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COLLOQUIUM SPECTROSCOPICUM INTERNATIONALE XXXI, September 5–10, 1999, Ankara, Turkey
Talanta 53 (2000) 1 – 4 www.elsevier.com/locate/talanta
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COLLOQUIUM SPECTROSCOPICUM INTERNATIONALE XXXI, September 5–10, 1999, Ankara, Turkey
In the first week of September 1999, the Organization Committee members and all the students who took part in preparations for Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale (CSI) XXXI were in an excited mood. Everything was ready and the members of the Student Associate Committee were making the last checks, investigating on all the details of the audio-visual equipment in the halls where the talks were going to take place. The first international guests were going to be met at the airport and the teams for transportation were also all ready. After several thousands of letters, hundreds of fax messages and about two thousand e-mail messages sent or received, we were ready for CSI XXXI. During CSI XXIX which took place in Leipzig, Germany, we were attending the meeting with a Turkish team of about ten spectroscopists, ready to present the invitation by The Turkish Chemical Society to be the host for CSI XXXI. After the National Delegates Meeting, it was decided that we were going to be the organizers of CSI XXXI, the last of its series in this century and the first one in Turkey. As usual, after meeting the first guests from Esenbog˘a Airport of Ankara, our excitement was subsided, we were ready for a week of pleasant scientific journey with the best spectroscopists of our planet.
The venue for CSI XXXI, Ankara was established about 3000 years ago by the Hittites, with the name of Akuwash. The city lived through the times of Hittites, then Phrygians, Alexander the Great, Galatians, Romans, Seljuk Turks and finally Ottomans, with the several ancient names of Ankyra, Angora and Engu¨riye. Ankara was a small town until M. Kemal Atatu¨rk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, decided in 1920 that the town was going to be the host for the new parliament, the center of the Turkish Liberation War against the invaders and then finally the capital of the Turkish Republic established afterwards. Today, with a population of about five millions, Ankara is the heart of the state and diplomatic affairs of the country. The conference site was the new Cultural and Convention Center of the Middle East Technical University (METU), known as one of the best higher education centers of Turkey. In addition to six plenary and 40 invited lectures delivered during CSI XXXI, there were 88 oral and 310 poster presentations; the participants from a total of 44 countries all over the world attended; about 100 delegates out of a total of 350 were from Turkey. The Editors of Talanta have kindly accepted to publish a special issue covering the submitted manuscripts in the field of Molecular Spectrome-
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try. Another major analytical chemistry journal, Spectrochimica Acta Part B, also accepted to publish another special issue including the articles dealing with Atomic Spectrometry. In addition to the events of common interest, in this article we shall be dealing only with the presentations in Molecular Spectrometry during CSI XXXI. The series of social events started Sunday evening by a concert of the ethnic-jazz group Asia Minor, that was followed by a cocktail party, The Night of Excitation. A short opening ceremony on Monday morning included the speeches by O. Yavuz Ataman, Chairman of CSI XXXI, and Ali Rıza Berkem, Chairman of the Turkish Chemical Society, followed by Bernhard Schrader who addressed the audience replacing Tuan Vo-Dinh, IUPAC representative. Ural Akbulut, Vice President of METU concluded the opening speeches. Monday Invited Lectures and Oral Presentations were delivered in five streams. The Invited Lectures on molecular spectrometry were given by Antony C. Calokerinos (Greece) on the recent developments in chemiluminescence and Irina Terenetskaya (Ukraine) on spectral monitoring of biologically active solar UVB radiation using an in 6itro model of Vitamin D synthesis. At the end of the morning session, following a tea break, the second half of the morning was reserved for poster presentations and exhibition. The Monday Posters were presented in the fields of AAS, preconcentration, sample preparation, speciation, applications in mining, geology, hydrology, food and diet in addition to the works on X-ray diffraction, X-ray and electron spectrometry. The posters, exhibition stands of the manufacturer companies and the tea break activities were held in the same location to provide an active interaction among all the participants. The same posterexhibition schedule was followed in the other working days of the symposium with posters, Tuesday and Thursday. The Organization Committee had originally planned a rich folk music and dance show for the Monday evening. However, because of the unfortunate earthquakes that claimed a lot of lives in Turkey, The Ministry of Culture had to cancel all the programs to be performed by their teams.
