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Pittcon 2001 he 52nd Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy will convene March 4–9, 2001, at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA. The technical program will feature more than 45 invited symposia and approximately 2500 contributed papers and posters. Highlighting the program will be the traditional topics of atomic spectroscopy, bioanalytical and environmental chemistries, IR and Raman spectroscopies, MS, GC and other separation techniques, as well as the various award symposia. The program will include an opening session on Sunday evening, “Activities in Chemical Measurement Science: An Historical Perspective;” a user–manufacturer information exchange (UMIX) session; workshops; and poster sessions. At the Exposition of Modern Laboratory Equipment, which will feature the latest instruments, equipment, chemicals, and publications, more than 1100 companies will occupy more than 3000 booths. On Monday morning, Harold McNair of Virginia Polytechnic Institute will be honored with the Dal Nogare Award, sponsored by the Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley. On Tuesday morning, Allen J. Bard of the University of Texas–Austin will be presented the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award sponsored by the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh. On Tuesday afternoon, Gary M. Hieftje of Indiana University will receive the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, sponsored by the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh; Raul Curbelo of Bio-Rad Laboratories will be the recipient of the Williams–Wright Award, sponsored by the Coblenz Society; and William G. Fateley of Kansas State University will
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receive the Maurice F. Hasler Award, sponsored by Thermo Electron. On Wednesday morning, Richard P. Buck of the University of North Carolina (retired) will receive the Charles N. Reilley Award, and Eric Bakker of Auburn University will receive the Young Investigator Award, both sponsored by the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry. On Wednesday afternoon, Laurence A. Nafie of Syracuse University will be the recipient of the Bomem–Michelson Award, sponsored by the Coblenz Soci-
ety. On Thursday morning, Tom Fearn of University College–London (U.K.) will receive the Tomas Hirschfeld Award, sponsored by Bran+Luebbe. The Pittsburgh Conference and the American Chemical Society will offer more than 100 courses. Listings for the ACS courses appear on p104 A. For more information, contact Short Course Office, ACS, 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036 (800-227-5558, ext. 4508; fax 202-872-6336; shortcourses@ acs.org). For more information on the
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Pittcon courses, consult the preliminary program or contact the Pittcon office. An employment bureau will also be available to conferees. Pre-registration information for employers and candidates is included in the preliminary program. On-site registration for conferees and exhibitors will be in the lobby of the Morial Convention Center in front of Halls E and F. Registration hours are Sunday, March 4, 10:00 a.m.–7:30 p.m.; Monday, March 5, 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; Tuesday, March 6, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; Wednesday, March 7, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; and Thursday, March 8, 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Fees are $120 for conferees, $15 for students, and $75 for
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one-day admission. All registrants will be entitled to an abstract book and may participate in any conference activity. Special rates for airline flights can be made through Pittcon Reservations, 381 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10016 (800-248-7488; fax 212-5329426;
[email protected]). Hotel reservations can also be obtained through the Pittcon Reservations (fax 212-779-6128). For further information on any aspect of Pittcon ’01, contact The Pittsburgh Conference, 300 Penn Center Blvd., Suite 332, Pittsburgh, PA 15235-5503 (800-825-3221; 412-825-3220; fax 412-825-3224; http://www.pittcon.org).
