AMS Clinic6

• This is the page for organization of the 6th Boulder AMS & ACSM Clinic Meeting.
• The Clinic is not a meeting for beginners but for people who have experience with the AMS / ACSM and want to discuss technical issues with other users and the instrument developers.
• A registration form and request for topics to be discussed will be circulated closer to the date.

Dates and Location

• The 6th AMS Clinic will take place at CU-Boulder on Thu June 18 to Sat June 20, 2015.
  • We'll start Thu @ 8:30 am and end Sat at 5 pm
  • Tentative ARI dinner on Thu eve
  • Party at Donna's on Fri eve
• It will follow immediately after the 2015 Aerodyne ToF-CIMS Users Meeting that will take place in Fort Collins, CO (1 hr N of Boulder) during Mon June 15-Wed June 17, 2015.

Tentative List of Attendees

The following people (~37-41) have indicated that they will attend for sure or with high probability. (Please email Jose with any updates)

• Doug Worsnop, John Jayne, Manjula Canagaratna, Paola Massoli, Leah Williams, Donna Sueper - Aerodyne Research
• Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Doug Day, Weiwei Hu, Brett Palm, Jason Schroder, Jose-Luis Jimenez - Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
• James Allan, Univ of Manchester, UK
• Jay Slowik, Simone Pieber - PSI, Switzerland
• Olivier Favez - INERIS and LCSQA, France
• Ken Docherty, US EPA
• Sally Ng (and/or 1-2 group members), Georgia Tech
• Paulo Artaxo, Univ Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Risto Hillamo, Sanna Saarikoski, FMI, Finland
• Claudia Mohr, Kalsruhe IT, Germany
• 1-2 people from Kroll group, MIT
• Sonya Collier, Shan Zhou, and Qi Zhang (undecided), UC-Davis
• Ann Middlebrook, NOAA
• Peter DeCarlo, Drexel Univ.
• Qi Chen, Peking Univ., China
• Mike Cubison, Tofwerk
• Roya Bahreini + 1 student - UC-Riverside
• Ping Chen, Handix
• Liz Alexander, Raea Hicks, PNNL
• Megan Willis, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
• Suzane de Sa, Harvard Univ.
• Dara Salcedo + 1-2 people, UNAM-Queretaro, Mexico

Some Topics to be Discussed

• m/z 44 in ACSM vs AMS, vs open/closed time, and other idiosyncracies
• UMR analyses
• Recent updates to elemental analysis
• General HR-AMS operation, tuning, fitting
• PMF and ME-2 analyses
• Anything that users are interested in discussing
• ePToF
• Event Trigger

Lodging and Travel

• General information on Boulder is here
  • You will most likely travel via Denver International Airport
  • You can use the Supershuttle service between the airport and the hotel and back (once in Boulder, you can walk to and from the meeting)
  • If you are looking for someone to share a room with we have created a spreadsheet for coordinating and posting contact information here

• Millennium Harvest House
  • Block Rate: $134.00/night
  • Reservations: AMS Clinic Online Reservations
  • Cutoff Date for block rate: Reservations must be made by May 22, 2015 to receive the block rate, availability limited.
  • Contact: +1 (303) 443-3850
  • Block Reservation Name: AMS Clinic (University of Colorado)

• University Inn - Boulder
  • Rate: $125.00/night. (Request the "CU Student" rate if you wish to book a room here).
  • Availablity: Rooms only available on the 17th and 18th. Due to this no "block" of rooms have been set aside.
  • There is no cutoff date, the "CU Student" rate is available year around, availability permitting.
  • Contact: +1 (303) 417-1700

• Residence Inn - Boulder
  • Block Rate: $194.00/night (Standard Rate: $219.00)
  • Block Reservation Name: CU AMS Clinic
  • Reservations: CU AMS Clinic Online Reservations
  • Reservations by phone: (800) 331-3131 request "CU AMS Clinic" rate
  • Contact: +1 (303) 449-5545
  • Ammenities: Complimentary Breakfast, Studio room (one King, one Pullout couch bed), Kitchenette, Free Wireless)

• Marriott
  • Rate: $234/night
  • Reservations: AMS Clinic Online Reservations
  • Cutoff Date for block rate: Reservations must be made by May 18, 2015 to receive the block rate.
  • Contact: +1 (303) 440-8877
  • Block Reservation Name: University of Colorado AMS Clinic

• Other hotel blocks coming soon.