Conference Reports
Third Surrey Conference on Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry: July
16th=19th, 1989, Guildford, Surrey, UK
Kym Jarvis and her organising team
obviously have a hot line to the Gods of
the weather, as once again the Surrey
ICP-MS meeting was blessed with perfect
weather. For this, the third such meeting,
over 100 delegates descended upon
Surrey University from the 16th-19th
July to discuss progress in applications,
instrumentation and understanding of this
exciting technique, barely out of its
infancy. Any meeting is only as good as its
invited lecturers and this year we were
very lucky to hear from distinguished
speakers from Europe and North
America. Appropriately the first of these
was Alan Gray who opened the first
session with a discussion of some of the
phenomena occurring in the interface
region. This lecture set the tone for a
session heartening for those users not
prepared to accept the limitations of the
technique, but instead to understand and
overcome them. The session included two
presentations from Polytechnic South
West on ways of defeating polyatomic ion
interferences, with Hywel Evans paper on
the use of molecular gases attracting
particular attention. The session closed
with a typically elegant presentation from
Jean-Michel Mermet on the origin of
oxides in the ICP-MS. The good doctor
was to further distinguish himself at the
banquet with a remarkable sartorial
ensemble.
The second session of the first day
consisted mainly of details of various
calibration and standardisation procedures
and included a particularly novel
Diane Beauchemin, joint winner of the Alan
Date Memorial Award
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presentation from Michael Ketterer of the
US Environmental Protection Agency on
the use of multivariate calibration techniques
to overcome polyatomic interferences.
The session eneded with a lively
debate on the use of internal standards,
the general consensus being that a judicious
selection of internal standard based
on a knowledge of the sample can
improve the accuracy and precision of
results.
The morning of the second day consisted
principally of papers on various
aspects of laser ablation ICP-MS, the
audience being left with the conclusion
that although there is still a way to go,
quantitative LA - ICP-MS is not a long
time away. Currently, unless you own a
wide range of reference materials to use
as standards, the best accuracy appears to
be 10-20%. Klaus Dittrich rounded off
the morning by giving us some new
suggestions for ways of introducing microsamples
into plasmas. Perhaps there
should be a new international prize for the
researcher who gets the most hyphens
into one method?
The fourth session commenced with the
most poignant moment of the week with
the awards, by Jan Date herself, of the
first Alan Date Memorial Awards to Kym
Jarvis of Surrey University and Diane
Beauchemin of Queens University,
Ontario: two worthy recipients.
The session continued with details of a
number of interesting applications of ICPMS.
Perhaps it is churlish to pick one
paper but the lengths that Kelly Falkner
went to in order to determine gold in sea
water are worthy of note, as is the
practical detection limit of 20 fmol l-l!
Every conference must have at least one
person who suffers from gremlins in the
projector and Surrey’s victim was Hans
Vanhoe of the University of Ghent, the
final speaker of the day. However he
came through in style, and had more to
celebrate at the banquet where he was
awarded one of the poster prizes. The
other winner was Ed McCurdy of Surrey
University .
The two sessions of the final day
covered a diverse range of topics, beginning
with a highly entertaining invited
lecture from Lynda Faires on ICP-MS in
water quality laboratories and closing
with Alan Gray who discussed the analytical
utility of doubly-charged species.
Fittingly the final invited lecture looked to
the future with Neil Bradshaw detailing
progress towards high-resolution ICPMS.
The lecture programme was complemented
by a series of social events for
Kim Jarvis receiving the Alan Date Memorial
A ward from Jan Date
which the financial support of Nermag,
Perkin-Elmer and VG should be acknowledged.
Lastly, thanks should go to Tony Kinsella,
Chris Tye and John Williams who
generously supported nocturnal drinking
and ensured a bright future for liver
specialists.
Simon Branch
Polytechnic South West, Plymouth, UK
Ninth Society for Analytical Chemistry (SAC) Conference: 30th July-
5th August 1989, University of Cambridge, UK
The ninth in a series of triennial conferences,
started originally by the Society for
Analytical Chemistry (SAC), was held at
the University of Cambridge, attracting
some 400 delegates including participants
from Europe, North America and Asia.