March 2–4 Applied optical microscopy Chemical engineering and process fundamentals for chemists Experimental design for formulation On-line process analyzers Polymer chemistry Statistical analysis of laboratory data
Dispersion of fine particles in liquids Effective management of chemical analysis support laboratories Effective supervision of scientists Electronic laboratory notebooks and knowledge management systems in R&D Emulsions and microemulsions Environmental data validation FT-IR spectroscopy: A hands-on workshop Fundamentals of HPLC Good laboratory practices and ISO 9000 standards Interpretation of MS LIMS: A systematic approach Methods development, validation procedures, and conformity assessment in the analytical laboratory Modern methods of particle-size distribution Practical CE Practical HPLC method development Practical LC/MS and CE/MS Project management for technical professionals Quality assurance/quality control in the analytical testing laboratory Technical writing workshop Thermal analysis and industrial applications of polymers Water and waste analysis by U.S. EPA methods
March 3–4 Analytical inductively coupled plasma: Emission and MS Capillary GC Combinatorial chemistry: Solid- and solution-phase synthesis
March 4 Headspace GC Microsoft Excel for chemists Modern near-IR analysis Solid-phase extraction and techniques in the analytical laboratory
For more information, contact the Department of Continuing Education, ACS, 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036 (800-227-5558, ext. 4508; 202-872-4508; fax 202-8726336; http://www.acs.org). March 1–2 How to develop, validate, and troubleshoot capillary GC and HPLC methods March 1–3 Electronics for laboratory instrumentation Experimental design for productivity and quality in R&D Interpretation of IR spectra March 2 Troubleshooting HPLC systems
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Monday Morning Symposium: Dal Nogare Award Tuesday Afternoon Symposium: Williams–Wright Award Symposium: Pittsburgh Spectroscopy and Maurice F. Hasler Awards Wednesday Afternoon Symposium: Bomem–Michelson Award Thursday Morning Symposium: Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award Near-Infrared Spectroscopy—Tomas Hirschfeld Award
Monday Morning Bioanalytical: IR and Raman I Bioanalytical: MS I Bioanalytical: Microsensors I Pharmaceutical Analysis: Natural Products and Active Ingredients Protein Analysis Monday Afternoon Bioanalytical: IR and Raman II Bioanalytical: MS II Combinatorial Chemistry Pharmaceutical: Tablet Analysis Tuesday Morning Symposium: Leading-Edge Bioanalysis by Young Investigators Bioanalytical: CE I Bioanalytical: Microsensors II Bioanalytical: SPE Bioanalytical: SPE II Biomedical: IR and Raman III HPLC: Combinatorial Chemistry Tuesday Afternoon Symposium: Electroanalytical Approaches for Probing the Dynamics and
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Mechanisms of Exocytosis Symposium: Microprobe MS—Imaging and Localization in Biological Specimens and Materials Basics in Sample Preparation Bioanalytical: CE II Bioanalytical: Microscopy Pharmaceutical Analysis Pharmaceutical Chiral Analysis Wednesday Morning Symposium: Charles N. Reilley and Young Investigator Awards Symposium: Emerging Analytical Approaches to Proteomics Analysis of DNA and Oligonucleotides HPLC: Pharmaceuticals and Supplements Wednesday Afternoon Bioanalysis in Cells and Tissues Bioanalytical: Electrochemistry Bioanalytical: Separation Sciences Thursday Morning Symposium: Analytical Tools for HighThroughput Chemical Analysis and Combinatorial Materials Science Symposium: MS and Proteomics in Cancer Research Bioanalytical: Microdetection Techniques HPLC: Bioanalytical Applications I HPLC: Chromatography of Polymers and Biopolymers Pharmaceutical Analysis: General Sample Preparation of Plant and Animal Tissue Thursday Afternoon Symposium: High-Throughput Analytical Techniques Symposium: Multidimensional Separation Methods in Analytical Biotechnology Symposium: Validation in the Regulated Pharmaceutical Laboratory Clinical Chemistry Applications Drug Extraction from Biomatrices HPLC: Bioanalytical Applications II Friday Morning Symposium: Comprehensive Multidimensional Separations for Enhanced Biological and Environmental Analysis Symposium: Emerging Technologies for Genomics and Proteomics
Monday Afternoon LIMS I Process Data Analysis/Reduction/ Verification
Monday Morning Symposium: Analytical Instrumentation for the New Millennium—Environmental Science and Materials Research
Tuesday Morning Symposium: LIMS—Real Problems, Real Solutions
Tuesday Morning Analysis of Aerosols, Vapors, and Metals in Air Analysis of Organics in Air
Tuesday Afternoon Symposium: Scientific Databases—The Final Frontier LIMS II MALDI: Data Processing Wednesday Morning LIMS and Chemometrics
Wednesday Afternoon Environmental: State of the Art Review HPLC: Environmental Applications New Technologies for Monitoring Pollution
Thursday Afternoon Symposium: Bioinformatics
Monday Afternoon Nanotechnology Applied to Electrochemistry Tuesday Morning Symposium: Electroanalytical Approaches for Probing the Dynamics and Mechanisms of Exocytosis Self-Assembled Monolayers: Preparation, Properties, and Characterization Wednesday Afternoon Ionophore-Based Chemical Sensors I Bioanalytical: Electrochemistry Thursday Morning Ionophore-Based Chemical Sensors II Thursday Afternoon Electrochemistry I Friday Morning Electrochemistry II
