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The fourth issue of an approximately quarterly note about the happenings at Eigenvector Research, Inc., along with news of interest to the chemometrics, analytical chemistry and process modeling/monitoring communities.
1) Upcoming Short Course
MATLAB & Process Chemometrics in Chicago, March 13-17
Need training at your site?
2) PLS_Toolbox News
Rasmus Bro joins PLS_Toolbox development team
PLS_Toolbox 2.0.1d released
3) Eigenvector Research Turns 5
5) Internet User Services
at Eigenvector
Data sets available to download
MATLAB user area
PLS_Toolbox discussion list
Data and file exchange area
6) Meeting and Workshop Calendar
IFPAC 2000, Intl. Forum: Process Analytical Chemistry
Fourth European Symposium on NIR Spectroscopy
ADCHEM 2000, Advanced Control of Chemical Processes
8th International Conference on Flow Analysis
Optical Diagnostics for the New Millennium
CAC 2000, Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry
SSC7, 7th Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics
7) How can I subscribe to EigenNews?
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1) Upcoming Short Course
Eigenvector is returning to Chicago, March 13-17, 2000. We'll be offering two days of MATLAB followed by three days of Process Chemometrics at Illinois Institute of Technology. The hands-on courses can be taken together or separately. If you really want to learn MATLAB as well as chemometrics, this course combination is the one for you. Get complete course information at:
<http://www.eigenvector.com/Courses/ChicagoInfo.html>
Need chemometrics training at your site? Eigenvector has a rapidly expanding curriculum available. Besides our three day process chemometrics course, we also have courses that focus specifically on process monitoring, multi-way analysis, and the development of inferential sensors for use in process control. Write to bmw@eigenvector.com for more information.
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2) PLS_Toolbox News
Rasmus Bro, Associate Professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL) in Copenhagen, Denmark, has joined the PLS_Toolbox development team. Rasmus, well known for his work in multi-way analysis including his public domain Multi-way Toolbox, will spearhead the multi-way tools development for the next version of PLS_Toolbox. Welcome aboard Rasmus!
The latest update of PLS_Toolbox is 2.0.1d, which was released on January 5, 2000. This update fixes a couple minor plotting bugs and makes several slight improvements. It is compatible with MATLAB versions 5.2 (for you Mac users) through 5.3.1 (Release 11.1). This is a free upgrade to PLS_Toolbox 2.0 users and can be downloaded from our web site using your assigned username and password. Find out what version you are using by typing 'ver' at the MATLAB prompt. For more information on PLS_Toolbox 2.0, please see:
<http://www.eigenvector.com/PLS_Toolbox.html>
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3) Eigenvector Research Turns
5
Eigenvector Research turned 5 on January 1, 2000. As we start our sixth year, we'd like to thank everyone who's made it possible, including the 500+ people who have attended our short courses, the ~1000 users of PLS_Toolbox, and the many companies that have hired us for consulting projects ranging from MSPC in semiconductor manufacture to spectroscopic analysis of automobile emissions. Its been great working with all of you! Thanks again -- BMW and NBG
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4) MATLAB WebRing
What's a WebRing? A WebRing is a set of related web sites that are linked together. They all share a common navigation button on selected pages that move you from site to site. Recently, a MATLAB Ring has been developed. Right now it includes only about a dozen sites, but given the number of MATLAB users (600,000+) and third party products available, we expect it to grow rapidly. You can jump onto the ring from our home page at
(look for the "MATLAB Ring" icon) or find out more about the whole WebRing concept at
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5) Internet User Services
at Eigenvector
Eigenvector provides a number of internet based services for chemometricians and MATLAB users. The first of these is the Eigenvector Data Archive. These data sets are freely available to anyone wishing to test data analysis algorithms (or students!). Currently, data sets include NIR of corn samples, NIR of diesel fuels, and semiconductor etch. The sets are located at:
<http://www.eigenvector.com/Data/Data_sets.html>
The MATLAB user area includes downloadable functions. If you'd like to make your code available, consider posting it here or suggesting a link. The MATLAB area is at:
<http://www.eigenvector.com/MATLABarea.html>
The PLS_Toolbox discussion list is open to all registered PLS_Toolbox users. Discussion about PLS_Toolbox specific or general chemometric analysis is welcomed. To join the list, send a message with subject "subscribe" to PLS_Toolbox@lists.eigenvector.com. Your subscribe request will forwarded to the listmaster for approval.
Registered PLS_Toolbox users can also exchange data and functions using the file exchange area on the Eigenvector web site. To enter the site, go to
<http://www.eigenvector.com/PLS2/Files/>
and be ready with your username and password.
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6) Meeting and Workshop Calendar
The following conferences and workshops should be of interest
to chemometricians, analytical chemists and process
engineers. If you have a meeting you'd like to list in the next
EigenNews, please drop a line to bmw@eigenvector.com
The Fourteenth International Forum: Process Analytical Chemistry,
will be held January 23-26, 2000, at Lake Las
Vegas, Nevada. For more info, please see:
The Biotechnological Institute invites you to the Fourth European Symposium on NIR Spectroscopy, May 10-12, 2000, in Kolding, Denmark. The conference theme will be Integration in Process Control. The program includes technical sessions, workshops and an exhibition. For more information please see
ADCHEM 2000, International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes, will be held June 14-16, 2000 in Pisa, Italy. Organized under the auspices of IFAC, ADCHEM is a continuing series of international meetings focused on advances in methods for control and identification. For more information, please see:
<http://adchem-2000.ing.unipi.it/>
The 8th International Conference on Flow Analysis will be held
June 25-29 in Warsaw, Poland. This is a world wide event organized
every 3 years on various aspects of flow analysis including process
analysis, environmental monitoring and chemometric methods of
data processing. The conference is organized under auspices of
IUPAC and Federation of European Chemical Societies with sponsorship
by many international
instrument companies. More information can be found at:
<http://www.congress.pbp.com.pl/flow/>
Optical Diagnostics for the New Millennium will be held June 25-30, 2000 in Winnipeg, Canada. The theme of the conference is Shedding New Light on Disease. The conference is hosted by the Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council, Canada (NRCC). The conference will include workshops on spectroscopic imaging and data analysis. For more info, please see:
<http://www.spec2000.mb.ca/nrc/>
The Seventh International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry will be held in Antwerp, Belgium, October 16-20, 2000. The meeting will deal with new developments and applications of chemometrics in analytical chemistry. For more information, please see:
<http://sch-www.uia.ac.be/cac2000/>
The Seventh Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics (SSC7) will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 19-23, 2001. For more information please contact Lars Nørgaard, email Lars.Noergaard@mli.kvl.dk.
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7) How can I subscribe to EigenNews?
If you'd like to have EigenNews sent to you via e-mail you can subscribe to the Eigenvector_News list by sending a message with the SUBJECT "subscribe" to Eigenvector_News@lists.eigenvector.com If you are already on the list and want to get off, send a message with SUBJECT "unsubscribe". If you have any problem with the list, please contact bmw@eigenvector.com