On each day of the meeting except
Wednesday, a plenary lecture was followed
by four parallel streams of invited
and contributed papers on many areas of
analytical chemistry, including electroanalytical
chemistry, chromatography,
sensors and chemometrics. Update
courses on chiral separation, chemiluminescence
and bioluminescence, near
infrared spectroscopy, laser based analytical
mass spectrometry and information
technologies for analytical chemists were
run on the Wednesday.
The final two days of the conference
included sessions covering atomic spectroscopy.
Plenary lectures on these two
days were given by Professor Gerrit Kateman
(Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and
Professor Alan Townshend (Hull, UK).
Professor Kateman highlighted the use of
expert systems and computer modelling in
fields such as laboratory performance
optimisation. Professor Townshend
delivered a very interesting review of the
use of chemiluminescence and enzymes in
analytical chemistry, showing some possible
applications, such as detectors for
liquid chromatography or for drug detection
in body fluids.
The first atomic spectroscopy session
began with an invited lecture by Dr. John
Marshall (ICI Wilton, UK) who considered
the changes that have occurred
over the last ten years in the field of
atomic spectroscopy and predicted that
future instrumentation would be highly
automated, carrying out self-diagnosis
and data interpretation using expert
systems.
The contributed lectures were concerned
with various aspects of ETAAS,
recent developments of ASIA and applications
of ICP-OES, including chromatographic
coupling and flow injection techniques.
The second atomic spectroscopy session
was split into two. Contributed papers
in the morning session dealt mainly
with solid-sampling methods for ICPOES.
The afternoon was given over to the
Alan Date Memorial Session on ICP-MS.
This session, held to commemorate the
pioneering work on ICP-MS by the late
Dr. Alan Date, began with an invited
lecture from Dr. R. S. Houk (Iowa State
University, Ames, IA, USA). This lecture
from another pioneering force in
ICP-MS, reviewed some of the fundamental
studies that are being carried out
at Iowa State University, in particular
experiments that highlight the complexities
of the processes that occur in the
interface region of the ICP-MS system.
Dr. J. Mather (British Geological Survey,
London, UK), gave a very fitting
profile of Alan Date’s career and achievements
and was followed by Dr. Alan Gray
(University of Surrey, Guildford, UK),
who gave a highly personal account of
collaborative work between himself and
Alan Date in the early days in the
development of ICP-MS at the University
of Surrey.
The final two lectures of the session
were given by Dr. Robert Hutton (VG
Elemental, Winsford, UK), with a report
on the latest developments on ETV - ICPMS
and high-resolution ICP-MS at VG
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557
During the session the Atomic Spectro- and flowers to Jan Date who then thanked
scopy Group of the Analytical Division of all present for their support over recent
the Royal Society of Chemistry presented months. John G. Williams
an engraved silver platter, crystal vase University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY, OCTOBER 1989, VOL. 4
Elemental, and Dr. Cameron McLeod
(Sheffield City Polytechnic, UK) who
discussed some aspects of flow injection
techniques for ICP-MS.
38th Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis:
July 3lst-August 4 1989, Denver, CO, USA
The Denver X-ray Conference was held
this year at the Denver Tech Center
Sheraton which is situated in the South
East corner of Denver. The distance of
this location from downtown and the
airport was largely offset by the fine views
which it offered over Denver and to the
14000-foot peaks in the Front Range of
the Rockies. The facilities for the Conference
and Exhibition were among the best
found for the Denver meeting in recent
years.
The Conference is designed to cover all
aspects of X-ray fluorescence (XRF)
spectrometry and X-ray diffraction
(XRD) and is the premier annual international
gathering for those active in
either field. The 1989 Conference attracted
over 300 attendees, the majority of
whom were from the USA with smaller
numbers from Europe and Japan. The
principal theme of the Conference alternates
each year between XRF and XRD
with this year being a diffraction year.
The main theme topic each year has the
majority of the presentations and this year
the split (XRD to XRF) was as follows:
Workshops (8 : 4); Posters (18 : 9); Plenary
Lectures (3 : 1); Sessions (6: 4); and
Submitted papers (58 : 35).
