Conferences

Preliminary Program

 

Monday, November 3

8:30 - 9:00 am, Overview and Figures of Merit 

9:10 - 9:40 am, Detecting Charges and Digitizing Signals

9:50 - 10:20 am, Vacuum Systems and Pressure Differentials

10:30 - 11:00 am, Ion Motion in the Free-Molecular Regime and Basics of Time of Flight

11:10 - 11:40 am, Electrodynamic Fields, Mathieu Stability Diagrams, and Ion Motion at Intermediate Pressures

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

1:00 - 1:30 pm, Ion Guides, Drift Tubes, and Ion Funnels

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

2:20 - 3:00 pm, Demos (Part 1 of 2)

  • Electrodynamic ion traps
  • Ion trap with rod electrodes
  • Simulation of ion separation by mass-to-charge
  • Deconstructed instrument to see all components
  • SIMION models of analyzers

3:00 - 3:30 pm, Quadrupole and Linear Ion Traps

3:40 - 4:40 pm, Special Considerations for Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation -  short discussions related to selection of instrumentation for selected applications.

  • Instrumentation for Targeted and Clinical Analysis
  • Instrumentation for Harsh Environments
  • TBD

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

9:10 - 9:40 am, FT-ICR

9:50 - 10:20 am, Orbitrap

10:30 - 11:00 am, Charge Detection Mass Spectrometry 

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

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

 1:00 - 1:20 pm, Time Scales and Impacts on Experiments

1:30 - 2:00 pm, Hybrid Mass Analyzers

  • Quadrupole Time-of-Flight
  • Ion Mobility Time-of-Flight
  • Hybrid Orbitrap

2:10 - 2:50 pm, Demos (Part 2 of 2)

  • Electrodynamic ion traps
  • Ion trap with rod electrodes
  • Simulation of ion separation by mass-to-charge
  • Deconstructed instrument to see all components
  • SIMION models of analyzers

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
  • Instrumentation for Imaging
  • Instrumentation for Shared-Use Facilities

4:10 - 4:50 pm, Breakout Discussions 

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