67th International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (ICASS)

The Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy
Welcomes you to the 67th International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (67th ICASS) on 27-29 May 2025 (with short courses on May 26?).

Conference Highlights

• Exhibition as well as oral and poster sessions to learn about the latest developments on a variety of topics in analytical sciences and spectroscopy.
• Networking breakfast and lunch included in the registration fee each day.
• Additional networking activities included in the full registration fee:
  • Sunset dinner cruise of the Thousand Islands on May 27th and
  • Banquet with wacky magic show by Rob Driscoll and poster prizes on May 28th.
• Access to Spectr’Atom 2025 sessions (on atomic spectrometry, in French) on 27-29 May
• There will be at least one joke of the day.

Important dates

• Abstract submissions for oral and poster presentation: March 14, 2025
• Notification of acceptance for oral and poster presentations: March 31, 2025
• Early bird registration: March 14, 2025
• Late abstract submissions for poster presentation: May 2, 2025
• Regular registration: April 11, 2025
• Exhibitor registration: May 2, 2025
• Hotel reservation (discounted group rate): May 1, 2025
• Late registration: May 2, 2025

Registration

To register to the conference as a participant, please fill out this form and send to:

67th ICASS,c/o Diane Beauchemin

Queen’s University, Department of Chemistry

90 Bader Lane, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. K7L 3N6

[email protected]

Registration fees (in Canadian dollars)

FULL REGISTRATION (including all meals)*

By 14 March 2025 (early bird)

• CSASS member: 560$
• CSASS non-member: 680$
• PDF CSASS member: 510$
• PDF CSASS non-member: 630$ 
• Student CSASS member: 375$ 
• Student CSASS non-member: 425$

By 11 April 2025

• CSASS member: 660$
• CSASS non-member: 780$
• PDF CSASS member: 610$
• PDF CSASS non-member: 730$ 
• Student CSASS member: 425$ 
• Student CSASS non-member: 475$

By 2 May 2025

• CSASS member: 760$
• CSASS non-member: 840$
• PDF CSASS member: 710$
• PDF CSASS non-member: 830$ 
• Student CSASS member: 475$ 
• Student CSASS non-member: 525$

*Includes breakfast, coffee breaks and lunch on Tuesday-Thursday inclusively + sunset dinner cruise on 27 May + banquet with wacky magic show by Rob Driscoll on 28 May.

SINGLE DAY REGISTRATION** 

By 14 March 2025 (early bird)

• CSASS member: 300$
• CSASS non-member: 420$
• PDF CSASS member: 250$
• PDF CSASS non-member: 370$ 
• Student CSASS member: 150$ 
• Student CSASS non-member: 200$

By 11 April 2025

• CSASS member: 400$
• CSASS non-member: 520$
• PDF CSASS member: 350$
• PDF CSASS non-member: 470$ 
• Student CSASS member: 200$ 
• Student CSASS non-member: 250$

By 2 May 2025

• CSASS member: 500$
• CSASS non-member: 620$
• PDF CSASS member: 450$
• PDF CSASS non-member: 570$ 
• Student CSASS member: 250$ 
• Student CSASS non-member: 300$

**Includes breakfast, coffee breaks and lunch on the day

Program

Coming soon. Check the website regularly.

HALF-DAY COURSES 

TO BE ANNOUNCED.

Proposed sessions

• Agricultural and Food Safety
  • Organizers: Nausheen Sadiq (Mount Royal University)
• Electrochemistry/surface analysis
  • Organizers: Zhe She and Paul Duchesne (Queen’s University)
• Environmental analysis
  • Organizers: Iris Koch and Adrian Pang (Royal Military College of Canada)
• Forensic Analysis
  • Organizers: Yangyang Wang and Diane Beauchemin(Queen’s University)
• Laser ablation and LIBS
  • Organizers: Mohamad Sabsabi (National Research Council of Canada)
• NMR
  • Organizers: Gang Wu and Muzaddid Sarker(Queen’s University)
• Nanomaterials and their Analysis
  • Organizer: Diane Beauchemin (Queen’s University)
• Sample Introduction Systems for the Inductively Coupled Plasma
  • Organizers: Michael Trolio and Diane Beauchemin (Queen’s University)
• Separations/Mass Spectrometry
  • Organizers: Mario Khalil and Richard Oleschuk (Queen’s University)
• Speciation Analysis
  • Organizers: Mesay Wolle (US Food and Drug Administration)

Confirmed invited speakers

Agricultural and food safety

• Diane Beauchemin (Queen’s University, Canada)
• Fanny Hernandez (formerly at ANSES, France)
• Iris Koch (Royal Military College of Canada)
• Dominic Larivière (Université Laval, Canada)
• Bob Lockerman (CEM, USA)

Electrochemistry/surface analysis

• Dominik Barz (Queen’s University, Canada)
• Zhifeng Ding (Western University, Canada)
• Paul Duchesne (Queen’s University, Canada)
• Carlos Escobedo (Queen’s University, Canada)
• Jesse Greener (Université Laval, Canada)
• Zhe She (Queen’s University, Canada)
• Olena Zenkina (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
• Peng Zhang (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Environmental analysis

• Barbara Zeeb (Royal Military College of Canada)

Forensic analysis

• Igor Lednev (University at Albany, USA), Keynote Lecture: Vibrational spectroscopy for the detection, identification and analysis of biological stains for forensic purposes.

LA-ICPMS

TBA...

