EigenNews
- The Newsletter of Eigenvector Research Vol. 4, No. 1
January 9, 2002
The ninth 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) Upcoming Short Courses
Chemometrics Without Equations, San Diego, Jan. 21-22
Intermediate and Advanced Chemometrics with PLS_Toolbox
Chelan, WA, June 10-13, 2002
2) New Eigenvector Associate Don Dahlberg
3) PLS_Toolbox News
Buy PLS_Toolbox 2.1 and get Free Upgrade to 3.0
4) DataSet Standard Data Object version 3.01
Download files to improve ease of data set handling
5) SpectraExpress for Translating Spectral Data Files
6) MATLAB for MacOS X Petition
7) Meeting and Workshop Calendar
IFPAC 2002, Jan. 22-25, San Diego, USA
DRUSHBAMETRICS 1, Feb 11-15, Kostroma, Russia
PittCon 2002, March 17-22, New Orleans, USA
MASM 2002, April 10-12, Tempe, Arizona, USA
European AEC/APC, April 10-12, Dresden, Germany
2002 ACC, May 8-10, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
2002 Spring Research Conf., May 20-22, Ann Arbor, USA
ICRM, May 26-30, 2002, Veldhoven, The Netherlands
ESCAPE-12, May 26-29, 2002, The Hague, The Netherlands
DAMLUST, June 9-12, 2002, near Helsinki, Finland
Adv. Con. of Ind. Proc., June 10-11, Kumamoto, Japan
Shedding New Light on Disease, June 24, Reims, France
CAC-2002, Sept. 22-26, Seattle, Washington, USA
ISOEN 2002, Sept 29-Oct. 2, Rome, Italy
FACSS 2002, Oct. 13-17, Providence, RI, USA
EAS 2002, Nov. 18-21, Somerset, NJ, USA
8) How did I get on this list?
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1) Upcoming Short Courses
Escape the winter doldrums and join Neal Gallagher and Don
Dahlberg in San Diego, California, for Chemometrics Without
Equations (or Hardly Any) at the Sixteenth International
Forum on Process Analytical Chemistry. This hands-on course
will be taught on January 21-22, just prior to the IFPAC
conference. The course will concentrate on two areas of
chemometrics: 1) exploratory data analysis and pattern
recognition, and 2) regression. Participants will learn to
safely apply techniques such as Principal Components Analysis
(PCA), Principal Components Regression (PCR), and Partial
Least Squares (PLS) Regression. Examples will include
problems drawn from process monitoring and quality control,
predicting product properties, and others.
Eigenvector returns to Chelan, WA for Intermediate and
Advanced Chemometrics with PLS_Toolbox, June 10-13, 2002.
The course will be held at historic Campbell's Resort on
Lake Chelan. The four day, hands-on 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 (coming soon!). The advanced section
of the course will explore how multi-way methods can be used
for investigating and modelling chemical systems, as well as
for multivariate statistical process control. Aspects of
multivariate image analysis (MIA) will also be covered. Here
is your chance to update your chemometrics skills AND visit
beautiful Lake Chelan.
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. Write to bmw@eigenvector.com for
more information.
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2) New Eigenvector Associate Don Dahlberg
Eigenvector is pleased to welcome our newest associate, Don
Dahlberg, Professor Emeritus at Lebanon Valley College,
Pennsylvania. Dr. Dahlberg is a charter member and past
president of the North American/International Chemometrics
Society. Don traces his chemometric roots to 1988 sabbatical
with the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry at the
University of Washington. Don was exposed to Bruce Kowalski's
chemometrics course and was hooked. Don's primary expertise
is in chemometric education and applications in food analysis.
His education expertise will be utilized in his first short
course with Eigenvector, Chemometrics without Equations (or
Hardly any). Welcome aboard, Don!
