Full-Day
Symposium, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
8:00
AM to 5:00 PM
Beckman
Institute
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Meeting
Highlights:
-
Extensive
Technical Program (click for details)
-
Microbeam
Analysis Society National Tour Speaker, Dr. Nicholas Ritchie
-
Microscopy
& Microanalysis Co-chair Dr. Brendan Foran
-
Vendor
displays and vendor presentations
-
Graduate
Student platform presentations
-
Graduate
Student poster presentation contest
-
Breakfast,
lunch, and morning and afternoon coffee will be provided
Poster
Solicitation
We
encourage everyone to bring a poster to display. The posters will be displayed
in a courtyard outside the building and will provide an opportunity to discuss
your work with your colleagues. Student posters will be eligible for a $300
check to be used to support travel to the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2009
Conference in Portland, OR. Cut-off date for poster submission is March 8, 2010.
Please notify John Porter at jrporter@uci.edu
ahead of time so that display boards can be made available. Click
here for more details.
Directions:
Exit
the 210 Freeway westbound at Hill Ave. or eastbound at Lake Ave. Go south to Del
Mar Blvd. From Hill, turn right (west); from Lake turn left (east). Proceed to
Wilson Ave. and turn south on Wilson. Park in the first parking structure on the
right. Permits are available for $6 at a kiosk on the 2nd level. Do not park in
any space that has a name on it or says "carpool".
The
Beckman Institute is just across the street from the parking structure. Click
here for a detailed map. The parking structure is #123 and the Beckman
Institute is #74 on this map.
You
may also locate the building on Google Maps or on your GPS by using the
following co-ordinates:
34°08'20.98" latitude
-118°07'36.29" longitude
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.
Advance
registration is required.
Non-members may pay their dues at the door.
Registrations are due no later than 5:00 pm, Sunday, March 7, 2010.
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.
| 08:00 - 12:00 |
Registration, Continental Breakfast
of breads and coffee
Selection
bagels, sweet rolls, mini croissants and mini-muffins along with tea,
coffee, and juice |
| 08:25 - 08:30 |
Welcome |
| 08:30 - 09:00 |
Analytical Electron Microscopy of
Zeolite Nucleation and Growth From Amorphous Gels
Krassimir Bozhilov, University of California, Riverside |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Root Cause Analysis of
Tungsten-Induced Protein Aggregation in Pre-filled Syringes
Gianni Torraca, Amgen |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Failure Analysis of Semiconductor
Laser Diodes
Brendan Foran, Aerospace Corp. |
| 10:00 -
10:30 |
Coffee Break
All participants are invited to visit the Vendor Display tables |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Nano-Mineralogy by Advanced Electron Microscopy:
Discovering New Minerals in the Early Solar System
Chi Ma, California Institute of Technology |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Undergraduate
Student Talks
Novel
Nanostructures for Enhanced Endotheliazation on Bare-Metallic Stent Wire
Marianna Loya, University of California, San Diego
EBSD
Investigation of Texture Development in Layer-grown Ti 6Al 4V
Brandon Saller, University of California, Irvine
Phase
Transition Mechanism in Bulk Iron Oxide Nanocomposites
Sohanazaman Tanju, University of California, Riverside
Unshell
the Potential Magic Bullet - Vesicular Stomatitis Virus in 3D
Peng Ge, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch Break
Lunch
is sponsored by Physical Electronics, Inc.
John Callaghan, representative
The
catered lunch is included in the meeting registration
Choice of sandwiches (chicken, turkey, roast beef, Italian, ham and
vegetarian) served with a salad and chips.
Poster
Session
Title
to be Announced
Mai Ng, University of California, Irvine
Solid
Oxide Fuel Cell Composite Cathode Performance and Morphology: Effects of
Particle Size Distribution
Anh Duong, University of California, Irvine
Evaluating
Thermally Grown Oxide in TBC Materials Under Humid Atmosphere
Matt Sullivan, University of California, Irvine
Directed
Assembly of Nanoparticle Superstructures
Seth Taylor, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Title
to be Announced
Matt Weeks, University of California, Irvine
|
| 13:00 - 13:20 |
SCSMM Business Meeting |
| 13:20 - 13:50 |
Measuring Transport Into Artificial
Cells With Confocal Microscopy
Noah Malmstadt, University of Southern California |
| 13:50 - 15:00 |
Vendor Presentations
EDS
Analysis of Sub-Micron Structures Using Large Area Silicon Drift Detectors
Scott Sitzman, Oxford Instruments
Nanocone
Chemical Analysis with Scanning Auger Microscopy
Ken Bomben, Physical Electronics
Advances
in High Resolution Imaging with Helium Ion Microscopy
Arno Merkle, Carl Zeiss Co.
TEAM
EDS Smart Features; Change the Way You Do Analysis Forever
Jack Rosek, EDAX
|
| 15:00 - 15:45 |
Coffee Break
All participants are invited to visit the Vendor Display tables |
| 15:45 - 16:30 |
Invited Presentation
Standards-based
Analysis - When and How?
Nicholas Ritchie, National Institute of Standards and Technology
MAS Tour Speaker
|
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Tour of the Caltech Microscopy Facility |
| 17:00 |
Meeting adjourns |