Deadline for abstracts: May 12, 1999
Contact: Arab School of Science and Technology (ASST), P.O.Box 7028, Damascus, Syria
Phone: +963 11 5118904
Fax: +963 11 5111083, E-mail: asst@syriatel.net

Topics: Fundamentals, new developments, applications and pilot plant demonstrations
Contact: S.Koseoglu
Phone: +1 409 845 2749, E-mail: s-koseoglu@tamu.edu or C.Vavra
Phone: +1 409 845 2758, E-mail: cjvavra@tamu.edu
Fax: +1 409 845 2744
http://www.tamu.edu/separations

Topics: Pretreatment, approval & legislation, membrane fouling and cleaning, water quality, optimisation, re-use, applications & case studies, concentrate disposal, costs & economics, automation/process control, design & innovation, monitoring, disinfection, future trends.
Contact: Elaine Wellingham, Conference secretariat, Field End House, Bude Close, Nailsea, Bristol BS48 2FQ, UK
Phone and Fax: +44 1275 853311, E-mail: confsec@dial.pipex.com

Topics: Air and gas cleaning, cartridge filtration, centrifugation, clarification, classification, coagulation and flocculation, coalescence, cyclones and hydrocyclones, degritting, depth filtration, electrostatic precipitation, fabric filtration, filter media, flotation, fluid/fluid separation, flue gas clean-up, gravity separators, high temperature/ceramic filtration, highly selective separations, liquid/fluid separations, membrane processes, noel separation techniques, physico-chemical aspects, pre- and post-treatment, screening, scrubbing, sedimetation, sludge handling, solid/liquid separations.
Deadline for submitting of abstracts: 1 June 1999
Contact: Amy Richardson, WFC 8 Conference Secretariat, Elsevier Science, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK
Phone: +44 1865 843643
Fax: +44 1865 843958, E-mail: a.richardson@elsevier.co.uk
Internet: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/wfc8

Topics: Fundamentals (membrane formation and modification, fouling and cleaning, transport), processes (liquid separations, gas/vapor separations, membrane reactors), applications (environmental separations and water treatment, biological separations, electrochemical membranes), special sessions (controlled release and drug delivery, plenary lectures by graduate students, posters). Workshops.
Deadline for abstracts: January 20, 2000
Contact: J. Pellegrino, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway MS 838.01, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Phone: + 1 303 497 3416
Fax: +1 303 497 5259, E-mail: jjp@boulder.nist.gov
Abstract submitta1 and meeting information:
http: //www.membranes.org/NAMS2000

Topics: Material science and membrane characterization: Inorganic and hybrid membranes preparation for all applications, conductive membranes, membrane formation mechanisms, membrane characterization (new techniques), fouling mechanisms, transport modelling, others... Processes and applications.
Deadline for reception of abstracts: 31 October 1999
Contact: Secretariat of ICIM-6, c/o Dr. R. Foglizzo, LMPM, ENSCM, 8 rue de l'Ecole Normale, 34296 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Phone: +33 4 67 144 345,
Fax: +33 4 67 144 347, E-mail: foglizzo@cit.enscm.fr

Contact: Richard D.Noble, University of Colorado, Chemical Engineering Dept. Boulder, CO 80309-0424, USA
Phone: +1 303 492 6100
Fax: +1 303 492 4637, E-mail: nobler@spot.colorado.edu

Topics: Basic research and technological R&D on membrane separations, including: New concepts, new membranes, membrane characterization, RO, NF (membranes, operation, design, pretreatment), UF, MF (systems, environmental applications), membrane reactors. Emphasize on topics: Desalination in arid zones (problems, current solutions), biomedial applications (osmotic devices, liposomes, medical separations).
Contact: Secretariat Euromembrane 2000, P.O. Box 29041, Tel Aviv 61290, Israel
Phone: +972 3 5175150
Fax: +972 3 5175155, E-mail: trgt@netvision.net.il

Topics: Case studies based on pilot and full-scale plants, desalination of sea water, integrated membrane systems for brackish and low salinity water, wastewater treatment and water reuse, membrane systems in remote placesand emergency circumstances, costs comparison, monitoring and controlling, pretreatment and disinfection, plant automation, operation and maintenance, innovations in membrane, element and system design, environmental impact assessment of membrane systems.
Abstracts: December 15, 1999
Contact: IWSA Secretariat, 1 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9BT, UK
Phone: +44 171 957 4567
Fax: +44 171 222 7243, E-mail: IWSA@dial.pipex.com

Topics: Hybrid processes (catalytic membrane reactors, membrane bioreactors, pervaporation-distillation systems, coupled reaction/separation processes), small scale processes (medical and health care applications, membrane units for rural situations, domestic applications, factory based effluent and recycle systems), vapour/gas separation (pervaporation, membrane distillation, gas separation).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2000 (Information: slr@sauron.quimica.uniovi.es)
Contact: Roger Ben-Aim (conference secretary), Dept. De Genie des Procedes Industriels, Institut Nat. Sciences Appliquees Toulouse, Complexe Scientifique de Rangueil, 31077 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
Phone: +33 05 61 55 97 81
Fax: +33 05 61 55 97 60, E-mail: benaim@insa-tlse.fr
Internet: www.uniovi.es/~granada2001