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September 2009
HPLC 2009 – 34th International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques.
International Congress Centre, Dresden, Germany. June 28th – July 2nd 2009
by BernieMonaghan, Editor Chromatography Today, Adrian Clarke, AstraZeneca, UK and Chromatographic Society committee member, and LeeMallard, AstraZeneca, UK.
HPLC 2009 was held in the historic Saxony city of Dresden. The baroque city centre is undergoing a renaissance with its many restored historic buildings presenting a most impressive skyline. The old town features some fantastic 18th and 19th Century architecture, including the palace and the Zwinger (an elaborate orangery) commissioned under the opulent rule of King August III. The conference centre is of modernWestern design and is situated on the banks of the river Elbe, overlooking the city.
Fig 1. Dresden skyline from Congress Centre Terrace.
The entire proceedings ran very smoothly and certainly the event was a credit to Prof Christian Huber,(fig 2) the Gesellschaft Deutsche Chemiker and the team of organisers, helpers and various committees who made the whole week run very smoothly leading to one of the best HPLC series of meetings that I have attended in over 25 years.
In total, there were ~1400 attendees. 8 plenary lectures, 90 lectures (across 3 parallel sessions), 9 tutorials, 16 vendor seminars, 630 posters and a vendor exhibition spread across the 5 days. As you can appreciate that is a lot to fit in a short report. As such, a link to the conference website (with full programme and full abstracts) is provided
www.hplc2009.comand it is recommended that this facility be used for
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Fig 2. Prof Huber opens the meeting in the time honoured tradition.
more detail on the event. Comments on the conference highlights are included in the remainder of the report to give a flavour of the content.
Sunday evening saw the official opening of the meeting with a musical background (Fig 3) with various awards being presented to well deserved recipients.
Fromthe Chromatographic Society the JubileeMedal was presented by Dr DeniseWallworth the Societies Hon. Secretary to Prof Gert Desmet fromthe Vrije University of Brussels, Belgium. (fig 4). The recipient of theMartinMedal, ProfWolfgang Lindner fromthe University of Vienna was indisposed and unable to be present. For a more detailed background on both recipients see the June 2009 issue of Chromatography Today (
www.chromatographytoday.com).
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