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The conference is organized under the auspices of the Russian Chemometrics Society, Saint Petersburg State Technological University of Plant Polymers, ACABS Research Group of University of Aalborg (Esbjerg), and Lappeenranta University of Technology. The conference brings together both academic scientists and industrial experts providing all conditions for their fruitful communication. Traditionally, WSC is friendly to young scientists and those beginning to carve their way in the data analysis. Participants are invited to deliver not only their final results but also discuss preliminary problem statements and methods, all in a strictly friendly atmosphere

About Informex For over 25 years Informex has been North America’s leading trade fair for companies dedicated to higher value chemistry. The show began in 1983 with a need to support companies that wanted new ways to produce cutting-edge chemicals, more efficiently, and with greater reliance on the expertise of fine and specialty chemical producers. Today’s pharmaceutical innovators, agrochemical product makers, electronic materials producers and other manufacturers that come to Informex find what they need for business success, mainly new ideas that make a difference, and qualified companies with production assets that can make those ideas a reality. Most will remember the first two decades of the show for its outsourcing component. Yet with the vast majority of technical challenges spotlighted in the media either beginning or ending at the molecular level, the next 25 may well be remembered as the era of Intellectual Alliances. With the easy technology breakthroughs accounted for in patent literature, companies may work more in alliances to achieve the next big thing. We already see this in major global industries like aircraft manufacturing, and with small start-up companies in search of economically viable renewable energy technologies. So to will the chemical industry and allied trades work more on a collaborative basis going forward to achieve major technical advances in areas like green chemistry, and sustainability.

ICONN 2010 is an initiative to bring about challenging leads, enhancing research skills and edifying insights in field of Nanoscience and technology. This gives an opportunity to researchers and scientists across the globe to improve the current state of technology which would help in the betterment of mankind. ICONN 2010 will lead to a repository of scientific data which can be shared by both Indians and scientists abroad. Apart from that, this conference is greatly indebted and dedicated to the silver jubilee celebrations of SRM University 2009-2010.

The Organic Reaction catalysis Society seeks to advance the practical application of catalysis . The conference will have symposia on C-C coupling, Chemicals from Biorenewable Feedstocks, and hydrogenation. Matthias Beller, and Hans-Ulrich Blaser will receive awards and are featured speakers. Registration is online at www.orcs.org

The aim of the conference is to cover recent developments in the area of semiconductor photochemistry. The topics will encompass: * Solar to Electricity conversion (DSSCs) and Tandem Cells * Solar to Chemical Energy conversion (such as water splitting and CO2 reduction) * Photosterilisation * Organic Photosynthesis * Air and Water Remediation * Self Cleaning Surfaces

Recognizing increasing needs in new materials and applications of pervaporation, vapor permeation and membrane distillation processes, Membrane Separation Processes Research Group from Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń, Poland) decided to organize in April 2010 International Conference on Pervaporation and Vapor Permeation. Conference Topics to be Covered: 1. Fundamentals of pervaporation, vapor permeation and membrane distillation processes. 2. New membrane materials (polymeric/inorganic). 3. Applications: · dehydration, removal of organics from water, organic-organic separation; · large scale applications, hybrid industrial operations including PV/VP; · membrane distillation; · small scale and niche applications. 4. Environmental impact and economics of industrial plants.

The ‘EUCHEM Conference on Stereochemistry’, better known as ‘Bürgenstock Conference’, is an outstanding international chemistry meeting of high scientific quality, with an optimal setting for intense inter-disciplinary discussion. Stereochemistry is the principle underlying our understanding of the processes of life and the properties of matter at the molecular level. It is a key element not only in all chemical disciplines, but also in modern molecular biology, molecular medicine, biophysics, and material design. Accordingly, the ‘Bürgenstock Conference’ has grown over the years into a multi-disciplinary conference where frontier science is being discussed. Lectures cover many areas of chemistry and relevant highlights from neighboring disciplines..

This is the major international forum for the discussion of all technical aspects of scale-up at the chemistry/chemical engineering interface. Topics include: the scale up of batch and semi-batch processes, continuous processing and reaction engineering, microreactor technology, safety and thermochemistry, scale up of potentially hazardous chemistry, green chemistry, quality assurance and regulatory concerns, solid form control (crystallisation and polymorphism), separation and purification techniques, and new technologies and equipment for large scale manufacture.

