Meetings
ASMS in Orlando The 46th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics will be held May 31June 4 at the Marriott World Center in Orlando, FL The conference will feature daily plenary lectures, oral and poster sessions, short courses, and workshops. Registration will be held Sunday from 3:30 to 7 p.m. at the Marriott World Center. Rates are $200 for members, $125 for student members, $290 for nonmembers, and $170 for student nonmembers. Approximately 20 workshops will be offered during the meeting and six short courses will be offered before the meeting. The Biemann Medal for achievement in MS in the early stages of one's career will be
Program Sunday, May 31 Registration MS Tutorials Welcome Mixer
Monday, June 1 Plenary Lecture: Michael J. Ramsey, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Analysis of Biomolecules by Electrospray and MALDI MS in Pharmacology and Toxicology Reactions of Gas-Phase Ions Innovations in Time-of-Flight and Hybrid TOF Instrumentation FTMS Fundamentals and Applications New Developments and Applications of Inorganic MS Isotope Ratio and Elemental MS
Tuesday, June 2 Award Presentation and Plenary Lecture: Biemann Medal Noncovalent Interactions and Tertiary Structures of Biomolecules Glycobiology Ion Structure and Energetics MS in a DNA World Electrospray Fundamentals and Instrumentation Miniaturizing Mass Spectrometers Microsample Preparation Methods
Conferences
presented to Robert R Squires of Purdue University, on Tuesday, June 2. The ASMS Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry will be presented on Wednesday, June 3, to David A Dahl of Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and Don McGilvery of Monash University (Australia) for their development of the SIMION Ion Optics Design and Analysis Program. For more information, contact ASMS, 1201 Don Diego Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505-989-4517; fax 505-989-1073; asms® asms.org; www.asms.org).
Wednesday, June 3 Award Presentation and Plenary Lecture: ASMS Award for a Distinguished Contribution in MS Emerging Methods in Biological MS Electrospray and MALDI of Small Molecules Coming of Age—Twenty-one Years of the Kinetic Method MALDI Design and Fundamentals MALDI at Other Wavelengths MS of DNA Adducts and Interactions Energy and Petrochemicals Automation and Computer Methods
ASTM Committee E-1 on Analytical Chemistry for Metals, Ores, and Related Materials May 3-6. Atlanta, GA Contact: Tom O' Toole, ASTM, 100 Barr Harbor Dr., West Consho-
hocken, PA 19428-2959 (610-832-9739; fax 610832-9635;
[email protected]) EnviroAnalysis ’98
May 11-14. Ottawa, Canada Contact: EnviroAnalysis '98, Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6 Canada (fax 613520-3679; http://www.carleton.ca/-rburk/ env98.html) Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications
May 12-14. Ann Arbor, MI Contact: Symposium Secretary, 3034 Phoenix Memorial Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2100 (313-936-0763; fax 313-763-7863;
[email protected]) Environmental Sampling, On-Site Analysis, and Sample Preparation Conference
May 13-14. Pittsburgh, PA Contact: PACS, 409 Meade Dr., Coraopolis, PA 15108 (800-367-2587; 724-457-6576; fax 724457-1214;
[email protected]) Sensors Expo San Jose
Thursday, June 4 Plenary Lecture: Donna Shirley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory MS and Combinatorial Chemistry Innovations in Separations Methods Combined with MS Environmental MS New Developments in Quadrupole Ion Trap MS MS of Polymers MS in Forensics MS Detection and Identification of Microorganisms
Short Courses May 30-31. Orlando, FL Interpretation of Mass Spectra Principles and Practice of Quantitative MS LC/MS: The Techniques of Electrospray and API Proteins and Peptides Principles of Ion Trap MS Fundamentals of MALDI
May 19-21. San Jose, CA Contact: Joel Dunkel, Expocon (a division of Advanstar Communications), 363 Reef Road, Fairfield, CT 06430 (203-256-4700, ext. 160;
[email protected]; http://www. sensorsexpo.com) 11th International Symposium on Polymer Analysis and Characterization (ISPAC-11)
May 25-27. Genoa, Italy Contact: Oscar Chiantore, Dept. of Chemistry IPM, University of Torino, Via Giuria 7, 101025 Torino, Italy (39-11-670-7558; fax 39-11670-7855; http://www.chem.cmu.edu/ispac) 1998 Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop
June 7-11. Hilton Head Island, SC Contact: Antonio J. Ricco, Sandia National Laboratories, Microsensor R&D Dept, MS 1425, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 871851425 (505-844-1405; fax 505-844-1198;
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