Welcome to the fifth issue of the British Crystallographic Association (BCA) Industrial Group dedicated XRF Newsletter. There is a copy of this Newsletter on the web.
A sucessful meeting was held this April in Canterbury with a varied programme of general interest and several international speakers.

Report on Canterbury meeting!
April 2007 - XRF at the BCA Spring Meeting, University of Kent, Canterbury. This second 3 day meeting with commercial exhibition had a varied programme and fortunately the weather was kind for the trek between lectures and exhibition!
Report...

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. We are particularly keen to get talks specific to minerals to provide a link with the XRD minerals programme at the same venue on the next day. 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 have 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 July 2007 XRF page in PDF format here.

Articles wanted
What would you like to see future XRF pages used for? Why not write an article for the XRF web pages or Newsletter? Contact Dave Taylor with your ideas.
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Forthcoming Events
14th May 2008 - One day joint BCA/RSC XRF meeting at BGS, Keyworth. More...
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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