Sept. 2009 Budapest

Photos of the meeting are available on our new Gladnet2 album

The next Gladnet meeting will be held in beginning of september 2009 in Budapest, Hungary. Our Gladnet meeting and Training course will be held in conjunction with the CSI, Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XXXVI, which is held from the 30.08.2009 to 3.09.2009 also in Budapest.

Announcement:  The European Working Group on Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (EW-GDS) and GD instrument manufacturers sponsor a new edition of the  Payling Prize. It is a prize of 1000 EUR and will be awarded  for the third time during the CSI XXXVI. Former laureats are Gerardo Gamez (2005) and Antonio Martin (2007). The price will be awarded to the presenter, preferably a young scientist, of the best oral or poster presentation on glow discharge research at the EW-GDS session. This will include our GLADNET presentations.

Announcement by Volker Hoffmann, chairman of the EW-GDS,

Dear members of the European Working Group for Glow Discharge Spectroscopy,

as agreed at our last meeting at the 12th ECASIA 2007 in Brussels, we will meet next time at the CSI XXXVI (August 30 to September 3, 2009 at the University in Budapest, see http://www.csixxxvi.org/). Our group meeting will start at the conference site on Wednesday morning 2nd September with oral presentations and end at about 17.00 on Thursday.
The CSI organising committee has made a special arrangement for our group, by which we can join the CSI on Wednesday, 2nd September and Thursday, 3rd September and pay only a one-day fee of 200 EUR(regular) / 100 EUR(student). This will cover the attendance of the GD poster session on Wednesday afternoon and the GD session on Thursday morning, coffee breaks during the sessions, lunch on one day and a copy of the conference CD-ROM.

Oral and poster contributions are both welcome. We strongly urge you to submit abstracts on GDS, for which you should use the online CSI registration system following the link https://www.mke.org.hu/conferences/csi36/registration/ . Details of the abstract requirements are given under “oral and poster contributions” on the home page for CSI XXXVI, or you can use the link http://www.csixxxvi.org/content/view/13/17/ .
CSI posters will be on display during the entire conference and should be installed at your arrival. The poster display area is 1.20 m high and 0.90 m wide.

Deadline for submission is April 15, 2009.

Please mention whether you prefer the poster or oral presentation. All submitted abstracts will be reviewed on behalf of the International Scientific Committee and the final decision about the form of presentation will be made. The notification of acceptance is planned on May 15, 2009. After this, the EW-GDS may select some CSI posters  for oral presentation at the EW-GDS Wednesday morning session. There will also be an opportunity to present work at the EW-GDS meeting only, in cases where full conference presentation is not yet justified, but we hope that the great majority of contributions will be for CSI presentation. Please, send the abstracts only for the EW-GDS meeting direct to V.Hoffmann@IFW-Dresden.de .

The Payling Prize of 1000 EUR, sponsored by the GD instrument manufacturers HORIBA Jobin Yvon,  Spectruma Analytik GmbH, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Tofwerk AG and arranged by the European Working Group on Glow Discharge Spectroscopy, will be awarded for the third time. The presenter, preferably a young scientist, of the best oral or poster presentation on glow discharge research at the EW-GDS and CSI GD sessions will receive the Prize at the CSI Closing Ceremony at mid-day on Thursday.
There will be a short training course for members of the GLADNET Analytical Glow Discharge Research Training Network on the Monday and Tuesday before the EW-GDS and a limited number of other postgraduate researchers may attend this course. Further details will be circulated as soon as the details are confirmed.

Dr. Volker Hoffmann

Chairman of EW-GDS

IFW Dresden
Helmholtzstrasse 20
D-01069 Dresden
 
Tel.: 0351 4659 691
Fax: 0351 4659 452
 
V.Hoffmann@IFW-Dresden.de