Workshops are one of the reasons for
the continuing success of the Denver
Conference and half-day Workshop sessions
take up the first two days. Each
year, those people with extensive knowledge
in a particular field of X-ray expertise
share their knowledge with those of us
who are less well acquainted with a
particular topic. The Workshop instructors
tak
Conference Reports
Third Surrey Conference on Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry: July
16th=19th, 1989, Guildford, Surrey, UK
Kym Jarvis and her organising team
obviously have a hot line to the Gods of
the weather, as once again the Surrey
ICP-MS meeting was blessed with perfect
weather. For this, the third such meeting,
over 100 delegates descended upon
Surrey University from the 16th-19th
July to discuss progress in applications,
instrumentation and understanding of this
exciting technique, barely out of its
infancy. Any meeting is only as good as its
invited lecturers and this year we were
very lucky to hear from distinguished
speakers from Europe and North
America. Appropriately the first of these
was Alan Gray who opened the first
session with a discussion of some of the
phenomena occurring in the interface
region. This lecture set the tone for a
session heartening for those users not
prepared to accept the limitations of the
technique, but instead to understand and
overcome them. The session included two
presentations from Polytechnic South
West on ways of defeating polyatomic ion
interferences, with Hywel Evans paper on
the use of molecular gases attracting
particular attention. The session closed
with a typically elegant presentation from
Jean-Michel Mermet on the origin of
oxides in the ICP-MS. The good doctor
was to further distinguish himself at the
banquet with a remarkable sartorial
ensemble.
The second session of the first day
consisted mainly of details of various
calibration and standardisation procedures
and included a particularly novel
Diane Beauchemin, joint winner of the Alan
Date Memorial Award
Published on 01 January 1989. Downloaded on 07/11/2014 10:01:48.
View Article Online / Journal Homepage / Table of Contents for this issue
556 JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY, OCTOBER 1989, VOL. 4
presentation from Michael Ketterer of the
US Environmental Protection Agency on
the use of multivariate calibration techniques
to overcome polyatomic interferences.
The session eneded with a lively
debate on the use of internal standards,
the general consensus being that a judicious
selection of internal standard based
on a knowledge of the sample can
improve the accuracy and precision of
results.
The morning of the second day consisted
principally of papers on various
aspects of laser ablation ICP-MS, the
audience being left with the conclusion
that although there is still a way to go,
quantitative LA - ICP-MS is not a long
time away. Currently, unless you own a
wide range of reference materials to use
as standards, the best accuracy appears to
be 10-20%. Klaus Dittrich rounded off
the morning by giving us some new
suggestions for ways of introducing microsamples
into plasmas. Perhaps there
should be a new international prize for the
researcher who gets the most hyphens
into one method?
The fourth session commenced with the
most poignant moment of the week with
the awards, by Jan Date herself, of the
first Alan Date Memorial Awards to Kym
Jarvis of Surrey University and Diane
Beauchemin of Queens University,
Ontario: two worthy recipients.
The session continued with details of a
number of interesting applications of ICPMS.
Perhaps it is churlish to pick one
paper but the lengths that Kelly Falkner
went to in order to determine gold in sea
water are worthy of note, as is the
practical detection limit of 20 fmol l-l!
Every conference must have at least one
person who suffers from gremlins in the
projector and Surrey’s victim was Hans
Vanhoe of the University of Ghent, the
final speaker of the day. However he
came through in style, and had more to
celebrate at the banquet where he was
awarded one of the poster prizes. The
other winner was Ed McCurdy of Surrey
University .
The two sessions of the final day
covered a diverse range of topics, beginning
with a highly entertaining invited
lecture from Lynda Faires on ICP-MS in
water quality laboratories and closing
with Alan Gray who discussed the analytical
utility of doubly-charged species.
Fittingly the final invited lecture looked to
the future with Neil Bradshaw detailing
progress towards high-resolution ICPMS.
The lecture programme was complemented
by a series of social events for
Kim Jarvis receiving the Alan Date Memorial
A ward from Jan Date
which the financial support of Nermag,
Perkin-Elmer and VG should be acknowledged.
Lastly, thanks should go to Tony Kinsella,
Chris Tye and John Williams who
generously supported nocturnal drinking
and ensured a bright future for liver
specialists.
Simon Branch
Polytechnic South West, Plymouth, UK
Ninth Society for Analytical Chemistry (SAC) Conference: 30th July-
5th August 1989, University of Cambridge, UK
The ninth in a series of triennial conferences,
started originally by the Society for
Analytical Chemistry (SAC), was held at
the University of Cambridge, attracting
some 400 delegates including participants
from Europe, North America and Asia.
