One registration is required for each attendee.  Prepayment is required to confirm your registration. A credit card number, a check, or a printed government training form is required to process your registration. You may charge your registration fee on VISA, MasterCard, or American Express.
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This lecture-style training course supplies skills for modern analysis of macromolecules molar mass and property distributions, using gel permeation chromatography (GPC), a.k.a. size exclusion chromatography (SEC).

The 4-hour program offers the fundamental aspects of the GPC/SEC separation technique, with a balanced view of both, the advantages and limitations of GPC/SEC (stand-alone or hyphenated with light scattering, viscometry, and other techniques).  See Table of contents and/or  take survey
 Key Topics

  • Key Concepts in Polymer Synthesis and Liquid Chromatography techniques (GPC/SEC/HPLC)
  • Fundamentals of GPC, separation mechanism, objectives
  • Experimental set-up parameters; Modern GPC Column Trends, Column Selection
  • Best Practice in GPC Method Development Instrument qualifications
  • Calibration methods; How to be more successful and productive in GPC
  • Novel Approaches in Copolymer analysis, multidetection and coupling with hyphenated techniques


How you will benefit from this course

  • It equips you to produce and analyze data; to qualify the condition of the analytical system and separation columns; to optimize the application conditions and the work flow in the lab.
  • You will receive practical advice to get reproducible and accurate separations.
  • Learn tricks of the trade to enhance your systems precision and sensitivity, as well as troubleshooting strategies
  • The webcast offering provides  a new way to learn from the convenience of your home, office, or lab.  Without the added expense of travel, you can take advantage of top-quality continuing education without completely draining your budget.


Who should attend

This course is designed for analysts, managers and researchers who currently use GPC in a laboratory This entry level course focuses on providing and improving their overall skills set.  It is most useful when you have at least some hands-on GPC experience.


Webcast (899-00WEB)

Participants can attend the online sessions from home, work, or the lab; anywhere with a computer with internet access and a phone that can call a toll-free number, without the need to travel

In each scheduled session, participants view live class presentations over the internet. They interact with the instructor and their classmates and listen to the lecture over a secure conference call.


  • Courses take place over a period of 1 or 2 weeks to allow you the time to apply new concepts and really absorb the information.  
  • The course will meet online for three webcast sessions from 12:30  to 2:30 p.m pm Eastern Time (9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time).
  • QA periods are scheduled at the begining and end of  the second and third weeks. The breaks between sessions are designed ensure a good understanding of key topics; you have time between sessions to review what you’ve learned and come back to class with your burning questions to the QA before the second and third session.
  • A secure customized web page provides links to all the class materials like lecture slides and supplemental materials.
  • System Requirements
    You need a high-speed connection to the Internet and an up-to-date version of your Web browser (Internet explorer is preferred). For the audio portion of the live session, we will use a telephone conference call for attendees from the U.S. and Canada. You will need a phone near your computer capable of making long distance phone calls to a 1-800 number. A hands-free or speaker phone is highly recommended.



Contacting Us

Polymer Standards Service-USA
Amherst Fields Research Park
160 Old Farm Rd, Suite A
Amherst, MA 01002
PHONE: (413) 835-0265
FAX: (413) 835-0354

E-mail us: info@pssgpcshop.com.


Cancellation Policy

If you have registered but cannot attend for any reason, call us right away. To receive a refund or a discount, you must call us at least five business days before the start of the course. Or, you can appoint an alternate attendee up to the last minute. Sometimes, we need to cancel a course because of instructor illness or low enrollment. Registrants of courses that have been cancelled will be notified as soon as the decision has been made.
Webcast participation policy
Multiple people may not participate in a webcast with a single registration. Violation of this policy will result in removal from the course without refund.