Conference Report: 50th CALORIMETRY CONFERENCE Gaithersburg, MD July 23–28, 1995

The 50th Calorimetry Conference was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology during the week July 23–28, 1995. The purpose of the Calorimetry Conference is to improve calorimetric methods and related scientific procedures and to advance their application in science and technology. Towards this end, a Calorimetry Conference is held annually. This year there were 240 registered participants from 22 countries. There were 175 oral and 32 poster presentations. To mark the 50th anniversary of the conference, there was also a special symposium ‘‘History of the Calorimetry Conference.’’ Consistent with the recent history of the conference, the largest number of presentations were in the biochemical and biological areas. The Calorimetry Conference has always maintained an informal atmosphere and, in this tradition, there are no published proceedings. The principal organizers of the Conference were the Chair, Dr. Eugene S. Domalski (NIST), the Program Chair, Dr. Edwin A. Lewis [J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. 101, 63 (1996)]