Spectroscopists' Calendar
Mary Carrabba, Editor
Spectroscopists’ Calendar is a regular feature in Applied Spectroscopy. Your cooperation in submitting timely information for the column is appreciated. For publication in one issue of Applied Spectroscopy, send information no less than four months in advance of the actual event. Please send announcements of meetings and symposia of interest to spectroscopists to Mary Carrabba, Department of Chemistry, Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, Oregon 97520, e-mail: carrabbam@sou.edu, Ph: (541)261-9800.
Announcements of short courses, schools, workshops or other educational activities should be sent to the SAS Web Editor, Ron Williams
April 2012
Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, 9–13 April 2012, San Francisco, California; world wide web: http://www.mrs.org.
15th Australian Near Infrared Spectroscopy Group Conference, 15–18 April 2012, Queenstown, New Zealand; world wide web: http://www.anisg.com.au.
53rd ENC – Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, 15–20 April 2012, Miami, Florida; world wide web: http://www.enc-conference.org.
SPIE Photonics Europe, 16-20 April 2012, Brussels, Belgium; world wide web: http://spie.org/x12290.xml.
Analytica 2012 – 23rd International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis, Biotechnology and Analytica Conference, 17–20 April 2012, Munich, Germany; world wide web: http://www.analytica.de.
SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing: Next-Generation Spectroscopy Technologies V (Conference DS109), 23–27 April 2012, Baltimore, Maryland; world wide web: http://spie.org/ds109.
Advances in Process Analytics & Control Technology (APACT), 25–27 April 2012, Newcastle, United Kingdom; world wide web: http://www.apact.co.uk.
4th International Congress on Operando Spectroscopy (Operando – IV): Recent Developments and Future Perspectives in Spectroscopy of Working Catalysts, 29 April – 3 May 2012, Upton, New York; world wide web: http://operandoiv.nsls.bnl.gov/.
May 2012
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 6–11 May 2012, San Jose, California; world wide web: http://www.cleoconference.org.
10th China International Scientific Instrument and Laboratory Equipment Exhibition (CISILE 2012), 15–17 May 2012, Beijing, China; world wide web: www.cisile.com.cn.
11th Pharmaceutical Powder X-ray Diffraction Symposium (PPXRD-11), 15–18 May 2012, Fort Myers, Florida; world wide web: http://www.icdd.com/ppxrd/.
The 3rd Asian Near Infrared Symposium (ANS 2012), 16–17 May 2012, Bangkok, Thailand; world wide web: http://ans2012.com.
60th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (ASMS 2012), 20–24 May 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada; American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2019 Galisteo Street, Building I, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 (USA), e-mail: office@asms.org, world wide web: http://www.asms.org, Ph: (505)989-4517, Fax: (505)989-1073.
37th International Symposium on Environmental Analytical Chemistry (ISEAC 37), 22–25 May 2012, Antwerp, Belgium; world wide web: http://www.iseac37.ua.ac.be.
Use of Multivariate Analysis and Chemometrics in Cultural Heritage and Environment (CMA4CH), 27–30 May 2012, Rome, Italy; world wide web: http://w3.uniroma1.it/cma4ch/index2.html.
June 2012
Gordon Research Conference on Multiphoton Processes, 3–8 June 2012, South Hadley, Massachusetts; world wide web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2012&program=multiphot.
CHIRALITY 2012: 24th International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination (ISCD-24), 10–13 June 2012, Fort Worth, Texas; world wide web: http://www.chirality2012.com.
Xth International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy Applied to the Earth and Planetary Sciences (GeoRaman 2012), 11–13 June 2012, Nancy, France; world wide web: http://georaman10.uhp-nancy.fr/.
Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Materials Science (MSMS), 11–15 June 2012, Olomouc, Czech Republic; world wide web: http://www.msms2012.upol.cz/home.
BIO International Convention, 18–21 June 2012, Boston, Massachusetts; world wide web: http://convention.bio.org/.
European Conference on X-Ray Spectrometry (EXRS 2012), 18–22 June 2012, Vienna, Austria; world wide web: http://www.ati.ac.at/EXRS2012/.
67th Ohio State University International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, 18–22 June 2012, Columbus, Ohio; world wide web: http://spectroscopy.mps.ohio-state.edu/symposium.
XIII Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (CAC 2012), 25–29 June 2012, Budapest, Hungary; world wide web: http://www.cac2012.mke.org.hu/.
11th International Conference on the Applications of Magnetic Resonance in Food 2012, 26–29 June 2012, Wageningen, The Netherlands; world wide web: http://www.mrfood2012.com/.
July 2012
EUROMAR 2012, 1–5 July 2012, Dublin, Ireland; world wide web: http://euromar2012.org.
