Infrared and Raman Discussion Group, IRDG

Infrared and Raman Discussion Group, IRDG.

http://www.irdg.org

This year’s IRDG ‘Christmas Meeting’ will be held as usual in King’s College, London. The date is Wednesday 18 December 2002. The 170^th meeting of the IRDG will take place in the Council Room.

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PROGRAMME

10:15-10:50 Registration and coffee in the Committee Room. (Coffee available at 10:30).

10:50-10:55 Welcome

10:55-11:30 Photothermal FT-IR spectroscopy for depth profiling of arbitrary surfaces.

Professor Bob Imhof, School of Engineering, South Bank University London.

11:30-11:50 6^th IRDG Martin & Willis Prize Award Winner: Designing infrared probes of DNA Joanne Dyer, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham..

11:50-12:25 Raman Imaging of Cosmic Dust Grain. . Giles Graham, Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes.

12:25-14:15 Lunch

14:20-14:30 IRDG Business

14:30-15:05 From routine to close to the cutting edge: The varied applications of vibrational spectroscopy in the pharmaceutical industry. Don Clark, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Sandwich.

15:05-15:40 Fluorescence rejection in Raman spectroscopy. Neil Everall, ICI Measurement Science Group, Wilton.

15:40 Close and Tea.