The five-day meeting, one of the longest on the U.S. convention calendar, will feature seminars and symposia on themes ranging from drug testing and cholesterol counts to scanning tunneling microscopes and artificial intelligence in analytical chemistry.
In addition, more than 800 companies will display products and equipment in the show’s exhibit area. And this year, for the first time, Pittcon will feature outreach to the local community. A New Orleans Science Week will present a series of events aimed at publicizing science for local science teachers and students.
Major highlights of the technical papers include two Monday morning symposia, on alternatives in atomic spectroscopy and analysis of high Tc superconductor oxides.
Those two subjects indicate Pittcon’s growing importance and appeal to a broad range of chemists and specialists in related subjects. Twenty years ago, “the technical papers weren’t too exciting for fundamental scientists,” recalled Henry Blount, program director for analytical ...