International Conference on Pure and Applied Chemistry (ICPAC), 2–6 July 2012, Mauritius; world wide web: http://www.uom.ac.mu/icpac/2012/index.asp.
XVII Symposium on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy (HighRus–2012), 2–7 July 2012, Zelenogorsk near St. Petersburg, Russia; Semen Mikhailenko, HighRus–2012 Scientific Secretary, V. E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, 1, Academician Zuev sq., 634021, Tomsk, Russia, e-mail: semen@iao.ru, world wide web: http://symp.iao.ru/en/hrms/17/il/.
11th European Conference On Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy (ECONOS) and 31st European CARS Workshop (ECW), 8–11 July 2012, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom; world wide web: www.abdn.ac.uk/econos2012.
Infrared Spectroscopy
I: Interpretation of Infrared and
Raman Spectra, 9–13 July 2012, Brunswick, Maine; world
wide web: http://www.ircourses.org.
54th Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry, 15–19 July 2012, Copper Mountain, Colorado; world wide web: http://www.rockychem.com.
Infrared Spectroscopy
II: Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy
Applied to Forensic Analysis, 16–20 July 2012, Brunswick, Maine; world
wide web: http://www.ircourses.org.
6th International Conference on Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS 2012), 16–18 July 2012, Berlin, Germany; world wide web: http://www.mbi-berlin.de/cmds2012/index.html.
Gordon Research Conference on Electronic Spectroscopy and Dynamics, 22–27 July 2012, Lewiston, Maine; world wide web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2012&program=elecspec.
20th Annual International Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering (ICCE-20), 22–28 July 2012, Beijing, China; world wide web: http://www.icce-nano.org/.
Microscopy & Microanalysis 2012, 29 July – 2 August 2012, Phoenix, Arizona; world wide web: http://www.microscopy.org/MandM/2012/index.cfm.
International Diffuse Reflectance Conference (IDRC 2012), 29 July – 3 August 2012, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; David Burns, Chair, e-mail: david.burns@mcgill.ca, world wide web: www.idrc-chambersburg.org/.
August 2012
Gordon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy, 5–10 August 2012, Biddeford, Maine; world wide web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2012&program=vibrspec.
61st Annual Denver X-ray Conference, 6–10 August 2012, Denver, Colorado; world wide web: http://www.dxcicdd.com/.
SPIE Optics + Photonics, 12–16 August 2012, San Diego, CA; world wide web: http://spie.org/x30491.xml.
23rd International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS 2012), 12–17 August 2012, Bangalore, India; world wide web: www.icors2012.org.
American Chemical Society National Fall Meeting & Exposition, 19–23 August 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; world wide web: http://www.chemistry.org.
International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS XXV), 19–24 August 2012, Lyon, France; world wide web: http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/conf/sb/ICMRBS/.
Asia-Pacific Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry (2012 APWC), 26–29 August 2012, Jeju Island, South Korea; world wide web: http://apwc2012.dankook.ac.kr/info/introduction.php.
4th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress, 26–30 August 2012, Prague, Czech Republic;
world wide web: http://euchems-prague2012.cz/.
31st European Congress of Molecular Spectroscopy, 26–31 August 2012, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; world wide web: www.phys.ubbcluj.ro/eucmos2012/.
12th International HITRAN Conference combined with the 11th Atmospheric Spectroscopy Applications (ASA) Meeting, 29–31 August 2012, Reims, France; world wide web: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/hitran/HITRAN-Conference2012/hitran12.html.
September 2012
International Symposium on the Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, 2–7 September 2012, Dalian, China; world wide web: http://www.conferencenet.org/conference/isiame.html.
The 22nd International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy
(PRAHA2012), 4–8 September 2012, Prague, Czech Republic; world wide web: http://www.chem.uni-wuppertal.de/conference/.
Japan Analytical Scientific Instruments Show (JASIS 2012), 5–7 September 2012, Chiba, Japan; world wide web: http://www.jasis.jp/2012/english/index.html.
The 14th China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE 2012), 6–9 September 2012, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China; world wide web: www.cioe.cn.
SMASH 2012 - Small Molecule NMR Conference, 9–12 September 2012, Providence, Rhode Island; world wide web: http://www.smashnmr.org/main.asp.
Conference on Small Molecule Science (CoSMoS 2012), 10–12 September 2012, Providence, Rhode Island; world wide web: http://www.cosmoscience.org/.
19th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, 15 –21 September 2012, Kyoto, Japan; world wide web: www.imsc2012.jp.
European High Pressure Research Group International Conference (50th EHPRG), 16–21 September 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece; world wide web: http://ehprg2012.web.auth.gr/.
12th Rio Symposium on Atomic Spectrometry, 17–21 September 2012, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil; world wide web: http://www.12thriosymposium.com.br/.
