Welcome to the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, which will be held at the Congress and Convention Center of the Zaragoza World Trade Center (WTCZ) from January 30 to February 4, 2011. The European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry has positioned itself as a privileged forum for the discussion of the most relevant advances, as well as the challenges remaining, in Plasma Spectrochemistry. The next edition will feature lecture and poster sessions covering the latest in plasma fundamentals, laser-assisted methodologies, isotopic analysis, imaging and speciation techniques, metallomics and nanotechnology, among other topics. A number of selected free short courses will also be programmed. See you in Zaragoza!
The first Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry was held in San
Juan, Puerto Rico in 1980. Since then, a total of 30 meetings have been
organized considering those celebrated in America, Europe (since 1985)
and more recently in Asia (since 2006), thanks to the growing popularity
reached by the first editions. Attendance has grown from 170 in 1980 to
more than 600 with world-wide scientific participation representing 30
countries. Technical sessions comprise lectures and posters describing
application, fundamental, and instrumentation developments with popular
electrical plasma sources. The inductively coupled plasma (ICP), glow
discharge sources, microwave induced plasma, direct current plasma, and
laser-assisted plasma spectrochemistry are featured. New spectrometric
instrumentation, novel sample introduction systems, plasma system
automation, sample preparation approaches, elemental speciation,
spectroscopic standards, quality assurance, new diagnostic
characteristics, and theoretical treatments are highlighted.
Scope of the Conference
The aim of the conference is to provide a forum to encourage the
exchange of ideas and knowledge about recent developments and
state-of-the-art knowledge in main areas of analytical plasma
spectrochemistry. The conference will bring together international
participants experienced in fundamental aspects, instrumentation and
applications to examine recent progress in this continuing growing
field. Five plenary conferences related to fundamentals, Laser-assisted
plasma spectrometry, stable isotope analysis and speciation will be
presented by distinguished scientist. A total of 16 Invited Lectures and
more than 50 oral communications will be scheduled, including topics
such as sample introduction, micronebulization, sample preparation, glow
discharge atomic and mass spectrometry, nanotechnology, imaging or
metallomics.
Also a number of short courses will be offered to all participants
(registration required at no extra cost) during the meeting related to
the main topics of the conference. The aims of these short courses are
to provide plasma users the possibility of learning more about
theoretical and practical issues as well as obtain specialists
recommendations for methods improvements.
Also a Workshop on Analytical Control Labs using plasmas will be
scheduled.
