The University of Silesia was founded in June 1968 as the ninth state university in Poland. Its precursors were the Katowice Higer School of Pedagogy, established in 1928 and the branch of the Jagiellonian University, which was established as the Upper Silesian in 1963.

The University employs nearly two thousand research workers and educates about 42 thousand students enrolled in full-time, part-time, evening courses and postgraduate studies as well as approximately one thousand doctoral degree students. It runs 34 courses, all in European Credit Transfer System which are being constantly adjusted to the changing needs of the market, moreover it establishes new faculties, fields and specialisations, including such unique courses as econophysics. University of Silesia actively cooperates with companies and institutions of the region running research, scientific, educational and cultural activity.

Expertise in traceability

Chemometric analysis of multivariate food data.

Activities in TRACE project

• Deciding on a house style and input format that will be common to all algorithms.
• Making programs based on multivariate outlier tests operational for discrimination / verification purposes, and investigating the utility of methods for pretreatment of data.
• Scientific liaison between the different chemometric centre and the statistical experts in the food analysis group.
• Organisation of a workshop for the non-statistician partners within the project to explain the techniques that are or will be available

Project team

Contact

Beata Walczak

USI
Department of Chemometrics
12 Bankowa Street
PL- 40-007 Katowice
Poland

Tel : +48 323591246
Fax : +48 322599978

Email : Beata Walczak
Web site : http://www.us.edu.pl

Staff

WP6 : Beata Walczak, Krzysztof Kaczmarek