Category: Events, Seminars & Classes

Southern California Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis
Spring Symposium
April 16, 2011
SCSMM would like to invite its members, local professionals, microscopists,
microanalysts, students and guests to attend the annual All-Day Symposium on Saturday,
April 16th at the South Coast Winery & Spa facilities in Temecula, CA, which is located
about an hour drive from San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles.
This full-day meeting will feature invited speakers who are renowned experts in their
field and who will present forefront research topics in the application of microscopy in
the fields of physical and biological sciences.
The meeting will feature several student platform presentations and an award of $500
will be presented for the best student platform presentation to support travel to M&M
2011 to be held in Nashville, TN.
In addition to participating in the meeting one can enjoy the local attractions. Temecula is
in the heart of California’s South Coast wine region. It is well known for its
championship golf courses, hot-air ballooning adventures, and award-winning wineries
nestled in 3,000 acres of picturesque wine country. The Old Town district blends historic
buildings with over 640 antique dealers, unique shopping, and restaurants. All these
make Temecula Valley Wine County a beautiful and fun area to visit.
We are looking forward to a great meeting in Temecula.
REGISTRATION:
Advanced reservation is required. The event is limited to 100 participants.
Due to the generous support of FEI Co., Oxford Instruments, and Leica Microsystems
registration is free for SCSMM members.
Non-members are required to pay the regular annual membership of $10, for students it is
$5.
Respond by 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Contact: Jim Kuleck at (818) 354 5666, email: james.kulleck@jpl.nasa.gov.
For further details visit SCSMM web site: http://www.scsmm.org/

Be there!  More details at www.scsmm.org

Beckman Institute

California Institute of Technology

Schedule

08:00 – 12:00      Registration, Continental Breakfast
Selection bagels, sweet rolls, mini croissants and mini-muffins along with tea, coffee, and juice

08:25      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      Four (Under) Graduate Student Presentations:

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

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

15:45 – 16:30      Nicholas Ritchie (NIST, MAS Tour Speaker): “Standards-based Analysis – When and How?”

16:30 – 17:00      Tour of Caltech microscopy facility

17:00      Meeting adjourns

Poster Presentations

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

The SCSMM acknowledges and thanks our vendors for their financial support of our All-day Symposium.

Registration and other details are posted
on the SCSMM website at:

www.scsmm.org.

Informal discussion groups will be held on an irregular basis on Wednesdays at noon in Room 1322 in Calit2.  These are designed to be tutorial in nature.  Bring questions.  I will plan a brief opening talk with Powerpoint slides but quickly transition into an open discussion.

Jan 27 – Pole figures – what are they – with reference to the Mambo program for analyzing EBSD patterns.  Relevant to all EBSD users.

Feb 3 – Specimen preparation for SEM, EDS, and EBSD.  A discussion on specimen preparation for powders will be included if requested.

Feb 10 – Make suggestions… e-mail jrporter@uci.edu