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EMAL 40th Anniversary Symposium
The EMAL 40th Anniversary Symposium was held on October 19th and 20th, 2009, from
8:00am - 5:30pm in 1670 Computer Science & Engineering, on the North Campus of the University of Michigan
This symposium was organized by John Mansfield in order to celebrate the establishment, in 1969 of the University of Michigan Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory. The lab was established by Professor Wilbur C. Bigelow, then a professor of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. The first instruments purchase were an electron microprobe analyzer and a scanning electron microscope. The EMAL history continues...
The EMAL 40th Symposium was held in conjunction with the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Annual Van Vlack Lecture series. The presentations for the main body of the symposium were all alumni of EMAL from across the years and the Van Vlack Lecturer presented a keynote lecture at the end of the day. The Van Vlack Lecturer for 2009 was Professor Edwin L. (Ned) Thomas, the Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institutie of Technology. The close ties between UM's MSE and EMAL meant that this merger of events allowed not only a economy of scale, but an expanded platform of speakers.
The symposium was a two day event, a day of presentation, followed by a reception and dinner, and then a second day of presentations. The first day featured an opening presentation, jointly presented by Wil Bigelow and John Mansfield, on the history and development of the Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory. There then followed presentations by five alumni of the facility, some of whom had been at Michigan at the beginning. During the afternoon coffee break on the first day,a student poster competition showcased current student research based in EMAL. The First Van Vlack Lecture for 2009 rounded out the day. The second day features a further six EMAL alumni presenting aspects of their current research and then the Second Van Vlack Lecture for 2009 ended the proceedings.
The full schedule of presenters included:
Day 1 - Monday, October 19th 2009
- 9:30-10:15
Introduction and EMAL History
Wilbur Bigelow - Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
John Mansfield - Associate Director of EMAL - 10:15 - 11:00
In-Situ Environmental Electron Microscopy, Then and Now
Larry Allard - Oak Ridge National Laboratory - 11:00 - 11:45
17 Years of Chasing Moore’s Law at Intel Corporation
John Mardinly - Western Digital Media - 13:00 - 13:45
Shaping Nano-Scale Crystals: from Shells to Technological Materials
Christine Orme - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - 13:45 - 14:30
Polymer Microscopy: from Classical Imaging to Current Developments
Christian Kübel - Karlsruhe Insitute of Nanotechnology - 15:45-16:30
Biomineralization of Extracellular Matrix Proteins Probed at the Nanoscale by Synchrotron and Electron Imaging Methods
Elaine DiMasi - Brookhaven National Laboratory - 16:30-17:30
First Van Vlack Lecture
Knowledge of Structure is the Pathway to Enlightenment
Edwin Thomas - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Day 2 - Tuesday, October 20th 2009
- 9:30-10:15
How Optical Analysis and Grain Boundary Theory can Solve Problems in Textiles or
Things I Learned at EMAL that I Never Thought I Would Use Again!
Tricia Wilson Nguyen - Fabric Works, LLC and Thistle Threads, LLC - 10:15 - 11:00
Nanolayered Composites: Defect Structures, Mechanical Behavior and Radiation Effects
Amit Misra - Los Alamos National Laboratory - 11:00 - 11:45
Electron Microscopy for Physics of Failure of High Power Laser Diodes
Brendan Foran - The Aerospace Corporation - 13:00 - 13:45
Effect of Si-doping on the Evolution and Growth of Stress and Threading Dislocations in AlGaN
Films Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
Xiaojun Weng - The Pennsylvania State University
13:45 - 14:30 - Finding Excuses Not to Do TEM - Nanoscale Structural Analysis Inside an SEM
Yoosuf Picard - Carnegie Mellon University - 15:45-16:30
Morphology Characterization of Polymer Nanocomposites with HRTEM and Electron Tomography
Lawrence F. Drummy - Wright Patterson Air Force Base - 16:30-17:30
Second Van Vlack Lecture
Polymer Based NanoMaterials for PhoXonics - (where X = t + n)
Edwin Thomas - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Mansfield (left) and Myungkoo Kang, the first place winner of the student poster competition with his winning poster.