Pittsburgh, PA – June 13, 2013 - The Pittcon Exposition Committee is now accepting booth space reservations for Pittcon 2014, which will be held March 3-6, 2014, at McCormick Place, North America’s premier convention facility, located in Chicago, Illinois. The discounted rate of $2,300 for a standard 10′ x 10′ space is available to all exhibitors until July 15, 2013. The cost per booth after July 15, is $2,700. Those who wish to be included in the first round of booth assignments should have their agreements submitted by the end of July, as floor placements will begin August 2013.
Pittcon attracts a global audience of nearly 11,000 conferees (not including exhibitor personnel) with 2013 statistics reporting 22% of attendees were from outside the United States. The top industries represented by Pittcon attendees include education, instrument manufacturing, biotechnology, chemicals, pharmaceutical, environmental, medical/clinical/forensics, food/beverage, process manufacturing, metals/minerals, and petroleum/petrochemicals.
Pittcon offers the industry’s premier exposition for companies serving the analytical and laboratory science markets who want the most effective venue for promoting their company, products, and services to a global audience. The Midwest Super Cluster encompasses more than 15,000 biotechnology establishments, all within 400 miles of Chicago. In addition, Chicago is the second largest pharma hub in the U.S., ranks first among all U.S. metro areas for food manufacturing, and is home to seven major science and technology parks.
For more information on the exposition and to download the required forms, visit pittcon.org.
About Pittcon
Pittcon® is a registered trademark of The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, a Pennsylvania non-profit organization. Co-sponsored by the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh, Pittcon is the premier annual conference and exposition on laboratory science. Proceeds from Pittcon fund science education and outreach at all levels, kindergarten through adult. Pittcon donates more than a million dollars a year to provide financial and administrative support for various science outreach activities including science equipment grants, research grants, scholarships and internships for students, awards to teachers and professors, and grants to public science centers, libraries and museums. Visit pittcon.org for more information.
A new award for this year, the Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science, was established by the Royal Society of Chemistry for outstanding contributions to analytical science. It was awarded to Norman Dovichi for pioneering development of ultrasensitive separations, including the first separations at zepto- and yoctomole levels and capillary electrophoresis-based DNA sequencing for the human genome.
R. Michael Barnett is a senior physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is head of the 190-member international Particle Data Group and has written many research papers on the physics that may be found at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. These papers include topics such as the Standard Model, including studies of the nature of Quantum Chromodynamics, analyses of neutral current couplings, calculations of the production of heavy quarks, and studies of the properties of supersymmetric particles and higgs bosons.
Sir Harry Kroto is currently a Francis Eppes professor of Chemistry at Florida State University, where he is carrying out research in nanoscience and cluster chemistry as well as developing exciting new Internet approaches to STEM educational outreach. In 1996, he was knighted for his contributions to chemistry and later that year, was one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and holds an emeritus professorship at the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom.
Wallace H. Coulter, the benefactor of the Foundation, invented the Coulter Principle, an electronic method of counting and classifying microscopic particles suspended in fluid. This principle was incorporated by Mr. Coulter in an apparatus to count and classify blood cells, a process that was previously done manually. This apparatus, which came to be known as the “Coulter Counter” revolutionized the practice of clinical laboratory medicine. The CBC, the complete blood cell count, to this date is the most widely performed clinical diagnostic test. In fact, the Coulter Principle touches everyone’s life in some manner from having a blood test, to painting your house, from drinking beer or a glass of wine, eating a bar of chocolate, swallowing a pill or applying cosmetics. The use of the Coulter Principle modernized industry by establishing a method for quality control and standardization for the particles used in each of these products.
