CAC-2006 Annoucements Worlwide

CAC-2006 ANNOUCEMENTS WORLDWIDE

This page contains excerpts from internet sites which have annouced CAC-2006, showing the conference international character in real sense and increasing interest for chemometrics worldwide. This list can give an idea about universal character of chemometrics and its conferences as well as the experience how to talk about chemometric stuff in various languages. Chemometric activities in various countries can be also traced using the list as a chemometric qualifier. Some other pages with CAC-2006 annoucements have been recently removed, before this page was established (December 2006-January/February 2007): from Croatia, France,Finland, Germany, Spain, Sweden, UK and some other countries. Some of these pages could be found only as cached.

Below is given first a brief cumulative statistics. It shows that there were 42 unique CAC-2006 annoucements, from which 8 at international and 34 at national levels. By term international were considered companies and organizations that included more than one country. National sites were those belonging universities, companies, organizations and individuals from a particular country. Multiple announcement sites belonging to a chemometric, chemistry or other group were counted as a unique site. One should have in mind that some sites were deleted before this statistics has been done. Eventhough the statistics is not complete, it can show main trends. It is interesting to note that the national annoucements occured on five continents: North America (3 sites), South America (7 sites), Europe (22 sites with Russia), Asia (Russia: 5 sites) and Africa (2 sites). The international announcement sites were physically located in the North America, Europe and Asia. All annoucements were written in seven Indo-European languages: English (39 sites), French (3 sites), German (1 site), Norwegian (1 site), Portuguese (2 sites), Russian (5 sites) and Spanish (1 site).

SIMPLE CUMULATIVE STATISTICS ON THE CAC-2006 ANNOUNCEMENTS

PLACE / LEVEL¹	NO. SITES²	LANGUAGE(S)^3,4
World / International	8	English
Belgium	2	English
Brazil	6	English (3), Portuguese (3)
Chile	1	Spanish
Croatia	1	English
Denmark	3	English
France	2	French
Germany	1	German
Ireland	1	English
Morrocco	2	French (1), English (1)
Netherlands	2	English
Norway	1	Norwegian
Poland	1	English
Portugal	2	English (1), Portuguese (1)
Russia	5	Russian
Switzerland	1	English
USA	3	English

1-International or national annoucements, in coutry alphabetical order.
2-Number of unique sites (groups), excluding multiple sites of a group.
3-Language(s) in which the announcement(s) were written.
4-Numbers in brackets stand for annoucements in the corresponding languages.

CAC-2006 announced at international level

ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA

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FROM: Editorial CAC 2004 by Lutgarde Buydens, (Editor) and Anna de Juan, (Guest Editor), published in journal Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 544, Issues 1-2, 15 July 2005, Page 1. Special issue: Papers Presented at the 9th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00032670
(in English)

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Papers Presented at the 9th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry

Editorial CAC 2004

Lutgarde Buydens, (Editor) and Anna de Juan, (Guest Editor)

Nijmegen
Barcelona

Available online 15 June 2005.

The manuscripts in this special issue of ACA are contributions that were presented at the CAC 2004 conference. CAC 2004 was the ninth international conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry and was held in Lisbon, Portugal from 20 to 23 September 2004. The efficient organization and the kind welcome received were responsibility of the local organizing team, presided by Dr. Jose Cardoso de Menezes, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, I.S.T. Lisbon, Portugal. There were 240 participants present, originating from 40 different countries. A significant part of the participants came from outside Europe, including Asian and South American countries.

The conference motto was “New Challenges for a Maturing Science”. The program was organized around themes that emphasized new developments and applications of chemometrics in Biosciences, Chemistry, Chemical & Process Engineering, Food, Environmental and Pharmaceutical areas that reflect the important issues in chemometrics research.

