42 May / June 2014
You certainly seem to be managing to keep yourself reasonably busy during the early stages of your retirement. Part of this, of course, is your involvement with the 30th International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC 2014) in Salzburg. How is this going? What can we expect in Austria in September?
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As you will be aware, the International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC) represents a well-established congress series of major European Chemical Societies. It was first organised in 1956 in London and since then held biannually in various major European cities. The ISC 2014 being held in Salzburg and organised under the auspices of the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry (ASAC) will be the 30th event of this symposium series. (Austria has already hosted a very successful ISC in Vienna in 1988 chaired by the late Professor J. F. K. Huber). For ISC 2014 in Salzburg we hope to develop the themes of the series but hope to be distinctive in developing some particular themes.
The conference is committed to the promotion of research and knowledge in separation science, considering the whole variety of modern chromatographic and electrophoretic techniques. It puts its focus on separation methodologies in all scales from nano /micro- scale to preparative scale, on fundamental and applied science, and on application fields comprising (bio)pharmaceutical, bioanalytical, environmental, clinical/ toxicological, and food analysis research and many more.
As can be seen from the list of technologies and application areas, ISC 2014 Salzburg covers both LC and GC but also CE and is thus one of the rare opportunities to connect with experts of these major analysis technologies at the same conference. This way we want to bridge fields and bring together the colleagues in providing a platform for mutual interaction and discussion.
(b)
Lindner on the conference stage (a) at the podium in determined spirit (b) with wife Doris being honoured at HPLC 2013, Amsterdam with friends and co- workers including Barry Karger (3rd from left)
A strong focus of the conference will also be related to the hyphenation of separation technologies with mass spectrometry, as systems like GC-MS, LC-MS and CE-MS represent the gold standards and modern analytical settings for unquestionable identification of analytes. Besides the high level of qualitative information it is of utmost importance that all these methodologies provide also quantitative data with adequate precision and reliability.
A conference dedicated to pure and applied separation science must constantly widen its scope and horizon in order to keep up with the progress of the techniques and the challenges in analytical sciences.
Lindner (right) at HPLC 2013, Hobart, Tasmania with other Chairpersons: (l to r) Hopfgartner (HPLC 2015, Geneva), Buchberger and Laemmerhofer (ISC 2014, Salzburg) and (back to camera in true Chromatographic Society photograph fashion) Haddad (HPLC 2013, Hobart)
chromatography, (c) with ion exchange chromatography, (d) with affinity chromatography, (e) with HILIC, (f) with p-p type chromatography, (g) with chiral chromatography, etc. In all of these modes the role of the mobile phase was studied more explicitly in context with the troica (as I call it) in defining the physico-chemical properties of the Analyte-Stationary Phase-Mobile Phase.
A conference like the ISC 2014 Salzburg may help to bring disciplines together that were traditionally maybe less close than they should have been. Besides lectures and poster presentations dealing with the most recent scientific achievements in separation science, the program will also include Tutorials and Short Courses that provide a more didactic approach to various relevant topics. It is true that the Internet has become a source of an immense amount of useful information, unfortunately often less well structured. It is also true that nowadays webinars are offered to complement the traditional form of seminars. Nevertheless, a conference like the ISC 2014 Salzburg may serve as a possibility for ‘one-stop shopping’ where one can get all the information one has been looking for, and also the option for immediate discussion with experts (so one always can immediately get a ‘second opinion’ on a certain problem). The personal contacts are most important, and it is always an advantage to know the face behind the name of an author of a scientific publication.
In Salzburg we will try to provide a well-balanced conference programme and thus a mix of technological, methodological and application oriented aspects.
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