The Greater Washington-Baltimore Mass Spectrometry Discussion
Group meets monthly from September through June to discuss various
aspects of mass spectrometry. Members of the group include research
scientists and students from local government, academic and industrial
laboratories. Meetings are usually held on the third Monday of
each month (see schedule below) at the Hewlett-Packard regional
offices in Rockville, MD (see below for directions) at 7:30 pm.
Our meetings usually involve a lecture by an expert in the field
of mass spectrometry and its related sciences from the area or
outside the area. The Washington-Baltimore MSDG also conducts
a short course entitled "Interpretation of Mass Spectra"
each year at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Meeting.
Members of the discusion group serve as instructors for the course.
The course is also offered occasionally at the HP offices in Rockville,
particularly in years when the ASMS meeting is not in the Northeast
U.S. Further information about the short course is listed below.
Topics of interest to the MSDG include, but are not limited
to:
Instrumentation: Design and Implementation