Conferences

Preliminary Program

 

Monday, November 3

8:30 - 9:00 am, Overview and Figures of Merit, Matt Bush (University of Washington) and Nick Riley (University of Washington)

9:10 - 9:40 am, Detecting Charges and Digitizing Signals, Evan Williams (University of California, Berkeley) 

9:50 - 10:20 am, Vacuum Systems and Pressure Differentials, Matt Bush (University of Washington)

10:30 - 11:00 am, Ion Motion in the Free-Molecular Regime and Basics of Time of Flight, William Johnson (Waters Co.)

11:10 - 11:40 am, Electrodynamic Fields, Mathieu Stability Diagrams, and Ion Motion at Intermediate Pressures, Scott McLuckey (Purdue University)

12:00 - 1:00 pm, Lunch (provided by ASMS)

1:00 - 1:30 pm, Ion Guides, Drift Tubes, and Ion Funnels, Brian Clowers (Washington State University)

1:40 - 2:10 pm, Quadrupole Mass Filters and Tandem Quadrupoles 

2:20 - 3:00 pm, Demos (Part 1 of 2), Nick Riley (University of Washington)

  • Electrodynamic ion traps
  • Ion trap with rod electrodes
  • Simulation of ion separation by mass-to-charge
  • Deconstructed instrument to see all components
  • Developing mass spectrometry technologies, AnneClaire Wageman (University of Washington)

3:00 - 3:30 pm, Quadrupole and Linear Ion Traps, Scott McLuckey (Purdue University)

3:40 - 4:40 pm, Special Considerations for Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation. This session to be a series of short discussions related to selection of instrumentation for selected applications. Focusing on instrumentation and figures of merit, rather than outcomes of applications using those instruments. 

  • Instrumentation for Imaging, Ljiljana Paša-Tolić (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
  • Instrumentation for Targeted and Clinical Analysis

5:00 - 6:00 pm, Mixer Reception

Tuesday, November 4

8:30 - 9:00 am, Advanced Concepts in Time-of-Flight - phase space, energy focusing, orthogonal acceleration, and multi-reflectron analyzers, William Johnson (Waters Co.)

9:10 - 9:40 am, FT-ICR, Ljiljana Paša-Tolić (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

9:50 - 10:20 am, Orbitrap, John Syka (Thermo) 

10:30 - 11:00 am, Charge Detection Mass Spectrometry, Evan Williams (University of California, Berkeley) 

11:10 - 11:40 am, Panel Figures of Merit and Comparing Mass Analyzers, all speakers

11:40 - 1:00 pm, Lunch (provided by ASMS)

 1:00 - 1:20 pm, Time Scales and Impacts on Experiments, Mike MacCoss (University of Washington)

1:30 - 2:00 pm, Hybrid Mass Analyzers

  • Quadrupole Time-of-Flight, Matt Bush (University of Washington)
  • Ion Mobility Time-of-Flight, Brian Clowers (Washington State University)
  • Hybrid Orbitrap, John Syka (Thermo) 

2:10 - 2:50 pm, Demos (Part 2 of 2), Nick Riley (University of Washington)

  • Electrodynamic ion traps
  • Ion trap with rod electrodes
  • Simulation of ion separation by mass-to-charge
  • Deconstructed instrument to see all components
  • Developing mass spectrometry technologies, AnneClaire Wageman (University of Washington)

3:00 - 4:00 pm, Special Considerations for Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation - short discussions related to selection of instrumentation for selected applications

  • Instrumentation for Quantitation of Large Numbers of Analytes, Lindsay Pino (Talus Biosciences)
  • Instrumentation for Imaging
  • Instrumentation for Shared-Use Facilities, Dale Whittington (University of Washington)

4:10 - 4:50 pm, Breakout Discussions 

5:00 - 5:30 pm, Panel Discussion on the Future of Instrumentation for MS, all speakers