Belgian Chemometrics Society

The Chemometrics section goes by the name of Belgian Chemometrics Society (BCS), and aims at promoting Chemometrics in industry, through workshops and symposia.The BCS consists of a committee, the active members, and a mailing list, the passive members. You are very welcome to join either! Just drop a line to chemometrie@kvcv.be

Upcoming events

BCS workshop: Inspiring new methods, May 31, 2013, Leuven

Our previous workshops focused at presenting new developments in chemometric tools, but this one will be all about applications, and applications don't always require cutting-edge tools.

On the contrary, we'll show that knowledge of basic tools like PCA, helps recognizing opportunities you might otherwise have missed.

This point will be made by presentations of goal-driven industrial projects where such tools have inspired R&D people to come to novel solutions.

Before that, there will be general presentations, introducing tools and showing where they come in handy in the lab in general and in chromatography.

Programme

10:00	Registration
10:20	Up-to-the-date challenges of chemometrics in service to chromatography, Beata Walczak, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
11:10	Coffee
11:30	The Power of Penalties in Practice,, Paul Eilers, Biostatistics, Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, Netherlands
12:20	Lunch
14:00	Tyre recognition using a Profiler, Mauritz Kelchtermans, ExxonMobil Chemical Europe
14:30	Use of chemometrics and NIR in a breeding environment, Piet Reyns, Limagrain Advanta
15:00	Coffee
15:30	Extending the use of low resolution NMR from process control to online classification, Richard Garner, Borealis
16:00	A flavour of sensometrics, Claire Boucon, Unilever R&D Vlaardingen
16.30	Closing

More information

Please register on-line.

13th Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics, June 17-20 2013, Stockholm, Sweden

SSC is a classic in the world of chemometrics.

2014 D.L. Massart Award in Chemometrics

The BCS created this award in honour of the late professor D.L. Massart, one of the world's leading authorities in the field of chemometrics. The bi-annual D.L. Massart Award is granted to the best PhD thesis defended in the two years preceding the award ceremony that takes place at the equally bi-annual BCS symposium.

If you have just defended your thesis or if it is scheduled to take place between now and March next year, check out the rules and download the application form

Don't hesitate, and please note that the deadline for entering the competition is March 1, 2014.

The D.L Massart award has been made possible by the financial support of: CAMO, CQ Consultancy, ExxonMobil Chemical, Infometrix, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Minitab, Novartis Pharma, Shell, Solvay, and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The previous DLM Award winners are:

2012: Noslen Hernández, "New statistical calibration methods for univariate, multivariate and functional data."

2010: Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen, "Process Analytical Technologies for Anaerobic Digestion Systems"

2008: José Camacho, "New Methods Based on the Projection to Latent Structures for Monitoring, Prediction and Optimization of Batch Processes"

2006: Gabriel Vivó-Truyols, "New strategies for optimisation and data treatment in HPLC"

The D.L Massart award has been made possible by the financial support of the following sponsors: