Calendar of Events
Calendar of Events
January 2010
22–25 Sanibel Conference on Mass Spectrometry, "From Structural Biology to Drug Discovery: New Roles for Mass Spectrometry of Nucleic Acids," St. Petersburg Beach, Florida
Contact: ASMS, 2019 Galisteo Street, Building I-1, Santa Fe, NM 87505, E-mail: asms@asms.org Ph: (505)989-4517 or (800)825-3220, Fax: (412)825-3224;
Website: www.asms.org
23–28 SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA
Contact: Tel. (888) 504-8171; E-mail: customerservice@spie.org,
Website: http://spie.org/x2584.xml
24–27 LabAutomation2010, Palm Springs, CA
Contact: Association for Laboratory Automation, 330 West State Street, Geneva, IL 60134 E-mail: Brenda Dreier, bdreier@labautomation.org, Ph: (888) 733-1252, Fax: (630) 578-0172;
Website: www.labautomation.org
31–February 3 Applications of Lasers for Sensing and Free Space Communications, San Diego, CA
Contact: Kristin Mirabal, E-mail: kmirab@osa.org
February 2010
2–4 IFPAC 2010 24th International Forum Process Analytical Technology, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, MD
Contact: Email: info@ifpacnet.org,
Website: www.ifpac.com
6–9 SPIE Medical Imaging San Diego, CA
Contact: Website: http://spie.org/x12166.xml
28–March 5 Pittcon 2010, Orlando, FL;
Contact: E-mail: info@pittcon.org
Website: http://www.pittcon.org
March 2010
3–6 IRUG9 — Ninth Biennial International Conference of the Infrared and Raman Users Group, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Contact: E-mail: irug9@qu.fcen.uba.ar
Website: www.irug9.org
5–9 Defense, Security, and Sensing 2010 Orlando World Center Marriott Resort & Convention Center, Orlando, Florida.
Contact: Website: http://spie.org/defense-security-sensing.xml
21–25 239th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, San Francisco, CA;
Contact: Website: http://portal.acs.org
23–26 Analytica 2010—22nd International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology Analysis, and Biotechnology, New Munich Trade Fair Centre, Munich, Germany
Contact: www.analytica.de/en/Home
24 5th National Meeting on Environmental Mass Spectrometry, Chester, United Kingdom.
Contact: Professor Chris Smith, EMS SFAI 2010 Meeting Secretariat, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ UK; Tel +44 1244 375444 Ext. 2174 Email: chris.smith@chester.ac.uk
April 2010
2–4 IFPAC 20
20–22 Interphex 2010, New York, NY
Contact: Website: www.interphex.com/
May 2010
2–6 Joint Conference of the 14th In Vivo ESR/EPR Spectroscopy & Imaging and the 11th International EPR Spin Trapping/Spin Labeling (EPR 2010), San Juan, Puerto Rico
Contact: Antonio E. Alegria, Ph.D, Scientific Secretariat, Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, Estacion Postal CUH, Humacao, P. R. 00791 E-mail: antonio.alegria1@upr.edu Ph: (787)309-6961, Fax: (787)850-9422.
