Welcome to the fourth issue of the British Crystallographic Association (BCA) Industrial Group dedicated XRF Newsletter. There is a copy of this Newsletter on the web.
A varied programme of interest to anyone working with or considering using XRF has been put together at our April meeting in Canterbury. We have several international speakers and even a poster from China. You might have seen the article in Chemistry World about paper analysis with XRF - well Prof. Luisa Carvalho will be presenting some of this interesting work at the meeting!

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. Early registration deadline is 12th March.
Programme...
Submit a poster!
We are seeking XRF posters for the 2007 meeting. Please submit your poster abstract before the 16th February deadline. See the programme link above for more information.
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Call for papers 2008 XRF meeting.
We plan to build on the success of our May 2006 meeting with another joint meeting with the Atomic Spectroscopy Group, Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry on 14th May 2008. The model of short user talks went down well with delegates and even first time speakers were put at ease by the friendly atmosphere and excellent facilities. Now is the time to start thinking about what you could offer in a short presentation of your XRF work at the 2008 meeting. Please use the contact us link at the foot of this page to discuss a possible presentation. To give you some ideas, a detailed report on the 2006 meeting with photographs is available from the link below.
2006 Meeting Report...

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 January 2007 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 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 an XRF jobs page on the web site for you to browse. What would you like to see on our web pages? - Please help us to expand the content.

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Type BCA IG (with a space) into Google to find us!