Wednesday Morning Analysis of PAHs, PCBs, and Pesticides in the Environment Environmental: Air Sampling Applications
Thursday Morning Symposium: Trends and Challenges in the Analysis of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals 21CFR11 and Validation Clinical Toxicological Analysis Environmental Applications: GC/MS and LC/MS Environmental Applications: Metals Analysis Environmental Applications: Sample Preparation and Organic Analytes Instrumental Developments for Environmental Analysis Thursday Afternoon Symposium: Comprehensive Multidimensional Separations for Enhanced Biological and Environmental Analysis Air Monitoring Techniques Environmental Applications: General Interest Environmental Analysis: Sample Preparation and Separations GC, GC/MS Advances for Environmental Analysis Metals in the Environment Spectroscopic Analysis of Metals in the Environment
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Friday Morning Environmental Applications: Metals Environmental Applications: Water Analysis EPA Method Developments Lasers in Environmental Analysis
Wednesday Morning Symposium: Bioterrorism—The Threat and Analytical Challenges Symposium: Expert Testimony Wednesday Afternoon Symposium: Catching Crooks with Chemistry Thursday Morning Forensic: Examinations Using Vibrational Spectroscopy and Other Techniques
Monday Morning Separation Techniques in Food Analysis
Sunday Afternoon Symposium: NIST I—NIST Activities in Chemical Measurement Science: A Historical Perspective Monday Morning Symposium: Laboratory Management Symposium: NIST II—Impact of NIST Chemical Measurement and Standards Programs: Customer Views
Monday Afternoon Determination of Fats and Proteins in Food-Related Samples
Pittcon Short Courses Tuesday Morning Food Analyses: Applications of NIR, GC, and Atomic Spectroscopy Tuesday Afternoon Symposium: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow—Detection and Quantification of Prions Applications of GC/MS in Food Analysis Wednesday Afternoon Symposium: Detection of Foodborne Pathogens Using Biosensors Use of the Electronic Nose and Chemometrics in Food Analysis Thursday Morning Symposium: Advancing Nutraceutical Science with HPLC and LC/MS Thursday Afternoon HPLC: Food Analysis Friday Morning Symposium: Crop Analytics—Catalyst in Agricultural Biotechnology Revolution
Tuesday Morning Forensic Analyses Using Various MS Techniques
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Below is a listing of short courses that will be offered at Pittcon 2001. For more information, contact the Pittsburgh Conference, 300 Penn Center Blvd., Ste. 332, Pittsburgh, PA 152355503 (412-825-3220; fax 412-8253224). A practical approach to computer system vendor audits Accessing, analyzing, capturing, and reporting laboratory data using a PC Analytical applications of supercritical fluids: Sample preparation (SFE) and chromatography (SFC) Analytical organic MS Analytical rheology—probing the microstructure of matter and its practical applications Applications and fundamentals of ion-mobility spectrometry Basic statistics Biosensors in the analytical laboratory: An overview CE Chemometric techniques for quantitative analysis Computer workshop for statistically valid detection limits and quantitation limits Design and implementation of high-performance work teams Electrochemistry: Fundamentals and practical applications Electron microscopy and microanalysis Environmental regulatory review Enantiomeric separations Field sampling for environmental analysis FIA: Theory, instrumentation, and application
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FT-IR spectrometry of surface layers FT-IR characterization of polymers GC/MS: Fundamentals, applications, and troubleshooting GC: Fundamentals, applications, and troubleshooting Getting the best results from your gas chromatograph: Finding and preventing common problems Going electronic? Practical approaches for 21CFR11 compliance High-speed GC High-throughput screening using TLC: Fundamentals and applications HPLC: Fundamentals, applications, and troubleshooting ICPMS Industrial applications of Raman spectroscopy Industrial problem solving using thermal analysis IR microspectroscopy: Fundamentals and techniques Introduction to API LC/MS techniques Introduction to laboratory data management using a PC Introduction to MS ISO guidelines for uncertainty calculations for chemical analysis Laboratory accreditation Laboratory safety Laboratory safety management: Dollars and sense of effective safety management LC/MS, GC/MS, and MS/MS with quadrupole ion trap MS Leadership principles for R&D managers and scientists Light microscopy and microanalysis
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Monday Afternoon NIST III—Impact of NIST Activities in Chemical Measurement Science: International Perspective Tuesday Morning Symposium: NIST IV—Looking Ahead: Chemical Measurement Methods, Standards and Technology Needs for the Future Sample Handling: Automation Sensors I Tuesday Afternoon Quality: Characterizations
