Introductory 2-days course in the chemometric subjects will be held immediately before the Symposium. Course language is Russian. All participants will receive Camo's book "Multivariate Data Analysis in Practice", written by Kim Esbensen in short translation edited by Oxana Ye. Rodionova."

Conference meetings will be held in the conference hall in the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics. The official conference language is English.

The conference program includes lectures of the following invited speakers:

• Kim Esbensen (Alborg University, Denmark)
• Lev Gribov (GEOKHI RAS, Russia)
• Agnar Höskuldsson (Danish Technical University, Denmark)
• Alexey Pomerantsev (ICP RAS, Russia)
• Vladimir Razumov (IPCP RAS, Russia)
• Oxana Rodionova (ICP RAS, Russia)
• Roma Tauler (CSIC, Spain)
• Kurt Varmuza (Vienna Technical University, Austria)

All attendees will have the opportunity to present oral contribution. The time for presentation is 30 minutes including questions and discussion.

Posters contributions may be put up on the first day of the conference. The official time for discussion is February, 17, just before the conference dinner.