Chemistry International
Vol. 23, No. 6
November 2001
Conference
Announcements
57th Annual Session of the Sri Lanka
Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS), 26 November-1 December
2001, Rawatawatte, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
This meeting has the focal theme "Toward a Knowledge-Based Economy:
The Role of Scientists and Technologists". Topic sessions will emphasize
human resources development, product design, partnerships for rapid
economic growth, potential for using traditional knowledge, agrobased
industry, agricultural growth and development, rapid growth of selected
chemical industries, value addition in mineral resources, engineering
capabilities, communications and information technology, software development,
knowledge for better health, and environmental conservation toward sustainable
economic growth.
For additional information, contact SLAAS, 120/10 Vidya Mawatha, Colombo
07, Sri Lanka, E-mail: [email protected];
Tel.: +94 01 691681 or +94 01 688740; Fax: +94 01 691681.
Asia-Pacific Conference on Analytical Science
(APCAS) and 18th Philippine Chemistry Congress, 19-22 February 2002,
Manila, Philippines
This conference is organized by the Kapisanang Kimikang Philipinas
(KKP, Chemical Society of the Philippines), Division of Analytical Science
(DAS), and the Philippine Organic Chemistry Teachers' Association under
the sponsorship of the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies and the
Philippine Federation of Chemistry Societies. It hopes to gather scientists
from the Asia-Pacific region to share and discuss recent developments
in the various areas of analytical science. The conference aims to forge
an active cooperation among the participants in harnessing analytical
science in the regional effort toward economic growth, environmental
management, and health protection. Expo Kimika 2002, a mega-exhibit
to popularize chemistry, will be a part of the proceedings. In addition
to plenary and keynote lectures presented by prominent analytical scientists,
the scientific program will feature concurrent symposia and poster sessions
on spectroscopy, electrochemical analysis, separation methods, bioanalytical
methods, radiochemical analysis, surface analysis, process analytical
science, environmental analysis, food and agricultural analysis, pharmaceutical
and biomedical analysis, chemical sensors and biosensors, analytical
instrumentation, automated methods of analysis, chemometrics, and education
in analytical science.
For further information, contact Dr. Christina Binag, Research Center
for the Natural Sciences, University of Santo Tomas, España,
Manila, 1008 Philippines, E-mail: [email protected];
Tel./Fax: +63 2 731 4031.
Mustafa Kemal University International Organic
Chemistry Meeting (MKU-IOCM), 25-28 March 2002, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey
This meeting, organized with the collaboration of the Mustafa Kemal
University Foundation, the Turkish Chemical Society, and TUBITAK, will
feature sessions on synthetic and natural organic compounds, spectroscopy,
chromatography, analytical applications in organic chemistry, electroorganic
chemistry, photochemistry, macromolecular chemistry, and computational
chemistry.
For more information, contact MKU-IOCM Secretariat, Prof. Dr. Mahmut
Caliskan, Mustafa Kemal University, Science and Letters Faculty, Tayfur
Sokmen Campus, 31040 Antakya, Hatay, Turkey, E-mail: [email protected];
Tel.: +90 326 245 58 66; Fax: +90 326 245 58 67; Web site: http://www.mku.edu.tr/mku-iocm/.
2nd International Conference on Counter-Current
Chromatography (CCC-2002), 15-20 April 2002, Beijing, China
This conference is organized by the Chinese Chemical Society, Beijing
Institute of New Technology Application, Beijing Center for Separation
and Purification, and Technologies of Natural Products; coorganized
by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation and Beijing Medicine Trade
Association; and supported by Pharma Tech Research Corporation (USA),
National Engineering Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine of China,
Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology Ltd., Zhejiang Recover Biology
Technical Co. Ltd., and Shenzhen Tauto Biotech Co. Ltd.
The focal theme of the conference will be on how and in which directions
counter-current chromatography (CCC) will be developing as a bioprocessing
technology-especially for natural products-in the new century. Topic
sessions will cover basic CCC; CCC methodology; centrifugal partition
chromatography; coil planetary centrifugation; CCC theory; applications
of CCC to natural products, pharmaceutical medicines, proteins, and
other compounds including inorganics; advanced applications of CCC;
process-scale CCC; and pH zone refining CCC. An exhibition will offer
the opportunity for the display of instruments, research results, and
books.
For additional information, contact Prof. Xibai Qiu, Secretary of 2nd
CCC, c/o Chinese Chemical Society, P.O. Box 2709, Beijing 100080, China,
E-mail: [email protected];
Tel.: +86 10 62568157 or +86 10 62564020; Fax: +86 10 62568157.
36th Convention of the South African Chemical
Institute (SACI2002), 1-5 July 2002, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
The theme of this convention is "Chemistry for Prosperity". It is the
aim of the organizers to allow chemists from diverse backgrounds in
South Africa and Africa as a whole to present recent research that they
are pursuing and, specifically, to focus on the role that chemistry
can play in uplifting people's lives. Special features will include
presentations that highlight the following:
- contribution that chemistry makes to the economy (emphasis on industrial
applications)
- contribution that chemistry makes to quality of life (including
water and waste treatment, measurement of water quality, new drugs,
etc.)
- prospects for new materials and what they might do The organizers
also plan to hold a one-day parallel symposium for physical science
teachers and educators and a public debate on the importance of chemistry
to the community, with the hope of raising public appreciation of
chemistry and the intention of highlighting chemistry's role in some
local causes (e.g., environmental problems of a chemical nature, recycling,
etc.). Approximately 450500 scientific participants are expected
to attend SACI2002.
For more information, contact Dr. Chris Woolard, Department of Chemistry,
University of Port Elizabeth, P.O. Box 1600, Port Elizabeth 6000, South
Africa, E-mail: [email protected];
Tel.: +27 41 5042147; Fax: +27 41 5042109.
4th International Conference of the Commission
on the History of Modern Chemistry (CHMC) of the International Union
of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS), 3-5 October 2002, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
This conference will focus on industrialacademic relations in
the chemical and molecular sciences. The general theme of the conference
is the interactions between the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies,
and related industries since 1900.
Traditionally, studies in this area have employed a linear approach
to the sciencetechnology relationship. However, it is well established
that such transfers are rarely unidirectional. The organizers of this
conference hope to encourage further a shift in emphasis toward multidirectional
transfers. Knowledge, practices, transfer successes and failures, technology,
materials, organizational networks, management of research and development,
and labor are all potential objects of study within these exchanges.
Related themes include interactions with other research centers beyond
the academy, e.g., national laboratories, military centers, experimental
stations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and colonial institutions.
Papers are invited on and around this theme. Comparative and international
perspectives are strongly encouraged.
For further information, contact Thomas C. Lassman, Associate Historian,
Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19106, USA, E-mail: [email protected];
Tel.: +1 215 925 2222, Ext. 271; Fax: +1 215 925 1954; Web site: http://www.
chemheritage.org/.
3rd International Symposium on Separations in
Biosciences (SBS'03): 100
Years of Chromatography, 13-18 May 2003, Moscow, Russia
> IUPAC
sponsored event