First Announcement 9^th International Symposium on Isotopomers (ISI 2018) March 25-28 (Sunday to Wednesday), 2018 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.

Dear colleagues:

We are pleased to announce that ISI 2018, the 9^th International Symposium on Isotopomers, will take place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from Sunday, March 25 to Wednesday March 28, 2018. Please mark your calendar.

Venue: Lod Cook Hotel and Conference Center, at the campus of Louisiana State University (LSU)

http://www.thecookhotel.com/event-spaces/

City: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.

https://www.visitbatonrouge.com/

The 9^th International symposium of Isotopomers (ISI 2018) focuses on mechanistic understanding, unusual observations, novel applications, and cutting-edge analytical techniques of stable isotope effects in all disciplines of sciences. ISI usually has 120-150 attendees from all over the world. Casual, in-depth discussion on the latest development in stable isotope research has been the tradition. ISI2018 Baton Rouge will follow that tradition by providing a newly renovated conference center that is steps away from your hotel room and at a lakeside in the beautiful LSU campus. Attendees will enjoy catered southern food in the best season of the year in Louisiana.

Symposium organizer: Huiming Bao, Louisiana State University, U.S.A.

Local Organizing Committee (a few more to be confirmed)

Becky Alexander (University of Washington)

Kristie Boering (University of California Berkeley)

Xiaobin Cao (Louisiana State University)

Yongbo Peng (Louisiana State University)

Daniel Singleton (Texas A&M University)

Boswell Wing (University of Colorado)

Laurence Yeung (Rice University)

International Advisory Committee

Naohiro Yoshida, ISI President (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Matthew Johnson (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Yun Liu (Institute of Geochemistry, China)

Gérald Remaud (University of Nantes, France)

Thomas Röckmann (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

Doug Rumble (The Geophysical Laboratory, Washington D.C., U.S.A.)

Mark Thiemens (University of California San Diego, U.S.A.)

Topics

kinetic isotope effects clumped and combinatorial isotope effects, triple or multiple isotope effect, isotope effects of diffusion, pressure, or heavy nuclei, non-mass-dependent isotope fractionation, isotope effects in non-equilibrium processes,

position-specific stable isotope composition, photochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, planetary sciences, geochemistry, physiology, environments, analytical and computational

Social Events

Icebreaker: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, March 25 (Sunday), 2018, LSU Cook Conference center

Swamp tour: 11:30 pm to 4:30 pm, March 27, Lake Martin

Conference dinner: On-site Cajun crawfish boil, 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm, March 27, Cook Conference center

Sponsors (in progress)

Information on previous ISI can be found at

http://nylab.chemenv.titech.ac.jp/ISI2001/isi2001.html

http://isi2006.ucsd.edu/

http://nylab.chemenv.titech.ac.jp/ISI2008/isi2008.html

http://web.science.uu.nl/isi2010/

https://deepcarbon.net/content/sixth-international-symposium-isotopomers-isi-2012-0

http://nylab.chemenv.titech.ac.jp/ISI2014/Welcome.html

http://isi2016.univ-nantes.fr/home.php

If you are interested in attending the Symposium, please let Xiaobin (xcao@lsu.edu) know you are coming “definitely” or “likely”. Once our Symposium website is set up, we will let you know.

(April 7, 2017)