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25 No. 4
July - August 2003
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IUPAC
Funds Three Conferences to be Held in 2004 in Developing and
Disadvantaged Countries
As
part of its ongoing commitment to support chemistry and chemistry
education in developing and economically disadvantaged countries,
IUPAC recently approved funding for three innovative and compelling
conferences:
- International
Conference on Biodiversity and Natural Products, 26–31
January 2004, New Delhi; India
- International
Symposium on Chemistry and Biological Chemistry of Vanadium,
3–5 September 2004, Szeged, Hungary
- Chemical
Sciences in Changing Times: Visions, Challenges, and Solutions,
18–24 July 2004, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
The
IUPAC program of support for conferences was first implemented
in 2000, but was revised earlier this year to enlarge its
scope and to favor innovative topics. For more details on
the current program, see the secretary general’s column
in the March–April 2003 issue of CI, or <www.iupac.org/symposia/support.html>.
The
International
Conference on Biodiversity and Natural Products will be
the first joint meeting of the International Conference on
Biodiversity and the International Symposium on the Chemistry
of Natural Products. Leading researchers from all over the
world will discuss present and future needs for mutually advantageous
international cooperation in the appropriate, sustainable,
and innovative utilization of bioresources. Significant interest
had been expressed in combining, in India, the more recent
conference series on biodiversity with the long-standing IUPAC-sponsored
conference on natural products.
The
4th International
Symposium on Chemistry and Biological Chemistry of Vanadium,
a relatively new symposium series comes back to Europe for
its fourth year. The list of plenary lecturers is representative
of the international diversity of the symposium, and tentatively
includes V. Pecoraro (USA), A. Butler (USA), T. Hirao (Japan),
D. Garner (UK), K. Wieghardt (Germany), D. Rehder (Germany),
H. Sakurai (Japan), Y. Shechter (Israel), V. Conte (Italy),
R. Wever (Netherlands), and R. Eady (UK). The symposium will
cover the biological aspects of vanadium chemistry, the inorganic
chemistry of vanadium, and vanadium chemistry in catalysis
and organic synthesis.
Nearly
600 participants are expected at the 4th
International Conference of the Chemical Societies of the
South-Eastern European Countries on Chemical Sciences in Changing
Times: Visions, Challenges, and Solutions. This conference
will address issues related to chemistry education and will
commemorate the 150th anniversary of chemical education in
Serbia. The scope of the conference will be general and will
include a focus on advanced materials and life sciences.
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