Month: January 2012

Call for Student Talks and Posters
SCSMM Symposium, Saturday March 3, 2012
Beckman Institute Auditorium, Caltech

All students attending Southern California universities are invited to submit titles and brief abstracts (~200 words plus one optional JPG image) to present their work at the SCSMM All-day Symposium to be held at CalTech on March 3, 2012. Five submissions will be selected as 15 minute platform presentations. All others will be invited to present posters describing their work.
As is our tradition, the best platform presentation will be awarded $500 and the best poster will be awarded $300. These awards are to support travel to the national M&M Meeting, this year to be held in Phoenix (July 29 – August 2). 2nd and 3rd place runners up will receive student memberships in either MSA or MAS.
New: the best presentation and the best poster at SCSMM will be offered a second opportunity for presentation at M&M thanks to the M&M Program Committee.
Please submit abstracts to:
johnrporter@me.com
The subject line should read – SCSMM Student Presentation
The content should include:
Name, e-mail address and affiliation.
Preference for platform or poster presentation (students requesting a platform presentation may be asked to submit a poster as only five platform presentations are scheduled).
Presentation title.
A ~200 word abstract.
(Optional) an attached JPG image file.
Deadline for submission – January 30
Notifications of acceptance will be e-mailed by February 6.

Dear current and potential users of UCI materials characterization facilities:

To take full advantage of the FEI Quanta 3D FEG SEM equipped with Oxford Instrument EDS/EBSD and the related specimen preparation facility, you are invited to attend the FEI-Oxford Instruments Joint Symposium on FEI Quanta 3D FEG Dualbeam, Oxford EDS/EBSD and related Specimen Preparation Techniques. Application engineers from both FEI and Oxford instruments are invited to give lectures and demos on principle, applications and operations of this instrument and related attachments. Dr. Scott Walck is invited to talk about specimen preparation techniques. Details are listed below. It is free to attend the lectures and demos of this symposium. Because of limited time and space, the number of people for demos could be limited. First come, first served. Please sign up in the Google spreadsheet as indicated below.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlVa2cfmNf6XdDZaYndyT2VncU94V2hMeTczWDRzSnc#gid=0
If you have any question, please email Dr. Jian-Guo Zheng (jzheng@uci.edu)
FEI-Oxford Instruments Joint Symposium on FEI Quanta 3D FEG Dualbeam, Oxford EDS/EBSD and related Specimen Preparation Techniques
Venue: Room 3008/ Auditorium Calit2 Building, UCI
Date: Jan 12-13, 2012

Thurs. Jan 12, 2012
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-9:10 Prof. Matt Law (UCI)
Current UCI materials characterization facilities and future development plan
9:10-9:50 Marc Castagna (FEI)
FEI Quanta 3D FEG dual-beam system: SEM principle and applications
9:50-10:30 Marc Castagna (FEI)
FEI Quanta 3D FEG dual-beam system: FIB principle and applications
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:25 Scott Sitzman (Oxford Instruments)
Introduction to EBSD
11:25-12:05 Dr. Scott Walck
Specimen preparation for SEM, EBSD and TEM
12:05-13:05 Lunch
13:05-13:45 Calit2 Microscopy Center tour and discussion with FEI and Oxford instrument engineers in 1302 Calit2 building
13:45-14:30 Marc Castagna_ (FEI)
New Development in FEI: Magellan™ XHR SEM
14:30-15:10 Scott Sitzman (Oxford Instruments)
What is new in Oxford instruments: EDS and EBSD
15:10-15:25 coffee break
15:25-17:00 FEI operation demo and Oxford EDS/EBSD (software) demo in 1302 Calit2 building

Fri. Jan 13, 2012
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-9:40 Marc Castagna (FEI)
Advanced applications of FEI Quanta 3D FEG: Slice & View, TEM specimen preparation, auto-FIB, STEM
9:40-10:20 Marc Castagna (FEI)
Advanced applications of FEI Quanta 3D FEG: biology, medicine and geology
10:20-10:35 Coffee break
10:35-11:15 Scott Sitzman (Oxford Instruments)
Advanced applications of EBSD
11:15-12:15 Scott Sitzman (Oxford Instruments)
EDS and EBSD operation demo in 1302 Calit2 Building
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-15: 15 Dr. Marc Castagna_ (FEI)
FEI advanced application demo in 1302 Calit2 Building