{"id":4055,"date":"2016-04-06T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T14:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/easinc.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=4055"},"modified":"2016-04-19T15:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:39:23","slug":"method-development-olympics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/method-development-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Method Development Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmoscience.org\/blog\/method-development-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4065\" alt=\"EAS_CoSMoS_2016_web_banner_smaller\" src=\"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EAS_CoSMoS_2016_web_banner_smaller-150x50.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><b style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.6em;\">Method Development Olympics featured session sponsored by\u00a0<br class=\"none\" \/><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><b style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.6em;\">The Society for Small Molecule Science (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmoscience.org\/blog\/method-development-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">CoSMoS<\/a>)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Are you interested in a challenge?\u00a0 Would you enjoy designing experiments and competing against other state of the art laboratories developing an analytical method to characterize an unknown sample?\u00a0 If so, the EAS\/CoSMoS Method Development Olympics (MDO) 2016 is the challenge for you!\u00a0 Judges will evaluate results based on accuracy and amount of ancillary information discovered as well as the creativity of the method development approach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For an inside look please <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/jA1VjX\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click on this link<\/span><\/a> to read a review of the 2015 event (How to Tackle an Unknown: Notes from the Fourth Method Development Olympics at CoSMoS)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>How does it work?<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmoscience.org\/blog\/method-development-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click on here<\/a>\u00a0and, using the submission form, notify the organizing committee of your interest in participating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Participants will be provided a sample, defined objectives for the analytical challenge, as well as criteria to guide the method development process. Based on the submitted solutions, three finalists\u2019 methods will be selected by the EAS\/CoSMoS MDO organizing committee for presentation based on creativity, uniqueness and accuracy of the approach. The top 3 finalists will be invited to present their work at EAS which takes place in Somerset, NJ, Nov. 14-16, 2016. The audience will vote to determine who is awarded the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medals and associated honoraria.<\/p>\n<p><b>Submission and Key Dates:<br \/>\n<\/b>Sign up for participation April 1 \u2013 Deadline June 1<br \/>\nSamples sent to participants &#8211; August 1<br \/>\nMethod results due to Committee for Finalist Selection \u2013 Oct 1<br \/>\nFinalists selected &#8211; Oct 15<\/p>\n<p>Contact for questions: <a href=\"mailto:michael.balogh@cosmoscience.org\" target=\"_blank\">info@CoSMoScience.org<\/a><a href=\"michael.balogh@cosmoscience.org\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finalists&#8217; presentations will be on the first day of EAS in Somerset, NJ, Monday Nov. 14 with medals awarded at the mixer event on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Method Development Olympics featured session sponsored by\u00a0The Society for Small Molecule Science (CoSMoS) Are you interested in a challenge?\u00a0 Would you enjoy designing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4055","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4055\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eas.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}