Website: www.epr2010.org
16–21 CLEO/QELS 2010, Laser Science to Photonic Applications, San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA
Contact: E-mail: Angela Stark, astark@osa.org;
Website: www.cleoconference.org
17–19 SPIE Scanning Microscopy 2010, Monterey, CA;
Contact: Website: www.spie.org/x19036.xml
23–27 58th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry (ASMS 2010), Salt Lake City, UT
Contact: American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2019 Galisteo Street, Building I, Santa Fe, NM 87505 Tel. (505) 989-4517, Fax: (505) 989-1073; E-mail: office@asms.org
June 2010
6–9 5th Nordic Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Loen, Norway
Contact: Yngvar Thomassen, National Institute of Occupational Health, P.O. Box 8149 DEP, N-0033 Oslo, Norway E-mail: yngvar.thomassen@stami.no,
Website: www.nordicplasma.com
28–July 2 Laser Optics 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia
Contact: E-mail: conf2010@laseroptics.ru,
Website: www.laseroptics.ru
July 2010
13–16 International Symposium on Luminescence Spectrometry, Prague, Czech Republic
Contact: Symposium Secretariat, CZECH-IN s.r.o., Professional Event & Congress Organiser, Prague Congress Centre, Prague, Czech Republic, E-mail: info@isls2010.org, Ph: 420 261 174 301, Fax: 420 261 174 307;
Website: www.isls.org
31–August 6 IDRC 2010 — International Diffuse Reflectance Conference, Chambersburg, PA
Contact: Website: www.idrc-chambersburg.org/
August 2010
1–5 SPIE Optics & Photonics 2010, San Diego, CA
Contact: Website: www.spie.org
2–6 Denver X-Ray Conference 2010, Denver Marriott Tech Center Hotel Denver, CO
Contact: Website: http://www.dxcicdd.com/
8–13 XXII International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, Boston, MA
Contact: ICORS 2010 Conference Office, 2019 Galisteo Street, Building I-1, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Tel. (505) 989-4735; E-mail: office@icors2010.org
29 August–2 September
3rd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Contact: Chairmen: Prof. François Diederich, Prof. Andreas Hirsch. For information contact: Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V., Congress Team, P.O. Box 90 04 40, 60444 Frankfurt, Germany; Tel. +49 69 7917-358 /-366; Email: euchems-congress2010@gdch.de;
Website: www.euchems-congress2010.org
September 2010
13–17 Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy 2010 (LIBS 2010), Memphis, TN
Contact: Dr. Jagdish P Singh, E-mail: LIBS2010@icet.msstate.edu, Ph: (662)325-7375, Fax: (662)325-8465;
19–22 European Symposium on Polymer Spectroscopy (ESOPS 18), Zadar, Croatia;
Contact: Prof. Vesna Volovšek, ESOPS 18 Secretariat, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia E-mail: esops18@fkit.hr Ph: 385 1 4597135.
Website: www.esops18.com
21–24 SRI 2010 — 50th U.S. National Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation, Argonne, IL;
Contact: Website: www.lightsources.org
30 September–1 October
3rd International Symposium on Green Processing in the Pharmaceutical and Fine Chemical Industries, Boston, MA.
Contact: Guiding Green, LLC, 26508 W. Melissa Drive, Channahon, IL 60410; Tel. (815) 325-4974 Email: info@GuidingGreen.com;
Website: https://guidinggreen.com/Pharm_FineChem.html
October 2010
17–21 Annual Conference of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS), Raleigh, NC
Contact: FACSS, P.O. Box 24379, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502 E-mail: facss@facss.org, Ph: (505)820-1648, Fax: (505)989-1073;
Website: www.facss.org
18–21 26th 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: dleonard@schoolph.umass.edu
Website: www.umasssoils.com
November 2010
7–11 31st SETAC Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
Contact: Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 1010 N. 12th Avenue, Pensacola, FL 32501-3367; E-mail: setac@setac.org,
Website: www.setac.org
TBA Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition, Garden State Exhibit Center, Somerset, NJ;
Contact: E-mail: askEAS@eas.org,
Website: www.eas.org
December 2010
15–20 Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu, HI
Contact: Pacifichem 2010 Congress Secretariat, c/o American Chemical Society, 1155 16th St. N.W., Washington, DC, 20036; E-mail: pacifichem@acs.org,
Website: http://pacifichem.org/
January 2011
TBA IFPAC 2010 25th International Forum Process Analytical Technology, TBA
Contact: Email: info@ifpacnet.org,
Website: www.ifpac.com
March 2011
13–18 Pittcon 2011, Atlanta, GA
Contact: E-mail: info@pittcon.org
Website: http://www.pittcon.org
The Impact of LIBS on Space Exploration: Lunar and Asteroid Exploration
November 19th 2024Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is being used frequently in space exploration missions. In this article, we review how LIBS is being used to increase our knowledge of the Moon and certain asteroids.
