The 15th Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis (BCEIA 2013) was held on 23-26 October 2013 at Hotel Nikko New Century
Beijing and its exhibition at Beijing Exhibition Center.
BCEIA was sponsored by the China Association for Instrumental Analysis (CAIA) and supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China. This has been a biennial international event in China since 1985 and it has the aim to promote academic exchanges among scientists of various countries and regions as well as trade cooperation between the Chinese and foreign partners in this field. It has been the largest and most influential international conference and exhibition on instrumental analysis ever held in China.
The theme of BCEIA 2013 was “Analytical Science Create Future“, which included a plenary session, separate sub-sessions of 7 fields and workshops of 5 fields. More than 600 of scientists from
16 different countries participated in the conference. The plenary session featured specially invited lectures by 13 internationally prominent scientists, including Prof. Holger Hintelmann (Trent University), Prof. R. Graham Cooks (Purdue University), Prof. Jonathan V. Sweedler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Prof. Yoshinobu BABA (Nagoya University), Prof. Andrew Ewing (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg), Prof. John P. Nolan (La Jolla Bioengineering Institute), Prof. Anne L. Plant (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Prof. Xianen Zhang (Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China), Prof. Rima Kaddurah-Daouk (Duke University Medical Center), Prof. Richard L. Mccreery (University of Alberta), Prof. Daniel T. Chiu (University of Washington), Prof. Lyndon Emsley (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon) and Dr. Peter Becker (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt). In the separate sub-sessions and workshops, 149 speakers were invited to present their research and more than 500 posters were displayed.
The optical spectroscopy session was organized by Prof. Jin-Ming Lin from Tsinghua University. The session was mainly devoted to recent developments on fluorescence analysis, atomic spectrum, chemiluminescence, biological imaging, microfluidic and new analytical instruments. There were 14 keynote speakers, 22 invited speakers, 4 oral presentations and 69 posters presented. The outstanding poster awards were conferred at the end of the session on 25 October. Prof. Jin-Ming Lin and Prof. Jonathan V. Sweedler gave the awards certifications for 7 winners.
This conference has provided an opportunity for the academic exchange as well as the exhibition of analytical instruments and will further promote the development of analytical chemistry in China.
