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From: allemang@lia.di.epfl.ch (Dean Allemang)
Subject: Conference on Automation, Robotics and AI in Analytical Chemisty
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THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE APPLIED TO ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE

                   January 25-28, 1994
                    Pan Pacific Hotel,
                      San Diego CA

After   the success of   the two   first   editions held in  Montreux,
Switzerland, the International Conference  on Automation, Robotics and
Artificial Intelligence applied to Analytical Chemistry and Laboratory
Medicine moves to the West Coast of the US for its third edition.

Short courses will be given on January 25, the day preceding the
symposium.

Subjects of general interest will be introduced by plenary lectures
followed by brief research presentations.

Participants will have the opportunity to attend selected lectures
related to their field of interest and participate in discussion
sessions.

An exhibition and a poster presentation will be held in a room
adjacent to the conference room.  Instruments and applications will be
displayed by manufacturers and users.

Scientific Committee:

   Chairs

R. A. Felder
University of Virginia, Dept. of Pathology

J. van der Greef
TNO and University of Leiden

  Committee:

D. Herold  UCSD
G. W. Kramer NIST, MD USA
D. L. Massart VUB Belgium
R. D. McDowall, University of Surrey
C. Mordini Rhone-Poulenc, Courbevoie/Paris


Scientific Program

Strategies in Robotic Method Development and Applications
- Robotics in the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries, and
  clinical laboratories
- Nanotechnology for Clinical and Analytical Labs

Applications
- Automation in Drug Discovery and Receptor Assays
- Microplate-based Applications
- Automation in Protein DNA Sequencing, HPCE and General Chemistry
- Automation of the pre-analytical phase of laboratory medicine

Artificial Intelligence
- Advanced scheduling programs
- Expert systems and robotics: use in pharmaceutical analysis and
  environmental data assessment
- Chemometrics
- Experimental design
- Pattern recognition of spectroscopic data
- Neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms

Quality control and Validation of applications
- Quality control in clinical and food chemistry, pharmaceutical
  industry, environmental analysis and biotechnology
- LIMS


Organization and Information

Europe                             USA

SCITEC				   SCITEC
Av. de Provence 20		   Suite 105, Barksdale Road
CH-1000 Lausanne 20		   Newark, DE 19711
Switzerland			   USA
Phone: +41 21 624 15 33		   Phone: (302) 737 3045
Fax: +41 21 624 15 49              Fax: (302) 454 1098

Exhibition

An instrument exhibition will be held in the exhibition hall adjacent
to the main conference room.  New products will be presented by
manufacturers and system integrators.

Working applications will be displayed.

Furthermore, the Exhibition Hall will provide a forum where laboratory
automation companies and laboratory robot specialists will have the
opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences with newcomers to the
field.

Sponsors:

Abbot Laboratories
Boehringer Mannheim
CIBA Corning
DuPont Medical Products
Eastman Kodak

Short Courses:

LIMS in the Organization
R. D. McDowell, University of Surrey, UK

Adaptive Fuzzy Systems
F. Watkins
Hyperlogic Corporation,
Escondido CA

Multivariate Analysis
B. R. Kowalski
University of Washington

Nanotechnology: Its impact on Microminiature Analysis
N. De Rooij
Institut de Microtechnique
Neuchatel, Switzerland

Neural Networks Hands-on Computer Workshop
M. Caudill UCSD

Laboratory Robotics in Today's Laboratory
S. Hamilton, Landenberg PA, and
G. W. Kramer, NIST

Introduction to Clinical Laboratory Robotics
R. Felder, J. C. Boyd and J. Savory, University of Virginia

For a complete program of the three-day symposium itself, please write
to one of the addresses above.

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Dean Allemang
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Lausanne
allemang@lia.di.epfl.ch