EigenNews
- The Newsletter of Eigenvector Research Vol. 4, No. 2
December 12, 2002
The tenth issue of an approximately quarterly note about
the happenings at Eigenvector Research, Inc., along with news
of interest to the chemometrics, analytical chemistry,
spectroscopy and process modeling/monitoring communities.
(Subscribe/unsubscribe info at bottom.)
IN THIS ISSUE:
1) PLS_Toolbox 3.0 Now Available!
New on-line store up and running
Order or upgrade by December 23 and save up to $100
2) Upcoming Short Courses for 2003
March 17-20, Process Chemometrics, Salt Lake City, UT
June 1-5, Basic and Advanced Chemometrics with
PLS_Toolbox 3.0 Chelan, WA
August 24, Chemometrics Without Equations, Basel,
Switzerland
3) Willem Windig Joins Eigenvector Research
Welcome, Willem!
4) MATLAB for MacOS X
Its back!
5) Meeting and Workshop Calendar
IFPAC 2003, Jan. 21-24, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
PAT for Pharma and Biotech, Feb. 24-26, Wash DC, USA
2nd WSC, Feb. 28-Mar. 6, Altai, RUSSIA
PittCon 2003, March 9-14, Orlando, FL, USA
European AEC/APC, March 26-28, Grenoble, FRANCE
NIR-2003, April 6-11, Cordoba, SPAIN
APACT 2003, April 28-30, York, UK
2003 Spring Research Conf., June 4-6, Dayton, OH, USA
SAFEPROCESS 2003, June 9-11, Wash DC, USA
SSC8, June 14-18, Mariehamn, land
ADCHEM 2003, June 18-20, HONG KONG
ICORS 2003, July 13-18, Antwerp, BELGIUM
GRC SCChE, July 27-Aug. 1, South Hadley, USA
AEC/APC XV, Sept. 13-18, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
FACSS 2003, Oct. 19-23, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
6) How did I get on this list?
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1) PLS_Toolbox 3.0 Now Available!
The most exciting update ever to the PLS_Toolbox is now available!
Greatly enhanced Graphical User Interfaces allow less experienced
users to perform powerful analyses with interactive state-of-the-art
tools. Extended help and demos for every function as well as
enhanced functionality and performance make the advanced features of
the toolbox easier to use for the command-line MATLAB user. This
release incorporates the most advanced suite of multi-way tools
available in the world, as well as a vast array of other tools for:
* Linear and Non-Linear Regression (e.g. PLS, PCR)
* Data Exploration (e.g. PCA, PARAFAC, MCR)
* Classification (e.g. SIMCA, KNN, PLS-DA)
* Instrument Standardization
* Advanced Data Preprocessing
* Image Analysis
* Variable Selection
* Enhanced Data Visualization and Organization Tools
and all the cutting edge tools you've come to expect from Eigenvector
Research! PLS_Toolbox 3.0 also includes support for missing data. For
more information, please visit EVRIware.com.
You can now purchase or upgrade your PLS_Toolbox through our secure
on-line web store at EVRIware.com (Where do you get the most advanced
chemometrics software? EVRIware!) PLS_Toolbox 2.1 users who purchased
after Sept. 1, 2001, get a free upgrade to Version 3.0. You will need
your assigned username and password to download it. To get
PLS_Toolbox 3.0, go to the price list page.
A fully functional demo is also available at the link above.
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2) Upcoming Short Courses
Take a "spring break" and join Mike Piovoso and Barry Wise in Salt Lake
City, Utah, for Process Chemometrics. This four day, hands-on course
will be held March 17-20. Process Chemometrics will cover the
fundamentals of many commonly used chemometric methods such as principal
components analysis (PCA) and partial least squares (PLS) regression.
Empahsis will be on applying these techniques in the chemical process
environment for on-line instrument calibration, Multivariate Statistical
Process Control (MSPC), Batch Statistical Process Control (BSPC), and
the development of inferential sensors for process control. The course
finishes with a look at multi-way methods useful in batch process
modeling, and industrial applications of Multivariate Image Analysis.