A special session was included in which Prof. Bernard Vandeginste gave an interesting lecture on the history, foundation and founding fathers of chemometrics. Prof. Massart, one of the founders of the CAC conference, was unable to attend the conference due to illness, but his words and his presence came to us through a significant and moving videotape. This session, where many of the parent voices of chemometrics could be listened in a relaxing atmosphere, was highly appreciated by all participants.

The conference dinner was also the venue for the presentation of the fourth Elsevier Chemometrics Award for the noteworthy contributions in the field of chemometrics by a young chemist. The award of this edition was shared by Karl Booksh, from the Arizona State University, and Anna de Juan, from the Universitat de Barcelona.

This CAC conference was again very successful and motivating. The many contributions, the posters as well as the lectures, have certainly challenged the participants to develop new approaches to solve the major scientific challenges in chemometrics. We are convinced that everyone is already looking forward to CAC 2006 that this time will be held for the first time at the other side of the Equator, namely, in Brazil state of S. Paulo (Campinas) from 10 to 14 September 2006. The motto of CAC 2006 will be Chemometrics in the Tropics, Nature, Medicine and Industry.

The website of CAC 2006 is http://www.cac2006.iqm.unicamp.br/

CAMO

CHEMOMETRICS AND INTELLIGENT LABORATORY SYSTEMS

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FROM: Meeting announcement "Chemometrics in the Tropics”: 10th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (CAC—2006): September 11–15, 2006" by David Brynn Hibbert, published in journal Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 23 May 2006.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01697439
(in English)

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Meeting announcement

“Chemometrics in the Tropics”

10th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (CAC—2006)next term: September 11–15, 2006

David Brynn Hibbert

E-mail: b.hibbert@unsw.edu.au

University of New South Wales, Australia

Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Volume 85, Issue 2, 15 February 2007, Pages 278-279

Article Outline

1. Welcome from the conference organizers
2. Venue
3. Selected topics
4. Invited speakers
5. Registration
6. Accommodation
7. Short courses

7.1. Sunday: September 10, 2006
7.2. Monday: September 11, 2006

8. Contact details for conference

1. Welcome from the conference organizers

Since the first meeting more than 25 years ago, CAC has been a great opportunity to share experiences, exchange knowledge and widen horizons. We hope this meeting will also bring positive and fruitful collaboration between chemometricians, chemists, engineers and bioscientists. Take this opportunity to join us and contribute to the success of the 10th CAC.
2. Venue

The conference will be held at Hotel Monte Real Resort located in Águas de Lindóia, a small town 160 km north of São Paulo and very representative of the local Brazil countryside. The thermal springs of Águas de Lindóia are highly regarded, since the 18th century, for leisure and hydrotherapy. It became well known in Europe after the visit of Madame Curie, the Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, in 1928. Águas de Lindóia has a dry temperate climate at this time of the year with an average temperature of 22 °C (72 °F). São Paulo and Águas de Lindóia are connected by a modern and safe highway cruising through beautiful and scenic landscapes. Participants should arrive and depart from the São Paulo International Airport, Guaruhlos (also known as Cumbica). This airport is connected directly to the main cities of the world.
3. Selected topics

(I) Human and social development: Applications in Environment and Medicine.

(II) Industrial applications: Pharmacology, Food Industry, Agriculture, Process Chemometrics and Process Analytical Technology, Product Design.

(III) New applications, theoretical and methodological development: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Multiblock and Multiway Data Analysis.

The scientific program starts at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday (September 11) and closes on Friday afternoon (September 15).
4. Invited speakers

Bruce R. Kowalski (USA), Barry M. Wise (USA), José Cardoso de Menezes (PT), Alex Freitas (UK), Lutgarde Buydens (NL), Paul Geladi (SE), Paul J. Gemperline (USA), Rasmus Bro (DK), Roma Tauler (ES), Steven D. Brown (USA), Salvador García-Muñoz (Pfizer, USA), Beata Walczak (PL), Klaas Faber (NL), Patricia Heussen (Unilever, NL).
5. Registration