International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics (ICALEO®), 23–27 September 2012, Anaheim, California; world wide web: http://www.lia.org/conferences/icaleo/conference.
37th International Conference on Infrared, terahertz and Millimeter Waves (IRMMW-Thz 2012), 23–28 September 2012, Wollongong, Australia; world wide web: http://irmmwthz2012.uow.edu.au/index.html.
7th International Conference on Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS 2012), 29 September – 4 October 2012, Luxor, Egypt; world wide web: http://libs2012-niles.org/.
2012 SCIX Conference (formerly FACSS): Annual National Meeting of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) / The 39th Annual North American Meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, 30 September – 5 October 2012, Kansas City, Missouri; FACSS, P.O. Box 24379, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502, e-mail: facss@facss.org, world wide web: www.scixconference.org or www.facss.org, Ph: (505) 820-1648, Fax: (505) 989-1073.
October 2012
First International Conference on Enhanced Spectroscopy (ICES 2012), 3–5 October 2012, Porquerolles Island, France; world wide web: http://www.im2np.fr/ICES2012/index.html.
Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry, “Mass Spectrometry in Food Safety and Quality,” 5–9 October 2012, Pacific Grove, California; world wide web: http://www.asms.org.
XII International Conference on Mössbauer Spectroscopy and its Applications, 6–10 October 2012, Suzdal, Russia; world wide web: http://en.icmsa.imetran.ru.
European Symposium on Atomic Spectrometry (ESAS 2012), High Tatras, Slovakia, 7–12 October 2012; world wide web: http://www.spektroskopia.sk/esas-scsc/.
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition, 14–18 October 2012, Chicago, Illinois; world wide web: http://www.aaps.org/annualmeeting/.
Frontiers in Optics 2012 (the 96th OSA Annual Meeting) and Laser Science XXVIII (APS/DLS 28th Annual Meeting), 14–18 October 2012, Rochester, New York; world wide web: www.frontiersinoptics.com.
Gulf Coast Conference 2012, 16–17 October 2012, Galveston, Texas; world wide web: http://www.gulfcoastconference.com.
AnalyticaChina 2012, 16–18 October 2012, Shanghai, P. R. China; world wide web: http://www.analyticachina.com.
AVS 59th International Sympoisum & Exhibition, 28 October – 2 November 2012, Tampa, Florida; world wide web: http://www2.avs.org/symposium/.
November 2012
29th Montreux Symposium on LC/MS, 7–9 November 2012, Montreux, Switzerland; world wide web: http://www.lcms-montreux.com.
ASMS Fall Workshop, "Mass Spectrometry-based Protein Phosphorylation Analysis and Phosphoproteomics," 8–9 November 2012, Boston, Massachusetts; world wide web: http://www.asms.org.
XIII Latin American Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, 11–16 November 2012, Medellín, Colombia; world wide web: www.udea.edu.co/lacame2012.
Eastern Analytical Symposium & Exposition, 12–15 November 2012, Somerset, New Jersey; world wide web: http://www.eas.org.
SPEC 2012: Shedding New Light on Disease, 12–16 November 2012, Chiang Mai, Thailand; world wide web: http://www.chem.monash.edu.au/biospec/spec2012/index.html.
2nd African-European Conference on Chemometrics (Afrodata 2012), 19–23 November 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa; world wide web: http://afrodata.wordpress.com.
2012 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting & Exhibit, 25–30 November 2012, Boston, Massachusetts; world wide web: http://www.mrs.org/fall2012/.
December 2012
Chemometrics in Time-resolved and Imaging Spectroscopy (PICS 2012), 3–4 December 2012, Lille, France; world wide web: http://lasir.univ-lille1.fr/?page_id=2503.
February 2013
Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting, 2–6 February 2013, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; world wide web: www.biophysics.org.
Photonics West, 2–7 February 2013, San Francisco, California; world wide web: http://spie.org/x2584.xml.
March 2013
The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (PITTCON 2013), 17–21 March 2013, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; world wide web: http://www.pittcon.org.
American Physical Society March Meeting, 18–22 March 2013, Boston, Massachusetts; world wide web: http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/.
August 2013
Seventh International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS 7), 25–30 August 2013, Kobe, Japan; world wide web: http://www2.convention.co.jp/icavs7/.
September 2013
2013 SCIX Conference (formerly FACSS): Annual National Meeting of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) / The 40th Annual North American Meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, 29 September – 4 October 2013, Milwaukee, WI; FACSS, P.O. Box 24379, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502, e-mail: facss@facss.org, world wide web: www.scixconference.org or www.facss.org, Ph: (505) 820-1648, Fax: (505) 989-1073.
