Looking back on previous symposia organised by EW-GDS it can be clearly seen that interest was growing. The 1st International GDS Symposium took place in Albi, France, in 2010 and was a very solid start with around 40 people attending. The number of delegates grew to around 80 by the 2 nd Symposium held in Prague in 2014 and stayed the same for Liverpool 2016. There were then over 100 registrations for the 4 th International GDS Symposium, held in Berlin in 2018.
The topics included in the Symposium will cover all aspects of GDS, with oral and poster presentations given by internationally recognised experts and early stage researchers. While the focus of the Symposium is the analysis of solids by optical emission and mass spectrometry, there will be a wide spread of topics including Fundamentals (GD Processes), Instrumentation, Bulk as well as Thin Film Analysis, Solution Analysis and Application Methodology. This shows that GDS is a field in which very exciting progress is still being made.