Despite this inconvenience, a small student folk dancing group came to our help to cheer up The Night of Relaxation that was generously sponsored by Perkin–Elmer. All the participants enjoyed this modest but warm party. Towards the end of the evening, the winners of the dancing contest were announced as Ms. Luise Laqua (Kurt Laqua’s wife) and Professor Hubertus Nickel (Chairman of CSI XXIX, Leipzig, Germany) by a unanimous vote of the participants cheering for the nice performance. The Plenary Lecturers of Tuesday were two prominent scientists in the field of vibrational spectroscopy. Peter R. Griffiths (USA) lecturing on novel approaches to open-path atmospheric monitoring by FTIR technique was followed by Bernhard Schrader (Germany) who talked on non-destructive NIR FT-RAMAN spectroscopy of plant and animal tissues, food and art works among which some Turkish carpets were also investigated. The Invited and Oral presentations of Tuesday were organized in five parallel streams. The Invited Lecturers in molecular spectrometry included Ernst-Heiner Korte (Germany) talking on ellipsometric studies of surface-enhanced Infrared absorption and Sriramula Mohan (India) who presented the recent developments in IR and Raman spectroscopy. The Tuesday Posters covered the areas of UVVIS, fluorescence, IR, Raman, NMR, ESR and EPR techniques, advances in molecular spectrometry and applications. The scientific activities of Tuesday was ended by 16:00 h, so that some of the participants could take the bus to Cappadocia trip which would be ended by Wednesday evening. Some of our guests preferred an organized tour of Ankara on Wednesday, while some others chose to see the University Campus and or Ankara by themselves. Thursday morning, the CSI XXXI community was back at work. The Invited Lectures and Oral Presentations were delivered again in five streams. There were two Invited Lecturers on vibrational spectroscopy, Janos Mink (Hungary) who talked on FTIR studies on atmospheric pollutants and Pavel Schmidt (Czech Republic) whose lecture covered investigations of polymer blends and
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composites by FTIR and Raman spectroscopies. The only Invited Lecture on NMR was delivered by C ¸ akıl Erk (Turkey) who talked on cation complexing of macrocycles with 13C NMR dipolar relaxation time measurements. Thursday was the last day of CSI XXXI with posters, the subjects covered were atomic emission and mass spectrometry, optical sensors and spectrometric applications on archaeometry, health and environment. After the scientific sessions, two important conference activities were held during Thursday Evening. The first of these was The National Delegates Meeting which was attended by the national delegates of 34 nations where each country could have two representatives; the meeting was also open to conference public. Professor Robert I. McCrindle, the Chairman of the next CSI, invited all the participants to attend the CSI XXXII to be held in Pretoria, South Africa in the summer of 2001. After the discussions and presentations of Belgium, Spain and China, both Belgian and Chinese delegates withdrew their offers for organizing the CSI XXXIII in 2005; Spain was thus appointed as the host for this conference. The Spanish national delegates Alfredo Sanz-Medel and Javerna Laserna stated that the venue will be Granada. The candidate hosts for CSI XXXIV in 2005 were Belgium, China and USA–Canada in collaboration. The full report for CSI XXXI National Delegates Meeting is available on the conference web page, http:// www.metu.edu.tr/ wwwcsi31. The conference dinner, namely The Night of Absorption, was held with the attendance of about 250 participants in Hotel 2000, downtown, Ankara. A night of dining, music and friendship was shared by the attenders. The younger Turkish spectrometrists from the Student Associate Committee, who were most helpful during scientific sessions and other young people who helped for registration, transport, tours and accommodation attended the dinner, well deserving the appreciation shown by the participants. Friday was the last working day; CSI XXXI was reaching to its final moments as all the good things come to an end. A single staged quadrupole and ion-trap mass spectrometer used as an
