European Microbeam Analysis Society
EMAS was founded in 1987 as a scientific society focusing on microbeam analysis methodology. Its primary purposes are education, communication and innovation.
EMAS
2009
11th European Workshop
Hotel Faltom Spa, Rumia,
Gdansk, Poland.
10th - 14th May 2009
The Society was founded to meet the growing demands of microbeam analysis users and scientists for further education, communication and professional advice. The Society is independent, but co-operates closely with national and international microbeam analysis groups, and other European societies with related interests. EMAS is a founding member of IUMAS, the International Union of Microbeam Analysis Societies. The Society is a nonprofit making organisation registered in Germany. A copy of the constitution will be sent upon request.
The activities of the Society promote this branch of science and stimulate technical and scientific developments on a European scale. In order to achieve its goals, the Society is active in the development and operation of technical and scientific education programmes. Furthermore, the Society encourages communication and co-operation among scientists and offers support to its members whenever there is a general interest to promote. The Society also strives to enhance awareness of the possibilities and limitations of microanalytical methods and thus increase the quality and significance of the analysis results.
Membership is open to all scientists and technicians active in the development and application of microbeam analysis techniques and equipment.
Every two years the Society holds a European Workshop, using a format based on tutorial keynote lectures and round-table discussions. Participants can also present their work in poster sessions. The Society also organises smaller scale Regional Workshops in the years between the European Workshop.
Special rates are available to members attending EMAS meetings and purchasing EMAS publications.
The Board
President: Clive Walker (European Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Vice-president: János
Lábár (Research
Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science,
Budapest,
Hungary)
Treasurer: Stefaan Van Winckel
(European Institute
for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Secretary: Luc Van't dack (University of Antwerp (UA), Antwerp-Wilrijk, Belgium)
EMAS News Editor: Mike Matthews (AWE, Aldermaston, UK)
Co-opted members:
Hans Dijkstra (Thermo Fisher Scientific BV, Breda, The Netherlands)
Olivier Dugne (C.E.A.-C.E.N., Pierrelatte, France)
Xavier Llovet (Universtitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
Silvia Richter (GFE der RWTH, Aachen, Germany)
Romano Rinaldi ( Università di Perugia. Perugia, Italy)
Michal Zelechower (Silesian University of Technology, Department of Materials Science, Katowice, Poland)
Sustaining members representative: Dirk van der Wal (FEI Company, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Honorary Members
A. Armigliato Bologna (IT), G.F. Bastin Heerlen (NL), A. Boekestein Malden (NL), R. Castaing Orsay (F), Peter Duncumb Cambridge (GB), P. Karduck, Herzogenrath (DE), L. Reimer Münster (DE), L. Van't dack Antwerp-Wilrijk (BE), A.W. Witmer Eindhoven (NL)
Aims
and Scope, Application Form
ACTIVITIES
EMAS
News
The newsletter (3 issues per year) provides news on activities of the
Society and on
forthcoming events and is a forum for the exchange of information and
ideas among members.
If you have items you wish to be published in the newsletter these can
be submitted to the
Editor,
preferably as a text
attachment to an
email. We can publish photographs in black and white by scanning in
either colour or
monochrome good quality originals mailed to us, or received
electronically.
EMAS
biennial European Workshop on
Modern Developments
and Applications in Microbeam Analysis
1989 Antwerp (BE)
1991 Dubrovnik (HR)
1993 Rimini (IT)
1995 St. Malo (FR)
1997 Torquay (UK)
1999 Konstanz (DE)
2001 Tampere (FI)
2003 Chiclana de la Frontera (ES)
2005 Firenze (IT)
2007 Antwerp (BE)
2009 Gdansk (PL)
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EMAS
Regional Workshop: Electron
Probe Microanalysis of
Materials Today - Practical Aspects
Local meetings and courses
organised in collaboration with a local
society or
university.
1994 Helsinki (FI)
1996 Balatonfüred (HU)
1998 Barcelona (ES)
2000 Trest (CZ)
2002 Szczyrk (PL)
2004 Bled (SI)
2006 Karlsruhe (DE)
2008 Trieste (IT)
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EMAS
Grants and Awards
EMAS makes awards to encourage
excellence.
Awards are made at the biennial European Workshops for the best poster
contribution and
the best oral presentation in the Young Scientists' Session. In
addition, grants are
awarded to students and young scientists to actively participate in
EMAS Workshops and
high-level international conferences.
The Castaing Fund has been established to finance the Society's commitment to provide awards and grants. The fund is supported by the Society and by voluntary contributions from the membership.
The prestigious EMAS President's Award is presented biennially for the best paper published in the proceedings of the European Workshop. Aldo Armigliato and Peter Karduck established the award during their terms of office as President and Vice-President of the Society, respectively.
EMAS
Publications
The Society shares with the
Microbeam Analysis Society of America Microscopy
and
Microanalysis as its official
journal (6 issues per year). EMAS
members receive the
journal at a preferential rate of 50Euro per year and can submit
technical articles for
publication in the journal through the EMAS representative on the
editorial board.
Copies of the "Book of Abstracts'' and 'Proceedings' of EMAS European
and' Regional
Workshops are available to the membership at competitive rates.
National
Branches of EMAS and
Affiliated Societies
A national branch of EMAS
has been established in Poland. The
Czech
Spectroscopical Society is an affiliated society of EMAS.
EMAS
and ISO TC-202
EMAS is monitoring the activities of the International Standards
Organisation's Technical
Committee 202 which is concerned with standardisation in the field of
microbeam analysis.
Aims and Scope, Activities, Application Form
Last updated: 05 May 2008
