Winter Symposium on Chemometrics (WSC) is an international scientific event held under the aegis of the Russian Chemometrics Society. It covers a wide area of modern methods and applications of multivariate data analysis, including quantitative and qualitative analysis, PAT, theory of sampling, experimental design, image analysis, QSAR/ QSPR, and others.
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WSC-14, Tsaghkadzor, Armenia
2024, 26 February–1 March
The Fourteenth Winter Symposium on Chemometrics was held in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia. 36 participants from 8 countries contributed to the scientific programme of the symposium with 6 invited lectures, 16 oral and 17 poster presentations.
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2022, 28 February–4 March
The Thirteenth Winter Symposium on Chemometrics was held online due to COVID-19 restrictions. About 70 scientists contributed to the scientific part of the symposium with 6 lectures, 25 oral and 13 poster presentations. Pre-conference activities included online school on Chemometrics.
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2020, February 24–28
The Twelfth Winter Symposium on Chemometrics took place at the recreation center Volzhskie Dali in suburbs of Saratov, Russia. About 50 scientists contributed to the scientific part of the symposium with 5 lectures, 29 oral and 18 poster presentations.
Pre-conference activities included the traditional weekend school on Chemometrics for Russian speaking scientists and students, which took place in Saratov State University.
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WSC-11, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2018, 26 February–2 March
The Eleventh Winter Symposium on Chemometrics took place at the recreation center Aurora, in beautiful place surrounded by forest and lakes not far from Saint Petersburg. About 60 scientists from 11 countries contributed to the scientific part of the symposium with excellent presentations.
Pre-conference activities included the traditional weekend school on Chemometrics for Russian speaking scientists and students as well as workshop “TOS variography – a missing link in MSPC and PAT” given by professor Kim Esbensen. Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University hosted both events.
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2016, 29 February–4 March
The Tenth Winter Symposium on Chemometrics took place in surroundings of Samara city, along the Volga river, at the recreation center of Samara State Technical University, the host organization of WSC-10. The symposium brought together about 60 scientists from 8 countries. They contributed to the scientific part of the symposium with 6 keynote lectures, 20 talks and 24 poster presentations. Traditionally, an introductory school on chemometrics was organized at the university during a weekend before the symposium.
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2014, February 17–21
The Ninth Winter Symposium on Chemometrics took place at recreation center “Tom” located in the suburbs of one of the oldest Siberian city Tomsk. About 40 participants from seven countries participated in the conference. The scientific program included 21 lectures/oral presentations and 17 posters. Such not overloaded program left ample time for very interesting discussions.
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2012, 27 February–2 March
The Eighth Winter Symposium on Chemometrics took place at the picturesque recreation center, park-hotel Drakino, located 100 km south of Moscow. The symposium brought together about 60 scientists from more than 10 countries.
As usual it was preceded by the introductory school on multivariate data analysis, conducted in Chemical Department of Moscow State University. The intensive scientific program of symposium included about 30 lectures and talks and 30 posters. All presentations were followed by serious discussions that were continued during the evenings in famous “Scores and Loadings” bar.
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WSC-7, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2010, February 15–19
The Seventh Winter Symposium on Chemometrics took place in the cultural capital of Russia — Saint Petersburg. About 100 participants from 14 countries attended the event.
The traditional introductory school on multivariate data analysis as well as pre-conference courses “Chemometrics in Excel”, “Support Vector Machines” and “Introduction to Hyperspectral Chemical Imaging” were conducted at the Saint Petersburg State Technical University of Plant Polymers, the host organization of WSC-7. The symposium itself was held in the hotel "Raivola", located in a picturesque pine forest, some 60 km to the north of Saint Petersburg.
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2008, February 18–22
The Sixth Winter Symposium on Chemometrics took place in the capital of Tatarstan — Kazan, a beautiful city located on the bank of the Volga river, about 800 km east of Moscow. It was the first event of new biannual Drushbametrics program cycle and the increased number of participants, who wished to attend it, shows that this program has achieved a significant success both in Russia and beyond.
As usual, preconference introductory courses on chemometrics were conducted in Russian at Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering. About 60 participants from different cities attended the school and were exposed to basic areas of multivariate data analysis. All school participants received a short Russian translation of this book, edited by O. Rodionova.
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2006, February 18–23
The Fifth Russian Winter Symposium on Chemometrics took place in one of the biggest industrial city in Russia — Samara. Following tradition, an introductory school on chemometrics was conducted at the Samara State Technical University, the host organization of WSC-5. The symposium was located in the beautiful surroundings in a suburb of Samara along the Volga river, at the recreation center of Samara State Technical University.
Fresh air and a high level of comfort promoted a productive working atmosphere during the symposium. WSC-5 boasted six invited lectures, sixteen contributing talks and more that twenty posters, all of which promoted scientific discussions of high value that were continued after sessions. The main topic for WSC-5 was “Process Analytical Technology and Environmental Protection”.
