Call for Papers: Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry

PharmaManufacturing.com
05/09/2007

Preliminary titles and abstracts (50 words) are solicited on original plasma spectrochemical research, methods and applications, for presentation at the 2008 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, to be held Jan. 6–12, 2008, in Temecula, Calif. A submission form is available. The title and abstract deadline is July 13, 2007. Accepted titles will be acknowledged in August and assigned program times, and final abstracts will be due October 19, 2007. An abstract processing fee ($50) will be waived for on-time submissions, and a post-deadline processing fee penalty will be added for late submissions. Symposium topics include the following, and papers covering other plasma-related topics are encouraged:

Symposia on Trace Elements, Stable Isotope, and Elemental Speciation Analyses

• Biological Imaging and Speciation Analyses
• Certified Reference Materials
• Chemicals, Pure Reagents, Ultrapure Water
• Clinical Biomonitoring and Chemical Preparedness
• Earth and Geological Sciences
• Environmental and Agricultural Sciences
• Fundamental Processes, Basic Studies
• Petroleum Materials, Products, and Organic Solvents
• Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical Analysis
• Plasma Instrumentation
• Provenancing, Authentication, Source Origin, Forensics
• Radioisotopes and Nuclear Materials Analyses
• Semiconductor Materials Analyses
• Solids, Surfaces, and Interfaces

Symposium Topics

• Elemental speciation and speciation sample preparation
• Excitation mechanisms and plasma phenomena
• Flow injection and processing spectrochemical analysis
• Glow discharge atomic and mass spectrometry
• Inductively coupled plasma atomic and mass spectrometry
• Laser ablation and breakdown spectrometry
• Microwave atomic and mass spectrometry
• Micronebulization systems, microplasma systems
• Plasma chromatographic detectors
• Plasma instrumentation, automation, and software innovations
• Sample introduction, transport phenomena, and modeling
• Sample preparation, treatment, and automation; high-purity materials, and quality assurance
• Spectrochemical chemometrics and expert systems
• Spectroscopic standards, reference materials, and databases
• Stable isotope analyses and applications

Abstracts and titles for the Workshop on New Plasma Instrumentation (Jan. 8-10) from manufacturers and vendors also will be accepted with the same guidelines as conference presentations. A $250 registration fee is required for Workshop speakers. For more information, visit the conference website at http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~wc2006, or contact Ramon Barnes, ICP Information Newsletter, Inc., P.O. Box 666, Hadley, Mass. 01003-0666, phone (413) 256-8942, fax (413) 256-3746, e-mail wc2006@chem.umass.edu.