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1996

June

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10--12 Introduction to Opto-mechanical Design, Bromley, Kent
Details: Sira Technology Center Training Registration, South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5EH, UK. E-mail: courses@sira.co.uk, WWW: http://www.sira.co.uk

10--14 European Symp. on Lasers, Optics and Vision for Productivity in Manufacturing I, Besanon, France
Details: SPIE, PO Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010, USA

10--14 2nd European Symp. and Exhib. on Optical Instrument and Systems Design, London, UK
Details: EOS Secretariat, BP 147, 91403 Orsay Cedex, France

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13 Advanced Topics in Opto-Mechanics, Bromley, Kent
Details: Sira Technology Center Training Registration, South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5EH, UK. E-mail: courses@sira.co.uk, WWW: http://www.sira.co.uk

18--21 3rd OPTATEC, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Details: Ms Bettina Knauer, Public Relations and Advertising, Schall Trade Fairs, D-72633 Frickenhausen, Germany

24--27 2nd Airborne Remote Sensing Conference, San Francisco, USA
Details: Wendy Raeder, ERIM, PO Box 134001, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-4001, USA

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26--28 Actuators 96, Bremen, Germany
Details: Axon Technologie Consult GmbH, Conference Office, Hanseatenhof 8, D-28195 Bremen, Germany

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27 Digital Image Acquisition, Bromley, Kent
Details: Sira Technology Center Training Registration, South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5EH, UK. E-mail: courses@sira.co.uk, WWW: http://www.sira.co.uk

July

2--4 Int. Microscopy and Image Analysis Conf. and Exhib., London, UK
Details: Allison Winton, Royal Microscopical Society, 37/38 St Clements, Oxford OX4 1AJ, UK

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4 Laser Safety in Industry and the Laboratory, London, UK
Details: Sira Technology Center Training Registration, South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5EH, UK. E-mail: courses@sira.co.uk, http://www.sira.co.uk

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10 Advances in Instrumentation for Magnetic Measurements, Cardiff, UK
Details: Margaret Swadling, UK Magnetics Society, Berkshire Business Centre, Post Office Lane, Wantage, Oxon OX12 8SH. E-mail: 100520.655@compuserve.com

8--11 8th Int. Symp. on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon, Portugal
Details: Professor M V Heitor, Insstituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1096 Lisboa Codex, Portugal

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15--16 Sensors and Actuators, Manchester, UK Details: Teresa Davies, Conference Department, The Institute of Materials, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DB

15--19 Int. Conf. on Quantitative Surface Analysis, Guildford, Surrey, UK
Details: QSA-9 Conference Secretariat, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH, UK

17--18 Unsteady Aerodynamics, London, UK
Details: The Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1, UK

21--26 XVIIth Int. Symp. on Discharges and Electrical Insultation in Vacuum, Berkeley, CA, USA
Details: Simone Anders and André Anders, XVIIth ISDEIV Chairs, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, MS 53, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

22--24 1st. European Magnetic Sensors and Actuators Conf. (EMSA'96), Iasi, Romania
Details: Dr H Chiriac, Institute of Technical Physics, 47 Mangeron Blvd., 6600 Iasi 3, Romania

29--1 August Int. Conf. on Applications of Photonic Technology, Montreal, Canada
Details: Optical Society of America, Conference Sservices Department, 2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC 20036-1023, USA

August

4--9 Int. Symp. on Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation, Denver, Colorado, USA
Details: SPIE, PO Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA

19--23 17th Congr. of the Int. Commission for Optics, Taejon, Korea
Details: Professor B Y Kim, Department of Physics, KAIST, 373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea

25--30 13th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria
Details: c/o Austropa Interconvention, A-1043 Vienna, POB 30, Austria

September

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2--3 IAPR Workshops on Remote Sensing and Applications in Industry, Graz, Austria
Details: Axel Pinz, Technical University Graz, Institute for Computer Graphics, Muenzgrabenstrasse 11, A-8010 Graz, Austria. E-mail: pinz@icg.tu-graz.ac.at

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9--12 Seventh British Machine Vision Conference, Edinburgh, UK
Details: Judith Gordon, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, UK. E-mail: BMVC96@aifh.ed.ac.uk

8--13 CLEO/Europe '96, Hamburg, Germany
Details: Meetings and Conferences Department, Institute of Physics, 47 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QX, UK

10--13 VIII European Signal Processing Conf., Trieste, Italy
Details: The Office, v.S Nicolo 14, 34121 Trieste, Italy

16--19 Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Lausanne, Switzerland
Details: Professor Henri Maitre, ICIP-96/Dept IMA, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, 46 Rue Barrault, 75 634 Paris Cedex 13, France

23--26 3rd IEEE Int. Conf. on Dielectric Materials, Measurements and Applications, Bath, UK
Details: Louise Hudson, Conference Services, IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL, UK

