involved in the development of optically based monitoring technologies, analytical techniques, environmental and industrial applications, and regulatory methods. It will focus on applications of spectroscopic, radiometric, and laserbased sensing techniques to industrial and environmental air pollution monitoring; dualuse technology transfer programs and other government environmental technology initiatives; indoor air monitoring and habitat environmental controls; tunable diode laser spectroscopy; optical techniques for chemical process control; and QA/QC data validation studies and regulatory issues. Authors should submit 300-word abstracts by May 1. For title submission and other information, contact Orman A. Simpson, c/o Air & Waste Management Association, One Gateway Center, 3rd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 (412-2323444; fax 412-232-3450) Eastern Analytical Symposium & Exposition Nov. 14-18. Somerset, NJ The sessions will include both invited and contributed papers in all areas of chemical analysis. Among the many topics that will be covered with special symposia are LC, GC, capillary zone electrophoresis, supercritical fluid extraction, supercritical fluid chromatography, near-IR spectroscopy, MS, NMR spectroscopy, thermal analysis, polymer analysis, hazardous materials, electrochemistry, and clinical analysis. Authors should submit 100- to 300-word abstracts by April 15. For more information, contact EAS, P.O. Box 633, Mountchanin, DE 19710-0633 (302-7386218; fax 302-738-5275)
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