1997 October 11--17 OSA'97 Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA,
USA Details: Optical Society of America, Conference Services Department, 2010 Massachusetts
Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20036-1023, USA 11--17 Interdisciplinary Laser Science Conference,
Long Beach, CA, USA Details: Optical Society of America, Conference Services Department,
2010 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20036-1023, USA 20--24 Precision Thermometry
Workshop, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA Details: Andrea Swiger, NIST, Building 221, Room B128,
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001, USA. Telephone: +1 301 975 4800, e-mail: andrea.swiger@nist.gov
30--31 Thin Dielectric Film Metrology, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA Details: Barbara Belzer,
NIST, Building 225, Room B310, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001, USA. Telephone: +1 301 975 2248,
fax: +1 301 948 4081, e-mail: barbara.belzer@nist.gov November 4--6 BEMC '97, Teddington, UK
Details: Stuart Pollitt, BEMC '97 Conference Chairman, Centre for Electromagnetic and Time
Metrology, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington TW11 0LW, UK. Telephone: +44 (0)181 977
3222, fax: +44 (0)181 943 6098, e-mail: stuart.pollitt@npl.co.uk 17--21 Scanning Probe
Microscopy (short course), Guildford, UK Details: Derek Saunders, Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH, UK. Telephone: +44 (0)1483
259612, fax: +44 (0)1483 259508, e-mail: D.Saunders@surrey.ac.uk 1998 February 25--26 5th
International Symposium on Gas Analysis by Tunable Diode Lasers, Freiburg, Germany Details:
VDI/VDE-GMA, PO Box 10 11 39, D-40002 Dusseldorf, Germany. Fax: +49 211 6214 215, WWW:
http://www.vdi.de/pr/text/597/16697.htm March 31--2 April Second Scientific Instrument
Association Conference and Exhibition, London, UK Details: SiA, PO Box 192, Watford, Herts
WD1 8GF. WWW: http://www/interlab.co.uk/interlab 31--2 April Fifth International Conference
on Adhesion and Surface Analysis, Loughborough, UK Details: D M Brewis, Institute of Surface
Science and Technology, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK. Fax: +44 (0)1509
223986, e-mail: d.m.brewis@lboro.ac.uk April --8 Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems,
Semiconductors, Sensors and Actuators, Santa Clara, CA, USA Details: MSM98 Conference
Secretariat, 2394 Alsace Court, Livermore, CA 94550, USA. e-mail:msm@dmtsun.epfl.ch, WWW:
http://www.iamcm.org/MSM98 (USA), WWW: http://dmtwww.epfl.ch/MSM98 (EUROPE) 16--17 Optical
Methods and Data Processing in Heat and Fluid Flow, London, UK Details: Mrs U Otuonye,
Conference and Events Department, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1 Birdcage Walk,
London SW1H 9JJ. Telephone: +44 (0)171 973 1304, fax: +44 (0)171 222 9881, e-mail:
u_otuonye@imeche.org.uk May 4--5 Metrology for Electronic Packaging and Interconnection,
NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA Details: Michael Schen, NIST, Building 224, Room B320,
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001, USA. Telephone: +1 301 975 6741, fax: +1 301 975 3239, e-mail:
michael.schen@nist.gov June 14--17 8th European Symposium on Semiconductor Detectors,
Schloss Elmau, Germany Details: http://www.hll.mpe-garching.mpg.de/sds98, e-mail:
pxh@mpe-garching.mpg.de 14--19 9th CIMTEC Forum on New Materials: Solid State Chemical and
Biochemical Sensors, Florence, Italy Details: 9th CIMTEC Forum on New Materials, PO Box 165,
48018 Faenza, Italy. Telephone: +39 546 22461, fax: +39 546 664138 16--19 3rd International
Conference on Vibration Measurements by Laser Techiques and Short Cource on Laser
Vibrometry, Ancona, Italy Details: Professor E P Tomasini, Dipartimento di Meccanica,
Università di Ancona, Via Brecce Bianche, I-60131 Ancona, Italy. Telephone: +39 (0)71
2204489, fax: +39 (0)71 2204813, e-mail: aivela@mehpl.cineca.it, WWW:
http://www.unian.it/html/congress/aivela/aivela.htm 24--26 Fifth International Conference on
Structures Under Shock and Impact, Southampton, UK Details: Liz Kerr, Wessex Institute of
Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton SO40 7AA. Telephone: +44 (0)1703 293 223,
fax: +44 (0)1703 292 853, e-mail: wit@wessex.ac.uk, WWW: http://www.wessex.ac.uk July 7--9
International Microscopy Conference and Exhibition, London, UK Details: Royal Microscopical
Society, 37/38 St Clements, Oxford OX4 1AJ, UK. Telephone: +44 (0)1865 248768, Fax: +44
(0)1865 791237, e-mail: meetings@rms.org.uk (for conference), info@rms.org.uk (for
exhibition), WWW: http://www.rms.org.uk 13--15 2nd European Conference on Magnetic Sensors and
Actuators, Sheffield, UK Details: Conferences, The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place,
London W1N 3DH. Telephone: +44 (0)171 470 4800, fax: +44 (0)171 470 4900, WWW:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~phys/emsa98.html http://www.iop.org/Confs/EMSA 13--16 9th
International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon,
Portugal Details: M V Heitor, Instituta Superior Técnico, Mechanical Engineering Department,
1096 Lisboa Codex, Portugal. Fax: +351 1 849 61 56 August 24--28 11th International
Conference on Experimental Mechanics, Oxford, UK Details: BSSM, Surrey Technology Centre,
Surrey Research Park, 40 Occam Road, Guildford GU2 5YG, UK. Telephone: +44 (0)1483 295 715,
fax: +44 (0)1483 573 704 September 29--1 October 4th Optical Fibre Measurement Conference,
Teddington, UK Details: Mrs Jane Tsakalou, Conference Office, National Physical Laboratory,
Teddington TW11 0LW, UK. Telephone: +44 (0)181 943 5400, WWW:
http://www.npl.co.uk/npl/news/ofmc97.html October 11--16 October 6th International
Conference on Nuclear Microprobe Technology and Applications, Cape Town, South Africa
Details: Mrs G Stone, National Accelerator Centre, PO Box 72, Faure 7131, South Africa.
Telephone: +27 21 843 3820, Fax: +27 21 843 3543, e-mail: icnmta98@nac.ac.za, WWW:
http://www.nac.ac.za/icnmta98 December 8--11 2nd Asian Meeting on Ferroelectrics,
International (AMF-2), Singapore Details: Weiguang Zhu, fax: +65 792 0415, e-mail:
ewzhu@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg 1999 May 17--21 3rd CCM Conference on Pressure Metrology from Ultra
High Vacuum to Very High Pressures (10-7 Pa to 109 Pa), Torino, Italy Details: M Bergoglio,
Istituto di Metrologia `G Colonnetti', Strada delle Cacce 73, 10135 Torino, Italy. E-mail:
bergoglio@imc.to.cnr.it