GUEST EDITORIAL Meet the New President: Diane Parry
The Society for Applied Spectroscopy has the right people, right now to enjoy 2015, and I am very fortunate to be the incoming SAS President now. UNESCO has declared 2015 “The International Year of Light,” and SAS has become an official sponsor to take full advantage of events that are closely linked to our interests. You will now be among the first to recognize the acronym “IYL,” as an Applied Spectroscopy insider. Beyond IYL, I hereby also invite every SAS member to participate in the Society’s evolution, as we use 2015 to kick off the SAS 2020 initiative, to design the strategic vision for SAS’s future. Finally, throughout 2015, SAS will continue to provide you with the strongest possible member benefits across all of the areas you currently enjoy, including: • This great scholarly journal and the SAS newsletters that keep you in touch with news in your field • Member-organized sessions, awards, and networking events at Pittcon and SciX • Student awards and events • Tour speakers • Re-energized regional and technical sections • Career-valuable connections, based on the networks built within the Society from your volunteer efforts, etc. If you are not yet a member, please contact Bonnie or Stephanie in our SAS Office at sasadmin@s-a-s. org or (301) 694-8122 and join us!
With Vienna University of Technology’s highly cited Bernhard Lendl organizing an extra International Year of Light session at Pittcon for SAS, we will start the year off strong. The IYL Pittcon session will be in addition to the two traditional sessions on Atomic and Optical Spectroscopy, normally organized by SAS members. This year, the “Atomic Spectroscopy: Going Strong in the 21st Century” session has been organized by the powerhouse team of David Hahn and Nicolo Omenetto from the University of Florida. There will also be “A 60-Year Celebration of the Coblentz Society” session, which will feature previous Coblentz Award winners speaking on contributions from Coblentz Technical Section members. This session was conceived and expertly organized by Applied Spectroscopy Editor, Peter Griffiths, and current SAS Treasurer, Bruce Chase. Pittcon is definitely set up to showcase the impressive science of SAS members. Please join me for all three world-class SAS sessions at Pittcon. Beyond the terrific SAS-related sessions at Pittcon, we will meet together at a conference hotel on the Sunday before Pittcon, March 8, 2015, to begin to define our future Society strategy with our new SAS 2020 initiative. Even if you cannot join us in New Orleans, members can count on hearing more from me, as strategic proposals and plans develop. Please use the e-mail above, and start submitting your suggestions on how the Society for Applied Spectroscopy can best serve your science needs in the future. We have already heard quite a few great ideas that we are pursuing, for example: Applied Spectroscopy
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• Creating and managing a Spectroscopist Certification program, to be leveraged by consultants and sales personnel in their work in Spectroscopy • Doing a better job of sharing the knowledge of SAS’s great experts via webinars • Increasing our electronic presence and our use of new tools to help build member networks, e.g., mentoring tools, etc. If you have ideas, comments on the above strategies, or are interested in volunteering to develop these new SAS initiatives, please let me know! As always, we have a wonderful opportunity to get together and continue both our strategic work and our network building, before and after we attend talks at this year’s SciX conference in Rhode Island. While there is not yet a date set for reconnecting on our strategic work at SciX, one will be announced later. SAS will continue its tradition of sponsoring applied spectroscopy sessions at SciX, as well as hosting our Student Event and our big annual SAS Networking Event.
Given the Society for Applied Spectroscopy’s proud history, because of our members’ achievements, and our shared interests in continuing to achieve the long-time mission of SAS, “to advance and disseminate knowledge and information concerning the art and science of spectroscopy and other allied sciences,” I know that the strategic SAS 2020 work we start in 2015 will have lasting importance. Do not miss this year’s important opportunities to take a multi-generational look at how we can best achieve our mission going forward, as you enjoy all of your current member benefits. Looking back on the work of our excellent recent past SAS Presidents like Ian Lewis, Katherine Bakeev, and Mary Kate Donais, I know that I have big shoes to fill. I am committed to looking for new ways to make every dollar each of us invests in SAS to have the biggest impact possible on both SAS members and our science, so that when my year is over, Ellen Miseo will be as excited as I am now to begin her year as the 2016 SAS President. Diane Parry 2015 Society for Applied Spectroscopy President
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The Society for Applied Spectroscopy has the right people, right now to enjoy 2015, and I am very fortunate to be the incoming SAS President now. UNESCO has declared 2015 “The International Year of Light,” and SAS has become an official sponsor to take full advantage of events that are closely linked to our interests. You will now be among the first to recognize the acronym “IYL,” as an Applied Spectroscopy insider. Beyond IYL, I hereby also invite every SAS member to participate in the Society’s evolution, as we use 2015 to kick off the SAS 2020 initiative, to design the strategic vision for SAS’s future. Finally, throughout 2015, SAS will continue to provide you with the strongest possible member benefits across all of the areas you currently enjoy, including: • This great scholarly journal and the SAS newsletters that keep you in touch with news in your field • Member-organized sessions, awards, and networking events at Pittcon and SciX • Student awards and events • Tour speakers • Re-energized regional and technical sections • Career-valuable connections, based on the networks built within the Society from your volunteer efforts, etc. If you are not yet a member, please contact Bonnie or Stephanie in our SAS Office at sasadmin@s-a-s. org or (301) 694-8122 and join us!
