The Nuclear Spectrometry and Applications Laboratory (NSAL) of the Physics Section at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) publishes biannually the newsletter: X Ray Fluorescence in the IAEA and its Member States. Currently, twenty three (23) issues have been released and can be accessed and freely downloaded in a pdf format via this link.

The IAEA XRF-Newsletter is a vibrant forum to exchange and disseminate scientific information and results obtained on methodological/instrumental developments and multidisciplinary analytical applications of XRF methods, including all possible variants of the technique; handheld/mobile XRF analysis, 2D/3D micro-XRF analysis, TXRF/GIXRF analysis, High Resolution X-Ray Spectrometry, Synchrotron Radiation XRF analysis and related X-ray Spectrometry methods, without excluding complementary techniques such as SEM-EDS and PIXE.

Each XRF Newsletter issue reports on the NSAL activities in the field of XRF analysis including the results of experimental work carried out at the NSAL premises. Further to this, each issue incorporates activities reports from the XRF laboratories at the IAEA Member States, offering a rather unique opportunity for your work to be disseminated to a wider audience through this freely available online Newsletter.

You are cordially invited to contribute to the next issue of the XRF-Newsletter. For further information see this pdf file

The Society of Friends of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin announces the bestowal of the Innovation-Award in the field of procurement and usage of synchrotron radiation. The award is to be granted for an excellent achievement which has contributed significantly to the further development of techniques, methods or uses of synchrotron radiation. Scientists and engineers from research institutions, universities, and industrial establishments within Europe are addressed.
Further information can be found in this leaflet.

Furthermore, this society announces the ‘Ernst-Eckhard-Koch-Prize’, which is bestowed for outstanding doctoral theses in the field of research with synchrotron radiation performed at either the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) or HASYLAB at DESY, Hamburg, which were completed during the current or past year.

X-Ray Spectrometry edited a special Issue with contributions of the 14^th European Conference on X-Ray Spectrometry taking place June 20–25, 2010 in Figueira da Foz, Coimbra, Portugal.

DOI: 10.1002/xrs.1296