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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span
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New Poster Section for PLS ’12
(Partial Least Squares and Related Methods) Conference (May 19<sup>th</sup>
thru 22, 2012) is open.</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There
is still more than a month
left for people interested in submitting - abstracts due on February 20<sup>th</sup>.</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
PLS ’12 –conference will be held
in Houston. </span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Free
special one day workshop will
be available for doctoral and other graduate students covering PLS and
a new
technique - correlated component regression.</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This
is the first time this
interdisciplinary conference is held in the US - where both experts
and
applied researchers from both science and social science can meet and
discuss
the application of partial least squares and related methods.</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We
are pleased to have Svante Wold –
credited for starting the field and coining the term “chemometrics” to
provide
both a retrospective and prospective talk of the discipline.</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For
more details, go to : <a href="http://www.plsconference.com"><span
style="color: blue;">http://www.plsconference.com</span></a></span></b><span
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