Fossil fuels are a limited resource, and the petroleum industry is always on the lookout for ways to extract more useful materials from crude oil. This session focuses on the use of mass spectrometry in the analysis of petroleum.
For those of you who have not yet had a chance to read Spectroscopy and LCGC?s "Homeland Security" supplement (www.spectroscopyonline.com), Tuesday morning's "Mass Spectrometry in Homeland Protection" session should provide a nice overview of the topic.
In an effort to reduce the number of potential drugs that fail during clinical development, drug companies are increasingly looking to human microdosing.
On Wednesday afternoon, March 11, 2009, the 2009 Coblentz Society's Williams-Wright Award will be presented to Spectroscopy contributing editor Jerome Workman, Jr. for his work on molecular spectroscopy, including near-infrared, infrared, UV-vis, process analysis, and chemometrics.
Welcome back to Chicago and Pittcon 2009. It?s likely to be a lot colder here than it was for Pittcon 2008 in New Orleans, but there should be no shortage of interesting sessions to attend this week.
A summary of the five-day mass spectrometry conference held this month in Denver, Colorado.