On each day of the meeting except
Wednesday, a plenary lecture was followed
by four parallel streams of invited
and contributed papers on many areas of
analytical chemistry, including electroanalytical
chemistry, chromatography,
sensors and chemometrics. Update
courses on chiral separation, chemiluminescence
and bioluminescence, near
infrared spectroscopy, laser based analytical
mass spectrometry and information
technologies for analytical chemists were
run on the Wednesday.
The final two days of the conference
included sessions covering atomic spectroscopy.
Plenary lectures on these two
days were given by Professor Gerrit Kateman
(Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and
Professor Alan Townshend (Hull, UK).
Professor Kateman highlighted the use of
expert systems and computer modelling in
fields such as laboratory performance
optimisation. Professor Townshend
delivered a very interesting review of the
use of chemiluminescence and enzymes in
analytical chemistry, showing some possible
applications, such as detectors for
liquid chromatography or for drug detection
in body fluids.
The first atomic spectroscopy session
began with an invited lecture by Dr. John
Marshall (ICI Wilton, UK) who considered
the changes that have occurred
over the last ten years in the field of
atomic spectroscopy and predicted that
future instrumentation would be highly
automated, carrying out self-diagnosis
and data interpretation using expert
systems.
The contributed lectures were concerned
with various aspects of ETAAS,
recent developments of ASIA and applications
of ICP-OES, including chromatographic
coupling and flow injection techniques.
The second atomic spectroscopy session
was split into two. Contributed papers
in the morning session dealt mainly
with solid-sampling methods for ICPOES.
The afternoon was given over to the
Alan Date Memorial Session on ICP-MS.
This session, held to commemorate the
pioneering work on ICP-MS by the late
Dr. Alan Date, began with an invited
lecture from Dr. R. S. Houk (Iowa State
University, Ames, IA, USA). This lecture
from another pioneering force in
ICP-MS, reviewed some of the fundamental
studies that are being carried out
at Iowa State University, in particular
experiments that highlight the complexities
of the processes that occur in the
interface region of the ICP-MS system.
Dr. J. Mather (British Geological Survey,
London, UK), gave a very fitting
profile of Alan Date’s career and achievements
and was followed by Dr. Alan Gray
(University of Surrey, Guildford, UK),
who gave a highly personal account of
collaborative work between himself and
Alan Date in the early days in the
development of ICP-MS at the University
of Surrey.
The final two lectures of the session
were given by Dr. Robert Hutton (VG
Elemental, Winsford, UK), with a report
on the latest developments on ETV - ICPMS
and high-resolution ICP-MS at VG
Published on 01 January 1989. Downloaded on 07/11/2014 10:01:48.
View Article Online
557
During the session the Atomic Spectro- and flowers to Jan Date who then thanked
scopy Group of the Analytical Division of all present for their support over recent
the Royal Society of Chemistry presented months. John G. Williams
an engraved silver platter, crystal vase University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY, OCTOBER 1989, VOL. 4
Elemental, and Dr. Cameron McLeod
(Sheffield City Polytechnic, UK) who
discussed some aspects of flow injection
techniques for ICP-MS.
38th Annual Denver Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis:
July 3lst-August 4 1989, Denver, CO, USA
The Denver X-ray Conference was held
this year at the Denver Tech Center
Sheraton which is situated in the South
East corner of Denver. The distance of
this location from downtown and the
airport was largely offset by the fine views
which it offered over Denver and to the
14000-foot peaks in the Front Range of
the Rockies. The facilities for the Conference
and Exhibition were among the best
found for the Denver meeting in recent
years.
The Conference is designed to cover all
aspects of X-ray fluorescence (XRF)
spectrometry and X-ray diffraction
(XRD) and is the premier annual international
gathering for those active in
either field. The 1989 Conference attracted
over 300 attendees, the majority of
whom were from the USA with smaller
numbers from Europe and Japan. The
principal theme of the Conference alternates
each year between XRF and XRD
with this year being a diffraction year.
The main theme topic each year has the
majority of the presentations and this year
the split (XRD to XRF) was as follows:
Workshops (8 : 4); Posters (18 : 9); Plenary
Lectures (3 : 1); Sessions (6: 4); and
Submitted papers (58 : 35).
Workshops are one of the reasons for
the continuing success of the Denver
Conference and half-day Workshop sessions
take up the first two days. Each
year, those people with extensive knowledge
in a particular field of X-ray expertise
share their knowledge with those of us
who are less well acquainted with a
particular topic. The Workshop instructors
tak
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