The presidents of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) and the Microbeam Analysis Society (MAS) offer special events on Monday and Tuesday. Each event will include a keynote speaker and an awards ceremony, and is open to all conference attendees.

The winner of the Henry Clifton Sorby award will be announced in the Spring of 2004. The prize will be awarded and the winner will present a one-hour lecture on morning of Monday, August 2 in advance of the IMS symposia.

As in years past, we are pleased to feature an exhibit of the works of David Scharf at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2004. The art exhibit will be displayed in a prominent area of the Savannah Convention Center that is accessible to the public. A must for families of meeting registrants.

The computer workshop and software exchange will be operating throughout the Meeting and will be located on the Exhibit floor adjacent to the society information booth. Participants can view and discuss the more than 500 Mbytes of data, programs, general information and images available in the public domain software library. A limited number of Mac and PC systems will be available for viewing, discussing and copying programs. In addition, a number of connections to the Internet are planned and will be available to all conference attendees to provide access to Email and WWW services. This will be contingent upon availability of systems with respect to any other workshop or meeting demonstrations and the arrangements with a local Internet Service Provider. The Workshop and Internet Cafe will only be available during normal Exhibit hours.

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.