Tom Laue · Tuesday, 25 August 2026, 16:45 – 18:45 · Session 8
Room 101260 – Online via ZOOM
We will assume that you are part of a facility where you are responsible for acquiring, analyzing and interpreting AUC data. This means that you will encounter a wide variety of materials and a range of questions (and perhaps some interesting characters). It will be emphasized that AUC never lies. You or your client may not like the results, but whatever other data they have must be interpreted in light of what the AUC is telling you. We will review how to design the acquisition and analysis protocol: which components to use, what rotor speeds to use, what concentration range to cover, which optical systems to use and what sort of data analysis may be most useful or necessary. We will discuss practical, fundamental hydrodynamics and thermodynamics in terms of how they influence the raw data. An emphasis will be placed on quickly extracting insights into the sample using model-independent data analysis. These insights will serve to guide any further detailed analyses by saving time and eliminating spurious interpretations.