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odour and flavour sensor was the subject of an interestingInvited Lecture from Parlar’s (Germany) group; the lecture was presented by Brigitte Dittmann. A rather philosophical Invited Lecture was presented by another Invited Lecturer, Serge Walter (France), with the title of ‘Spectroscopy, Between Light and Matter: The Way Towards a New Paradigm?’. Another Invited Lecturer, Yousry M. Issa (Egypt) presented the use of spectroscopic techniques in pharmaceutical analysis. Among the concluding ceremonies were the presentation of Best Poster Prizes for Monday, Tuesday and Thursday posters, in the dear memories of John M. Ottaway, Velmer A. Fassel and Sir Alan Walsh, respectively. Committees consisting of Bernhard Welz (Brasil) and Su¨leyman Akman (Turkey) for Monday, Ernst-Heiner Korte (Germany) and S¸efik Su¨zer (Turkey) for Tuesday, Yngvar Thomassen (Norway) and Mehmet Dog˘an (Turkey) for Thursday posters made the selections and presented the prizes. The Best Monday Poster Prize was given to Harald Berndt (Germany) for his poster PMO-2, ‘Simulation of the Aerosol Transport in a Cyclon Spray Chamber Using Computational Fluid Dynamics’, coauthored by G. Schaldach and L. Berger. Z. Gabelica (France) received The Best Tuesday Poster Prize for the work co-authored by S. Valange, A. Simon, L. Delmotte, B. Onida, F. Geobaldo and E. Garrone, PTU-85 which was entitled as ‘Combined FTIR-1H NMR-19F NMR Investigation of the Acidity of Silicalite, Al-MFI and Ga-MFI Zeolites Prepared from Alkali Cation-Free Alkylamine Media’. The winner for Thursday was the poster numbered as PTH-31 and entitled as ‘Isotope Dilution ICP-MS Measurement of Barium in Seawater: Improvement of the Accuracy with a New Approach To Correct for Mass Bias’; the prize was received by J. Navez (Belgium); the co-authors were F. Dehairs and T. Cattaldo. Following the presentation of Best Poster Prizes, Ali Rıza Berkem, the Chairman of The Turkish Chemical Society, presented the Honorary Membership of the Turkish Chemical Society to Bernhard Schrader (Germany), for his help, encouragement and collaborative guidance with the Turkish spectrometrists.
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The CSI Award, with the unanimous vote of the members of the CSI Continuation Committee, was presented to Kurt Laqua who has been working in the field of atomic spectrometry for over 50 years, for his scientific contributions and his openminded, collaborative style and guidance he provided to many scientists all over the world. The CSI award was presented to Kurt Laqua by Ali Rıza Berkem. A standing ovation by the participants expressed the general agreement and the excitement over the presentation of CSI Award to Kurt Laqua. The activities of Friday and CSI XXXI came to an end after Kurt Laqua’s Plenary Lecture entitled as ‘Success and Failure of New Developments in Analytical Atomic Spectrometry’. For us, the members of The Turkish Chemical Society, the host of CSI XXXI, this event has been a most exciting and rewarding experience. It has been a pleasure to host the most distinguished
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scientists from all over the world, having new friends and relations to last for a lifetime. In the moments while the special issues are being printed, the preparations for the CSI XXXII has already started; please visit their web page addressed as http://www.up/ac.za/academic/ chem/conf/welcome.htm. We all hope to meet our spectroscopist friends in other meetings. Thank you all for being in Ankara with us and sharing your science with us. Let us meet in Pretoria, South Africa for the CSI XXXIII in July, 2001. O. Yavuz Ataman (CSI XXXI Chairman) Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical Uni6ersity, 06531 Ankara, Turkey E-mail: [email protected]
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COLLOQUIUM SPECTROSCOPICUM INTERNATIONALE XXXI, September 5–10, 1999, Ankara, Turkey
In the first week of September 1999, the Organization Committee members and all the students who took part in preparations for Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale (CSI) XXXI were in an excited mood. Everything was ready and the members of the Student Associate Committee were making the last checks, investigating on all the details of the audio-visual equipment in the halls where the talks were going to take place. The first international guests were going to be met at the airport and the teams for transportation were also all ready. After several thousands of letters, hundreds of fax messages and about two thousand e-mail messages sent or received, we were ready for CSI XXXI. During CSI XXIX which took place in Leipzig, Germany, we were attending the meeting with a Turkish team of about ten spectroscopists, ready to present the invitation by The Turkish Chemical Society to be the host for CSI XXXI. After the National Delegates Meeting, it was decided that we were going to be the organizers of CSI XXXI, the last of its series in this century and the first one in Turkey. As usual, after meeting the first guests from Esenbog˘a Airport of Ankara, our excitement was subsided, we were ready for a week of pleasant scientific journey with the best spectroscopists of our planet.
