
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
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
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 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 EBSD
Investigation of Texture Development in Layer-grown Ti 6Al 4V Phase
Transition Mechanism in Bulk Iron Oxide Nanocomposites Unshell
the Potential Magic Bullet - Vesicular Stomatitis Virus in 3D |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch Break Lunch
is sponsored by Physical Electronics, Inc. The
catered lunch is included in the meeting registration Poster Session Title
to be Announced Solid
Oxide Fuel Cell Composite Cathode Performance and Morphology: Effects of
Particle Size Distribution Evaluating
Thermally Grown Oxide in TBC Materials Under Humid Atmosphere Directed
Assembly of Nanoparticle Superstructures Title
to be Announced |
| 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 Nanocone
Chemical Analysis with Scanning Auger Microscopy Advances
in High Resolution Imaging with Helium Ion Microscopy TEAM
EDS Smart Features; Change the Way You Do Analysis Forever |
| 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? |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Tour of the Caltech Microscopy Facility |
| 17:00 | Meeting adjourns |
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