165^th IRDG Industrial Meeting - SIRA - Chislehurst,

The 2001 Industrial Meeting of the IRDG was held at SIRA, Chislehurst, Kent on 29 March 2001. The Programme was as follows:

10:10  -            10:20            Welcome and opening remarks.

10.20  - 11.00 Andrew Crookell (Sira) – "Quantifying exhaust emissions from moving vehicles"

11:00  -   11:40 Moira Hilton (Applied Optics Group – University of Reading) – "Infrared Spectroscopy Measurements on Aircraft jet engine exhausts".

11:40  -   12:20 Robin Devonshire (Sheffield and Hallam University) –"The Applications of Raman Microscopy in light source science and technology".

12:20  -   13:00 Pauline Sinclair (Sira) – "Open-Path FTIR Measurements of Urban Air Pollutants".

13:00  -   13:45 Lunch 13:45  - 13:50

IRDG Business 13:50  - 14:30 Henryk Herman (Actinic Technology) –

"Rapid Molecular weight measurements using vibrational spectroscopy".

14:30  -   15:10 Debdulal Roy (Department of Material Science – University of Cambridge) – "Raman Spectroscopy of carbon through fibres and nanotubes".

15:10 -    15:50 Juergen Kress  (Southampton University) – "Determination of binding site distribution in Combinatorial Chemistry using Confocal Raman Spectroscopy"

15:50        Tea and Close.

Registration The registration fee included coffee and lunch at £12 for IRDG members, £24 for non-members, £6 for retired/unemployed members, £6 for student members, £10 for non-student members.