The venue for CSI XXXI, Ankara was established about 3000 years ago by the Hittites, with the name of Akuwash. The city lived through the times of Hittites, then Phrygians, Alexander the Great, Galatians, Romans, Seljuk Turks and finally Ottomans, with the several ancient names of Ankyra, Angora and Engu¨riye. Ankara was a small town until M. Kemal Atatu¨rk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, decided in 1920 that the town was going to be the host for the new parliament, the center of the Turkish Liberation War against the invaders and then finally the capital of the Turkish Republic established afterwards. Today, with a population of about five millions, Ankara is the heart of the state and diplomatic affairs of the country. The conference site was the new Cultural and Convention Center of the Middle East Technical University (METU), known as one of the best higher education centers of Turkey. In addition to six plenary and 40 invited lectures delivered during CSI XXXI, there were 88 oral and 310 poster presentations; the participants from a total of 44 countries all over the world attended; about 100 delegates out of a total of 350 were from Turkey. The Editors of Talanta have kindly accepted to publish a special issue covering the submitted manuscripts in the field of Molecular Spectrome-
0039-9140/00/$ - see front matter © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PII: S 0 0 3 9 - 9 1 4 0 ( 0 0 ) 0 0 4 9 9 - 9
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try. Another major analytical chemistry journal, Spectrochimica Acta Part B, also accepted to publish another special issue including the articles dealing with Atomic Spectrometry. In addition to the events of common interest, in this article we shall be dealing only with the presentations in Molecular Spectrometry during CSI XXXI. The series of social events started Sunday evening by a concert of the ethnic-jazz group Asia Minor, that was followed by a cocktail party, The Night of Excitation. A short opening ceremony on Monday morning included the speeches by O. Yavuz Ataman, Chairman of CSI XXXI, and Ali Rıza Berkem, Chairman of the Turkish Chemical Society, followed by Bernhard Schrader who addressed the audience replacing Tuan Vo-Dinh, IUPAC representative. Ural Akbulut, Vice President of METU concluded the opening speeches. Monday Invited Lectures and Oral Presentations were delivered in five streams. The Invited Lectures on molecular spectrometry were given by Antony C. Calokerinos (Greece) on the recent developments in chemiluminescence and Irina Terenetskaya (Ukraine) on spectral monitoring of biologically active solar UVB radiation using an in 6itro model of Vitamin D synthesis. At the end of the morning session, following a tea break, the second half of the morning was reserved for poster presentations and exhibition. The Monday Posters were presented in the fields of AAS, preconcentration, sample preparation, speciation, applications in mining, geology, hydrology, food and diet in addition to the works on X-ray diffraction, X-ray and electron spectrometry. The posters, exhibition stands of the manufacturer companies and the tea break activities were held in the same location to provide an active interaction among all the participants. The same posterexhibition schedule was followed in the other working days of the symposium with posters, Tuesday and Thursday. The Organization Committee had originally planned a rich folk music and dance show for the Monday evening. However, because of the unfortunate earthquakes that claimed a lot of lives in Turkey, The Ministry of Culture had to cancel all the programs to be performed by their teams.
