On Friday, Aug 30, 2013, the introductory meeting for first-year AMS students was held. Sergei Jurtšenko gave overview of the AMS programme, timetable of autumn semester 2013 and some practical aspects of studying in Tartu. The PDF file of this…
Amer Jamil Aref Al-Malahmeh from Jordan successfully defended his master thesis on January 15, 2013. The title of the thesis was “Methodological development and validation of Sample treatment and Source preparation procedures and Liquid Scintillation counting measurements for Determination of…
On 31.08.2012 the introductory meeting for first-year AMS students was held. Sergei Jurtšenko gave overview of the AMS programme, timetable of autumn semester 2012 and some practical aspects of living and studying in Tartu. The PDF file of this presentation…
Alda Andersone from Latvia defended her master thesis on June 11, 2012. The title of the thesis was “The stereoselective synthesis of 2,2,5-trisubstituted tetrahydrofurans, oriented to the preparation of lilac aldehydes and alcohols”. The thesis was awarded the highest mark…
Hanno Evard defended his master thesis on June 11, 2012. The title of the thesis was “Study of paperspray ionization and its possible applications”. The thesis was awarded the highest mark “A”. Hanno talks about the thesis: “My master thesis…
Seven AMS master’s candidates successfully defended their theses on June 11, 2012. Congratulations! The PDF files of all the theses are available for download from here. (See at the end of the list: Hanno Evard, Karlis Andersons, Alda Andersone, Eyüp…
text by: Iuliia Demchuk Portugal… You will hardly find a person who doesn’t like it! This country is charming and most probably you will fall in love with it from the very first sight. Like it happened to me .…
Antonio Semakalu from Uganda defended his master thesis on February 28, 2012. The title of the thesis was “Gammmaspectrometrical Measurement of Radium Content in Water – Validation of Analysis Procedure”. The thesis is remarkable not only because it was awarded…
(text by John C Blackburn) Tartu is a different town in the summer. The days long and the streets quiet, Tartu is a student’s town, and is exciting when the students are in town. Its charm lies in its youthful…
For elimination of the disadvantages of the traditional procedure of smoking of fish and meat the so-called liquid smoke has been developed. Some steps during the production of liquid smoke reduce the PAH concentration in liquid smoke and in the…
On 26.08.2011 the introductory meeting for first-year AMS students was held. Ivo Leito gave overview of the AMS programme, timetable of autumn semester 2011 and some practical aspects of living and studying in Tartu. The PDF file of this presentation…
Last week (on July 22, 2011) the closing ceremony of the MSC Summer School 2011 took place in Poznań (Poland). Results of the learning evaluation and student game were presented and certificates were awarded to the participants. The next MSC…
On Monday, July 11, 2011 the fourth Measurement Science in Chemistry International Summer School started in a west-central city of Poland in Poznań. There are students from fourteen countries. The summer school covers a wide-ranging list of topics: Importance of…
In roughly one month – on Sunday Jul 10 – the 2011 Summer School of the Measurement Science in Chemistry consortium will start. This is already the fourth of its kind and is this time organized by University of Warsaw…
Two AMS students will defend their master’s theses on June 8, 2011 at 10.15 a.m. (Tartu, Ravila Street, 14A, room 1021). The topics of the theses are related to testing of electrical power sources (Martynas Pelakauskas – ESTCube-1 Satellite Electrical…
Modern technologies allow very accurate measurements of atomic weights and isotope ratios of elements. This is of high importance in solving research problems in others fields. For example, accurate measurement of isotope ratios of carbon in the sample can be…
Unfortunately, it is not rare that during preparation of food substances with cancerogenic and/or mutagen activity are unwillingly introduced into food. A typical representatives of this group of dangerous substances are N-nitrosamines (NAs) which are found in various meat products.…
The light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device, which converts electric current into visible radiation, i.e. visible light. LEDs were discovered by accident in 1907, but no practical use was made of the discovery for several decades. Now they can…
LC-MS (Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry) with ESI (electrospray) ion source (LC-ESI-MS) enjoys ever increasing popularity as a powerful and versatile analytical tool. It has become the number one technique for a large number of different analytical tasks, ranging form pesticide…
Smoking as a way of preparation of fish and meat has been known to the humankind since the Stone Age. Smoking represents set of the chemical, thermal, diffusive and biochemical processes proceeding in preliminary salted product. Smoked fish contains compounds…
On 28.03.2011 Ivo Leito gave talk “ATR-FT-IR spectroscopy in the region of 550-230 cm-1 for identification of inorganic pigments” at the the 241th ACS National Meeting, Spring 2011 in Anaheim (CA). The presentation describes an analytical method for recording ATR-FT-IR…
On a seminar on measurement quality in the framework of the conference ChemBio Finland 2011 a presentation “Metrology in Chemistry – from pipette to mass spectrometry, from National Metrology Institute to student lab” was given by Ivo Leito. The presentation…
In the process of development and perfection of measurement technologies it became clear that all standards are not ideal. At measurement standards of the basic units it is necessary to take not man-made objects but much more perfect samples already…
Beer is the world’s most widely consumed and probably the oldest of alcoholic beverages; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. What is beer? Simply put, beer is a fermented, hop flavored, malt sugared, liquid.…