The Exploratory Measurement Science Group (EMSG) is an independent scientific society that originally grew out of the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Chemistry under the leadership of Dr Pat Langridge-Smith.
Over the past 20 years, the EMSG has turned into an international society comprising a growing network of scientists and researchers, who are interested in the development and applications of advanced analytical instrumentation. The society’s aim is to encourage cross-discipline interaction and innovative problem solving between the users and developers of analytical instrumentation. Every society member is encouraged to help enlarge the network by introducing new people who can bring new expertise and perspectives to bare, and so foster exciting collaborations or cross-fertilisation of ideas between scientists of different disciplines who might not otherwise meet.
The Ardgour Symposium is one of the tools used to advance the society’s aim by bringing together invited advanced instrumentation developers and users from a wide variety of fields, both in and outside the existing EMSG, to promote innovation, problem sharing and networking in the field of analytical instrumentation.
Any field of science is of interest providing it can bring some influence to bare on exploratory measurement science and the development and applications of improved analytical instrumentation: including separation science, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, computation, data science, transduction, electronics and systems engineering.