Nanomaterials and their analysis

• Chad Cuss (Memorial University, Canada): Self-organizing maps for the detection and classification of natural nanoparticles and nanoparticle systems measured using single particle ICP-time-of-flight-MS
• Andreas Limbeck (TU Wien University, Austria): Advances in nanoparticle characterization using laser ablation single particle-ICP-MS

NMR

• David Bryce (University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Lindsay Cahill (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
• Yining Huang (Western University, Canada)
• Tong Mittermaier (McGill University, Canada)
• Jan Rainey (Dalhousie University, Canada)
• Steve Smith (Queen’s University, Canada)
• Amrit Venkatesh(University of Virginia, USA)
• Tuo Wang (Michigan State University, USA)
• Gang Wu (Queen’s University, Canada)

Sample introduction systems for the inductively coupled plasma

• Yoshitaka Takagai (Fukushima University, Japan): Ion Chromatographic Automatic Sample Introduction into ICP-MS/MS for Ultra-Trace Analysis and Application to Radioactive Nuclides Analysis

Separations/Mass spectrometry

• Steffany Bennett (University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Maxim Berezovski (University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf (National Research Council of Canada)
• Alan Doucette (Dalhousie University, Canada)
• Asma Farjallah (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
• Thomas Kislinger (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Sergey Krylov (York University, Canada): Leveraging Mass Spectrometry to Address Binding Study Inaccuracies: Implications for Drug Discovery
• Huiyan Li (University of Guelph, Canada)
• Jianjun Li (National Research Council of Canada)
• Lekha Sleno (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
• Dajana Vuckovic (Concordia University, Canada)
• Arash Zarrine-Afsar (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Richard Oleschuk (Queen’s University, Canada)
• Lekha Sleno (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
• Jeff Smith (Carleton University, Canada)
• Dajana Vuckovic (Concordia University, Canada)
• Karen Waldron (Université de Montréal, Canada)

Speciation Analysis

• Zuzana Gajdosechova (NRC Canada): Know what you vape: metal analysis in cannabis vape liquids
• Kevin Kubachka(U.S. Food and Drug Administration): Elemental Speciation at the FDA’s National Forensic Chemistry Center
• Derrick Quarles (Elemental Scientific, Inc.): Determination of Hg species in blood using a novel liquid chromatography, inline sample preparation, and post-column hydride generation system connected to an ICP-MS
• Jens Sloth (DTU National Food Institute): Trace element speciation analysis in foodstuffs – from research to regulation
• Hailey Yu (University of Alberta): Determination and speciation of selenium in fish from lakes affected by former open coal mines
• Mesay Wolle (U. S. Food and Drug Administration)
• Ben Wozniak (Brooks Applied Labs): Environmental applications of speciation analysis

Guidelines for Presenters

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• LCD (for PowerPoint presentations) projectors will be available. The layout for each slide should be planned carefully to fit usable space and be fully legible when projected in a lecture room. The widescreen format is acceptable. Each slide should preferably involve only one main subject. As a rule of thumb, aim for one slide per minute. Hence, a maximum of 17 slides (including title and acknowledgements slides) should generally be used for a 20-minute presentation, to allow 3 minutes for questions.

POSTERS

• The poster formats will be 3 x 4 feet portrait orientation. Each presenter will have space on a wall in Great C for their poster, which will be held on the wall using the provided sticky tack or masking tape. Please install your poster by 10:00 and remove it at 17:40. The presenters must attend their posters from 17:00 to 17:40 so that participants (including judges) can discuss the paper in detail with them.
• Poster layout and presentation should be eye-catching and informative. The posters should include the poster title and authors' names, a short statement of the object and scope of the work; results and a summary or conclusion. Where possible, the results should be presented in diagrams, tables and graphs. The lettering should be of an appropriate size (ordinary typewriting is insufficient) to be readable from a distance. Use colors, arrows, frames, flow sheets, question marks, underlining and photographs. Do not use pages of typed text or experimental detail or extensive numerical data or tables. If possible, add a photograph of the authors, so that others will be able to identify you readily. The purpose of the poster is to arouse the curiosity of the spectators. Details can be given in response to their questions.

Exhibitors

ICASS: List of Exhibitors

Venue

Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront
2 Princess Street, Kingston, ON, K7L 1A2, Canada

• Eco-certified hotel located on the shore of Lake Ontario, in beautiful downtown Kingston, steps away from the market square, unique shops and fabulous restaurants
• Indoor pool and fitness centre
• 24-hour business center
• Complimentary newspapers in the lobby
• Check-in: 3:00 pm; check-out: 11:00 am
• Room service
• smoking is not permitted in any meeting rooms, public areas, guest rooms, and balconies
• Free WiFi access in all guest rooms and meeting space
• Overnight parking: $20 plus tax a day with in and out privileges
• Complimentary parking for local attendees during conference dates, based on availability

SPECIAL RATE(May 25-29): $199/night + 18% total tax and fee. (Standard room with 2 queen-size beds or one king-size bed: )

To get the special rate use the following link: here

Traveling information

Kingston is located half-way between Toronto and Montreal, on the shore of Lake Ontario (one of the Great Lakes). One can only fly to Kingston via Toronto Pearson International Airport. Unfortunately, the short flights between Kingston and Toronto tend to be unreliable at best.

The best way to reach Kingston is to fly to Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, take the free VIA shuttle to the Dorval VIA train station (which is only a few minutes drive away) and take a VIA train to Kingston.

See VIA Rail Canada: Train travel in Canada for information about the VIA Rail service.

Alternatively, one can fly to Toronto Pearson International Airport and take the UP Express train (not free however) down to Union train station in downtown Toronto and then take a VIA train to Kingston.