The conference will begin early on Tuesday morning 20th April and finish late-afternoon on Wednesday 21st April.  The emphasis, as always, will be on informality, with oral and poster papers and plenty of discussion.  There will be no published proceedings, but a book of short papers will be distributed at the conference.  Guidelines for preparation of papers appear elsewhere in this website.

DAY 1 - Tuesday 20th April, 2010

0800-0845    REGISTRATION – National Wine Centre, Adelaide

0845-0900    WELCOME & OFFICIAL OPENING

SESSION 1:  CURRENT TRENDS AND THE CRYSTAL BALL (Chair: Graeme Batten)

0900-0930    Woody Barton:  A new series of NIR spectrometers

0930-0950    Brad Swarbrick:  Some physical and practical aspects of the multiplicative scatter

                     correction family of algorithms as applied to near infrared spectra

0950-1010    Steve Holroyd: NIR networking: monitoring performance

1010-1030    Alistair McEwan:  Body composition in neonates: unobtrusive devices for intensive

                     care and low cost devices for the developing world

1030-1100    MORNING TEA

SESSION 2:  THE DIRT ON SOIL, FRUIT AND WINE (Chair: Steve Holroyd)

1100-1130    Veronique Bellon-Maurel: Shooting for grape maturity, and current status of soil

                     quality assessment by NIR

1130-1200    Andrew McGlone:  Successes and failures in developing NIR applications for New

                     Zealand horticulture

1200-1220    Kerry Walsh:  Failures and successes in developing NIR applications for Australian

                     horticulture

1220-1240    Daniel Cozzolino:  Near infrared spectroscopy and its role in a sustainable wine

                     production

1240-1340    LUNCH

SESSION 3:  THE ECONOMICS AND POLITICS OF NIR (Chair: Peter Flinn)

1340-1410    John Black:  The value of NIR to the Australian feed grain industry

1410-1430    Graeme Batten:  Feeding 6.8 billion people – some roles for NIR spectroscopy

1430-1500    Certification of NIR instruments for measuring protein in grain: is it a level playing

                     field? - a discussion led by Wayne Sing

1500-1530    AFTERNOON TEA

SESSION 4:  COMPANY CORNER (Chair: Sophie Roumeliotis)

1530-1630    A series of VERY short presentations on latest developments from NIR

                     equipment and software companies

Bruker Optics

CAMO

Foss

In Vitro Technologies (Büchi)

Jeffress Engineering

Portable Analytical Systems (ASD)

Perten

NIR Technology Systems

TACS Australia (DICKEY-John)

Thermo-Fisher Scientific

Unity Scientific

1630-1730    POSTER SESSION AND HAPPY HOUR

    (Courtesy of the Companies)

Mariola Kwiatkowski  VIS-NIR spectroscopy to predict selected chemical parameters in

                                     unopened bottles of Sauvignon Blanc wines

Wies Cynkar               Soil and water measurement in the vineyard: the role of near infrared

                                     spectroscopy

Donna Hocroft           Separating individual grains in a multi-grain calibration

Cassandra Walker     Determining the colour of barley by calculating the CIE  L*, a* and b* co-

                                    ordinates from spectra

Phillip Clancy             Multiple calibration selection (MCS) software for use on Australian barley

Brian Dunn                 Predicting rice grain quality by NIR

Graeme Batten           NIR spectra of rice grains with contrasting phosphorus concentrations

Nick Glover                Predicting moisture and free fatty acid in anhydrous milk fat using near

                                    infrared transflectance spectroscopy

*Ehsan Tavakkoli      Application of near infrared spectroscopy in analysis of chemical/physical

                                    characteristics of soil and plant mineral nutrients

Teresa Riquelme Testing portable NIR commercial equipment for estimating internal quality in

                                    citrus fruit

1900 (for 1930)          CONFERENCE DINNER

                                   National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide

DAY 2 – Wednesday 21st April, 2010

SESSION 5:         IMAGING, SPECIFYING AND DISCRIMINATING (Chair: Kerry Walsh)

0830-0900            Marena Manley:  NIR hyperspectral imaging: thousands of spectra for

                             exploring heterogeneous products

0900-0920            Roger Meder: Exploring spatial variation in wood properties using fibre optic

                              transport systems

0920-0940            Steve Ranford:  Specification of textile products using visible and near infrared

                             analysis systems

0940-1000            *Roberto Riovanto:  Discrimination of Australian Shiraz by spectroscopy and

                             chemometrics

1000-1020            *Murad Yusuf:  Near infrared analysis of volatile oils from citrus fruit stored at

                              low temperatures

* Students presentations

1020-1050            MORNING TEA

SESSION 6:   THE ANIMAL WORLD AND THE KAJI (Chair: Daniel Cozzolino)

1050-1120            MaryLou Swift:  The role of NIR in Alberta’s Livestock Feed Initiative: the Feed

                             Evaluation and Quality Project

1120-1140            Catherine Margach:  Towards a zero toxin vetch via NIR

1140-1200            Peter Flinn:  Pierre’s Pointers: an important message from NIR-2009

1200-1230            The “Kaji” Competition: Selected presentations on seeking the best possible

                             calibration and prediction results from an unknown data set previously

                             distributed

                               (Note: “Kaji” is an Aboriginal word meaning “seeking” or “searching”)

1230-1330            LUNCH

SESSION 7:        ROOTS, TUBERS AND GRAINS (Chair: Catherine Margach)

1330-1400           The ASD/PAS Company Lecture

                             Don Campbell: NIR determination of major constituents in tropical root and

                             tuber crop flours

1400-1420            Phillip Clancy:  On the go NIT protein and moisture measurements in a

                             combine harvester

1420-1440            Ian Wesley:  Single kernel NIR (SK-NIR) analysis of wheat: measurement of

                             protein composition

1440-1500            Tony Blakeney:  Soil carbon: an NIR challenge

1500-1530            AFTERNOON TEA

SESSION 8:         FINALE (Chair: Tony Blakeney)

1530-1540            Graeme Batten:  Why are so many papers rejected by the Editor-in-Chief of

                             JNIRS?

1540-1550            Marena Manley:  A preview of NIR-2011, Cape Town, South Africa

1550-1600            Steve Holroyd/Peter Flinn: The Aussie-Kiwi Axis and ANISG-2012

1600-1615            PRESENTATION OF AWARDS

1615                     CONFERENCE CLOSE