LIMS for laboratory managers: Strategies and tactics Measuring and enhancing the performance of FT-IR spectrometers Modern sampling techniques for capillary GC NIR spectroscopy: An overview Online searching of chemical information: Techniques and strategies Practical computer validation Practical equipment qualification for regulated laboratories Practical GC: Packed and capillary columns Practical solutions to improving sample preparation for chromatography Professional analytical chemists in industry: What does an analytical chemist do? Quality systems for the laboratory: Fundamentals, implementation, and applications to analytical and quality control Raman spectroscopy—free of fluorescence Sample introduction for analytical atomic spectrometry and ICPMS Sample preparation strategies for ICP-AES and ICPMS Solid-phase microextraction Soil chemistry, analytical methods, and instrumentation Spectroscopy for fun Statistics tests applied to analytical chemistry Statistically valid detection limits and quantitation limits Technical and oral presentation skills for scientists Validation of chromatography and other laboratory computer systems
Quality: Sensory Analyses Sensors II Wednesday Morning Symposium: Organic Quantitative Analysis Without Reference Standards Quality Laboratory Thermal Analysis Wednesday Afternoon Specialty Gas Symposium: Instrumentation—The Enabling Science Thursday Morning Sample Preparation and Extraction Thursday Afternoon Characterization of Chemical Reactions and Their Products
Monday Morning Symposium: Analytical Instrumentation for the New Millennium—Environmental Science and Materials Research Tuesday Morning Materials Characterization I: Probing Materials at Microscopic Scale Tuesday Afternoon Materials Characterization II: Adhesion and Corrosion Wednesday Morning Materials Characterization III: Analysis of Compositional Gradients Polymer Synthesis and Polymer Analysis Wednesday Afternoon Polymer Physics and Polymer Thermal Analysis
Monday Morning Bioanalytical: MS I
Thursday Morning Materials Characterization IV: Particle Size, Surface, and Pore Structure
Monday Afternoon Bioanalytical: MS II ICPMS Tuesday Morning Atomic Spectroscopy: ICPMS—Moving Forward Forensic Analyses Using Various MS Techniques MALDI: Data Processing
Thursday Afternoon Symposium: Direct Analysis of Solid Samples Using Electrothermal Atomization and Vaporization Techniques in AAS and ICPMS Surface Characterization of Materials Friday Morning Symposium: Developments in Solid-State NMR Characterization of Materials
Tuesday Afternoon Symposium: Microprobe MS—Imaging and Localization in Biological Specimens and Materials Wednesday Morning MS: Instrumentation and Techniques Thursday Morning Symposium: MS and Proteomics in Cancer Research Environmental Applications: GC/MS and LC/MS
Monday Morning Electrophoresis in Microfabricated Channels Tuesday Morning Symposium: Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies—The New Frontier of Chemical Measurements
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Monday Morning Symposium: Frontiers of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Monday Afternoon Applications of Atomic Force/Scanning Probe Microscopy Tuesday Afternoon Bioanalytical: Microscopy Thursday Morning Symposium: Nonlinear Chemical Imaging Microscopy
Monday Morning Chromatography I HPLC: Evaluating and Comparing Stationary Phases HPLC: Instrumentation Monday Afternoon HPLC: Column Technology Tuesday Morning Bioanalytical: CE I Bioanalytical: SPE Chromatography II HPLC: Combinatorial Chemistry II HPLC: Method Development and Method Optimization Software Tools Tuesday Afternoon HPLC: Capillary LC and LC/MS Applications
Monday Afternoon Characterization of Motor Fuels and Oils Wednesday Morning Elemental and Component Analyses for Petrochemical Applications Wednesday Afternoon Improvements in Analysis Methods for Petrochemical Applications
Tuesday Afternoon Process-Specific Analytical Applications Wednesday Afternoon Process Analysis: General Techniques Process Analysis: Novel Approaches
Sunday Morning James L. Waters 12th Annual Symposium Recognizing Pioneers in the Development of Scientific Instrumentation: IC
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Monday Morning Bioanalytical: IR and Raman I Monday Afternoon Advances in Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy Atomic Spectroscopy: New Views and Designs Bioanalytical: IR and Raman II Tuesday Morning Symposium: Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy Atomic Spectroscopy: You Name It, We Have It—A Potpourri Biomedical: IR and Raman Raman Spectroscopy: Instrumentation and Applications Tuesday Afternoon Applications and Development in Atomic Emission Detection for GC Emission Spectroscopy Lasers in Atomic Spectroscopy Wednesday Morning Symposium: Internal Reflection in Aqueous Solutions—The New Route to Ultrasensitive Raman and Fluorescence Spectroscopy Wednesday Afternoon Symposium: Frontiers in IR Spectral Imaging—From Remote Sensing to the Analytical Laboratory Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Susceptibility Novel UV–vis Absorbance Methods Thursday Morning FT-IR Spectroscopy: Instrumentation and Techniques Thursday Afternoon IR and Raman Spectroscopy Instrumentation and Applications Friday Morning Symposium: Developments in Solid-State NMR Characterization of Materials
