Presidential Happenings
Organizers: Presidents of Joining Societies
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The Presidents of the sponsoring societies will offer special events throughout the week. These events will include keynote speakers and awards for various competitions such as the student Presidential Scholarships, Diatome Award, MSA Traveling Poster Awards and MAS Distinguished Scholar Awards. All attendees are strongly encouraged to attend these events to congratulate award winners and listen to the keynote presentations. Times for all events will be announced in the meeting Expo.
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Monday & Tuesday Afternoon Microscopy Workshop
Organizers: MSA Education Committee
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Beginning with Microscopy and Microanalysis 2007, the Education Committee of The Microscopy Society of America is pleased to announce a new series of workshops that will run on Monday and Tuesday afternoons and evenings during Microscopy and Microanalysis meetings. Lectures will be held between 1:30pm and 3:30pm, and laboratory sessions will be held from 5:30pm to 7:00pm in the Exhibit Hall. These workshops will supplement the traditional pre-meeting Short Courses and in-meeting Tutorials. The initial workshop will focus on a very basic introduction to the subject area in question, although workshops in subsequent years may feature more advanced treatments of a variety of topics. For 2007 there will be one workshop offered as follows:
X-08 Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray energy dispersive spectrometry (XEDS) - The characterization tools for nanotechnology.
Lecturers: David Joy and Nicholas Ritchie
Note:An additional fee applies for this special workshop. Please see registration Forms.
This course of four lectures and two laboratory lecture demonstrations will consist of basic introduc-tions to the scanning electron microscope on Monday afternoon and evening and to XEDS on Tuesday afternoon and evening. Instrument features, operation basics, image and spectral optimization and sample preparation will be discussed in the lectures and demonstrated in the laboratory lecture demonstrations.
The SEM lectures will be presented by David Joy (the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory). The XEDS lectures will be presented by Nicholas Ritchie (National Institutes of Standards and Technology). The evening laboratory lecture demonstrations will be performed on a wide variety of SEM and XEDS systems provided by the exhibiting companies present at the meeting. Each participating exhibitor will have one of their applications experts operating the instrument and there will be an expert lecturer-demonstrator drawn from the SEM and XEDS user community to explain each aspect of the demonstration. Enrollment of this workshop is limited to 50 people.
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Exhibitor's Tutorials/Demos - Tuesday Evening
Organizers: MSA Education Committee
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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. Details of these tutorials
will be listed approximately 1 month before the meeting and will be posted
on the Meeting News WWW page.
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IMS Henry Clifton Sorby Award and Lecture
Organizer: IMS
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The winner of the IMS Henry Clifton Sorby Award will be announced in the Spring of 2007. The prize will be awarded and the winner will present a lecture on the morning of Monday, August 6th in advance of the Metallographics techniques and materials characterization symposium. Please check the meeting schedule for the exact time and location of this event that will honor the outstanding achievements of the awardee.
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Art Exhibit
Sponsor: Microscopy Today
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As at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2006, we will have an exhibit of crystal photographs by T.H. Saunders. The images will be for sale with 100% of the net proceeds donated to the MSA Undergraduate Scholarship Fund. The main display of images will be in the exhibit area. Selected images will also be on view at the Microscopy Today desk in the society Megabooth where all of the images may be purchased.
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It's a Family Affair!
Organizer: Elaine Humphrey
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Through the years MSA council members have received many requests from meeting attendees to allow their children the opportunity to participate in the meeting by viewing the exhibits. With the anticipation that many families will be attending the Fort Lauderdale meeting, the councils of the joining societies and the program committee will sponsor a session aimed at children of all ages, including those of us that still consider ourselves children. A keynote speaker will present a number of interesting images, ranging from insects to atoms, that will demonstrate the wide range of science that the imaging technologies represent. Following the presentation, children will have the opportunity to participate in a guided tour of the exhibit floor and to visit some of the exhibitors to view the microscopes and see how they work. Please check the Meeting Expo and Daily Newsletter for the scheduled time of this exciting session designed to pique the scientific interest of children of all ages.
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Computer Workshop/Software Exchange and the Internet Cafe
Organizers: Nestor Zaluzec, John Mansfield
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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.
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