August 2006 Newsletter.

Contents

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1. Editorial
   Forthcoming Events:
   
2. CALL FOR PAPERS:
   9^th November 2006 Autumn Meeting
   17th - 19th April 2007 XRD - Spring Meeting, University of Canterbury, Kent.
   17th - 19th April 2007 XRF - Spring Meeting, University of Canterbury, Kent.
   Meeting Reports:
   
3. 2006 Spring Meeting Reports & photographs
   
4. 2006 XRF Joint BCA/RSC Meeting Report & photographs
   News, Competitions & Notices:
5. XRF News.
6. XRD QUIZ.
7. Industrial Group Award.
8. Sudoku Solution from last edition.
9. Web Site of Month suggestions wanted.
10. Committee Members and Addresses (2006-7)

Diary Dates for 2006-7:
9^th November 2006 Autumn Meeting, Pilkington plc, Lathom, Lancashire.
17th - 19th April 2007 Spring Meeting, University of Canterbury, Kent.

Editorial

Welcome to the BCA Industrial Group Newsletter and my first as its Newsletter Editor. You will find in its pages plenty of information concerning forthcoming meetings and reports of meetings held this year. Planning is now well advanced for next years BCA Spring meeting at the University of Cantebury. There is something to keep you occupied over the full three days including a comprehensive exhibition featuring all the major suppliers, a real chance to update your product knowledge in a fast changing market place. I have included some initial information concerning the content of the XRD and XRF sessions at the meeting. Check out both the BCA web pages and the Industrial Group web pages for more information.

The Newsletter also contains a comprehensive set of reports from the BCA Spring Meeting 2006 at Lancaster University. Thanks goes to all those who took time out from their busy work and home(!) lives to put together the reports.

Congratulations to Paul Fewster (Panalytical), the winner of the Industrial Group award at the Spring Meeting, for his contributions to industrial crystallography and the BCA (see page 2).

For you XRD people with an interest in XRF page 11 gives you some information about activities in this area. However, get yourselves onto the XRF mailing list (see below) to be kept even more informed.

Planning is now underway for the Autumn meeting at the Pilkington European Technical Centre, Lancashire (see page 4). Here's your chance to not only hear some good presentations on Industrial Crystallography but also to take a tour of the Exhibition Centre which highlights the many applications of glass and coated glass products. See you there.

Mark Farnworth
Newsletter Editor

Situations Vacant:

We now have a web page offering links to situations vacant in the XRF and XRD fields. We do not host any advertisements on our the pages but provide links to other sites advertising suitable jobs.

To have a link to your job vacancies on the IG page, or if you spot a vacancy we should be listing, please contact the IG Web Editor

Go to Situations Vacant Web Page

Sudoku:

Solution to David Beveridge's puzzle from the last issue.

Web Site of the Month

Each month we feature a link to a web site of the month at the foot of the IG home page and the XRF home page. Please send suggestions for future featured sites to the IG Web editor. You can check sites previously listed on the archive page.