Despite this inconvenience, a small student folk dancing group came to our help to cheer up The Night of Relaxation that was generously sponsored by Perkin–Elmer. All the participants enjoyed this modest but warm party. Towards the end of the evening, the winners of the dancing contest were announced as Ms. Luise Laqua (Kurt Laqua’s wife) and Professor Hubertus Nickel (Chairman of CSI XXIX, Leipzig, Germany) by a unanimous vote of the participants cheering for the nice performance. The Plenary Lecturers of Tuesday were two prominent scientists in the field of vibrational spectroscopy. Peter R. Griffiths (USA) lecturing on novel approaches to open-path atmospheric monitoring by FTIR technique was followed by Bernhard Schrader (Germany) who talked on non-destructive NIR FT-RAMAN spectroscopy of plant and animal tissues, food and art works among which some Turkish carpets were also investigated. The Invited and Oral presentations of Tuesday were organized in five parallel streams. The Invited Lecturers in molecular spectrometry included Ernst-Heiner Korte (Germany) talking on ellipsometric studies of surface-enhanced Infrared absorption and Sriramula Mohan (India) who presented the recent developments in IR and Raman spectroscopy. The Tuesday Posters covered the areas of UVVIS, fluorescence, IR, Raman, NMR, ESR and EPR techniques, advances in molecular spectrometry and applications. The scientific activities of Tuesday was ended by 16:00 h, so that some of the participants could take the bus to Cappadocia trip which would be ended by Wednesday evening. Some of our guests preferred an organized tour of Ankara on Wednesday, while some others chose to see the University Campus and or Ankara by themselves. Thursday morning, the CSI XXXI community was back at work. The Invited Lectures and Oral Presentations were delivered again in five streams. There were two Invited Lecturers on vibrational spectroscopy, Janos Mink (Hungary) who talked on FTIR studies on atmospheric pollutants and Pavel Schmidt (Czech Republic) whose lecture covered investigations of polymer blends and
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composites by FTIR and Raman spectroscopies. The only Invited Lecture on NMR was delivered by C ¸ akıl Erk (Turkey) who talked on cation complexing of macrocycles with 13C NMR dipolar relaxation time measurements. Thursday was the last day of CSI XXXI with posters, the subjects covered were atomic emission and mass spectrometry, optical sensors and spectrometric applications on archaeometry, health and environment. After the scientific sessions, two important conference activities were held during Thursday Evening. The first of these was The National Delegates Meeting which was attended by the national delegates of 34 nations where each country could have two representatives; the meeting was also open to conference public. Professor Robert I. McCrindle, the Chairman of the next CSI, invited all the participants to attend the CSI XXXII to be held in Pretoria, South Africa in the summer of 2001. After the discussions and presentations of Belgium, Spain and China, both Belgian and Chinese delegates withdrew their offers for organizing the CSI XXXIII in 2005; Spain was thus appointed as the host for this conference. The Spanish national delegates Alfredo Sanz-Medel and Javerna Laserna stated that the venue will be Granada. The candidate hosts for CSI XXXIV in 2005 were Belgium, China and USA–Canada in collaboration. The full report for CSI XXXI National Delegates Meeting is available on the conference web page, http:// www.metu.edu.tr/ wwwcsi31. The conference dinner, namely The Night of Absorption, was held with the attendance of about 250 participants in Hotel 2000, downtown, Ankara. A night of dining, music and friendship was shared by the attenders. The younger Turkish spectrometrists from the Student Associate Committee, who were most helpful during scientific sessions and other young people who helped for registration, transport, tours and accommodation attended the dinner, well deserving the appreciation shown by the participants. Friday was the last working day; CSI XXXI was reaching to its final moments as all the good things come to an end. A single staged quadrupole and ion-trap mass spectrometer used as an
