Posts Tagged ‘Conference’
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December 10th, 2009
MRS Fall meeting 2009
I’ve spent the week at the Materials Research Society Fall meeting, and have been really impressed by much of the research presented. Gold-related work has been prominent, with literally hundreds of oral presentations and posters on offer. In fact, I’ve not been able to see everything!
There have been many highlights – Michael Natan gave an excellent overview of Oxonicas work on SERS active particles. Naomi Halas (and students) from Rice University have given a series of good presentations on plasmonics and nanotechnology, and Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli spoke about her groups work at MIT on gold nanorods. There was also an entire session devoted to gold catalysis, with contributions from the labs of Kung, Haruta and Flyzani-Stephanopoulos.
All in all an excellent meeting… Look out for a more thorough review in the next issue of Gold Bulletin.
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November 2nd, 2009
UK Nanoforum 2009
Tomorrow sees the start of the 2009 UK nanoforum in London. This 2 day meeting boasts a really strong programme with a nice spread of sessions including Life Sciences & Healthcare; Energy & Environment; and Materials & Devices. There is also an exhibition showcasing an array of companies, from established organisations through to new start-ups.
I’ll be attending as a delegate, and would be happy to meet meet up with anyone interested in the WGCs Innovation Partnerships programme – feel free to collar me tomorrow!
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August 20th, 2009
Nanoparticles 2009
I’m looking forward to attending the Nanoparticles 2009 meeting in Liverpool in early September. The organisers of this RSC/SCI sponsored meeting have brought together a really strong programme of presentations covering the synthesis, properties and applications of nanoparticles. There is even a presentation from Andrew Miller MP discussing parliament’s understanding of science.If any of our readers are attending the event and would like to meet to discuss the World Gold Council’s support of nanotechnology research through our GROW programme please drop me a line.
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July 28th, 2009
Biosensing and Biomedicine at GOLD2009
Yesterday was my second day in the job with the World Gold Council, so being able to start at such a fantastic meeting here in Heidelberg has been a great introduction for me into the science of gold.
Coming from a pharmaceutical background my attention was immediately drawn to some of the innovations in the field of biosensing and biomedicine. Vincent Rotello from the University of Massachusetts presented an excellent paper on the use of gold nanoparticles in diagnostics and therapeutics, a field I believe is going to become increasingly important in the coming years as a consequence of many pharmaceutical organisations gradual shift in focus from small molecule drug development to the field of biopharmaceutics. Qun Huo, from the University of Central Florida, then presented her fascinating work on the development of a sensitive, yet simple and cost effective, immunoassay technique combining gold nanoparticulates with the robust analytical technique of Dynamic Light Scattering. Christophe Alric from the University of Lyon wrapped up the session with an excellent review of his groups work in the use of gold nanoparticles specifically designed for in vivo SRCT and MRI imaging and X-ray therapy.
A truly excellent session of innovative science which has whetted my appetite for the rest of the meeting.
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July 27th, 2009
Start of Gold 2009
So, after many months of planning and organising, we’ve finally just had the opening of GOLD 2009. The event was officially opened by World Gold Council CEO, Aram Shishmanian and following welcomes from the Organising Committee and the local organisers at the University of Heidelberg, it was straight into three first class general interest talks.
The aim of this first session was to get the attendees, all interested in gold science and the use of this science in practical new uses, to consider the wider gold industry. So, Peter Kondos, from the world’s largest gold producer Barrick Gold provided ‘An Overview of Modern Mining’. Christian Hagelüken, from Umicore then spoke of the growing industry based on ’Recycling of gold from electronics’ before the session ended with Christiane Eluère, from Musee De France, describing ”The earliest story of gold and goldwork in continental Europe’. It was a diverse and fascinating session and following a fine welcoming reception with food and drink, I think most attendees are in great shape for today’s main programme. Can’t wait……
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July 8th, 2009
Next issue of Gold Bulletin now available!!
Hi everyoneIt’s here at last, Issue 42(2) of Gold Bulletin.
We have an issue bursting with lots of gold news and science and a superb Guest Editorial from Prof James (Jim) Johnstone from Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand.
We have all the lastest information about Gold 2009 ; the Keynote presentations , the opening Plenary presentations and all the info on the main conference sessions
We have seven wonderful scientific papers from a range of disciplines including Metallurgy, Catalysis, Analytical and also Nanotechnolgy. Also a book review of Mark Grimwade’s Introduction to Precious Metals – Metallurgy for Jewellers and Silversmiths.
Also our regular features of Highlights from Recent Literature and a summary of Calendar Events comming up in the near future.
Hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think. I always like to hear your views.
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June 17th, 2009
Over 300 already registered for GOLD 2009!
Join us in the beautiful city of Heidelberg!
The provisional conference programme for GOLD 2009 is now online at www.gold2009.org
Over 300 people have already registered for the event – that’s more than the number who attended the last conference in this series, GOLD 2006, Limerick, Ireland. We are all set for the biggest and best gold conference yet…!
Register now on the conference website to join us in Heidelberg.
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May 28th, 2009
GOLD 2009 Conference Programme
The provisional programme for GOLD2009 has been announced here……
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May 12th, 2009
SEMI Technology Symposium
The Call for Papers for the SEMI Technology Symposium is now open.
This 28th annual event will be held between 2-4 December at the Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan in conjunction with SEMICON Japan 2009. The submission deadline is June 19, 2009. In 2008, the event featured 92 technical lectures, and attracted over 1,098 attendees.
Themes covered by the event will include gold’s use in the semiconductor industry and will interest IC manufacturers, academic and research institutes, equipment manufacturers and materials suppliers. For more information, visit www.semi.org.
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May 11th, 2009
Gold 2009 – Early Bird Registration
Last few days to get the Early Bird Registration for GOLD 2009…..
Trevor Keel
Richard Holliday
Tricia Harris
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