Euroanalysis

Maciej Jarosz

doi:10.1515/ci.2014.36.2.27

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Euroanalysis

Maciej Jarosz

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From the journal Chemistry International Volume 36 Issue 2

The seventeenth European Conference on Analytical Chemistry, Euroanalysis, Analytical chemistry for human well-being and sustainable development, was held on 25-29 August 2013 at the Warsaw University of Technology, the oldest technical university in Poland, dating back to 1826. The venue of the conference was the complex of auditoria in the main building.

Organizers of Euroanalysis, the conference sponsored by IUPAC, were: Division of Analytical Chemistry of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (DAC—EuCheMS), Polish Chemical Society, Committee on Analytical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences and local organizers: Warsaw University of Technology represented by Maciej Jarosz and University of Warsaw represented by Ewa Bulska. It attracted 567 participants registered on site (722 via web) from 51 countries. For PhD students, 15 scholarships (waived fee) were offered.

Prior to the Conference opening, on Sunday, 25 August, three short courses were performed: Fundamentals and recent developments in mass spectrometry (Witold Danikiewicz), 12 participants; Isotope Dilution ICP-MS-MS (Emilia Vassileva), 6 participants; and Quality in analytical sciences (Nineta Majcen),11 participants.

DAC EuCheMS Steering Committee and DAC Annual Meetings were held, as well as Advisory Board Meeting of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (Springer).

The truly interdisciplinary nature of the Conference can be seen from the program, which covered both analytical fundamentals, e.g. methodology, and applications in various fields of human activity, e.g. environment, food, medicine, industry, cosmetics, cultural heritage and so on. It consisted of 7 plenary lectures, 17 keynote lectures, 52 oral presentations and 578 poster presentations. Keynote and oral contributions (selected in “open call”) were presented in 11 parallel sessions:

· Analytical methods for cultural heritage and art

· Biomedical and forensic analysis

· Chemometrics, quality assurance and metrology

· Education in analytical chemistry

· Electrochemical methods and devices

· Environmental analysis

· Food analysis

· Industrial and process analysis

· Recent progress in modern analysis

· Separation techniques

· Trace element analysis and speciation

Invited Plenary Lectures were given by:

Adam Hulanicki (Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland): The History of Polish Analytical Chemistry since 1945

Damia Barcelo (Chemical and Environmental Research Institute of Barcelona (CSIC), Spain): Analysis, Characterization, Fate and Behaviour of Nanomaterials in the Total Environment

Roman Kaliszan (Medical University of Gdansk, Poland): Quantitative Structure-Retention Relationships (QSRR) as an Auxliary Analyte Identification Tool in ‘Omics’

Thomas Laurell (Medical and Chemical Microsensors, Lund University, Sweden): Medical applications of chip integrated acoustophoretic cell separation

Mikhail Proskurnin (Moscow State University, Russia): Coupling Photometric Reactions and Signal Enhancement in Disperse Solutions for the Analysis of Technological and Biomedical Materials by Photothermal Spectroscopy

Otto Wolfbeis (University of Regensburg, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Chemo- and Biosensors, Germany): Chemical Sensing and Biosensing Using Advanced Fluorescent (Nano)materials

During the Conference Juergen Popp (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany) was awarded the Robert Kellner Lecture Prize established by DAC of EuCheMS and kindly sponsored by Springer Verlag. After laudation Paul Worsfold delivered a lecture entitled: The many facets of Raman spectroscopy for biomedical analysis.

On Tuesday and Wednesday participants of the Conference had opportunity to take part in vendor seminars organized by companies:

Perlan Technologies: 27 August 2013 (about 40 participants), Emilia Fornal: Analysis of cathinone-based drugs by LC/Q-TOF; Sebastien Sannac: Applications with ICP-QQQ: Expand the frontiers of element analysis with the Agilent 8800 ICP-MS/MS

Shimadzu: 28 August 2013 (abou 90 participants), Danilo Sciarrone: Enhanced elucidation of complex samples by using a multidimensional LC-GC/MS system; Franz Kramp: The new Tracera GC system: Trace analysis with plasma technology; Marion Egelkraut-Holtus: State of the art in FTIR spectroscopy

The social program of Euroanalysis XVII consisted of a welcome party in the Main Building of Warsaw University of Technology (Sunday, 25 August, Beer Barbecue Party in Gościniec Wiecha, located in heritage park outside Warsaw (Monday, 26 August), a concert in Teatr Polski performed by the Song and Dance Ensemble of Warsaw University of Technology (Tuesday, 27 August) and Gala Dinner in the Great Hall of Warsaw University of Technology (Wednesday, 28 August). During closing ceremony, awardees of Polish Chemical Society prizes for oral presentation in the field of separation techniques, as well as Springer prizes for best poster presentations were announced. They were:

PCS prizes: Lucas Sternbauer, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria; Sylwia Magiera, Silesian University of Technology, Poland.

Springer prizes: Agnieszka Moos, Jana Jaklova Dytrtova, Magdalena Matczuk, Magdalena Buszewska-Farajta, Jolanta Kochana, Katarzyna Witkoś.

Maciej Jarosz <mj@ch.pw.edu.pl> is Chair of Analytical Chemistry at Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland

Published Online: 2014-03-27

Published in Print: 2014-03

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