Registration must be made on-line at the conference website. Registrations become effective after payment is made. Before June 30 Regular US$500; Student US$250. After June 30 Regular US$600; Student US$300. Social program registration fee for accompanying person: US$150.
6. Accommodation

The Conference will be held at Hotel Monte Real Resort (www.montreal.com.br), where a block of rooms have been reserved at a special discount rate. We want to congregate all participants in the same place, to increase conviviality and interchange.
7. Short courses
7.1. Sunday: September 10, 2006

1. “Basic Chemometrics”, Barry Wise (Eigenvector Research Inc., USA)—1 day.

2. “Multiway Analysis in Chemistry—Learn to do it yourself”, Rasmus Bro (KVL, DK)—1 day.

7.2. Monday: September 11, 2006

3. “Multivariate Image Analysis”, Barry Wise (Eigenvector Research Inc. USA)—1 day.

4. “Introduction to Data Mining and a Case Study in Bioinformatics”, Alex Freitas (University of Kent, UK)—half day.

5. “Multivariate and Multiway Calibration with Special Focus on Uncertainty Estimation”, Klaas Faber (Chemometry Consultancy, NL)—1 day.

8. Contact details for conference

Dr. Márcia M.C. Ferreira

UNICAMP, CAMPINAS, SP, 13083-970, Brazil

Phone: +55 19 3788-3102

Fax: +55 19 3788-3023

Email: cac2006@iqm.unicamp.br

http://www.cac2006.iqm.unicamp.br/

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ICNIRS

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FROM: ICNIRS (The International Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy) homepage:
http://www.icnirs.org/samerica.html
(in English)

ICS

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FROM: ICS-L, International Chemometrics Society mailing list (29 March 2005 contents), hosted at the University of Maryland:
https://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0503&L=ics-l&P=2891
(in English)

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FROM: ICS-L, International Chemometrics Society mailing list (23 February 2006 contents), hosted at the University of Maryland:
https://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0602&L=ics-l
(in English)

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FROM: ICS-L, International Chemometrics Society mailing list (23 March 2006 contents), hosted at the University of Maryland:
https://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603&L=ics-l&P=3002
(in English)

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NOTE:
ICS-L archives contain a message that does not announce CAC-2006 but mention it before the conference was realized:
A message from 31 May 2006: https://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0605&L=ics-l&O=D&P=860

NAmICS

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FROM: NAmICS (North American Chapter of the International Chemometrics Society) homepage, hosted at the Cornell University:
http://www.namics.nysaes.cornell.edu/conferences.html
(in English)

SPECTROSCOPYNOW.COM

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FROM: SpectroscopyNow.com list of conferences:
http://www.spectroscopynow.com/coi/cda/listEventsNext.cda;jsessionid=CAA60F9BD52DE12BECD85742564EEDC0?type=
Event&chId=0&catId=all&sortMonth=7&sortYear=2006
(in English)

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FROM: Editorial from the Journal of Chemometrics, January 23, 2006:
http://www.spectroscopynow.com/coi/cda/detail.cda?id=11531&type=News&chId=9

We at the Journal of Chemometrics are pleased to announce the appointment of three new Editors to our staff - Professor Marcia Ferreira, Dr Johan Westerhuis and Professor Ru-Qin Yu who began service in November.

Professor Ferreira is on the faculty of the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Campinas, in Brazil, Dr Westerhuis is a member of the Process Analysis and Chemometrics group at the University of Amsterdam, and Professor Yu is with the State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics at Hunan University in China. Though the three new editors come from divergent geographical regions, all have substantial, international reputations and extensive publishing experience in Chemometrics. They will join our long-time Editor, Professor Karl Booksh, in handling paper flow from our new submission system and will add to the vitality and strength of the Journal.

Steven Brown
Editor-in-Chief
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MÁRCIA M. C. FERREIRA

Márcia Ferreira
Contact Details:
Professor Márcia M C. Ferreira
Laboratory for Theoretical and Applied Chemometrics
Instituto de Química
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP
Campinas, SP, 13083-970
Brazil
E-mail: marcia@iqm.unicamp.br
URL: http://lqta.iqm.unicamp.br

Professor Márcia M. C. Ferreira is a full professor at Instituto de Química at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, (Brazil). She was born in Uberlândia (Brazil), received her BSc. in Chemistry from Universidade de Brasilia in 1974 and, in 1979 her MSc. from New York University (USA). She got her PhD at UNICAMP in 1984 in the field of Quantum Chemistry. Since 1981 Dr. Márcia Ferreira has taught at Institute of Chemistry of UNICAMP, except for the years 1993-1995 when she worked as a post-doctoral fellow in chemometrics under the direction of Professor Bruce Kowalski, at University of Washington (Seattle). Since then, her research has turned mainly into the field of Chemometrics, where with her many students and co-workers have published extensively.

Professor Ferreira is the head of the Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Chemometrics (LAQTA), and is widely involved in educational activities promoting chemometrics nationwide and outside of Brazil. She is currently a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Chemometrics and Tecno-Lógica (Brazil) journals, and the organizer of the 10th International Conference of Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (CAC-10). Her research interests encompass many aspects of educational chemometrics and development of chemometric methods, and its manifold applications to analytical, food and environmental chemistry, computational chemistry of biological related problems (molecular/drug design and QSAR/QSPR), and structure correlation.

VICIM

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FROM: VICIM (Virtual Institute on Chemometrics and Industrial Metrology) Newsletter, January 2006:
http://servimedia.ifrance.com/VICIM%20Newsletter01.doc
(in English)

CAC-2006 announced at national levels - in various countries

BELGIUM

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FROM: Belgian Chemometrics Society homepage, hosted at the University of Antwerp:
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/members/biomed/new/?section=36
(in English)

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FROM: BioMed group site, Department of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven:
http://www.bcs.ua.ac.be/
(in English)

BRAZIL

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FROM: CAC-2006 official site, Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP:
http://www.cac2006.iqm.unicamp.br/
(in English)

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FROM: Boletim Eletrônico da SBQ (Sociedade Brasileira de Química - Brazilian Chemical Society, São Paulo - SP), No. 676:
http://www.sbq.org.br/publicacoes/beletronico/bienio0406/boletim676.htm
(in English)

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SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE QUÍMICA BOLETIM ELETRONICO No. 676
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Assine e divulgue Química Nova na Escola e o Journal of the Brazilian
Chemical Society ( www.sbq.org.br/publicacoes/indexpub.htm) a revista
de Química mais importante e com o maior índice de impacto da América
Latina. Visite a nova página eletrônica do JBCS na home-page da
SBQ ( http://jbcs.sbq.org.br).
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VEJA NESTA EDIÇÃO:

1. Química Nova, número 3 (maio/junho), 2006 está online
2. Sessão Coordenada "CATÁLISE - HOMENAGEM AO PROFESSOR ULF F. SCHUCHARDT"
3. UFSC: Comemoração dos 35 Anos do Curso de Pós-Graduação em Química
4. Concurso para Professor Adjunto em Química Orgânica - UFF
5. Concurso para Professor no Departamento de Química-UFPA
6. 10th CAC-2006: New deadline for Abstract Submission
7. Concurso público no Departamento de Química da Universidade
Estadual de Ponta Grossa
8. Prorrogado prazo para inscrição de trabalhos na IX Jornada
Brasileira de Ressonância Magnética
9. Seleção de Bolsista para o do Programa Desenvolvimento Científico
Regional (DCR) da FUNDAÇÃO ARAUCÁRIA/CNPq
10. Ministro anuncia reajuste de bolsas do CNPq

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6. 10th CAC-2006: New deadline for Abstract Submission
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10th Internationl Conference on Chemometrics and Analytical Chemistry
CAC-2006: New deadline for Abstract Submission

Dear Colleagues,

1 - The deadline has been extended due to the many holidays in South
America. Submit your Abstract for CAC-2006 by May 12th.