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3) PLS_Toolbox News
We're hard at work creating the next version of PLS_Toolbox,
version 3.0. PLS_Toolbox 3.0 will feature improved interfaces
for the most commonly used chemometric tools, and an expanded
variety of modelling methods. Expect to hear from us in the
next couple months. Until then, PLS_Toolbox 2.1.1 for MATLAB
5.2 through 6.1 is available, and if you buy now, you'll get
a free upgrade to PLS_Toolbox 3.0 when it ships.
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4) DataSet Standard Data Object version 3.01
MATLAB supports a variety of data types such as double arrays,
structures and cell arrays. Until now, however, there has been
no standard way to associate all the parts of a data set that
go together, including the sample and variable labels, class
variables, time and wavelength axes, etc. In order to
facilitate data set handling, Eigenvector has created the
DataSet Standard Data Object. When added to a MATLAB installation,
DataSet creates a new object in MATLAB that integrates all of
the separate components associated with a data set into a single
variable in the MATLAB workspace.
The current version of DataSet is 3.01, released October 18, 2001.
The DataSet object is available from our web site. We hope that
MATLAB users everywhere will use it when writing routines that
are data intensive. Existence of the object will greatly enhance
the exchange of data sets, the translation of data sets between
file types (see next article) and the handling of data sets within
MATLAB. Future versions of PLS_Toolbox will take full advantage of
the DataSet object. To download DataSet or for more information,
go to the DataSet page.
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5) SpectraExpress for Translating Spectral Data Files
Probably the most frustrating thing about chemometric analysis is
the problem of translating data formats into your analysis tool of
choice. Help is on the way! The folks at Harvie Custom Computers,
Inc. (HCCI) have developed a product, SpectraExpress, which can be
used to move data between several common formats, including MATLAB,
Excel, and GRAMS .SPC files. Future versions of SpectraExpress will
also support the DataSet Standard Data Object. For more information,
please contact HCCI.
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6) MATLAB for MacOS X Petition
Would you like to see MATLAB return to the Mac? An on-line petition
has been started which asks The MathWorks to bring MATLAB to Mac OS X.
The petition can be found at:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/matlabx/
If you are a Mac user, used to be a Mac user and would like to be again,
or someone who can appreciate the benefits of a Unix based operating
system which also supports a wide variety of common productivity
applications, please consider signing the petition.
FYI, up through version 2.0, PLS_Toolbox was developed almost entirely
on Macs!
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7) 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 International Forum on Process Analytical Chemistry, IFPAC 2002,
will be held Jan. 22-25 in San Diego.
The First Winter School on Chemometrics, DRUSHBAMETRICS 1, will be
held in Kostroma, Russia, Feb. 11-15, 2002.
PittCon 2002 will be held in New Orleans, LA, March 17-22.
Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing Symposium,
MASM 2002, will be April 10-12 in Tempe, AZ, USA.
The third European Advanced Equipment Control/Advanced Process Control
Conference, AEC/APC, will be April 10-12, in Dresden, Germany.
The 2002 American Control Conference, ACC-2002, will be held May 8-10,
in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
The 2002 Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and
Technology will be May 20-22, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
The 3rd International Chemometrics Research Meeting, ICRM, will be
held May 26-30, 2002 in Veldhoven, The Netherlands.
ESCAPE-12 will be held May 26-29, 2002 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
DAMLUST, The 6th Nordic Workshop on Chemometrics, will be held near
Helsinki, June 9-12,2002. For more information, please contact
Pintti Minkkinen at Pentti.Minkkinen@lut.fi.
The International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes
will be held June 10-11, 2002, in Kumamoto, Japan.
The Second Shedding New Light on Disease conference will be held the
last week of June, 2002, in Reims, France. Contact Michel Manfait at
michel.manfait@univ-reims.fr for complete information.
The 8th Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry conference, CAC-2002,
will be held in Seattle, Sept. 22-26.
The 9th International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose,
ISOEN 2002, will be held in Rome, Italy, Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2002.
The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies,
FACSS 2002, 29th Annual Meeting will be held in Providence, RI, Oct. 13-17.
The Eastern Analytical Symposium will return to its Somerset, New Jersey
location for the November 18-21, 2002 meeting.
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