Chemometrics & quality assurance
Powerful algorithms and AI are opening up entirely new perspectives on data today and are rapidly driving analytical chemistry forward. At the same time, demands on data quality and efficient, robust data and quality management are increasing. Systematic quality assurance is a key prerequisite for ensuring the reliability, comparability and traceability of analytical results.
The Working Group on Chemometrics & Quality Assurance of the GDCh Division of Analytical Chemistry, founded on 24 April 1991, is actively supporting these developments and sees itself as a forum for everyone who not only collects data in analytical chemistry, but also wants to make optimum use of it. The group is aimed in particular at professionals who work with univariate and multivariate methods on issues such as classification, pattern recognition, machine learning or the management of large analytical chemistry datasets – or who wish to expand their expertise in these areas in a targeted manner.
Shortlink to this page: www.gdch.de/chemometrik
We offer a wide range of practical formats to share knowledge, foster exchange and highlight trends. Full information about our events can be found at: https://chemometrics.gdch.events/home
Doctoral seminars. The seminars give doctoral researchers the opportunity to present their research, develop their presentation and discussion skills, and network with industry and academia. As chemometrics teaching in Germany is rather limited, another aim of these seminars is to impart relevant chemometric fundamentals. To this end, renowned experts are invited as keynote speakers. The scientific programme is complemented by alternating excursions and workshops.
Themed workshops. Each year, we organise a workshop that focuses in depth on a relevant topic. Example topics include methods for handling data as well as concepts and standards for the sustainable, transparent and efficient use of information. For the workshops, we specifically invite experienced professionals to present current developments, established methods and practical examples.
Guidelines. Within the working group, the Guidelines Task Force is preparing a policy paper with recommendations for multivariate calibration in the analysis of spectroscopic data. Anyone interested is warmly invited to contact the Task Force via the email address provided here.
Conferences & trend reports. We organise sessions at conferences and produce articles and trend reports that present developments in chemometric and analytical data analysis in an accessible way.
History. The Chemometrics & quality assurance working group was founded in 1991 – at that time under the name Chemometrics & Laboratory Data Processing – through the merger of the Chemometrics Working Group of the Chemical Society of the GDR and the GDCh Working Group on Laboratory Automation and Data Processing.
Dr. Claudia Beleites (Chair), Chemometrix GmbH, Wölfersheim
Prof. Dr. Stephan Seifert (Deputy Chair), University of Hamburg
Dr. Joscha Christmann (Secretary), Symrise AG, Holzminden
Dr. Andrea Paul (Member), Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin
Permanent guest of the Board
Marcel Dahms, LightGuard GmbH, Dresden
Contact the Board: ak-chemometrik@go.gdch.de
2020-2023
Dr. Claudia Beleites (Chair), Chemometrix GmbH, Wölfersheim
Dr. Andrea Paul (Deputy Chair), Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin
Dr. Jörg Kraft (Secretary)
Prof. Dr. Gerald Steiner (Member), Dresden University of Technology
Permanent guest of the Executive Board
Prof. Dr. Philipp Weller, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences
... with multivariate methods and Support Vector Machines
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