Det 23. Organisk-Kjemisk Vintermøte 2008

The Organic Winter Meeting is the national meeting in organic chemistry in Norway. It is a conference under the umbrella of the Norwegian Chemical Society, which has given me the task to organize the meeting. Since its infancy the tradition has been to invite 3-4 eminent chemists, covering various subdiciplines of organic chemistry, to give the plenary lectures. Due to financial support from the research council over the years it has been possible to maintain this tradition without having to charge a co nsiderable conference fee. This has been absolutely instrumental to keep up the numbers of participants in times with little money at Norwegian universities for conference participation. The next winter meeting, which I will organize, will take place fro m the 10th to the 13th of January 2008. The participants will arrive with train midday the 10th. The meeting will then start just after lunch with a plenary lecture followed by shorter talks, poster presentations etc until approximately 19.30. The schedul e will be almost the same the 11th. The 12th, however, there will be two plenary lectures, and at the very end the annual meeting of the Organic Division of the Norwegian Chemical Society will be held; otherwise, the program will contain shorter talks and poster presentations as the previous days. The participants will leave with train the next morning. I have organized the winter meeting three times before, and each time emphasized certain parts of organic chemistry. This time I want to focus on organic synthesis, in particular bio-organic chemistry. I have started the process to invite the following as plenary speakers, of whom the three first on the list have accepted the invitation: Professor Anita R. Maguire, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Professor Dieter Schinzer,University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany Professor Peter Seeberger, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland Professor Snorri T. Sigurdsson, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland