Announcement for a Conference on:
Dynamics of Materials Revealed by Electron Microscopy
Thursday, June 9th and Friday, June 10th 2005
Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
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We would like to encourage students to participate in poster presentations in the general area of electron microscopy and microanalysis. Two student poster awards will be given to registered student participants.
We stand at the beginning of a new era for electron microscopy; the limits imposed by aberrations are being shattered allowing the development of an entirely new class of electron microscopes that will decouple the link between instrument resolution and the size of the gap between the objective lens poles. These new instruments will allow high spatial, temporal and spectral resolution to coexist with macroscopic experimental modules permitting the design of unique in-situ experiments to study structure/property, stimuli/response, and related dynamic processes at or near atomic resolution.
There has been much work in the electron microscopy community to allow direct imaging and analysis of real world processes in their native environment. Major advances in understanding have resulted from the application of these in-situ techniques in fields as diverse as surface physics, strength of materials, epitaxial growth, and catalytic reactions to name a few. These outstanding achievements were performed even within the limits imposed by spherical aberration and these and other fields stand to benefit enormously from the development of an in-situ aberration corrected microscope.
The organizers of this workshop seek to bring together a broad coalition of scientists, both among and outside the electron microscopy community, to discuss the requirements of the next generation of in-situ materials science tools. This discussion will be facilitated by highlighting past achievements in the field, by reviewing the current state and expected future of aberration corrected electron optics, and by discussing current experimental results that use novel methods to investigate dynamic processes. The main challenge is to identify specific areas of materials research where the capabilities of the proposed instruments will be indispensable for achieving scientific breakthroughs. By focusing on the needs and requirements of the scientific community, the necessity to build and fund this exciting new class of materials science laboratories will be shown to be crucial.
Please mark your calendars and pre-register now! (See registration link below.)
MAILING LIST / PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION
If you are interested in attending please register using the registration link below. If you will be submitting a poster, please provide the title, authors (designating the presenter) and respond to
Ramona Simpson: simpson@mrl.uiuc.edu
Poster submission deadline is June 1, 2005.
A mailing list will be generated of all the participants. Please feel free to pass along this information to your colleagues. Thank you!
LOGISTICS
Air transportation: the Champaign Illinois airport (CMI) is 15 min. from campus, served by American Airlines, Delta, and Northwest Airlines; Indianapolis (IND) is a 2 hour drive; Chicago (ORD) is a 2.5 hour drive; St. Louis (STL) is a 3 hour drive.
Lodging: a block of hotel rooms has been reserved.Many thanks. We look forward to an exciting workshop on June 9&10!
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