Full-Day Symposium, 2008

From Downtown LA and Pasadena Areas:  Take the 5 South to the 55 South to the 73 South.  Continue with LAX / Long Beach Directions.

From LAX or Long Beach Area:  Take the 405 South to the 73 South.  On the 73 South exit Bison Road (the last exit before the toll road begins) and turn left on to Bison.  Turn right onto East Peltason.  Turn left onto Anteater Drive into Engineering Parking Structure to park.  Exit structure by foot to East Peltason and follow pedestrian signs to Calit2.

From El Toro, Laguna Beach or the San Diego Area:  Take the 405 North, exit Culver Drive (turn left).  Travel Culver, turn right on Campus Drive.  Turn left on East Peltason.  Turn right onto Anteater Drive into Engineering Parking Structure to park.  Exit structure by foot to East Peltason and follow pedestrian signs to Calit2.

Parking Permits must be purchased for $7.00 (single day permit).  They can be purchased from an attendant at the Calit2 building or from a dispenser at the corner of East Peltason and Pereira Drive.

For detailed directions and a map, click here.

Cost:

Registration for members of SCSMM is free.  For non-members, the “cost” is the price of membership.  Annual membership fees are as follows:

Corporate	$50
Regular	$10
Student	$4

Continental breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks will be included in the registration.  The support of our vendor sponsors makes this possible.  Please remember to thank them.

Registration & RSVP:

Advance registration is required.  Non-members may pay their dues at the door.  Registrations are due no later than 5:00 pm, Sunday, March 23, 2008.  You may register by contacting Mike Pickford at (714) 666-0920 (leave message), email mspford@pacbell.net or Jim Kulleck at (818) 354-5666, email james.kulleck@jpl.nasa.gov.  Please give the name of each person attending so that we may make up name badges in advance.

2008 Symposium Schedule

Guest Speakers

Dr. David C. Joy received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford (UK) in 1969 and became Royal Society Warren Research Fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Oxford.  There he was responsible for designing and building the first field emission gun scanning transmission electron microscope (FEG STEM) in Europe.  In 1974 he became a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ where he designed and built one of the first practical high performance electron energy loss spectrometers (EELS).  In 1987 he accepted joint appointments as a Distinguished Professor at The University of Tennessee and as a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  His work has concentrated on the development of advanced techniques for microscopy, microanalysis, and interpretation; lithography and nano-fabrication; Monte Carlo simulations of electron and interactions; and ion microscopy.  He has published about 400 peer reviewed papers and written and/or edited eight books and received many awards including Fellow of The Royal Microscopical Society, the SRC Award for Distinguished Research, a NIST ‘Best Paper of the 20^th Century Award’ and was National Winner of the Battelle Nanoscience Award in 2002.  He is currently Editor in Chief of SCANNING and is on the Editorial and Review boards of numerous other journals.

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Dr. Robert Simmons is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He earned his Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in biological sciences at the University of Ulster, and continued with MS and Ph.D. degrees at Georgia State University.  He joined the Biology Department at Georgia State University in 1983 and is the Program Director for Biological Imaging.  His main research involves the interaction of microorganisms with the human environment, with an emphasis on fungi and air handling systems.  Recent work includes the investigation of colonization of hydrogel contact lenses by Fusarium and other fungi.

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In addition, we are most pleased to have Dr. Elizabeth Wright from California Institute of Technology.  Elizabeth graduated with a B.S. in Biology (’95) and Chemistry (’97) from Columbus State University (Columbus, GA).  She then attended Emory University (Atlanta, GA) where she received her PhD in Chemistry (’03) under the guidance of Professor Vincent P. Conticello.  Her graduate research focused on the development and characterization of novel elastin-mimetic block copolymers for future use in biomedical applications.  She is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the cryo-EM laboratory of Professor Grant J. Jensen at Caltech.  Her research involves the use of electron cryotomography to examine complex biological questions including understanding the ultrastructure of viruses and prokaryotic cells.

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We are most fortunate to have Dr. Jian-Guo Zheng who is Project Scientist and Operations Director, IMSDL*, Calit2, here at the University of California, Irvine.  Dr. Zheng has graciously agreed to serve as our host today.  Dr. Zheng received his BS, MS and PhD in solid state physics and specialized in materials characterization by means of electron microscopy.  He has been working in electron microscopy and materials characterization for 20 years in well-known EM laboratories in China, Germany, England and the US.  He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Microscopic Society (FRMS). 

*IMSDL stands for Imaging, Microanalysis, Spectroscopy and Diffraction Laboratory, which consists of three centers,, the Zeiss Center of Excellence, Materials Characterization Center, and Calit2 Material Property Analysis Center.

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From Gatan we are pleased to welcome Dr. Lancy Tsung.  Lancy joined Gatan Inc. last October as the EM Application Manager.  Prior to Gatan, she worked at Texas Instruments for 12 years as process characterization/failure analysis TEM lab supervisor and at Philips Electronics (now FEI) as senior TEM application engineer for 8 years.  She received her Ph.D. in Mineralogy from the University of Michigan; has a M.S. in Mineralogy from Miami University and a B.S. in Earth Sciences from the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

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We are also delighted to have as speakers, Mr. John Mastovich from Bruker AXS, and speaking on behalf of Carl Zeiss, Dr. C. Hayzelden, Dr. J.R. Porter, Senior Microscopist at the University of California, Irvine, and Dr. D.R. Mumm, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science within the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.

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