Blasphemy! Pittcon is all; Pittcon is mother; Pittcon is father.
No, seriously, it really covers absolutely everything analytical. There may not be as much as there is on, say, liquid chromatography, but NMR is well-represented. Go here, click on Search, select Keyword and type in NMR and see. (I tried to link the search results for you, but that's just not how the thing works.) Plus if you're teaching... It's insanely cheap as conferences go (the vendor exhibitors effectively subsidize the technical program), and having a couple of "hot topics in the news" can give your curriculum a hook to keep your students excited.
Anyway, I have ended up as an HPLC specialist (including LCMS, although not in my current gig). (Hmm, maybe Pittcon is mother and Waters is father...) I'm working for a horticultural company, doing pigment analysis in flower petals. A lot of it is I-can't-tell-you-till-the-patent-publishes, and the rest is mostly I-don't-discuss-details-of-my-employment-in-public-postings. I'm surrounded by biologists and have learned boatloads of fascinating botany and biochemistry, but occasionally miss being surrounded by people who speak chemistry. |
