ISOCS advances the research and application of olfaction and chemical sensing.

Short Course Breath Analysis 2013 and LCaos Workshop

14 June 2013 - Saarbrücken/Wallerfangen, Germany

This short course is organized jointly with the LCAOS Workshop on Lung Cancer Detection with Sensor Arrays and run in conjunction with the Breath Analysis Summit 2013.

The Short Course explores chemical sensors in breath analysis provides and covers knowledge on chemical sensors, data analsis and breath analysis for lung cancer detection as well as established medical practices for lung cancer detection.
The main objective is to give an overview of the available technologies and current research with a focus on practical applicability and real life problems.
The short course is ideal for medical scientists, clinicians and industrialists who want to get a head start on chemical sensors in breath analysis, and for researchers and engineers who want to use their technology in lung cancer breath analysis.

Programme: isocs_short_course_breath_analysis_2013.pdf

Regsitration is now open. Click here to register!

Date: 
Friday, June 14, 2013 (All day)

ISOCS News: January 2013

ISOEN 2013 Venue

 

Editorial

Happy New Year 2013!  This year ISOCS will be running a major society event. For the first time in the ISOEN Series of Symposia, the 15th International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose will be held in Asia. This is a direct consequence of the large increase of activities related to artificial olfaction, and chemical sensing in general, in Asia. The volume and quality of the work being done in this region of the world is shifting the centre from traditional western countries to Asia. This is a unique opportunity to see  the latest developments in device and systems technologies in this part of the world.  Korea was selected in close competiton with India to organize this special edition of ISOEN. Daegu, in the south-eastern part of the Korea peninsula is the chosen location to run ISOEN, 2-5 July 2013. Daegu, the birthplace of SAMSUMG is a medium size city (2.5 million) with continental climate. ISOEN will be run in EXCO, the Daegu Exhibiton and Convention Center (illustration)

ISOCS Short Course Winter 2013

Biosensors and Biomimetics: Inspired by Nature

15-20 March 2013 - Kühtai, Austria

The ISOCS Short Course Winter 2013 will be held in Kühtai, the highest ski resort in Austria just 30km west of Innsbruck.

The Short Course will cover fundamental concepts of biomimetics with a special focus on biosensors and their applications. An introduction to science of adapting designs from nature to solve technological problems will be supported with number of case studies including applications in olfactory biosensing, environmental monitoring, health care and robotics.

Registration is closed!

Date: 
Friday, March 15, 2013 - 10:00 - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 12:00

AISEM 2013 Conference

The AISEM 2013 Conference will be held in Brescia University and CNR Campus, on February 5-7, 2013.
The purpose of the AISEM conferences is to bring together researchers from academia, research institutes and industry involved in:
• sensors and actuators;
• materials and process technologies;
• control, data acquisition and signal conditioning;
• technical data processing and pattern recognition;
• microsystems, micromachines and innovative applications.
Date: 
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 (All day) - Thursday, February 7, 2013 (All day)

Breath Analysis Summit 2013

9 - 12 June 2013 - Saarbrücken/Wallerfangen, Germany

This summit is jointly organized by the International Association for Breath Research (IABR), Technical University Dortmund and Saarland University Medical Center and Saarland University Faculty of Medicine (UKS).
Date: 
Sunday, June 9, 2013 (All day) - Wednesday, June 12, 2013 (All day)

Nanosensor Technologies for Monitoring - materials and methods

Conference with Posters and Exhibition organised by the Automation and Analytical Management Group - Royal Society of Chemistry

This is the fourth annual AAMG conference on monitoring and analysis using sensor technologies. The conference follows the same format as in preceding years with presentations by invited speakers; however, the majority of papers and posters are presented by young researchers.

Date: 
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 09:15 - 17:00

Improving the Robustness of Artificial Olfaction Systems by Multivariate Signal Processing

Authors: 
Marta Padilla
Publication date: 
07/27/2010
Information about the environment is essential for the survival of every living being, since it determines the way to react with respect to external inputs. In the case of humans, this information is collected through the five senses; sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Sight, hearing and smell senses are considered specially interesting because of their ability to get external information without direct interaction with the sources. Sight is probably the most developed sense in humans, followed closely by hearing.

DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPACT NDIR SPECTROMETER BASED ON MOEMS COMPONENTS FOR FRUIT RIPENING MONITORING.

Authors: 
Jordi Fonollosa
Publication date: 
06/01/2009
In today’s store-houses the ripening of fruit is controlled by managing the ethylene concentration in the ambient atmosphere. Precise and continuous ethylene monitoring is very advantageous since low ethylene concentrations are produced by the fruit itself and are indicative of its ripeness, and on other occasions, ethylene is externally added when ripeness or degreening of the product must be promoted.

Smelling by Ion Mobility minispectrometer provides fast determination of wine origin

Wine fraud is a growing problem, with experts estimating that up to 10% of the wines offered to consumers in some European countries are of a lesser quality than the label claims. It’s an issue that affects everyone from expert collectors to average consumers, and is such a concern in some countries that drastic measures have been taken: the Italian Carabinieri Corps, for instance, has educated 25 of their officers as sommeliers. 

This only addresses part of the problem, though. Wine fraud is difficult to detect because of a variety of considerations: the sheer time it takes to train a wine ‘nose’, for example, coupled with the challenge of ensuring these ‘noses’ are in the right place at the right time – not to mention the fact that even top sommeliers aren’t foolproof when it comes to detailed identification. Now though, in collaboration with the University of Córdoba, IBEC researchers have made steps towards combating the problem with their development of a reliable, cheap and quick detector to classify white wines according to their Certified Brands of Origin that could be used in variety of environments.   

Smart Chemical Sensors: Concepts and Applications

Authors: 
Sergi Udina
Publication date: 
07/13/2012
This thesis presents a new concept for a natural gas analyzer using temperature modulated thermal conductivity sensors. In addition, it proposes an smart architecture combining several international standards.
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