Welcome to the third issue of the British Crystallographic Association (BCA) Industrial Group dedicated XRF Newsletter. There is a copy of this Newsletter on the web.
Many thanks to those who attended the very successful meeting in May and the generous meeting sponsors. Please consider giving a talk at our April 2008 meeting, our continued success depends on you and your friends and colleagues getting involved in our meetings.

Our recent XRF meeting.
Our meeting at the British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham on the 10th May 2006 was a great success. This joint meeting with the Atomic Spectroscopy Group, Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry was attended by 70 delegates and 7 companies sponsored the meeting. We are planning another joint meeting for 2008! A detailed report on the meeting with photographs is available on the web.
Meeting Report...
Our Next meeting!
17-19th April 2007 - XRF at the BCA Spring Meeting, University of Kent, Canterbury. This 3 day meeting offers an ideal training opportunity. The diverse programme should offer something for all and combined with the dedicated commercial exhibition makes this an important XRF meeting that you should attend.
Provisional Programme...
Offer a talk!
We are seeking presentations for the 2007 meeting. Check out the programme from the link above and contact a session organiser with your offer of a talk.

Supplier Directory
We are starting to build a supplier directory page on the web with links to suppliers of equipment and services. If you know of a supplier that isn't listed then please submit details.
Suppliers Page...

Paper Newsletter XRF page
Twice a year the Industrial Group send out a paper Newsletter and we now include an XRF page. View the August 2006 XRF page in PDF format here. What would you like to see future XRF pages used for? Would you write an article for the page? Contact the Dave Taylor with your ideas.
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Forthcoming Events
17-19th April 2007 - XRF at the BCA Spring Meeting, University of Kent, Canterbury. More...
14th May 2008 - One day joint BCA/RSC XRF meeting at BGS, Keyworth. Note the date in your diary now!
See our calendar of events.

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What's New on Our Web site
We now have dedicated XRF pages on the BCA web site for you to browse. What would you like to see on our web pages? - Please help us to expand the content.

Submit a contribution
Send a contribution by E-mail for our web pages, offer an article for our Newsletter or a presentation at a future meeting

Links Page
Try our external links page - we need your help to expand it!
Hint
Type BCA IG (with a space) into Google to find us!