From Julien Allaz:
The Focused Interest Group on MicroAnalytical Standards (FIGMAS) is organizing a Pre-Meeting Congress (PMC) at the 2018 Microscopy and Microanalysis meeting in Baltimore. We kindly invite you to participate and even to submit a poster contribution (*) to...
X61 - Standards and Reference Materials for Microanalysis
Sunday, August 5, 2018 (8:30 to 5 PM; Baltimore, MD)
https://www.microscopy.org/MandM/2018/program/congress_X61.cfm Registration for the PMC will open on March 1st. Everybody is welcome! You do NOT need to be a FIGMAS member to register for this PMC.
The PMC will include discussions on standards and reference materials used in a large variety of microanalytical techniques (SEM-EDS, electron microprobe, TEM, LA-ICP-MS, etc.) and their current and future needs. The PMC will consist of three main topics with their set of invited speakers from academic and federal institutions as well as industry (title of each talk to be announced later):
PART 1 - Standard-based and standardless best practices
Nicholas Ritchie (NIST)
Philippe Pinard (Oxford Instruments)
Steve Seddio (Thermo Scientific)
PART 2 - Standard maintenance and availability
Cathy Johnson (Mager Scientific)
Tim Rose (Smithsonian Institution - National Museum for Natural History)
Gene Rodek (SPI)
PART 3 - Sourcing and creating future standard materials
Steve Wilson (USGS)
William Nachlas (Syracuse University)
There will be abundant time for open discussion and questions at the end of each session. At the end of the congress, posters will be set up for informal interaction with the authors and participants.
(*) We kindly invite you to submit an abstract (in the M&M abstract format -
https://www.microscopy.org/MandM/2018/program/submit.cfm). Deadline for abstract submission to our PMC is Friday June 1st, 2018. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please send the abstract directly to PMC2018@figmas.org (do NOT use the M&M abstract submission platform!). Accepted abstracts will be published in a dedicated program book for the PMC, and will be available as a print-out to attendees, and later available online (PDF) to the greater public.
The PMC registration includes breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks.
Looking forward to see you in Baltimore!
For FIGMAS,
Julien M. Allaz (leader)
Anette von der Handt (leader-elect)
Owen K. Neill (secretary-treasurer)