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2012 Cyril Keattch Award Competition The Cyril Keattch Award Competition is held biennially. The Award is made to an outstanding early career scientist working in the field of thermal analysis or calorimetry to enable them to present a paper based on their work at an International Conference. The 2012 Cyril Keattch Award will be associated with the 15^th International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Congress to be held in Osaka, Japan, August 20^th -24^th 2012. Candidates for the Award must be resident in the UK. Those wishing to apply should have normally worked for ten years or less at the post-graduate level; any periods of leave, (such as, but not limited to, maternity leave) should be documented. Candidates should supply a nomination letter from a senior colleague, full curriculum vitae, a list of their publications and conference presentations and a one page abstract of the paper that the candidate intends to present at the 15^th ICTAC Congress. The submissions will be reviewed by a sub-committee of the TMG committee. The authors of the best three entries will then be invited to give a 20 minute presentation (including questions) at TAC 2012 to be held on the 3^rd and 4^th of April 2012 in the Division of Food Sciences at the Sutton Bonington Campus of Nottingham University. The winner of the competition will be announced at the TAC 2012 conference dinner. The submissions should be submitted in electronic format to the TMG Secretary, Dr Catherine Barnes (catherine.x.barnes@gsk.com) by the 15^th March 2012.