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Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry

2-6 June 2019, Lecce, Italy

The 14th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC2019, https://ismsc2019.eu/) will be held in Lecce, Italy, from 2-6 June 2019 with the endorsement and support of IUPAC. Lecce, a Baroque Florence in Southern Italy and capital of the charming peninsula called Salento, is nowadays among the most popular touristic destinations in Italy.

ISMSC2019 will provide a forum to discuss all aspects of macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry, and also topics on materials and nanoscience, following the spirit and style of the thirteen preceding conferences. Within this conference framework, a IUPAC supported Symposium entitled “New Directions in Supramolecular Chemistry: Nanomedicine” will also be organized to show how Supramolecular Chemistry has recently been exploited for pioneering new directions in bio-engineering and nanomedicine. Overall, this symposium will be a unique opportunity for researchers’ brainstorming and promoting cross-disciplinary collaborations that will certainly have an impact on their research and related fields of applications (biomedical engineering, food science, energy storage, biosensing, etc.). It will also offer networking opportunities among peers, recognized leaders in the field, young scientists, and students. The program will include lectures from the 2016 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, the 2019 Izatt-Christensen Award, Cram-Lehn-Pedersen Prize, and Sessler Early Career Researcher Prize winners. ISMSC2019 will also host the Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship. Several keynote and invited oral lectures from distinguished researchers are scheduled. Oral lectures, flash presentations, and poster presentations will also be selected from submissions. Bursaries covering the registration fees of young scientists will be available, selected from the best contributions.

https://ismsc2019.eu/

Spectroscopicum

9-14 June 2019, Mexico City, Mexico

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the “41st Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale” (CSI XLI), which will be held from 9-14 June 2019 at the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, Mexico. The CSI is a series of conferences, held every two years, aimed to congregate scientists from universities, research institutions and industries, working in all fields of analytical spectroscopy, to discuss the results of basic research, development of new methods, and applications of spectroscopy on a great diversity of fields.

The upcoming CSI is organized by the Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of the UNAM with the support of the IUPAC, the Mexican Physical Society, and the Mexican Chemical Society. The CSI 2019 will be held in parallel with the first Latin-American Meeting on Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (I LAMLIBS). The first LAMLIBS seeks to bring together the largest possible number of groups in Latin America working on LIBS in a symposium with the participation of prestigious scientist from all around the world. This will promote the collaboration and strategic alliances to solve specific problems and challenges within the region and will encourage young researches and students to join to this effort. The participants can attend both events with a single registration. The contributions related to LIBS will be presented in the I LAMLIBS, regardless of the author’s country of origin.

Abstract submission and on-line registration are available in the web page www.csi2019mexico.com. Grants for PhD students will be available upon online application. Selected contributions will be published in special issues of Spectrochimica Acta Part A and B.

www.csi2019mexico.com

Chemistry and Physics of the Transactinide Elements

25-30 August 2019, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

The 6^th International Conference on the Chemistry and Physics of the Transactinide Elements (TAN 19) is the sixth in the series of international conferences dedicated to recent achievements and developments in experiments and theory of the chemistry and physics of transactinide elements. The scientific program will cover experimental and theoretical aspects of the superheavy elements, including synthesis, nuclear reactions, nuclear structure, chemistry, atomic properties, and related topics. The program will consist of invited talks, oral presentations selected on the basis of submitted abstracts, and poster contributions.

TAN 19 will open with a Special Symposium on occasion of the “International Year of the Periodic Table” as proclaimed by the United Nations. The extension of the Periodic Table by new chemical elements is at the heart of the TAN conference. Accordingly, the conference will open with a special symposium honoring the International Year of the Periodic Table. The symposium program will include presentations by discoverers of elements 107 to 118 and by directors of the laboratories at which these elements were discovered.

Further presentations will look back in time and illustrate the spreading of the concept of the periodic table, discuss the transformation of the concept of chemical elements, or address questions associated with the placing of new elements in the periodic table in historical times. Welcome addresses of presidents of international and national scientific organizations will complete the symposium program.

The TAN 19 conference takes place in Wilhelmshaven, a coastal town located on the North Sea in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the western side of the Jade Bight, a bay of the North Sea.

www.gsi.de/tan19 • General Inquiries e-mail: tan19@gsi.de

Noncovalent Interactions

2-6 September 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

Noncovalent interactions were first taken into consideration by van der Waals in 1873, helping to revise the equation of state for real gases. In comparison to covalent bonds, intra- and intermolecular noncovalent interactions are in general weak and exhibit much lower energy and directionality, as reflected by the term ‘’noncovalent.’’ Nevertheless, in many cases these interactions can collectively play a dominant role in synthesis, catalysis and design of materials.

Currently, based on the nature of the particular elements or synthons involved in the interactions, noncovalent bonds are classified into hydrogen, aerogen, halogen, chalcogen, pnicogen, tetrel, and icosagen bonds, as well as agostic, anagostic, cation-π, anion-π, n-π*, π-π stacking, metal-metal, dispersion-driven, hydrophobic interactions, and others.

As the fields of noncovalent interactions are growing intensively, several books in Wiley, Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier, or Springer and four thematic issues on these weak forces have been published in Chemical Reviews in 1988, 1994, 2000 and 2016. The hydrogen and halogen bonds have already been defined by IUPAC (Recommendations 2011 and 2013, respectively), the definitions for chalcogen, pnicogen and tetrel bonds are under progress. Moreover, there are international conferences/symposia on Supramolecular Chemistry, and particular types of noncovalent interactions, such as The International Conference on “Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research” (established by Prof. Lucjan Sobczyk in Poland in 1977), the International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (established by Prof. Pierangelo Metrangolo and Prof. Giuseppe Resnati in Porto Cesareo (Lecce, Italy) in 2014), and others.

Thus, the chemistry of this century is expected to be largely driven by noncovalent interactions and it is timely to establish a general/regular series of International Conferences on Noncovalent Interactions (ICNI), the first one to be held on 2-6 September 2019 in Lisbon.

Further editions within this series will be followed every two years, in odd number years (2021, 2023, etc.), thus avoiding competition with other major series of conferences, i.e., the ICOMC and ICCC, which are being held in even years (2014, 2016, 2018, etc.).

We are thankful to all International Advisory Board members of ICNI, who are well recognized scientists in this field, representing Europe, Asia, Africa and America for their support and suggestions,

Hence, on behalf of the Organizing Commission, it is our pleasure to invite you to attend the 1st International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions (ICNI). It is an honor for us to host the first Conference of this series in Portugal. The scientific level of the conference will be provided by its attendants and thus you are cordially invited to present your best and recent scientific work orally, by poster or by poster with a flash oral presentation. The final selection of the type of presentation will have to take into account the scientific programme and facilities layout. Not only senior researchers are welcome, but also the younger ones, encouraging the exchange of ideas among different generations.

The conference aims to highlight the role of Noncovalent Interactions in Synthesis, Catalysis, Crystal engineering, Molecular recognition, Medicinal chemistry, Biology, Materials science, Electrochemical imobilization, etc. including Theoretical aspects. All approaches will be considered, from fundamental to applied ones, including discussion of new types of noncovalent interactions (aerogen, halogen, chalcogen, pnicogen, tetrel, and icosagen bonds) and multidisciplinary studies.

The Conference venue is in a convenient position concerning travel requirements. Lisbon is easily reachable from any place of the World, the airport and the main train stations are located inside the town itself (this is a unique case within the European capitals) and all are well served by the Metro. The Conference place, at the Universidade de Lisboa campus, is also within the town and has close access to public transportation, including the Metro. Diverse and convenient accommodation facilities are available close to the venue, including low-cost University residences.

Attention will also be paid to the social programme, providing opportunities for mixing, visits to cultural places, excursions to sites of unique natural beauty, tasting the typical Portuguese cuisine, and experiencing our wines!

Armando J.L. Pombeiro, Chair,

Kamran T. Mahmudov, Chair,

Maximilian N. Kopylovich, Co-Chair,

M. Fátima C. Guedes da Silva, Co-Chair

https://icni2019.eventos.chemistry.pt/

Small Satellites for Sustainable Science and Development

4-8 November 2019, Herzliya, Israel

The 4th Symposium of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), COSPAR 2019, will be hosted by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in November 2019.

COSPAR was established by ICSU, now the International Science Council (ISC), in 1958. Among COSPAR’s objectives are the promotion of scientific research in space on an international level, with emphasis on the free exchange of results, information, and opinions, as well as providing a forum open to all scientists for the discussion of problems that may affect space research. These objectives are achieved through the organization of symposia, publications, and other means.

Every other year COSPAR calls for a Scientific Assembly (SA). These are conferences gathering—most recently—more than three thousand participating space researchers and dealing with—via parallel sessions— all the COSPAR topics of interest. The most recent Scientific Assembly was in August 2018 in Pasadena. The next COSPAR Scientific Assembly will be in 2020 in Sydney.

In years between SAs COSPAR holds a symposium. The 3^rd COSPAR symposium took place on Jeju Island, in South Korea. The 4th symposium will take place in Israel. Symposia are smaller meetings than the general assemblies; gather a few hundred participants; and are more focused on specific topics.

The 2019 COSPAR symposium topics include:

1. Satellite and nanosatellite observations of ground and underground soil

2. Ground water, seas, and oceans

3. Atmosphere and ionosphere

4. Magnetosphere

5. Solar system objects (planets, asteroids, interplanetary space)

6. Extrasolar planets and the interstellar medium

7. The Milky Way and intergalactic space

8. Education for space engineering

9. Space sciences

Selected papers will be published in Advances in Space Research and Life Sciences in Space Research, fully refereed journals with no deadlines open to all submissions in relevant fields.

Scientific Program Chair: Professor Morris Podolak, Tel Aviv University, Dept. of Geosciences • http://www.cospar2019.org/