With Vienna University of Technology’s highly cited Bernhard Lendl organizing an extra International Year of Light session at Pittcon for SAS, we will start the year off strong. The IYL Pittcon session will be in addition to the two traditional sessions on Atomic and Optical Spectroscopy, normally organized by SAS members. This year, the “Atomic Spectroscopy: Going Strong in the 21st Century” session has been organized by the powerhouse team of David Hahn and Nicolo Omenetto from the University of Florida. There will also be “A 60-Year Celebration of the Coblentz Society” session, which will feature previous Coblentz Award winners speaking on contributions from Coblentz Technical Section members. This session was conceived and expertly organized by Applied Spectroscopy Editor, Peter Griffiths, and current SAS Treasurer, Bruce Chase. Pittcon is definitely set up to showcase the impressive science of SAS members. Please join me for all three world-class SAS sessions at Pittcon. Beyond the terrific SAS-related sessions at Pittcon, we will meet together at a conference hotel on the Sunday before Pittcon, March 8, 2015, to begin to define our future Society strategy with our new SAS 2020 initiative. Even if you cannot join us in New Orleans, members can count on hearing more from me, as strategic proposals and plans develop. Please use the e-mail above, and start submitting your suggestions on how the Society for Applied Spectroscopy can best serve your science needs in the future. We have already heard quite a few great ideas that we are pursuing, for example: Applied Spectroscopy
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• Creating and managing a Spectroscopist Certification program, to be leveraged by consultants and sales personnel in their work in Spectroscopy • Doing a better job of sharing the knowledge of SAS’s great experts via webinars • Increasing our electronic presence and our use of new tools to help build member networks, e.g., mentoring tools, etc. If you have ideas, comments on the above strategies, or are interested in volunteering to develop these new SAS initiatives, please let me know! As always, we have a wonderful opportunity to get together and continue both our strategic work and our network building, before and after we attend talks at this year’s SciX conference in Rhode Island. While there is not yet a date set for reconnecting on our strategic work at SciX, one will be announced later. SAS will continue its tradition of sponsoring applied spectroscopy sessions at SciX, as well as hosting our Student Event and our big annual SAS Networking Event.
Given the Society for Applied Spectroscopy’s proud history, because of our members’ achievements, and our shared interests in continuing to achieve the long-time mission of SAS, “to advance and disseminate knowledge and information concerning the art and science of spectroscopy and other allied sciences,” I know that the strategic SAS 2020 work we start in 2015 will have lasting importance. Do not miss this year’s important opportunities to take a multi-generational look at how we can best achieve our mission going forward, as you enjoy all of your current member benefits. Looking back on the work of our excellent recent past SAS Presidents like Ian Lewis, Katherine Bakeev, and Mary Kate Donais, I know that I have big shoes to fill. I am committed to looking for new ways to make every dollar each of us invests in SAS to have the biggest impact possible on both SAS members and our science, so that when my year is over, Ellen Miseo will be as excited as I am now to begin her year as the 2016 SAS President. Diane Parry 2015 Society for Applied Spectroscopy President
Stay Connected to Cutting Edge Research Month March April May June July August September October November December
Space Reservation January 20 February 19 March 19 April 20 May 19 June 17 July 16 August 17 September 17 October 15
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT Bill Cunningham • 913-579-9534 • [email protected] Each month promote your products and services to over 2,700 Spectroscopists working in industry, government, and academic laboratories ADVERTISE IN Appied Spectroscopy Applied Spectroscopy is one of the top cited journals for instruments and instrumentation according to the Journal Citation Reports.
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Volume 69, Number 1, 2015
Ad Material January 23 February 23 March 23 April 23 May 22 June 22 July 20 August 21 September 21 October 19
