The Shimadzu Biotech Technical Evening at the 50th Annual ASMS Conference will be held on June 1st from 5.30pm – 9.00pm in Crystal Ballroom G, Marriott Orlando World Center, Orlando, Florida. Registration is required.

JEOL User’s Meeting and Hospitality Suite at ASMS From: cody@nojunkmail.jeol.com (Chip Cody) Newsgroups: sci.techniques.mass-spec Subject: JEOL User’s Meeting and Hospitality Suite at ASMS Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:40:52 GMT JEOL will be holding a User’s Meeting on Sunday June 2, 2002 in Orlando Florida before the annual ASMS Conference. The meeting will be held …

Computer Applications Interest Group at ASMS From: David Stranz Newsgroups: sci.techniques.mass-spec Subject: Computer Applications Interest Group at ASMS Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:59:07 GMT The ASMS Computer Applications Interest Group will hold a lunchtime workshop on Wednesday, June 5 at the ASMS annual meeting in Orlando, Florida. This year’s topic is “Analytical Data Storage …

This just in from the ASMS home office: The schedule Interest Group Meetings and Workshops for the 50th ASMS appears below. Among the many surprises we have waiting for you at the conference is a complimentary copy (to all registrants) of the 50th Anniversary Book, “Measuring Mass: From Positive Rays to Proteins.” MONDAY, JUNE 3 …

Micromass Users’ Meeting at ASMS From: “Beaty, Tom” Newsgroups: sci.techniques.mass-spec Subject: Micromass Users’ Meeting at ASMS Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:57:35 -0400 Micromass will be holding a Users’ Meeting at ASMS. Besides keynote speakers of general interest, there will be breakout sessions on various specific topics and also a service and support forum. Continental …

The deadline for ASMS extended abstract submission is May 29. Abstracts must be submitted using the abstract submission Web page. Note that embedded figures can be in color. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, but Microsoft Word or Word Perfect (Windows or Mac OS) documents can be submitted. You may need Adobe Acrobat (the …

The Matrix Science Workshop at ASMS will be held at the Marriott on Sunday June 2nd from 8 to noon. Note that Matrix Science is now a hardware company and CPU clusters have now entered the realm of mass spectrometry hardware.

The Desorption Ionization Interest Group Meetingat ASMS, organized by John Allison, is tentatively scheduled Monday June 3 during the lunch break. The focus will be “Analysis of Non-covalent Complexes by ESI and MALDI: Why are these experiments so hard to do?” See the ASMS Interest Group page for more information.

The ASMS Conference Registration deadline is April 19th. Overflow hotels are the Courtyard Marriott Village at Lake Buena Vista, the Fairfield Inn at Lake Buena Vista, and the Spring Hill Suites at Lake Buena Vista. You could also try your luck at other nearby hotels if you are so inclined.

The Web site for the Orlando World Center Marriott, site of the 50th Annual ASMS Conference, has a large set of panoramic views. You’ll need a plug-in for ipix format and a reasonably fast internet connection.

This just in from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry: 50th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry June 2 – 6, 2002 Orlando, Florida CONFERENCE HOTEL Marriott World Center, Rate: $146. Rooms at the Marriott are SOLD OUT. OVERFLOW HOTELS – shuttle buses will be provided. These hotels are new and surround a common plaza. There …

The 16th International Mass Spectrometry Conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, between August 31st and September 5th 2003. That’s still a long way off, but it’s worth bookmarking the 16th IMSC Web page at http://www.imsc-edinburgh2003.com/. There’s no link back to the International Mass Spectrometry Society on the page, so here it is: http://www.imss.nl/. Note …