AREMS
Appalachian REgional Microscopy Society
A local affiliate society of the Microscopy Society of America and the Microbeam Analysis Society.
THE ANNUAL FALL MEETING
At
THE BROYHILL INN & CONFERENCE CENTER
In BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA
OCTOBER 3rd AND 4th
Visit
the
website of the Broyhill Inn
Broyhill Inn and Conference
Center
Other housing is
available
at:
Hampton Inn 800-HAMPTON
Best Western 888-573-0408
Red Carpet Inn 800-443-7179
A printable copy of the Registration Form is available here. Click here
Thursday,
October 3, 2002
12:00 Noon until 3:00 p.m. Registration:The Broyhill Conference Center
WORKSHOPS: All
workshop presenters
will have working instruments on site. The sessions will be
practical,
with no previous experience necessary. Advance registration
for
the workshops is requested. Send
email to : nancy@icmas.com
Note: All workshops are scheduled for Thursday, October 3, 2002.
For a description of each of the workshops, Click Here
Workshop 1. 8:30 am - Noon
Workshop
1
"Contamination-free TEM Specimen preparation in material sciences"
– Sponsored by E.A. Fischione Instruments, Inc. USA
Workshop 2. 8:30 am - Noon Workshop
"Microwave enhanced immunolabeling in your laboratory or
How to make time for all your
other experiments"
--Presented by Electron Microscopy Sciences
Workshop 3. 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm.
"Adding FT-IR Capability To Your Light Microscope"
--Presented by SensIR Technologies
Workshop 4. 1:00 pm - 4:30 p.m.
"Microtomy Workshop "
– Sponsored by Vashaw Scientific and Leica, USA
Special
Note:
A Tribute to Dr. McCrone
A video presentation will be presented
several
times during the day on Thursday. This video was produced by
a Chicago TV station and aired on
the "New Explorers" program. It highlights the work done by Dr.
McCrone
on the "Shroud of Turin" and on a lost Manet painting. Dr.
McCrone
was our Guest Speaker at our Spring meeting in 1999. He passed
away
on July 10, 2002. for more information on Dr. McCrone go to
http://www.mccrone.org
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Thursday afternoon and Friday Morning
"A comparative Microscopy
Study
of Self=Assembled Nanofibers"
M.E. Salmon, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC
P. E. Russell and E. B. Troughton
Jr.,
Thomas Lord Research Center, Lord Corporation, Cary, NC
"Measurements of GaN-Based Heterostructures
with
Electron Beam Induced Current"
K. L. Bunker, J.C. Gonzalez, A. D.
Batchelor, and P. E. Russell
Materials Science and Engineering
Department, Analytical Instrumentation Facility,
North Carolina State University,
Box
7531, Raleigh, NC 27695
SOCIAL HOUR: 6:00 - 7:00 Cash Bar, Broyhill Inn
BANQUET: 7:00 - 9:00
Broyhill Inn and Conference Center
Speaker: Dr. John
Reffner
"Confessions of a Chemical Microscopist"
For a
brief abstract, click here
For a brief
biographical sketch of Dr. Reffner, Click here.
Schedule
for Friday
Paper Presentations and Business Meeting
(Abstracts of each paper and poster may be
found at http://www.uvawise.edu/arems/papers.html
)
8:00 a.m. Louis T.
Germinario, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN
"Asphalt Microscopy: potential links between nanometer-scale
self-assembled structures and performance"
8:30 a.m. Bill Chauvin,
Thermo
Noran, Middleton, Wi
"X-Ray Maps- What are they telling Me?"
9:00 a.m. Stan Kunigelis,
University
of Virginia-Wise
"Snailing"
9:30 a.m. Business Meeting and Break
10:30 a.m. Paper to be announced later.
11:00 a.m. Tara Nylese, EDAX/TSL
Inc.
Mahwah, NJ.
"Emergence of electron backscattered diffraction systems in industry
today"
11:30 a.m. Thomas J. Hopen, ATF
Forensic Sciences Laboratory, Atlanta GA
"The identification of explosive and explosive residues by polarized
light microscopy"
Closing
Remarks:
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