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 symposium "Advances in Chemometrics" with D.L. Massart award ceremony, June 8, 2012, Ghent University

In the same rhythm as the D.L Massart Award, i.e. every two years in spring, the BCS organizes its full-day symposium. Check out the preliminary programme.

Venue: Culture- and Convention Center Het Pand, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium

Please register on-line.

Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (CAC), June 25-29 2012, Budapest, Hungary

Budapest was as location for the CAC 2012, as was enthusiastically advertised by organizer Karoly Heberger at the closing of CAC2010 in Antwerp.

2012 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.

The previous DLM Award winners are:

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 competition for the 2012 D.L. Massart award is open, and the ceremony will take place during the BCS symposium 2012 June 8th in Ghent. If you are interested, please download the rules and the application form. Don't hesitate, and please note that the deadline for entering the competition is March 1, 2012.

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