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WSC-4, Chernogolovka, Russia
2005, February 15–18
The fourth regular event in the Drushbametrics program, WSC-4, took place in Chernogolovka a small town near Moscow that was founded in the 1960s by Nikolay Semenov, a Noble Prize winner and the head of the Institute for Chemical Physics (ICP) which hosted WSC-4.
More than 60 scientists participated in WSC-4. Each session consisted of one lecture and two or more contributed talks. The invited lectures were devoted primarily to the theoretical problems of modeling and their applications in wide scientific and industrial areas.
Beginning with this conference, these meetings have been renamed “Winter Symposium on Chemometrics” from “Winter School on Chemometrics”. The WSC is now primarily a place for presenting new ideas and having fruitful discussions in friendly informal atmosphere. The educational part of the Drushbametrics mission was maintained by providing a school for beginners prior to the symposium.
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WSC-3, Pushkinskiye gory, Russia
2004, February 16–20
As a part of the continuing international Drushbametrics program, the Third Winter School on Chemometrics took place in Pushkinskie Gory, which is approximately 400 km south of Saint Petersburg near the Estonian and Latvian borders. The place is named for the great Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin. The beautiful landscape and historical places inspired all of the participants. Meals and lodging for the participants were provided at the appropriately named Hotel Drushba, while the conference itself took place at the Pushkin Center.
The intensive scientific program of WSC-3 included eight invited lectures, thirteen oral presentations and eighteen poster contributions. Over forty scientists from Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Austria, USA, UK, Iran, Norway, Belorus, and Belgium attended the symposium this year. Posters were discussed during coffee breaks, as well as during the formal poster session.
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WSC-2, Belokurikha, Russia
2003, 28 February–6 March
The Second Winter School on Chemometrics (WSC-2) took place in Belokurikha, Altai. As its predecessor the second school was conducted in the context of the Drushbametrics program. The objective of the program is to contribute to starting up chemometrics in Russia, establishing a framework for international chemometrics interaction, presenting and discussing new possible fields of Multivariate Data Analysis (MDA) applications.
Introductory course on Chemometrics, addressed to the beginners, were held in Barnaul before the conference. A total of 42 attendees, mainly from different Barnaul universities took as well as from other russian cities. Attendees had occasion to work on computers and to try the Uncrambler software for bilinear modeling and the FITTER Add-Ins for non-linear regression
The conference itself was held in Belokurikha. Belokurikha is a marvelous resort popular of its unique nature and located at foothills of Altai Mountains at height of 250 meters above a sea level. There were about 20 more experienced participants from 5 countries and different places of Russia. The participants had time for downhill skiing and also had chance to try excellent Altai mountain honey. Traditionally the participants lived in a small but rather comfortable hotel and rather secluded environment led to active social interaction and improved concentration.
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2002, February 11–15
WSC-1 was an initial event of the Drishbametrics program. It took place in Kostroma, Russia, a regional city situated some 350 km NE of Moscow. WSC-1 was a success with 42 attendees, some of which had come from far away, even from former Soviet republics. Attendees were lodged in a small sanatorium “Kostromskoi” in the inner suburb of the town.
The main ideas behind WSC-1 were contributing to starting up chemometrics in Russia, establishing a framework for international chemometrics interaction and enabling both foreign and Russian scientist to participate on an equal economic footing.
The committee had put together a broad program for introducing important basic concepts of chemometrics. Besides lectures, the speakers conducted full-scale hands-on workshop during two days, on the practical aspects of doing chemometrics using both MATLAB and the Unscrambler. There was also one whole day of purely Russian contributions. Several poster presentations scientists were discussed at the last day of the conference.
Discussing the expectation and results of WSC-1 at the final evaluation meeting, the participants and organizers emphasized the clear desirability to continue this series of winter schools in Russia, with the aim not only to attract the attention of scientists and laboratories to the wide range of data analytical problems that may be solved with the help of chemometric approach, but also to enhance specific chemometric issues, which were suggested as topics for the next events.
From the beginning, the organizers have attempted to achieve, and hopefully attained, an optimal balance between theoretical aspects of data analysis and their practical applications. The conference brings together both academic scientists and industrial experts, providing many opportunities for personal contacts and fruitful discussions.
Traditionally, WSC is very friendly to young scientists and those beginning to carve their way in data analysis. Students’ research works neighbor presentations of experienced chemometricians. Since 2005 special prizes to the best poster and the best talk presented by young(er) participants have been awarded.
WSC is the first and the only conference on chemometrics in Russia. The conference was created as a part of the Drushbametrics project established about 10 years ago by a small group of enthusiasts from Russia and Scandinavia. The main objectives of Drushbametrics were dissemination and popularization of chemometrics in Russia, as well as establishment of a bridge connecting Russian scientists to the international chemometric community. During seven previous conferences held in Russia since 2002, WSC has been recognized
internationally for its solid scientific content and intensive social program.
The social and cultural program is what makes the conference unique. Each conference day is concluded with the famous “Scores & Loadings” gathering where communication continues in a less formal manner.