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."

The official conference language is English. The conference program includes lectures of the following invited speakers:

• Kim Esbensen (Alborg University, Denmark)
• Paul Geladi (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea, Sweden)
• Pentti Minkkinen (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland)
• Alexey Pomerantsev (ICP)
• Vladimir Razumov (IPCP RAS)
• Oxana Rodionova (RCS)
• Roma Tauler (CSIC, Spain)

All attendees will have the opportunity to present oral contribution. The time for presentation is 20 minutes including questions and discussion. All papers presented at the WSC-5 Symposium will be considered for publication in the Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems after the usual process of peer review. The Scientific Committee intend to edit a Special Issue of this journal in case of the authorization of the Editorial Board

Posters contributions may be put up on the first day of the conference. The official time for discussion is February 21.