Call for papers.The 2003 International Mechanical Pulping Conference will be held at the Loews Le Concorde Hotel in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, from June 2 to 5, 2003. The conference is sponsored by PAPTAC PAPTAC Pulp And Paper Technical Association of Canada (Canada), TAPPI TAPPI Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ), SPCI SPCI Single-Premium Credit Insurance SPCI Standard & Poor's Commodity Index SPCI Software Product Configuration Item SPCI Small Pci (Sweden), and PI (Finland). The conference chairman is Richard Presley, Southern Ionics, Inc., Kingwood, Texas, USA. The program chairman is David McDonald David John McDonald (November 22, 1902 - August 8, 1979) was an American labor leader and president of the United Steelworkers of America from 1952 to 1965. Early life , Paprican, Pointe-Claire, Quebec Pointe-Claire is a municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada; population 29,286 (Statistics Canada, 2001). Along with the other municipalities on the island of Montreal, it was merged with the city of Montreal on January 1, 2002 by the provincial government. , Canada. The conference will focus on the manufacture and use of mechanical pulps with the theme: "Cost efficient mechanical pulp in high quality products: A bright future." PROGRAM TOPICS INCLUDE: * The future of mechanical pulp * Pulp and fibre quality * Furnish challenges * Mill experiences * Research results * How to lower energy consumption * Fractionation fractionation /frac·tion·a·tion/ (frak?shun-a´shun) 1. in radiology, division of the total dose of radiation into small doses administered at intervals. 2. strategies * Brighter, more permanent mechanical pulps Papers are sought on all aspects of mechanical pulping, energy use, pulp brightening, fiber characteristics, pulp quality and paper properties. A poster session A poster session is the juried presentation of research information by representatives of several research teams at a congress or conference with an academic or professional focus. These are particularly prominent at scientific conferences such as medical congresses. will allow discussion of work in progress, and presentation of important research and scientific work. Poster presentations require submission of a full paper, which will be included in the proceedings of the conference. If you wish your abstract to be considered only for the poster session, please identity your abstract this way. SUBMISSIONS Those wishing to present a paper or a poster at the conference are requested to submit an abstract of 250 words, preferably by email, by September 15, 2002. Send abstracts for consideration to: Claudette Harland c/o Paprican 570, boul. St-Jean Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 3J9 Canada email: charland@paprican.ca Further information on the conference can be obtained on the PAPTAC website www.paptac.ca or by contacting Glen Black at the offices of PAPTAC. The 2003 International Paper Physics Conference, sponsored by PAPTAC and TAPPI, will be held in Canada in September 2003. The conference chair is Jeff Suhling, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA. The program chair is Mark Kortschot, University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, , Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The conference will focus on all areas of paper physics, including fundamental work on the structure and properties of fibers and fibrous products--especially paper and board--and the physical and physicochemical physicochemical /phys·i·co·chem·i·cal/ (fiz?i-ko-kem´ik-il) pertaining to both physics and chemistry. phys·i·co·chem·i·cal adj. 1. Relating to both physical and chemical properties. mechanisms that occur in the manufacture and use of paper and paper products. It will be organized into oral presentation and poster sessions. In addition to papers on completed research and development projects, certain sessions will be devoted to work in progress. Those wishing to present a paper at the conference should submit a one-page abstract of approximately 250 words, preferably by email, by December 1, 2002 to: Mark Kortschot Dept. Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry University of Toronto 200 College ST. Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3EE5 email: kortsch@chem-eng.utoronto.ca Phone: + 1 416 978-8926 Fax: + 1 416 978-1376 Further information on the conference can be obtained on the PAPTAC website www.paptac.ca or by contacting: Glen Black PAPTAC 740 Notre Dame West, Suite 810 Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 3X6 email: gblack@paptac.ca Phone: + 1 514 392-6967 Fax: + 1 514 392-0369 |
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