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The third issue of an approximately quarterly note about the happenings at Eigenvector Research along with news of interest to the chemometrics, analytical chemistry and process modeling/monitoring communities.
1) Upcoming Short Courses
Process Chemometrics in Seattle, December 8-10
MATLAB & Process Chemometrics in Chicago, March 13-17
Need training at your site?
2) PLS_Toolbox News
PLS_Toolbox 2.0.1c released
Work on PLS_Toolbox 2.5 proceeding
3) iPLS Toolbox for Interval
PLS
Available to download
4) Corn NIR Spectra for Benchmarking
Calibration Transfers
Available to download
5) Join the Chemometrics Society
and/or the Discussion List
North American/International Chemometrics Society
International Chemometrics Society List Server
6) Meeting and Workshop Calendar
FACSS'99, Fed. of Anal. Chem. and Spectroscopy Soc.
International Workshop on Multivariate Image Analysis
EAS'99, Eastern Analytical Symposium
IFPAC 2000, Intl. Forum: Process Analytical Chemistry
Fourth European Symposium on NIR Spectroscopy
ADCHEM 2000, Advanced Control of Chemical Processes
7) How can I subscribe to EigenNews?
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1) Upcoming Short Courses
Eigenvector is pleased to offer Process Chemometrics in Seattle,
December 8-10, 1999. The course will be held at the
Silver Cloud Inn on Lake Union. This is our three-day, hands-on
course for chemical engineers and process analytical
chemists. The course demonstrates the use of Principal Components
Analysis (PCA) and Partial Least Squares (PLS)
regression in the process environment, along with a variety of
more advanced techniques. Participants will work in pairs on computers
provided using PLS_Toolbox. A brief introduction to MATLAB is
included. For complete course info please see:
<http://www.eigenvector.com/Courses/SeattleInfo.html>
Eigenvector is tentatively planning a return 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. If you want to really learn MATLAB as well as chemometrics,
this is the course for you. Look for course details on our web
site in the coming months.
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
The latest update of PLS_Toolbox is 2.0.1c, which was released
on April 21, 1999. The update made PLS_Toolbox
compatible with MATLAB 5.3. This is a free upgrade to PLS_Toolbox
2.0 users and can be download 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>
We're currently working on the next major update of PLS_Toolbox.
The next version, PLS_Toolbox 2.5, will include
many refinements to PCA and PLS, an expanded set of multivariate
image analysis tools, and a greatly enhanced and
expanded set of multi-way tools, including multi-way PLS. Expect
to hear from us in the next 3-6 months!
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3) iPLS Toolbox for Interval
PLS
In spectral data sets (or other instances where the variables
are logically ordered), interval PLS (iPLS) is useful for
determining the ranges of variables most useful for prediction.
Local PLS models are developed on equidistant
subintervals of the full spectrum. It provides an overall picture
of the relevant information in different spectral
subdivisions, thereby narrowing the important spectral variables.
iPLS Toolbox for MATLAB was developed by J. Wagner, A. Saudland
and L. Nørgaard at The Royal Veterinary and
Agricultural University (KVL) in Copenhagen. The iPLS Toolbox
requires PLS_Toolbox 2.0. You can download iPLS Toolbox at:
<http://www.models.kvl.dk/source/ipls/>
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4) Corn NIR Spectra for Benchmarking
Calibration Transfers
This data set consists of 80 samples of corn measured on three
different NIR spectrometers. The oil, moisture, protein
and starch values for each of the samples is also included. In
addition, an NBS standard glass was measured several times on
each of the instruments. This is a great data set for benchmarking
calibration transfer algorithms against each
other. The data was taken at Cargill and is distributed with their
permission. Many thanks to Mike Blackburn there for
allowing us to publish it. You can download of copy of it as a
MATLAB .mat file at:
<http://www.eigenvector.com/Data/Corn/>
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5) Join the Chemometrics Society
and/or the Discussion List
The North American/International Chemometrics Society (NAmICS)
is dedicated to the advancement of the field of
chemometrics and the dissemination of information on the use of
"chemometric" methods. Membership is free. Just send
your address information to the membership secretary, David Lee
Duewer at david.duewer@nist.gov.
Be sure to include some info about your chemometrics interests.
The main benefit of membership is the approximately quarterly
newsletter. Members can also obtain a copy of the society roster
and mailing list, which can be very handy when look for colleagues
with similar interests or specific expertise.
The chemometrics discussion list, ICS-L is administrated by Tom O'Haver at University of Maryland. Members of the list can post announcements and discuss matters of concern to chemometricians. You can join ICS-L by sending the message
SUBSCRIBE ICS-L yournamehere
to: LISTSERV@umdd.umd.edu
Currently there are about 550 subscribers. Discussions tend to remain fairly directed toward problems of general concern. Volume on the list is a few messages a week.
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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 Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies
(FACSS) will be held in conjunction with 45th
International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy
(ICASS) in Vancouver, Canada, October 24-29, 1999. The conference
home page is at:
Telemark Institute of Technology (HIT/TF) hosts an International
Workshop on Multivariate Image Analysis (MIA),
Nov. 10-12, 1999, in Porsgrunn, Norway. The program will focus
on generic examples, e.g. remote sensing and many technical imagery
examples from food science, forest products, fish industry and
possibly other areas (depending on participants own data). For
more information, please write to: ttlied@online.no
The Eastern Analytical Symposium will be held November 14-19, 1999, in Somerset, New Jersey. The conference home page can be found at:
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/>
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