CPAC Webinars

Research Highlights and Updates

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CPAC Webinars will be offered between our regularly scheduled Sponsor Meetings to provide CPAC Research Project updates, introductions to upcoming meeting tutorials, and as a forum for discussions about our CPAC Initiatives and Platforms.

These non-proprietary, free events will be open to all participants with electronic and live interaction encouraged during the webinar.

RECENT WEBINAR:  February 18, 2009, 8:30 (PDT) - BROADER IMPACTS OF RECENT TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS (A Preview of the CPAC Spring Meeting Tutorial).  A look at Real-Time Measurements for areas of Food Quality Assessment, Discovery Stage Analysis, and Process Monitoring in this introduction to advances in NMR, GC with Chemometrics, Raman, and Vapochromic Sensors.
Presentations are available here:  Mel Koch, CPAC, Brian Marquardt, Applied Physics Laboratory, Michael McCarthy, UC Davis, and Rob Synovec, CPAC.

Our first webinar was held on September 25, 2008 - Chemometric Peak Alignment Tools.  The webinar was hosted by the Boeing Company (CPAC Sponsor) and co-presented by Mel Koch, CPAC Executive Director, Carl Rechsteiner, Chevron (CPAC Sponsor), Brian Rohrback, InfoMetrix Inc. (CPAC Associate Sponsor), and Rob Synovec, CPAC Faculty Director.  The slides shown during the webinar can be viewed at the following site.  Supplementary material is also provided for further information on the subject.

Chemometric Peak Alignment Tools - September 25, 2008 Webinar Presentation

Chemometrics and Robust Gas Chromatography as Applied to Petroleum Refinery Operation, Chevron and InfoMetrix, Inc.

An Iterative Block-Shifting Approach to Retention Time Alignment that Preserves the Shape and Area of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Peaks, Chae M, Reis RJ, Thaden JJ: BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9 Suppl 9:S15.