2 - FOR PARTICIPANTS OUTSIDE BRAZIL, the REGISTRATION FEE payments
should be preferably made at the Conference registration desk upon
your arrival in Águas de Lindóia at no extra cost. Such decision was
made based on banking problems to track payments and high taxes
charged by the banks.
Payment can be made in EUROS or DOLLARS.

Best Regards,

Márcia M. C. Ferreira
CAC-2006 Chair
( http://www.cac2006.iqm.unicamp.br/)

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FROM: Boletim Eletrônico da SBQ (Sociedade Brasileira de Química - Brazilian Chemical Society, São Paulo - SP), No. 663:
http://www.sbq.org.br/publicacoes/beletronico/bienio0406/boletim663.htm
(in English)

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SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE QUÍMICA BOLETIM ELETRONICO No. 663
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VEJA NESTA EDIÇÃO:

1. Eleições SBQ 2006
2. 29ª. RASBQ - Águas de Lindóia, SP - 19 a 22 de Maio de 2006
3. Recursos dos trabalhos para a 29ª RASBQ
4. Concurso público para docente nas quatro sub-áreas de Química na
UFBA e UFRB
5. 10o. Congresso Internacional de Quimiometria, CAC-2006

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5. 10o. Congresso Internacional de Quimiometria, CAC-2006
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Dear Chemometricians!!

On behalf of the Organizing Committee I'm pleased to invite you all
to attend the 10th International Conference on Chemometrics in
Analytical Chemistry, "CHEMOMETRICS IN THE TROPICS: MEDICINE, NATURE
AND INDUSTRY" CAC-2006, to be held 10-15 September 2006 in Brazil.

( http://www.cac2006.iqm.unicamp.br)

Online Registration and abstract submission are already open.

!!!Don´t miss the pre-Conference courses. They are listed below.!!!

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS

Bruce R. Kowalski (USA)
Barry M Wise (USA)
Jose Cardoso de Menezes (PT)
Alex Freitas (UK)
Lutgarde Buydens (NL)
Paul Geladi (SE)
Paul J. Gemperline (USA)
Rasmus Bro (DK)
Roma Tauler (ES)
Steven D. Brown (USA)
Salvador García-Muñoz (Pfizer, USA)
Beata Walczak (PL)
Klaas Faber (NL)
Patricia Heussen (UNILEVER, NL)
Peter de B. Harrington (USA)

PRE-CONFERENCE SHORT COURSES
Sunday Sept 10th 2006
1 - "Basic Chemometrics", Barry Wise (Eigenvector Research Inc. USA) -
one day
2 - "Multi-way Analysis in Chemistry - Learn to do it yourself",
Rasmus Bro (KVL, DK) - one day

Monday Sept 11th 2006
3 - "Multivariate Image Analysis", Barry Wise (Eigenvector Research
Inc. USA) - one day

4 - "Introduction to Data Mining and a Case Study in Bioinformatics",
Alex Freitas (University of Kent, UK) - half day

5 - "Multivariate And Multiway Calibration With Special Focus on
Uncertainty Estimation", Klaas Faber - one day

Chair Márcia M C Ferreira
(cac2006@iqm.unicamp.br)

( http://www.cac2006.iqm.unicamp.br)

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Contribuições devem ser enviadas para o Editor do Boletim Eletrônico
da SBQ: Luizsbq@iqm.unicamp.br

Até nossa próxima edição!!!
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Prof. Luiz Carlos Dias
Editor do Boletim Eletrônico
Sociedade Brasileira de Química - SBQ
e-mail: luizsbq@iqm.unicamp.br
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FROM: LQTA (Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Chemometrics) site, Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP:
http://lqta.iqm.unicamp.br/
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FROM: The Prof. M. M. C. Ferreira home page, Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP:
http://pcserver.iqm.unicamp.br/~marcia/Index.html
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FROM: ABQ (Associação Brasileira de Química - Brazilian Chemical Association, Rio de Janeiro, RJ) site:
http://w3.cetem.gov.br/abq/Internacional/assint.html
(in Portuguese)

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FROM: LAQQA (Laboratory of Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistrs) site, Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP:
http://laqqa.iqm.unicamp.br/congressos.html
(in Portuguese)

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FROM: Review Article: Benício de Barros Neto, Ieda S. ScarminioI, Roy E. Bruns: 25 anos de quimiometria no Brasil [25 years of chemometrics in Brazil], Química Nova {ISSN 0100-4042}, Vol. 29 No.6, São Paulo Nov./Dec. 2006, pp. 1401-1406.
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422006000600042&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en
http://quimicanova.sbq.org.br/qn/qnol/2006/vol29n6/index.htm
(in Portuguese, abstract in English)

The last paragraph of this article

"Passados 25 anos, parece-nos que a quimiometria no Brasil finalmente chegou à maioridade. Tanto é que a gente quase já não precisa esclarecer que não se trata de quimioterapia .Para isto, certamente contribuíram os incansáveis e entusiásticos esforços de divulgação feitos por vários pesquisadores, bem como as três escolas de verão organizadas pelo Depto. de Química da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, sob a coordenação dos Profs. Pércio Farias (1999), José Godoy (2000) e Ricardo Aucélio (2004). Hoje podemos encontrar grupos de pesquisa e desenvolvimento em quimiometria atuando em diversos estados da federação, não só nas universidades como em algumas empresas de grande porte. Além disto, diversos cursos de pós-graduação – e mesmo de graduação – já incluem a quimiometria em seus currículos. Mas talvez o sinal mais claro da consolidação das atividades quimiométricas no Brasil seja a realização do encontro internacional Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry Conference, mais conhecido pela sigla CAC, que pela primeira vez viaja ao sul do Equador. A décima edição, que terá como tema "A Quimiometria nos Trópicos", está programada para o período 10-14 de setembro de 2006, na Unicamp, sob a coordenação da Profa. Márcia Ferreira."

English translation of this paragraph:

"Chemometrics in Brazil finally became mature after 25 years. It is not more necessary to explain that it is not about chemotherapy. Efforts of many enthusiastic researchers in chemometrics contributed to this situation, as well as three summer schools of chemometrics organized by the Department of Chemistry of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro with Profs. Pércio Farias (1999), José Godoy (2000) and Ricardo Aucélio (2004) as coordinators. Today there are groups working on development of chemometrics in various states, not only at universities but also in some well-known companies. Besides, diverse postgraduate courses and even some undergraduate courses offer chemometrics. Probably the best sign of consolidation of chemometrics in Brazil is the International Conference on Chemometrics In Analytical Chemistry, known as CAC, that will be organized for the first time south to the equator. The tenth CAC, with its theme "Chemometrics In The Tropics", will be hosted at Unicamp in September 10-14, 2006 under the coordination of Prof. Márcia M. C. Ferreira."

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NOTE:
The UNISC (Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul - The University of Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Catarina state, Brazil) News site announces CAC-2006 participantion from its members. Although the site doesn't announce CAC-2006, it mentions the place and date of the conference:
http://www.unisc.br/cursos/pos_graduacao/mestrado/spi/noticias/2006-09-11/index.html

CHILE

CROATIA

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FROM: Croatian Science Portal, Zagreb:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:6CNFbWHnIMAJ:www.crosci.org/index.php%3Fdate%3D2006-11-01+%22CAC-2006%22+
chemometrics&hl=pt-BR&gl=br&ct=clnk&cd=30
(in English)

DENMARK

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FROM: Department of Food Science, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg:
http://www.models.kvl.dk/News_Older/index.asp
(in English)

