Mission of DSK

In order to fulfill the objectives of our mission DSK

• Arrange meetings with chemometric subjects
• Has a permanent representative in the ICS
• Participate in arranging the biannual inter-Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics. The latest Danish hosted event was SSC7
• Participate in arranging other chemometric conferences, meetings etc.
  

Organisation of the Society
The Danish Chemometric Society is organised as a so-called Contact Committee affiliated with the Danish Society of Chemical Engineers, which is a subgroup of the Danish Society of Engineers.

Members of the Contact Committee represent companies or institutes that are active in the application of chemometrics; all of them must be members of the Danish Society of Chemical Engineers, and at least one should be a board member.

Each year a chairman and a national contact to the International Chemometric Society (ICS) have been elected:

• Chairman 1991-2001 Carsten Ridder
• Chairman 2001-2005 Claus Andersson
• Chairman 2005-2005 Lars Nørgaard
  
  
• Contact to ICS 1977-1998 Kaj Heydorn
• Contact to ICS 1998-2002 Agnar Höskuldsson
• Contact to ICS 2002-2002 Rasmus Bro

The Contact Committee meets 4 times a year, and we organize 3-4 meetings every year.

No special membership fee is required for members of the Danish Society of Chemical Engineers, but a participation fee is charged for half- or full-day meetings. In this way the Society relies on the Danish Society of Chemical Engineers only for secretarial services, such as forwarding direct mail to our list of ca. 300 members.

The 7th Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics (www.ssc7.dk) was arranged by the Danish Chemometric Society (abbreviated to 'DSK'). This symposium is the 35th arrangement that DSK has lent name to till now.

The fact, that it is possible to gather 200 people to a chemometric event in Copenhagen, confirms the trend seen in Denmark during the last decade of the past century. In the early nineties the word chemometrics was completely unknown to all but a small community of enthusiastic chemists (6-8 people). This small community, however, decided upon spreading the good news ("you CAN analyse LARGE datasets"), and on March 6, 1991 the first committee meeting in DSK was held. The minutes from this meeting reveals that three issues was discussed: the planning of the first and second conference, and a prolonged discussion on the definition of the term 'chemometrics' (this discussion will never come to an end). The figure below shows the rather large attendance to the arranged meetings.

Two professorships of chemometrics are initiated in Denmark in 2001. Presently, 50-60 students per year are given a thorough introduction to chemometrics, and there is no doubt, that this number will increase in the years to come.

Membership and participation in meetings
Memebership of DSK is only possible through a membership of the Danish Society of Chemical Engineers (K-gruppen) in The Danish Society of Engineers (IDA). Through this membership, direct-mail announcement of the meetings are received. Membership is not required though, to participate in meetings.

The meetings are announced in the papers Ingeniøren and Dansk Kemi. Participation fee is reduced for members of the Danish Society of Chemical Engineers.