Short Courses
Maryam Aghaei, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Modeling an inductively coupled plasma torch by means of FLUENT: Fundamentals and challenges
Maria Montes Bayon and Jörg Bettmer, University of Oviedo, Spain
From speciation to metallomics: Recent analytical approaches and quantification strategies using ICP-MS
Joanna Collingwood, University of Warwick, UK and Freddy Adams, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Chemical imaging of biological material: X-rays versus plasma methods
Carsten Engelhard, University of Siegen, Germany
Nanomaterials characterization by ICP-MS in single particle mode and related techniques
Heidi Goenaga-Infante and Panayot Petrov, LGC Group, Teddington, UK
Detection, identification and quantification of nanoparticles in complex matrices: Remaining opportunities for hyphenated field flow fractionation
Gary Hieftje, Indiana University, USA
Fundamentals of laser operation
Johanna Irrgeher, Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht, Germany
IUPAC Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights (CIAAW): Tables of Isotopic Composition of the Elements and Standard Atomic Weights and their relevance for the plasma sprectrochemist
Frank von der Kammer, University of Vienna, Austria
A guide to method development for field flow fractionation analysis of natural and manufactured nanoparticles
Uwe Karst, University of Münster, Germany
Complementary elemental and molecular bioimaging techniques: instrumentation, methods and applications
Steven J. Ray, University of Buffalo, USA
Time-of-flight and distance-of-flight mass spectrometry or atomic analyses
Ilia Roduskhin, Luleå Technical University, Sweden
Sources of contamination and remedial strategies
Jacob T. Shelley, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA
Plasma-based ambient desorption/ ionization mass spectrometry
Thomas Walczyk, National University of Singapore
Tracing element metabolism in animals and humans using stable isotope techniques
