The 2020 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, 21st in a series of biennial meetings sponsored by the ICP Information Newsletter, features developments in plasma spectrochemical analysis by inductively coupled plasma (ICP), dc plasma (DCP), microwave plasma (MIP), glow discharge (GDL, HCL), and laser sources (LA, LIBS). The meeting will be held Monday, January 13 through Saturday, January 18, 2020, in Tucson, Arizona, (www.visitTucson.org) at the El Conquistador Tucson Resort (www.hiltonelconquistador.com). Professional development short courses at introductory and advanced levels and manufacturers' seminars will be offered Friday through Monday, January 10 - 13. Spectroscopic instrumentation and accessories will be shown during a three-day exhibition from January 14 to 16, and workshops on New Plasma Instrumentation, Clinical ICP-MS, Isotope Analysis, Elemental Imaging and Mass Cytometry, and Elemental Speciation methodology will be presented Tuesday through Friday afternoons.
Topics: Symposia on Trace Elements, Stable Isotope, and Elemental Speciation Analyses • Biological Imaging and Speciation Analyses • Certified Reference Materials, Quality Control, Metrology • Chemicals, Pure Reagents, Ultrapure Water • Clinical Biomonitoring, Imaging, and Mass Cytometry • Earth, Marine, and Geological Sciences • Environmental, Agricultural, and Food Sciences • Fundamental Processes, Basic Studies • Petroleum Materials, Products, and Organic Solvents • Pharmaceutical, Supplements, Nutraceutical Analysis • Plasma Instrumentation, Sample Presentation • Provenance, Authentication, Source Origin, Forensics • Radioisotopes and Nuclear Materials Analyses • Semiconductor Materials Analyses • Solids, Surfaces, Interfaces, and Nanomaterials Symposium Topics • Elemental speciation and speciation sample preparation • Excitation mechanisms and plasma phenomena • Flow injection and fractionation spectrochemical analysis • Glow discharge atomic and mass spectrometry • Inductively coupled plasma atomic and mass spectrometry • Laser ablation and induced breakdown spectrometry • Microwave atomic and mass spectrometry • Micronebulization systems, microplasma systems • Plasma chromatographic detectors, combined systems • Plasma instrumentation, automation, detectors, spectro-meters, 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 data bases • Stable isotope analyses and applications