Q1 2010 / Eastern Analytical Symposium ’09

As scheduled, the Eastern Analytical Symposium held its 48^th Annual meeting at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset, New Jersey from November 16^th to 19^th. The theme for this meeting was “Analysis: Big and Small.”

There were 729 exhibitor personnel manning the 180 booths this year, a reduction of about 12 percent from last year, continuing the trend for exhibiting companies sending less people to trade shows. Total non-exhibit attendance was at 2,464 people with over 75 percent of them going as full conferees so that they could not only view the exhibits but have full access to all the activities, including papers, sessions, poster sessions and short courses.

Five seminars of mostly 5-hour length were presented, along with three full two day courses and six one day courses on topics related to chromatography and analysis techniques. The instructors were mostly Ph.D.’s from industry and university staffs. There were 623 papers and posters presented during the four days of the show, with about 140 of them in the Poster Sessions during the first three days.

Air Liquide presented a paper on “The Role of Carrier Gases for Chromatographic Analysis of Petrochemical Samples” and other papers were presented by companies such as Agilent, Horiba, Restek, Supelco, Perkin Elmer, O.I. Analytical, Thermo Scientific, and Shimadzu.

We still wonder why more gas companies do not present papers as we feel this is how to draw attendees to one’s booth.

Next running of the EAS show will be again at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset, New Jersey from November 15^th to 18^th, 2010. We hope to see you there at our booth. For more information about the symposium, go to www.eas.org

On the right is a list of booths that were at the show that should be of interest to our readers.