'Once again the MSA Education Committee is organizing Exhibitor Demonstrations and Tutorials on Tuesday, August 5 from 6:00 to 8:00pm in the Exhibit Hall. These mini-seminars or tutorial demonstrations are held in the booths of the participating companies after the Hall is closed to non-participants at 5:00 pm.

Signup sheets with titles and descriptions are at the MSA Education table in the MSA Mega Booth. When you sign up you will be issued a ticket, which you will need to renter the Hall after it is closed. You need to sign up no later than noon on Tuesday. The number of attendees is limited, so visit the MSA Education table soon, since the demonstrations get filled up quickly!

Here's a list of participating Exhibitors and titles:

Accurion Scientific Instruments
"Atomic Force Microscopy meets Optical Microscopy"

Asylum Research
"Simultaneous AFM and Fluorescence Imaging with the MFP-3D AFM"

Bitplane, Inc.
"4D Particle Tracking"

Delong America
"LVEM5: Applications and Operations"

EDAX
"Stereo Imaging - how to collect and view images in 3D"
"What you can do with an Orientation Imaging Microscopy EBSD System"

Emispec Systems, Inc.
"A new software architecture for SPM imaging and spectroscopy; a joint development between Emispec System, Inc. and Molecular Imaging Corporation"

Extec Corp./A4I America
"SIMPLICITYÉIntegrated Image Analysis commencing with Sample Preparation"

FEI Company
"Overcoming Hurdles in High-resolution TEM Tomography"

Gatan, Inc.
"The Gatan User Tutorial"

HACKER Instruments & Industries Inc.
"Advances in Microwave Specimen Preparation for TEM"

Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc.
"FE-SEM: SE/BSE Mixing- Pros and Cons"

Horiba, Inc.
"Transmission X-Ray Analysis on your Desktop"

Imago Scientific Instruments Corporation
"Introducing Imago's LEAPTM Atom Probe Microscope: innovative microscopy for rapid 3-D imaging and analysis at the atomic scale"

Microscopy/Microscopy Education, Inc.
"Calibrating Fluorescence"

Molecular Imaging
"Simultaneous Sample Topography and BioMolecular Force Recognition Mapping with a Versatile New Single Molecule Force Recognition Tool Kit"

Nanoptek Corporation
"Photon Tunneling Microscopy: Sub-nanometer profiling in real time"

Nanotech-America
"Breaking the bounds of AFM: New Hybrid Techniques"

Quantum Dot Corp
"Lighting Up Cells and Tissues with Qdotª Labels"

RMC-Boeckeler Instruments Inc.
"Cryofixation & Freeze Substitution - A Complete Solution"

SensIR Technologies
"The IlluminatIR - Combining light microscopy with infrared spectral analysis"

Soft Imaging System (SIS)
"Laboratory Image Management"

South Bay Technology, Inc.
"Ion Beam Sputtering: Applications to Electron Microscopy"

Thermo Electron Corporation
"NSS Development"

See you in San Antonio!