Calendar of Events
16–19 Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition, Garden State Exhibit Center, Somerset, NJ;
Contact: E-mail: askEAS@eas.org,
Website: www.eas.org
18–22 16th Annual Meeting SFRBM — The Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Contact: Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 8365 Keystone Crossing, Suite 107, Indianapolis, IN 46240; Tel. (317) 205-9482; E-mail: info@sfrbm.org,
Website: http://www.sfrbm.org/16AnnualMeeting.php
19–23 30th SETAC Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
Contact: Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 1010 N. 12th Avenue, Pensacola, FL 32501-3367; E-mail: setac@setac.org,
Website: www.setac.org
24–27 LILS — Light in Life Sciences Conference, Melbourne, Australia;
Contact: Website: http://www.physics.mq.edu.au/research/fluoronet/LILS09/
30 – 4 December, Materials Research Society, Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: E-mail: info@mrs.org, Ph: (724)779-3003, Fax: (724)779-8313;
Website: www.mrs.org
2–5 10th European Meeting on Environmental Chemistry (EMEC10), Limoges, France
Contact: EMEC 10 Secretary; E-mail: emec10@unilim.fr
Website: www.unilim.fr
3–9 2010 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Fort Myers, FL
Contact: Ramon Barnes, University Research Institute for Analytical Chemistry, P.O. Box 666, Hadley, MA 01035-0666; E-mail: wc2010@chem.umass.edu,
Website: http://icpinformation.org
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
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: Website: http://www.pittcon.org
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.com
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
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
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
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/
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.dxcidd.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
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
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.umass-soils.com
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
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/
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