Book excerpt: The Symposium ranges from the development of the separation technique to the future of analytical chemistry. The presentations in this proceedings volume are grouped into one lecture session and ten discussion sessions: Chemometrics & Computational Chemistry in Separation Science; Diagnosis by Clinical Trace Analysis (Biomedical Analysis, Drug Metabolism); Development of Packing Materials and Capillary Columns; Analytical Methods in Biotechnology, Carbohydrate Chemistry, Protein and Peptide Chemistry, Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Lipid Chemistry; Electromigration Methods and Applications; Answering Questions of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Environmental Analysis, Food Analysis and Industrial Analysis; Chemistry of Stationery Phase; Development of Analytical Methods Based on Molecular Recognition; Optimization of Separation; and Advances in Instruments.