Dear Colleagues,

The Israel Chemical Society will hold its 75^th annual meeting at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv on January 25-26, 2010. The annual meeting of the ICS is one of the major scientific events of Israeli Science, bringing together researchers from academia, chemical education, R&D and industry interested in the structure and dynamics of molecules and materials.

This year the Sackler School of Chemistry of Tel Aviv University is organizing the meeting. We are delighted to announce that The 2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Prof. Ada Yonat, will be our special guest and will deliver the opening ceremony lecture. The meeting this year will include invited leading scientists from Japan, USA and Europe celebrating the strong ties between Israeli and the foremost World Scientists in all fields of chemical research.

This year our guests are:
Prof. Tohru Fukuyama, Japan Prof. Shunichi Fukuzumi, Japan	Prof. Eiichi Nakamura, Japan Prof. Yoshio Okahata, Japan	Prof. Hiroaki Suga, Japan Prof. Daisuke Uemura, Japan	Prof. Erick Carreira, Zurich Prof. Scott Denmark, Urbana

The meeting will encompass all facets of modern interdisciplinary chemical research in 8 plenary lectures, 18 symposia and two poster sessions. The symposia will include invited Keynote and regular talks, as well as 1-2 talks that will be selected from abstracts submitted in response to the present call for papers. The two poster sessions will allow young scientists to present their most recent achievements.

Looking forward to seeing you in Tel Aviv in January.

Shmuel Carmeli, Chairman