Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the European Working Group for GDS was preparing to host the 5th International Glow Discharge Spectroscopy Symposium in Oviedo, Spain. The dates of 27-19 April 2020 were fixed the venue reserved. We had already received abstracts for 25 oral presentations and 21 posters, so we were looking forward to a very successful meeting. But then Coronavirus appeared and all was postponed.

As always, the symposium was being very generously sponsored by the instrument manufacturers, and they have not asked for the sponsorship to be returned, rather that we should hold on to it and use it when the symposium finally takes place (watch this space, it will happen!!). Of course, the manufacturers would have been attending the symposium and giving talks or posters to highlight any recent developments on their instruments, so we at EW-GDS felt that it would be only fair to post some links on this site so that you can be made aware of these developments.

So if any manufacturer wishes to take advantage of this then they should write to Pete Robinson (pete@masscare.co.uk) with any text and/or links that they would like to add to the site. Entries will appear below; they are in no particular order and EW-GDS cannot in any way verify the content.

We look forward to a time when travel restrictions are lifted and we can all attend our symposium or other meetings without risk.