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Keynote speakers for the conference have been announced!

• Dr. Guillermo Hough (Argentina)
• • "Survival analysis and sensory shelf life: overview and recent developments"
• Ricardo Mansilla (Mexico)
• • "Methods for analyzing information from social media. Case studies"
• Tormod Næs (Norway)
• • "Analysing individual differences in sensory science: Why and how?"

Tutorial Day is always one of the highlights of Sensometrics meetings, and provides attendees a chance to learn about current topics in sensometrics for a low enrollment fee. Once more there is an excellent line up of tutorials:
Morning session (9:00 – 12:30)

1. Ideal Profile Method - Thierry Worch
2. Equivalence testing - Michael Meyners
3. Introduction to Bayesian Methods for Sensory & Consumer data – Anne Hasted
4. Preference mapping and conjoint analysis in ConsumerCheck software - Tormod Næs

Afternoon session (14:00-17:30)

1. The analysis of sensory profiling data revisited by scaling. Univariate and multivariate implications on panel performances and product differences - Pascal Schlich
2. Temporal sensory methods: study design & data analysis – Michael Meyners & John Castura
3. Insights on Product Opimization – Thierry Worch

Tutorial proposals are invited for the upcoming Sensometrics Tutorial Day, to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay on April 9th, 2018, just in advance of the full meeting.

We anticipate sufficient interest to justify holding morning and afternoon tutorials. The tutorial duration will be approximately 3 hours (including a 20-minute break).

Examples of past tutorial abstracts can be found on the Sensometrics 2014 web site; see:

http://www.pk-research.com/sensometrics2014/tutorials.htm

Thanks!

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague, Pieter Punter. Pieter was a founding member of the Sensometric Society, and co-owner and research director of OP&P in the Netherlands. He has been active in the field of sensory consumer research since the 1980s, and always an enthusiastic and thought-provoking participant at scientific meetings. Many of us have fond memories of Pieter, and he will be sadly missed. A condolence registry is available should you wish to leave a message:  https://www.memori.nl/gedenkplaats/pieter-punter/

The Sensometric Society held its annual general meeting on 27 July 2016 in Brighton, UK.

Minutes from the AGM are now available online. (Your member login may be required.)

As noted in the meeting notes, the society welcomes proposals for hosting Sensometrics 2020.

Please contact me if you have any comments or questions regarding either the minutes or a potential proposal.

Thanks, John

We would like to remind on the submission deadline for the special issue of Food Quality and Preference - October 1st, 2016.

All oral and poster presenters are invited to submit a paper corresponding to their presentation. All submissions will go through the regular review process. Note that Food Quality and Preference has seen a substantial increase in its impact factor to 3.688 in 2015. We are confident that the high quality work you submitted to the conference will make a good fit to the journal.

Please refer to the PDF (link below) for details on submission and, importantly, on how to select the article type such that the paper will move into the special issue.

FQAP_Submission instructions for Authors.pdf

Please let any of the guest editors know in case of questions.

We look forward to your submissions,

Barbara & Thierry (Co-chairs, Scientific Committee)

Hal & Michael (Special issue guest editors)

Are you interested and willing to host the 15th Sensometrics Meeting in 2020?
 
The deadline to submit a proposal is January 15, 2017.
 
Proposals should contain:
- conference chair(s) and local organizing committee
- proposed conference dates (in 2020)
- venue or venue choices
- expected room rates
- expected travel routes for registrants
- draft budget
 
Please submit the proposal in a PDF attachment to an email addressed to John Castura, Chair, Sensometric Society.

We were saddened to hear of the death of our friend and colleague André Arbogast, who passed away suddenly on August 18, 2016 at the age of 56. André was a very active and respected member of the sensory community and a long-time member and supporter of the Sensometric Society. He was well known especially to Fizz software users, and he helped to establish connections between different teams in France and worldwide. The European Sensory Society (E3S) has organized the collection of tributes in remembrance; please visit www.e3sensory.eu for details.

For the first time, the Sensometric Society organized tutorials at the EuroSense symposium, held in Dijon, France, on September 11, 2016. We are very pleased that 89 participants registered for the tutorials, which exceeded our expectations quite a bit. Many thanks to the 8 presenters involved in the 5 different tutorials, and to our colleagues from Elsevier for the great cooperation in organizing these. 

Michael

The presentations and posters of the Sensometrics-by-the-Sea conference 2016 have been uploaded.

Follow the links in the Program 2016 on the Meetings site to access the content.

In case of difficulties, please contact

webadmin@sensometric.org