The Ask-the-Experts session takes on a different format this year to provide programming closer to the time of the annual Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) meeting, and to better address the needs of the meeting attendees. Rather than listing topics in the Call for Papers, which must be produced nearly a year before the meeting, this is your opportunity to submit questions to experts attending M&M 2004 will be provided at the time the program is posted on the meeting web site in the months leading up to the meeting. This link will allow participants to submit questions, and name the expert to whom the question is addressed, as they browse the M&M 2004 program on-line. The Ask-the- Experts organizers will then seek to schedule a time to address topics of significant interest during the meeting. The schedule of topics will be announced and posted to the meeting website a couple of weeks before the early registration deadline, so that potential M&M 2004 attendees can schedule in the topics of interest to them. Please plan to participate both in the topic selection and the sessions, so that we can gauge whether this change of format is beneficial!

Nestor J. Zaluzec / Zaluzec@Microscopy.Com