Official Information: The 1st Annual World Congress of Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis-2010 (WCCAS-2010) will be held from May 19 to May 21, 2010 in Beijing, China, with a theme of " Create Bioactive Molecules Green and Economically ". This is a focused event on Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis, it aims to stimulate interactions among academia, industry and researchers in this field; to exchange up-to-the-minutes information and promote their novel technologies. On behalf of the organizing committee of WCCAS-2010, we cordially invite you to participate in this international event. Scope WCCAS-2010 is expected to greatly contribute to the promotion of new concepts for the development of efficient methodologies for catalytic asymmetric synthesis and its practical applications. The topics will reflect this general theme, placing emphasis on aspects that are common to all areas of catalytic asymmetric synthesis and the type of reaction involved: * Novel Technologies for Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis * Organometallic Chiral Catalysts in Asymmetric Transformations * Enantioselective/ Diastereoselective Organocatalysis * Applications of Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis * Biocatalysis for Asymmetric Transformations * Business Development for High Value Chiral Molecules Scientific Program The scientific program will consist of plenary and keynote lectures, approximately 30 sessions, exhibition and poster sessions. More program information can be found at: http://www.bitlifesciences.com/wccas2010/program.asp Location The capital city of the People's Republic of China, Beijing is a fast-growing, dynamic metropolis that, while courting foreign businesses and visitors, maintains a firm grip on its rich cultural heritage. Beijing made history in 2008 with the first Olympic Games ever to be held in China. The conference will be held in Beijing International Convention Center (BICC) which is located within the magnificent Asian Games Village. It is one of the Chinese biggest facilities specifically designed for conferences and exhibitions, comprising 50 conference halls and meeting rooms equipped to serve a wide variety of purposes with the capacity from 10 up to 2500 people. We look forward to seeing you in next May in Beijing, China.

The workshop will consist of lectures in the morning and applications of techniques and methodologies for the drug design in the afternoon (i.e. virtual screening, softwares for the synthesis, instrument description and exhibition, exercises etc). III EWDSy will feature more than 20 well known researchers from the University and from the Pharmaceutical Industry, including directors of research, working with a maximum number of 65 workshop participants. Some posters will be selected for a short presentation.

F-π-9 is expected to attract up to 500 participants from all over the world to discuss their new research and results in the context of conjugated polymer/oligomer synthesis, organic semiconductor materials, photovoltaic and electroactive materials and devices, graphene, functional π-systems for therapeutic applications and more. Six plenary speakers will present their latest research along with 35 invited speakers. The program will also include some 84 contributed talks and three poster sessions, which will allow students and others to highlight their recent work.

17-18 June, 2010 House of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia Intended Audience Engineers, technologists and scientists from glass industry and glass research laboratories who wish to acquire contemporary photoelastic methods for residual stress measurement in glass products of any shape. The participants may bring to Summer School samples they want to measure stresses in. Course Outline Basic elasticity, basic photoelasticity, integrated photoelasticity, stress field tomography, scattered light photoelasticity, automatic polariscope AP-07 for residual stress measurement in glass articles of complicated shape, scattered light polariscope SCALP-04 for thickness stress measurement in plates, immersion technique, software for stress calculation using measurement data, practical measurement of residual stress in tempered and annealed drinking glasses, bottles, CRT bulb panels and neck tubes, optical fibre performs, architectural glass panels and automotive glazing, etc.

The Penang International Conference for Young Chemists (ICYC 2010) is a biennial conference organized specifically for young chemist by the postgraduate students of School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Due to the overwhelming response from participants and speakers from all over the world for ICYC 2006 and 2008, School of Chemical Sciences is continuing this unique biennial tradition for the year 2010.

Balticum Organicum Syntheticum 2010 (BOS) is the 6th conference of this Baltic chemical conference series, rotating between the Baltic capitals every two years and highlights a mixture of academic and industrial Plenary Speakers presenting Lectures on the topics of organic, synthetic, pharmaceutical, process, catalytic and organometallic chemistry. The conference is restricted to 300 participants to assure all get to interact with the speakers, which is encouraged by a reception and banquet. Balts and students are particularly encouraged to attend. Two poster sessions are held.

This 3-day conference provides discovery, medicinal and process chemists with a forum to meet with academia to discuss novel organic synthetic methods useful in research and development. We focus on key transformations, e.g. carbon-carbon bond forming reactions, oxidation and reduction, formation and reactions of heterocyclic molecules and biotransformations. We also focus on chiral technology, including: asymmetric chemocatalysis, biocatalysis, new analytical and separation techniques, and the development of important chiral pharmaceuticals.

The main objective of “Ars Separatoria 2010” is to present and discuss the latest achievements in separation, isolation, purification methods and processes applied in chemistry, industry and environmental protection. The topics of Symposium: membrane separation techniques, phase equilibria, extraction, flotation, chromatography

The symposium programme will cover all areas of homogeneous and organometallic catalysis and focus on recent research achievements and ideas on new catalytic reactions, well-known processes occurring in the presence of new effective homogeneous and immobilized catalysts, new mechanisms of catalysis. Particular emphasis will be put on sustainable catalytic processes of key importance in organic synthesis (fine and specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals) as well as in synthesis of polymers and precursors of advanced materials.

The symposium will provide a framework for presentation and discussion of ideas and information on the interaction of light and matter drawn from the following areas: * Organic and inorganic photochemistry from a synthetic and mechanistic point of view * Solar energy conversion * Materials science and engineering * Supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology * Photobiology and biophysics * Photonics and imaging * Spectroscopy and instrumentation * Photochromism * Industrial applications of photochemistry and photophysics.

The BOSS-conference is a unique international symposium as, apart from invited lectures delivered by established organic chemists as well as younger rising stars, two prestigious events are associated with it: a lecture delivered by the recipient of a “Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis”, and a one-day course on a specific topic in organic synthesis by an eminent lecturer. The conference covers a broad range of timely subjects in the field of organic chemistry.