March 22, 2020

The Twelfth Winter Symposium on Chemometrics took place at the recreation center Volzhskie Dali in suburbs of Saratov, Russia. About 50 scientists contributed to the scientific part of the symposium with 5 lectures, 29 oral and 18 poster presentations. Pre-conference activities included the traditional weekend school on Chemometrics for Russian speaking scientists and students, which took place in Saratov State University.

As usual, selected presentations and their authors have been awarded with valuable prizes. The first prize for the best poster presentation took Pavel Pidenko (Russia). He was awarded with free participation in International School of Chemometrics ISC-2020. The second (Skvortsov Alexej) and third (Ashina Julia) prizes have been awarded with books and useful IT-equipment.

The prize for best presentation given by a young chemometrician was given to Victor Hugo Ferreira (Brazil). He received a voucher for free participating in CAC 2020 from the CAC organising committee.