1991 Europian school in chemometrics, guildford, surrey, U.K., July 7-11, 1991

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THE POTENTIAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS, LONDON,

U.K., JUNE 17-18,

1991 EUROPEAN CHEMOMETRZCS,

SCHOOL IN

GUILDFORD, SURREY, JULY 7-l 1, 1991

U.K.,

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A twoday meeting will be held on the application of mass spectrometry to clinical problems. The meeting will include a training proleading to advanced gram methods/applications. The meeting will, therefore, appeal to new and potential users of mass spectrometry as well as experienced chnical mass spectrometrists. Contrrbutions will be given by international and national experts. There will be time set aside for communications and discussions. The scientific program will include: basic gas chromatographymass spectrometry; advances in mass spectrometry; analysis of steroids, amino acids/peptides, organic acids, acyl camitines, stable isotopes, macromolecules and microbiological applications. There will be reduced rates for students. For further details, contact: Dr. A.W. Johnson, Clinical Biochemistry, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney Road, London E2 SPS, U.K.

This course, organized by the University of Bristol, will appeal to a variety of scientists working in industry including pharmaceutical, petrochemical, food and instrument manufacturing industry, and also academics particularly in organic, analytical and physical chemistry, and statisticians. Chemometrics aims to help the experimenter de sign and analyze experiments efficiently and is relevant to all types of laboratory experimentation. The course will involve lectures, workshop tutorials, hands-on software and videos. There will be a choice of options. Extensive notes will be available to students, some in the form of published material. The main topics will be pattern recognition, experimental design, calibration, decision making, expert systems and signal processing. The topics will be grouped into themes organized by one or two tutors. Invited tutors include: PJ. Lewi (Janssen Pharmaceutics, Belgium), T. Naes (Norwegian Food Research Institute), R.G. Brereton (University of Bristol, U.K.), R.L. Tranter (Glaxo, U.K.), G. Orpen (University of Bris-

tol, U.K.), D. Lunn (University of Oxford, U.K.), D. Covey (University of Surrey, U.K.) and RL. Ekskine, among others. The fully inclusive course fee, including accommodation, meals, social program, tuition and course notes, is 1050. For details and bookings, contact Mr. A.W. Honey, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Canto&s Close, Bristol, U.K. (Fax: +44 272-251295).

8th SYMPOSIUM ON LZQUZD CHROMATOGlWPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY SFt-MS, C&MS,

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SHORT COURSE ON LC-MS, SFGMS, ZC-MS, CE-MS, ITHACA, NY, U&A, JULY 15-l 9, 1991

The symposium on LC-MS, SFCMS, CE-MS and IC-MS will be held from 17 to 19 July 1991, and will deal with all areas of these topics including technical developments with online aspects, theoretical considerations and applications of the techniques in environmental, clinical, industrial and pharmaceutical analysis and other fields. Recent advances and applications will be presented in plenary lectures, followed by contributed oral and poster presentations. A portion of the symposium will be. devoted to panel and group discussions on stateoftheart LC-MS, SFC-MS, CR-MS and IC-MS. Abstracts of brief oral or poster-research presentations may be submitted until 1 June 1991. For those interested who are new to the field, a short course will be held on 15 and 16 July 1991 which will give the necessary background for the symposium. Topics