Students will work example problems (on computers provided) using the
PLS_Toolbox 3.0 for use with MATLAB. Get complete course info.
Eigenvector returns to Chelan, WA for Basic and Advanced Chemometrics
with PLS_Toolbox, June 1-5, 2003. The courses will be held at historic
Campbell's Resort on Lake Chelan. The two day, hands-on, Basic
Chemometrics course will start with pattern recognition and regression
methods (PCA, PCR, PLS). Example problems will illustrate use of the
methods with the new PLS_Toolbox 3.0. The three day Advanced Chemometrics
course will explore how multivariate image analysis, curve resolution,
and multi-way methods can be used for investigating and modeling chemical
systems, as well as for multivariate statistical process control. Special
attention will be paid to how the methods can be used together to solve
difficult problems. Here is your chance to update your chemometrics skills
AND visit beautiful Lake Chelan. Get complete course info.
A one-day, hands-on version of Chemometrics without Equations will be
offered prior to the 11th European Congress on Biotechnology, ECB-11. The
course will be held on August 24, 2003, in Basel, Switzerland.
Need chemometrics training at your site? Eigenvector has a rapidly expanding
curriculum available. In addition to the courses listed above, we have
courses that focus specifically on process monitoring, inferential sensors
for use in process control, and SIMULINK. Visit our courses page or write
to Barry M. Wise for more information.
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3) Willem Windig Joins Eigenvector Research
Eigenvector Research welcomes the newest member of our team, Dr. Willem Windig.
Willem is well known for his work in curve resolution methods (SIMPLISMA,
DECRA), LC-MS (CODA) and image analysis, and is author of more than 60 journal
articles. He has extensive experience in industrial chemometrics, having been
with Eastman Kodak Company for more than a decade. Willem has established the
East Coast office of Eigenvector in Rochester, NY. His job title is Chief
Eigenspectroscopist. Welcome, Willem! Find out more about Willem here.
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4) MATLAB for MacOS X
Eigenvector would like to thank all of you who wrote to the The MathWorks and
signed various petitions to bring MATLAB back to the Mac. The MathWorks
responded, and we now have MATLAB 6.5 for MacOS X! Thanks, MathWorks!!! We've
found that code developed on Windows MATLAB has worked seemlessly under MacOS X
and vice-versa. This means that PLS_Toolbox is the ONLY full featured
chemometrics package that works under Windows, Mac, Unix and Linux! Isn't it
great to have a choice? Find out more about MATLAB for MacOS X.
Again, a HUGE thanks to all of you, and especially The MathWorks!
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5) 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 17th International Forum on Process Analytical Chemistry,
IFPAC 2003, will be held Jan. 21-24 in Scottsdale, AZ.
Implementation of Process and Analytical Technologies For the
Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries will be in Washington DC,
February 24-26, 2003.
The Second Winter School on Chemometrics will be in Altai,
Russia, February 28-March 6, 2003.
PittCon 2003 will be held in Orlando, FL, March 9-14.
The 4th European AEC/APC, will be March 26-28, 2003, in Genoble, France.
The 11th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy,
NIR-2003, will be April 6-11, in Cordoba, Spain.
Advances in Process Analytics and Control Technology, APACT 2003,
will be April 28-30, in York, UK. Contact Carol Badger.
The 2003 Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and
Technology will be June 4-6, in Dayton, OH.
SAFEPROCESS 2003 will be June 9-11, in Washington DC.
The 8th Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics, SSC8, will be
June 14-18, 2003, in Mariehamn, land.
ADCHEM 2003, International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical
Processes will be June 18-20, in Hong Kong.
ICORS 2003, International Conference on Robust Statistics, will be in
Antwerp, Belgium, July 13-18.
The 2003 Gordon Research Conference on Statistics in Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering will be July 27-August 1, at Mount Holyoke College,
South Hadley, MA.
The AEC/APC XV North America Symposium for 2003 will be September 13-18,
in Colorado Springs, CO.
The 30th Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies,
Annual Meeting, FACSS-2003, will be held in Ft. Lauderdale, FL,
October 19-23, 2003.
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