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odour and flavour sensor was the subject of an interestingInvited Lecture from Parlar’s (Germany) group; the lecture was presented by Brigitte Dittmann. A rather philosophical Invited Lecture was presented by another Invited Lecturer, Serge Walter (France), with the title of ‘Spectroscopy, Between Light and Matter: The Way Towards a New Paradigm?’. Another Invited Lecturer, Yousry M. Issa (Egypt) presented the use of spectroscopic techniques in pharmaceutical analysis. Among the concluding ceremonies were the presentation of Best Poster Prizes for Monday, Tuesday and Thursday posters, in the dear memories of John M. Ottaway, Velmer A. Fassel and Sir Alan Walsh, respectively. Committees consisting of Bernhard Welz (Brasil) and Su¨leyman Akman (Turkey) for Monday, Ernst-Heiner Korte (Germany) and S¸efik Su¨zer (Turkey) for Tuesday, Yngvar Thomassen (Norway) and Mehmet Dog˘an (Turkey) for Thursday posters made the selections and presented the prizes. The Best Monday Poster Prize was given to Harald Berndt (Germany) for his poster PMO-2, ‘Simulation of the Aerosol Transport in a Cyclon Spray Chamber Using Computational Fluid Dynamics’, coauthored by G. Schaldach and L. Berger. Z. Gabelica (France) received The Best Tuesday Poster Prize for the work co-authored by S. Valange, A. Simon, L. Delmotte, B. Onida, F. Geobaldo and E. Garrone, PTU-85 which was entitled as ‘Combined FTIR-1H NMR-19F NMR Investigation of the Acidity of Silicalite, Al-MFI and Ga-MFI Zeolites Prepared from Alkali Cation-Free Alkylamine Media’. The winner for Thursday was the poster numbered as PTH-31 and entitled as ‘Isotope Dilution ICP-MS Measurement of Barium in Seawater: Improvement of the Accuracy with a New Approach To Correct for Mass Bias’; the prize was received by J. Navez (Belgium); the co-authors were F. Dehairs and T. Cattaldo. Following the presentation of Best Poster Prizes, Ali Rıza Berkem, the Chairman of The Turkish Chemical Society, presented the Honorary Membership of the Turkish Chemical Society to Bernhard Schrader (Germany), for his help, encouragement and collaborative guidance with the Turkish spectrometrists.
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The CSI Award, with the unanimous vote of the members of the CSI Continuation Committee, was presented to Kurt Laqua who has been working in the field of atomic spectrometry for over 50 years, for his scientific contributions and his openminded, collaborative style and guidance he provided to many scientists all over the world. The CSI award was presented to Kurt Laqua by Ali Rıza Berkem. A standing ovation by the participants expressed the general agreement and the excitement over the presentation of CSI Award to Kurt Laqua. The activities of Friday and CSI XXXI came to an end after Kurt Laqua’s Plenary Lecture entitled as ‘Success and Failure of New Developments in Analytical Atomic Spectrometry’. For us, the members of The Turkish Chemical Society, the host of CSI XXXI, this event has been a most exciting and rewarding experience. It has been a pleasure to host the most distinguished
.
scientists from all over the world, having new friends and relations to last for a lifetime. In the moments while the special issues are being printed, the preparations for the CSI XXXII has already started; please visit their web page addressed as http://www.up/ac.za/academic/ chem/conf/welcome.htm. We all hope to meet our spectroscopist friends in other meetings. Thank you all for being in Ankara with us and sharing your science with us. Let us meet in Pretoria, South Africa for the CSI XXXIII in July, 2001. O. Yavuz Ataman (CSI XXXI Chairman) Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical Uni6ersity, 06531 Ankara, Turkey E-mail: [email protected]