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23--27 European Symp. on Satellite Remote Sensing III, Taormina, Italy
Details: EUROPTO c/o Direct Communications GmbH, Xantener Straß e 22, D-10707 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: 100140.3216@compuserve.com

24--27 Boundary Element Conf., Braga, Portugal
Details: Sue Owen, Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton SO40 7AA, UK

25--28 Advanced Mathematical Tools in Metrology III, Berlin, Germany
Details: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Euro-Conference 96, Abbestrasse 2-12, D-10587 Berlin

October

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1--3 Symp. on Optical Fiber Measurements, Boulder, CO, USA
Details: Gordon Day, National Institute of Standards and Technology (815.00), 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303, USA

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7--10 ICSPAT `96, 7th Int. Conf. on Signal Processing Applications and Technology, Boston, MA, USA
Details: Megan Forrester, Miller Freeman, 600 Harrison Street, San Fransisco, CA 94107. E-mail: dsp@mfi.com

7--11 2nd European Symp. and Exhib. on Imaging Sciences and Information Services, Berlin, Germany
Details: EOS Secretariat, BP 147, 91403 Orsay Cedex, France

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7--11 European Symp. on Advanced Imaging and Network Technologies, Berlin, Germany
Details: EUROPTO, c/o Direct Communications GmbH, Xantener Straß e 22, D-10707 Berlin, Germany

9--11 3rd European Conf. and Exhibition on High Voltage Measurements and Calibration, Milan, Italy
Details: Janine Stook, Senior Conference Organiser, ERA Technology Ltd, Cleeve Road, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 7SA, UK

13--16 3rd Int. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Rodos, Greece
Details: ICECS Secretariat, EE Department, University of Patras, 26500, Greece

14--18 American Vacuum Society 43rd Nat. Symp., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Details: Angela Mulligan, AVS, 120 Wall Street, 32nd Floor, New York, NY 10005, USA

20--25 Interdisciplinary Laser Science Conf., Rochester, NY, USA
Details: Optical Society of America, Conference Services Department, 2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC 20036-1023, USA

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29--31 7th Conf. on Signal Processing Applications and Technology, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Details: DSP Associates, 49 River Street, Waltham, MA 02154, USA. E-mail: icspat@dspnet.com

November

11--15 5th Int. Conf. on Nuclear Microscopy Technologies and Applications, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Details: Dr B L Doyle, Dept 1111, MS 1056, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1056, USA

20--22 2nd Int. Symp. on Micro Total Analysis Systems, Basel, Switzerland
Details: µTAS'96, c/o Mrs E Müller, K-127.1.54, Ciba Geigy Inc., CH-4002-Basel, Switzerland

December

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2--6 Lasers '96, Portland, OR, USA
Details: LASERS '96, P.O. Box 245, McLean, VA 22101, USA

1997

February

16--21 Optical Fiber Communication Conf., Dallas, TX, USA
Details: Optical Society of America, Conference Services Department, 2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC 20036-1023, USA

May

18--23 Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, MD, USA
Details: Optical Society of America, Conference Services Department, 2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC 20036-1023, USA

18--23 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conf., Baltimore, MD, USA
Details: Optical Society of America, Conference Services Department, 2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC 20036-1023, USA

19--23 ICRM'97, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Details: Dr J M R Hutchinson, Radioactivity Group, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA

June

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9--11 10th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (IAPR), Lappeenranta, Finland
SCIA `97, Department of Information Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O. Box 20, FIN-53851, Lappeenranta, Finland. E-mail: SCIA97@lut.fi, WWW: http://www.lut.fi/scia97

September

1--4 5th Triennial Int. Symp. on Fluid Control, Measurement and Visualization, Hayama, Japan
Details: FLUCOME Desk, Kintetsu International, 7th Floor Takakyu Building, 19 Kanda Matsunaga-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101, Japan

8--12 World Tribology Congr., London, UK
Details: Conference Services Department (C491), Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1 Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ, UK

15--18 2nd Int. Coll. Micro-Tribology `97, Poland Details: Zygmunt Rymuza, Warsaw University of Technology, Institute for Design of Precise and Optical Instruments, Chodkiewicza 8/623, 02-525 Warszawa, Poland

October

11--17 OSA'97 Annual Mtg, Long Beach, CA, USA
Details: Optical Society of America, Conference Services Department, 2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC 20036-1023, USA

11--17 Interdisciplinary Laser Science Conf., Long Beach, CA, USA
Details: Optical Society of America, Conference Services Department, 2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC 20036-1023, USA

1998

March

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31--2 April Second Scientific Instrument Association Conference and Exhibition, London, UK
Details: SiA, PO Box 192, Watford, Herts WD1 8GF. WWW: http://www/interlab.co.uk/interlab