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ICRM2017 Organizing and Scientific Committee

14 August 2016

Organizing Committee

Paul Eilers, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam (chair)
Jeroen Jansen, Radboud University Nijmegen (co-chair)
Gerben Mooiweer, JDEcoffee/R&D, Utrecht
Bülent Üstün, Aspen BV, Oss
Jos Hageman, Biometris, Wageningen University
Agnieszka Smolinska, Maastricht University
Jan Gerretzen, AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals RD&I, Deventer

Scientific Committee

Lutgarde Buydens, Analytical Chemistry, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Faculty of Sciences, Radboud University
Age Smilde, Biosystems Data Analysis, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Paul Eilers, Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam

Archive: ACS 2013

12 July 2016

28^th Annual Chemometrics Symposium

November 7^th, 2013

Jaarbeurs Conference Center, High Five beursvloer,

Jaarbeursplein, Utrecht

This year the 28^th Annual Chemometrics Symposium of the Dutch Chemometrics Society on November 7^th is part of the The Analytical Challenge conference on analytical chemistry and life sciences and the Labtechnology 2013 fair.

Program with short titles

9.00 Registration, coffee and plenary TAC lecture by Ad Bax.

11.00 Paul Eilers – Opening

11.15 Gianluca Baio –

“Come to the dark side: we got cookies! An introduction to Bayesian statistics”

12.15 Walking lunch / Poster session

13.15 Ron Wehrens – “Stability selection in metabolomics applications”

14.00 Jasper Engel – “Adapting MANOVA for analysis of -omics data”

14.30 Coffee/tea break

14.45 Johan de Rooi – “Sparse (blind) deconvolution with L0-penalties”

15.15 Marjan Sjerps – “Measuring evidential strength of chemical observations”

15.45 Winning Poster Announcement

Language

The official language of the symposium will be English.

Posters

Participants are invited to share their work during the poster session that will take place during the lunch break. A poster prize (100€) will be awarded to the best poster. If you want to submit a poster, send an e-mail before 24th October 2013 with title and abstract to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Then please bring the poster (A0 format) to the registration desk on the day of the symposium.

Venue

The meeting will take place at the Jaarbeurs Conference Center, High Five beursvloer,Jaarbeursplein, Utrecht.

Visiting address:

Jaarbeursplein
3521 AL Utrecht
Telephone: + 31 (0)30 295 5911

Jaarbeurs Conference Center Utrecht is located in the center of Utrecht and is therefore easily accessible using public transport. For train passengers, Utrecht Central Station is right next door. From Central Station, follow the signs ‘Jaarbeursplein’ for the five-minute walk to Jaarbeurs Conference Center Utrecht.

Registration

Registration is required. You register for The Analytical Challenge at web page http://www.theanalyticalchallenge.nl/inschrijven. Registration fee is 50 euro, students pay 15 euro.

Organizing Committee

Paul Eilers, Erasmus MC Rotterdam
Jeroen Jansen, Radboud University Nijmegen
Bülent Üstün, MSD Oss
Margriet Hendriks, University Leiden
Eduard Derks, DSM Geleen
Gerben Mooiweer, Douwe Egberts Utrecht

Archive: ACS 2015

12 July 2016

29^th Annual Chemometrics Symposium

“How to handle missing and censored data”

Thursday 15^th October 2015, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Most recipes for data analysis assume that data are complete and have been measured accurately. In real life this often is not the case. Data can be missing, which means that they have not been measured at all. Or they may be censored, which means that they are known to be less (or sometimes larger) than a given threshold. Both cases need special treatment.
The Dutch Chemometrics Society invites you to their Annual Chemometrics Symposium 2015 that will focus on handling missing and censored data. We are proud to present a program with excellent speakers, who will discuss theory and practical applications.

Speakers with their presentation titles:

•   Stef van Buuren
   “Multiple imputation of incomplete multivariate data: a bird’s eye view”
•   Hae-Won Uh
   “Dealing with data below the detection limit: a statistical view on uncertainty”.
•   Jeroen Elassaiss-Schaap
   “Mixing censoring into population PK and PK-PD nonlinear mixed effects”
•   Gerjen Tinnevelt
   “A PLS-based approach to combine multiple flow cytometry tubes”.
•   Martin Lopatka
   “Novel data imputation to emulate complex mixing condition seen in fire debris samples”.
•   Jos Hageman
     “Batch correction for LCMS in the presence of non-detects”.

Location

The meeting will take place in meeting room C103, Forum, building number 102, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands. See Forum-building-number-102 for a description and how to get there.

Time

Registration and coffee between 9:15 and 9:55, opening symposium at 9:55.

Fee

The registration fee is 100 euros (50 for students and PhD students). Everything is included: participation in the meetings, lunch, refreshments and drinks at the end of the day. It is not possible to register for a half-day at a reduced price.

Language

The official language of the symposium will be English.

Posters

Participants are invited to share their work during the poster session that will take place during the lunch break. A poster prize (100€) will be awarded to the best poster. If you want to submit a poster, send an e-mail before 1^st October with title and abstract to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and bring the poster (A0 format) to the registration desk on the day of the symposium.

How to register

Reply to this e-mail with your name, address and affiliation or send this information to the Dutch Chemometrics Society e-mail address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Payment should preferably be made in advance by bank transfer (IBAN: NL 02 INGB 0004 8518 27, STICHTING DUTCH CHEMOMETRICS SOCIETY) or in cash upon arrival.

On behalf of the organizing committee we are looking forward to meet you in Wageningen,

Paul Eilers, Erasmus MC Rotterdam.
Gerben Mooiweer, JDEcoffee/R&D, Utrecht.
Bülent Üstün, Aspen Oss BV, Oss.
Jeroen Jansen, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen.
Jos Hageman, Wageningen University, Wageningen.
Theo Reijmers, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Amsterdam.

