From Wednesday 8 June to Friday 10 June, international experts will be attending the 43rd International Symposium on Metal Complexes (ISMEC), organised jointly by the UAB and ALBA Synchrotron. The symposium has been celebrated since 1974.

Thursday 9th June the symposium will be held at the ALBA Synchrotron. There, at 09:50 a.m. at the Maxwell auditorium, professor John Bargar from the Chemical and Catalysis Division of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Stanford (USA), will offer a conference entitled "Redox and Coordination Environment: Controls Over Uranium Behaviour in Complex Natural Sediments". A visit to the facility is also included.