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FROM: EquatioNZ page, Lyngby:
http://hjem.tele2adsl.dk/equationz/links.html, http://www.equationz.dk, http://www.equationz.co.nz/
(in English)

FROM: ODIN homepage, maintained by Food Technology at KVL (Dept. Dairy & Food Science), Frederiksberg:
http://www.odin.kvl.dk/news_letters/Q2_Q3_2005/
(in English)

FRANCE

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FROM: The French Group for Chemometrics, Paris:
http://portail.chimiometrie.online.fr/index.php?file=Links&op=description&link_id=28
(in French)

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FROM: The sites of the French Chemometric Society, Paris:
http://www.tagworld.com/chimiometrie, http://www.chimiometrie.tk, http://servimedia.ifrance.com
(in French)

GERMANY

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FROM: Analytik News site maintained by Dr. Torsten Bayer, Ober-Ramstadt:
http://www.analytik-news.de/Termin/3058.html
(in German)

IRELAND

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FROM: The page of Google-aided searching page for Kerry County, Munster province:
http://county-kerry.countywarrant.info/conference-index-by-place-and-date-929809
(in English)

MORROCO

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FROM: Journal Les Technologies de Laboratoire, Rabat:
http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?p=%22CAC-2006%22+chemometrics&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&u=www.technolabo.ma/toc.htm&w=
%22cac+2006%22+chemometrics&d=RmdVfkVuN2NR&icp=1&.intl=us
(in French)

NETHERLANDS

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FROM: Chemometry Consultancy homepage, Ede:
http://www.chemometry.com/Activities/Training%20archive.html
(in English)

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FROM: The Dutch Chemometrics Society, Amsterdam:
http://www.kncv.nl/analytischesectie/nl/mainindex.asp?pageid=100&color=33
(in English)

NORWAY

POLAND

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FROM: Department of Chemometrics at The University of Silesia, Katowice:
http://chemometria.us.edu.pl/index.php?goto=conferences
(in English)

PORTUGAL

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FROM: CAC-2004 home page, Lisbon:
http://dequim.ist.utl.pt/cac2004/cac2006.htm, http://dequim.ist.utl.pt/cac2004/program.htm
(in English)

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FROM: Boletim da SPQ - Sociedade Portuguesa de Qúimica [Bulletin of the Portuguese Chemical Society], No. 096, Jul/Set 2005, Noticiário [News] p. 10:
http://www.spq.pt/boletim/docs/boletimSPQ_096_003_03.pdf
(in English)

RUSSIA

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FROM: The pages of Russian chemometrics, maintained by the Russian Chemometrics Society, Moscow:
http://www.chemometrics.ru/conferences/, http://www.chemometrics.ru/links/?page=2
(in Russian)

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FROM: Non-profit organization Science-Forum, Moscow:
http://www.science-forum.ru/index.php?name=mail&evid=19181&pn=0&snc=d60c1ccd6ce561605a3a33c4d97e5a0a
(in Russian)

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FROM: The Siberian Branch of The Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk:
http://www.sbras.ru/dc/f/bk3_w06.pdf
(in Russian)

SWITZERLAND

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FROM: DIVISION of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY of the Swiss Chemical Society, Bern:
http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?p=%22CaC-2006%22+chemometrics&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&u=www.sach.ch/
dacconf03.html&w=%22cac+2006%22+chemometrics&d=bpHS8kVuN1ZH&icp=1&.intl=us
(in English)

UNITED STATES

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FROM: Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville:
http://www.artsci.ecu.edu/cas/administration/facprojects06.htm
(in English)

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FROM: U.S. Navy Web site, Office of Naval Research Global, London:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:XwIHEpZx-6oJ:www.ehis.navy.mil/coe-london/conferencelist.asp+
%22CAC-2006%22+chemometrics&hl=pt-BR&gl=br&ct=clnk&cd=55
(in English)