ICRM 2017

18 June 2016

Archive 2017:

7^th International Chemometrics Research Meeting

ICRM2017

September 10^th - 14^th 2017

Fletcher Parkhotel Val Monte

Berg en Dal, The Netherlands

The International Chemometrics Research Meeting is organized every three years (by the Dutch Chemometrics Society). It is dedicated to in-depth discussion of recent chemometric and statistical developments that are relevant to analytical chemistry and is applications. The format of the meeting is inspired by the Gordon conferences: two sessions per day (one in the morning and one in the evening), with an invited speaker, a discussant and lots of room for the floor discussion.

Participants can bring posters and there is room for a small number of contributed talks.

New this time are 4 short tutorials, on ASCA, PCA/PLS, penalties and on MCR. The tutorials take place in the afternoons. They do not overlap and attendance is free for conferences participants.

A social program and conference dinner is also part of ICRM2017.

The following invited speakers will give a keynote lecture:

Peter Wentzell (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada).
Lieven De Lathauwer (KU Leuven, Belgium).
Peter Filzmoser (TU Wien, Austria)
Morten Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Marieke Timmerman (RU Groningen, The Netherlands)
Onno de Noord (Shell Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
TBA

This is a first announcement. More information about registration and the conference fee will follow soon.

Archive: ACS 2016

18 June 2016

30^th Annual Chemometrics Symposium

“Chemometrics in Action”

Thursday 13^th October 2016, Ravenstein, The Netherlands

The Dutch Chemometrics Society cordially invites you to its Annual Chemometrics Symposium. This year the theme is “Chemometrics in Action” with a focus on practical applications. Six speakers will cover a variety of subjects. During the lunch a microNIR spectrophotometer will be demonstrated.

As usual, this symposium will be an excellent opportunity to meet old and new colleagues, to learn new things and to discuss them in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

Speakers with their presentation titles

•   Rudolf Kessler
      “Perspectives in Process Analysis: Remarks on Robustness of Spectroscopic Methods
        for Industrial Applications
•   Jan Gerretzen
      “A novel and effective way for preprocessing selection based on Design of Experiments”.
•   Andrei Barcaru
      “Thinking Bayes: creating new ways of interpreting GCxGC(-MS) data”.
•   Cyril Ruckebusch
      “Chemometric analysis of chemical images”.
•   Olga Lushchikova
      “Development of alarm system for water quality control based on flow cytometry data
        of algal populations”.
•   Ewoud van Velzen
      "Robustness: A key parameter in the validation of multivariate sensory regression
        models”.

Abstracts of the presentations can be found here.

The booklet with the program of the symposium day can be viewed and downloaded too. Please be aware that you receive a printed copy of this program booklet when you attend the symposium. Please click on Program booklet ACS2016.pdf

Location

The meeting will take place in Vergader- en Conferentiecentrum Soeterbeeck, Elleboogstraat 2, 5371 LL Ravenstein See www.ru.nl/soeterbeeck/ for a description and how to get there.

Time

Registration and coffee between 9:15 and 10:00, opening symposium at 10:10.

Fee

Language

The official language of the symposium will be English.

Posters

Participants are invited to share their work during the poster session that will take place during the lunch break. A poster prize (100€) will be awarded to the best poster. If you want to submit a poster, send an e-mail before 1st October with title and abstract to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and bring the poster (A0 format) to the registration desk on the day of the symposium.

Demo

During the lunch break a demonstration will be given of the microNIR.

How to register

Flyer

Use this link to download the flyer of this symposium: Flyer_DCS_ACS2016.pdf

About DCS

11 April 2016

The history of the Dutch Chemometrics Society dates back to 1972, when the discussion groups “Automation” and “Computerization” merged into the “Laboratory Optimization” group of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society. Led by first-generation chemometricians such as A. Dijkstra, G. Kateman, and H.C. Smit, this group later became the “Working Party on Chemometrics,” which also serves as the Dutch Chapter of the International Chemometrics Society. Two important initiatives emerged from this early period: a series of short courses in chemometrics for industry, and the launch of the international conference series on chemometrics in analytical chemistry (CAC), which started in 1978 and included several editions in the Netherlands.

In 1989, three workshop series were established: the Multivariate Data Analysis Workshop (MVA), a workshop on Experimental Design and Optimization, and a workshop on Quality Assurance. While the latter two eventually ran out of new topics, the MVA Workshop remains an active part of the Society. In 2005, a new discussion group was launched focusing on the analysis of proteomics and metabolomics data: the Bio-MVA workshop.

A second generation of chemometricians initiated another important conference series: the International Chemometrics Research Meeting (ICRM). Since its start in the 1990s, ICRM has developed into a distinctive meeting format, and eight editions have been organized, most recently in 2024 in Soesterberg. The meeting complements other conference series in the field through its emphasis on extended exchange of ideas in an informal atmosphere, a limited number of lectures on selected topics, scheduled plenary discussions, ample time for informal interaction, and continuous poster display.

Today, the Dutch Chemometrics Society organizes symposia on chemometrics, workshops on focused topics, and contributes to activities of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society, including those of other working parties. The symposia follow a more classical format, while the workshops provide a forum for advanced, in-depth discussion in an informal setting. As chemometrics became more widely established in industry and research institutes, the need for such meetings grew rapidly, since chemometricians often had few opportunities for specialist exchange within their immediate working environment.

Participants in Dutch Chemometrics Society activities come from universities (40%), industry (40%), and institutes (20%). This balance reflects the Society’s longstanding role as a meeting point for academic research, industrial practice, and methodological development in chemometrics in the Netherlands.

Archive: ICRM 2017

11 April 2016