Messages from the ASMS (American Society for Mass Spectrometry "Hydrocarbon and Chemical Processes" Interest Group (in reverse chronical order)

2001 "Hydrocarbon and Chemical Processes" Interest Group Meeting

June 5, 2001 Edition

The "Hydrocarbon and Chemical Processes" interest group meeting was held on Thursday, May 31st, between 
the two oral sessions of "Future Challenges" and "Analyzing Hydrocarbon Materials: New Approaches
to Old Problems".  About 20 people attended.  Sam Hsu of ExxonMobil led discussions.  He re-emphasized 
that the group welcomes members from other interest groups who are interested in hydrocarbon and chemical 
research issues.  In fact, those people can play important roles to foster interaction and information 
exchange between our group and others.

Next year, we plan to keep the same format as this year's with two oral sessions.  However, there were 
concerns about receiving enough papers from a very limited number of research groups that are still remaining 
in the petroleum industry.  Sam took the opportunity to acknowledge Professor Patrick Limbach of Louisiana 
State University (will move to the University of Cincinnati next semester) who spent some time calling 
potential contributors for the papers.  Pat chaired this year's "New Approaches to Old Problems" session.  

Several topics were suggested by the attendees, including hydrocarbon compound type analysis and overview 
of analytical issues in the hydrocarbon and chemical research.   For hydrocarbon type analysis, 
Ron Grigsby of TRW agreed to prepare a presentation for next year's ASMS conference.  Gil Jones of 
Amoco has also been asked to prepare a presentation relating to petrochemicals.  Sam also 
suggested Micromass attendees to consider topics relating to instrumental issues of hydrocarbon analysis.

There was no new business to be discussed at this meeting.

Hydrocarbon and Chemical Processes Group at Chicago ASMS

May 13, 2001 

Dear Members:
 
1. ASMS has recently moved the interest group discussion sites from Listserver to ASMS website at 
http://www.asms.org. You probably can sign in to our group discussion site, Hydrocarbon and Chemical 
Processes, using your e-mail address and password as the ones you registered last year in our Listserver. 
However, some of you might need to re-register again to get into our group discussion site in the ASMS web. 
2. We will have two oral sessions at the Chicago ASMS Conference: "Future Challenges" and "New Approaches 
to Old Problems". Please note that the final program has these two sessions switched if you have read the 
preliminary program. Professor Pat Limbach of Louisiana State University will chair the "Future Challenge" 
session in the morning, and I will chair the other session in the afternoon. 
3. Our interest group meeting will be on Thursday, May 31st between 12:15 PM and 1:30 PM at Columbus 
Room I/J of Hyatt Regency Hotel. Please send me a note (chang.s.hsu@exxonmobil.com) 
for the topics that you would like to discuss at the meeting. 
4. A fund has been set up for our former member, Ms. Yanping Wang. Yanping has lost all four limbs due to 
a severe illness during her pregnancy. Please visit 
http://www.geocities.com/chang_samuel_hsu/yanping.html for details.
 
Hope to see you at Chicago. 

Best regards, 
Sam 

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