HR Clinic
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Email announcing the Clinic (sent 30-Jan-2009)
Dear all,
We would like to announce a "clinic" for the analysis of high-resolution ToF-AMS data (also including unit-resolution analyses). The idea is to provide a forum to discuss the analysis of high-resolution spectra (PIKA) in detail, and also including other topics such as PMF, APES (elemental analysis) and also unit-resolution analysis (Squirrel) in a format for which we don't have time in the regular Users Meetings.
Doug Worsnop, Donna Sueper, James Allan, Manjula Canagaratna, Qi Zhang, Jesse Kroll, Pete DeCarlo, and Jose Jimenez will be there. Ingrid Ulbrich will be there at least during the PMF discussions. The format will be something like:
- first day with presentations of new features in PIKA and overview of analysis
- Users bring up problems or special cases they have encountered in their work
- Next several days: we intermittently break up and everyone works in their own data and we discuss interesting questions or problems as a group. We will also cover the other topics (PMF, APES, Squirrel) as appropriate, in a flexible way decided by consensus of the attendees.
The people who should attend are students, postdocs, and researchers who are currently actively analyzing high-resolution (and also unit-resolution) AMS data.
The location will be the University of Colorado-Boulder, and the dates will be Sat June 6 to Wed June 10, 2009. (Doug will only be present Sat to Mon, all the other organizers should be there the whole time). The dates are set because of Doug's other commitments.
Please let us know of your intention to attend, we are imagining about 25-30 people in attendance. Let us know if you have any suggestions about the content or the format.
Thanks,
-Jose et al.
Attendees
- Maximum is 38 attendees, due to the capacity of the rooms available. Please let us know if you plan to attend.
- Confirmed (37):
- Doug Worsnop, Manjula Canagaratna, and Sally Ng (ARI)
- Donna Sueper (ARI & Colorado)
- James Allan, Rami Alfarra, and Niall Robinson (Manchester) (R)
- Qi Zhang (SUNY-Albany)
- Jesse Kroll (MIT)
- Pete DeCarlo (PSI, Switzerland)
- Mike Cubison, Sanna Saarikoski, Ken Docherty, Ingrid Ulbrich, Carly Robinson, Amber Ortega & Jose-Luis Jimenez (Colorado)
- Steve Howell & Lindsey Shank (U. Hawaii)
- Taehyoung Lee & Laurie Mack (Colorado State)
- Puneet Chhabra & Jill Craven (Caltech) (R)
- Lea Hildebrandt (Carnegie Mellon)
- Samara Carbone and Risto Hillamo (FMI)
- Qi Chen (Harvard)
- Toshihide Hikida (Sanyu, Japan)
- Yongjie Li (Hong Kong and Harvard)
- Astrid Kiendler-Scharr and Christian (Juelich, Germany)
- Jurgita Ovadnevaite (NIU Galway, Ireland)
- Chiara Di Marco & Gavin Phillips (CEH, UK)
- John Shilling (PNNL)
- Hiroyuki Hagino (JARI, Japan Automobile Research Institute)
- Akinori Takami (NIES, Japan) (R)
- Dara Salcedo (U Morelos, Mexico)
- Tentative (2-3):
- Delphine Farmer (Colorado)
- 1-2 people (TBD) from Max Planck-Mainz
Some topics for discussion
- Donna / Doug: New features in Squirrel
- New features in PIKA
- Discuss features in the new version, including error bars
- How to evaluate whether a fit is good enough for your purposes (large vs. small vs. tiny peaks, O/C vs N/C vs S/C)
- How to use mass accuracy to estimate uncertainty
- Discuss suggestions from Users for short and long term improvements to the software
- PIKA: Users bring up doubts, examples of problems or unusual data and we discuss as a group
- Donna: small variations in peak tails for Galway data. What is real vs other peaks, and how to deal with it?
- Dara Salcedo: variations of peak shape with m/z across 10-300, and how to deal with it with current software
- Elemental analysis software (APES)
- Basis of elemental analysis (was very confusing in Users Meeting)
- How to deal with CO2, CO, H2O etc
- evaluation of the quality of N/C, S/C
- Problems and doubts from users on how to use the software
- Suggestions for improvements and new features
- HR-AMS Spectra database
- Encourage users to give to Michael directly during meeting. Need peak shape function, sigma parameters, m/z cal.
- Colorado PMF software (led by Ingrid & Donna)
- New features: seeds, bootstrapping
- examples of applications from users
- problems and doubts from users
- suggestions for improvements and new features
Logistics
- Directions to CIRES in Boulder
- On Sat & Sun we will meet in Ekeley E1B20
- On Mon-Wed we will meet on Hale 260
- We will provide plug strips for laptops.
- Internet Access
- Will be access for 40 individuals
- June 3 thru June 12
- Username: confams
- Password: Will be given out at the conference
- Hotel Price Block
- We have a pricing agreement with the Boulder Outlook Hotel link
- You can reserve a room with one king bed or two twin beds for $98.00 per night by saying that you are with the HR-AMS Clinic
- phone numbers: 303.443.3322/800.542.0304
- Summer in Boulder is a busy time and the hotel does have the possibility of filling up. These rooms are not reserved and the sooner that a reservation can be made the better.
