Short course

 

National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide, SA, 18th-19th April 2010


A short course, entitled "Spectroscopy for Real Applications”, will be offered as a precursor to the 14th ANISG Conference.  This course will cover the theory, practice and applications of NIR, MIR and Raman spectroscopy (but predominantly NIR), focusing on choosing the right instrumentation and techniques to solve analytical problems.  Instruments from various companies will be demonstrated as part of the course.


The course will be led by well-known and highly regarded spectroscopists Dr Woody Barton and Dr Jim De Haseth from the USA.




Woody accepted a Research Scientist position with the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Richard B. Russell Agricultural Research Center in 1971.  Woody was employed for 37 years in the Athens laboratory until his retirement in January 2008.  With ARS, Woody’s early work was on the structure and microbial degradation of forages by ruminant animals.  In the mid 1970’s he became part of the ARS National Near Infrared Research Project.  Woody became the Coordinator in 1987, the year the original team was presented with an ARS Superior Service Award.  He continued in a leadership role until the project was finalized in 1993.  During his career, Woody was recognized as the NIR interpretation expert and was chosen to develop the first “Official Methods” using NIR for the AOAC International.  The past 10 years work utilizing 2-dimensional spectroscopic techniques has been one of two focuses of his research.  The other has been the development of a new class of NIR instrumentation.  Woody is the author of over 200 publications and has made hundreds of presentations.  He is a Fellow of Near Infrared Spectroscopy as elected by the International Council of Near Infrared Spectroscopy.


Jim started as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) in 1979, but accepted a position at the University of Georgia in 1983.  He became a Professor of Chemistry in 1992 but retired from the University in 2009.  In addition Jim has worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency for summer research (1980) and spent 15 months on sabbatical leave at USDA-ARS (2003-2004).  He has consulted for instrument manufacturers, producers of accessories for spectrometers, and chemical industry.  Research as focused on a wide variety of topics, particularly with Fourier transform infrared spectrometry, chemometrics, spectral searching and identification.  New algorithms for search systems, spectral processing and chemometrics have also been developed.  Jim is the author of more than 150 articles, chapters, books and patents, as well as having presented hundreds of papers at scientific meetings.  He is co-author of the 2007 book “Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry”, 2nd Edition, with Peter R. Griffiths.  Jim has been giving short courses and workshops on infrared spectrometry for almost 30 years.  He has been elected a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.  


The course will run from 0830 to 1730 hours on both Sunday 18th April and Monday 19th April.  Certificates will be presented to all delegates who complete the course.


The convenors of the course have the support of four instrument companies, whose instruments thy will describe and demonstrate during the programme.  These companies are:


Unity Scientific

ABB

Horiba Scientific

Polychromix




COURSE PROGRAMME


Sunday, 18 April, 2010


0830 – 1000            Fundamentals of spectrometry – NIR, MIR and Raman   (Jim de Haseth)


1000 – 1020            Morning tea   (Time to view instruments)


1020 – 1200            Sampling: effects of matrix, calibration standards, selection of spectra in

                                calibration sets, validation, spectral region (NIR, MIR, Raman)   (Woody

                                Barton)


1200 – 1300            Lunch   (Instrumentation available for specific experiments or analyses)


1300 – 1400            Demonstration of Instruments   (Company I)

                                        Presentation   (Jim de Haseth)

                                        Demonstration   (Woody Barton)


1400 – 1500            Characteristics of NIR, MIR and Raman spectra   (Woody/Jim)


1500 – 1530            Afternoon tea   (Time to view instruments)


1530 – 1630            Demonstration of Instruments   (Company II)

                                        Presentation   (Woody Barton)

                                        Demonstration   (Jim de Haseth)


1630 – 1730            Characteristics of NIR, MIR and Raman spectra   (Woody/Jim)


1900                        Dinner for Course Participants   (at a venue to be advised upon arrival)


               End of Day One





Monday, 19 April, 2010


0830 – 0930            Introduce criteria for choice of analytical solution   (Jim de Haseth)


0930 – 1030            Characteristics of spectral regions, optical geometries, instrument types and

                                samples (Part I)   (Woody/Jim)


1030 – 1100            Morning tea   (Time to view instruments)


1100 – 1200            Demonstration of Instruments   (Company III)

                                        Presentation   (Jim de Haseth)

                                        Demonstration   (Woody Barton)


1200 – 1300            Lunch   (Instrumentation available for specific experiments or analyses)


1300 – 1400            Characteristics of spectral regions, optical geometries, instrument types and

                                samples   (Part II)   (Woody/Jim)


1400 – 1500            Demonstration of Instruments   (Company IV)

                                        Presentation   (Woody Barton)

                                        Demonstration   (Jim de Haseth)


1500 – 1530            Afternoon tea   (Time to view instruments)


1530 – 1700            Chemometrics   (Woody/Jim)


1700 – 1730            Wrap up and end of course


              Open question period   (Woody/Jim)


Questions will be accepted, and are encouraged, at any time during the course.  If possible, the instructors will be available during both evenings of the course for further discussions.