Grand Opening of UC Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI) and The First International Symposium on Advanced Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy (ISAMS-1) will be held on June 6-8 in Calit2 Auditorium at University of California, Irvine

Registration and information here: http://sites.uci.edu/isams1/

Detailed symposium plan is showed below.

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

 Location: Wyndham Hotel • Irvine

  • 6 pm – 8 pm: Reception/Happy Hour hosted by JEOL

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Location: CALIT2 Auditorium
Registration starts at 7:30 am at CALIT2
Symposium continues at 8:30 am at CALIT2 auditorium
Sign up for demos  and lab tour at registration table

  • 8:30 – 8:35am: Opening remarks (Xiaoqing Pan)
  • 8:35 – 9:00 am: Welcome remarks (Dean Washington)
Session I: TEM advancement in materials research
Chair: Xiaoqing Pan
  • 9:00 – 9:30 am: Stephen Pennycook, National University of Singapore
    New Insights into Materials with the NUS ARM
  • 9:30 – 10:00 am: Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Institute for Microstructure Research
    Towards Three-Dimensional Characterization of Magnetic Moments Inside Individual Nanocrystals in the Transmission Electron Microscope
  • 10:00 – 10:30 am: Xiaoqing Pan, University of California, Irvine
    Probing the Atomic Structure and Dynamic Behaviors of Materials by In-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy
  • 10:30 – 11:00 am: Break
Chair: Martha MeCartney
  • 11:00 – 11:30 am: Tracy Lovejoy, Nion
    Ultra-High Energy and Spatial Resolution STEM-EELS
  • 11:30 am – Noon: Naoya Shibata, University of Tokyo
    Aberration-corrected DPC STEM for Materials Research
    Noon – 12:30 pm: Xiuliang Ma, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Atomic Mapping of Domains and Interfacial Structures in Ferroelectric Films
  • 12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch
Session II: In situ TEM (1)
Chair: Reg Penner
  • 1:30 – 2:00 pm: Andrew M. Minor, University of California, Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    New Modes of Imaging for In-situ TEM Nanomechanical Testing
  • 2:00 – 2:30 pm: Robert F. Klie, University of Illinois, Chicago
    In-situ Materials Characterization at High Spatial Resolution: 2D Materials Based Liquid-Cell Microscopy
  • 2:30 – 3:00 pm: Haimei Zheng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Materials Transformations in Liquid and Gas Environment
  • 3:00 – 3:30 pm: Joerg Jinschek, Ohio State University
    Understand Dynamic Processes and Structure-property Relationships in Nanomaterials Using In-situ Electron Microscopy
  • 3:30 – 4:00 pm: Break
Chair: Toshi Aoki
  • 4:00 – 4:30 pm: Ilke Arslan, Argonne National Laboratory
    Advanced Measurements on the Nanoscale Enabled by Technique Development in the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope
  • 4:30 – 5:00 pm: Peter A. Crozier, Arizona State University
    In-Situ and Operando Electron Microscopy Imaging and Spectroscopy of Catalysts
  • 5:00 – 5:30 pm: Eric A Stach, University of Pennsylvania
    Using Operando Characterization, Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence to
    Understand Mechanistic Links between Processing and Structure
  • 5:30 – 5:50 pm: Qiang Xu, DENS Solutions
    Correlative Imaging of Catalysts at Working State
  • 5:50 – 6:10 pm: John Damiano, Protochips
    Optimizing In-situ TEM/STEM for EDS
  • 6:30 – 8:30 pm: Banquet (tickets required)

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony:  Location: In Front of Engineering Hall
Symposium continues at 11 am at CALIT2 auditorium
Registration starts at 8:00 am at CALIT2
Sign up for demos and lab tour at registration table

Grand Opening of UC Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI)
Chair: Xiaoqing Pan
  • 9:00 – 9:15 am: Welcome to Guests and Introduction of IMRI (Xiaoqing Pan)
  • 9:15 – 9:25 am: Opening remark (Chancellor Howard Gillman)
  • 9:25 – 9:35 am: Remark (Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Enrique Lavernia)
  • 9:35 – 9:45 am: Remark by Vendors (JEOL/NION/Gatan/Tescan)
  • 9:45 – 10:00 am: Ribbon cutting and group photo
  • 10:00 – 11:00 am: Lab Tour & Break
Session II: In situ TEM (2)
Chair: Daniel Mumm
  • 11:00 – 11:30 am: Robert Sinclair, Stanford University
    In-situ High Resolution and Environmental Electron
    Microscopy Studies of Material Reactions
  • 11:30 am – Noon: Julie Schoenung, University of California, Irvine
    Application of Advanced Microscopy Techniques to
    Reveal Characteristics of Ceramic/Metal Interfaces
  • Noon – 12:30 pm: Special presentation: Multi-scale Materials Research Facilities and Network
    Charles Ying, Program Director, Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) & National Facilities and Instrumentations (NaFI), Division of Materials Research, NSF
  • 12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch
Session III: Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy
Chair: Phil Collins
  • 1:30 – 2:00 pm: Philip E. Batson, Rutgers
    Phonon Spectroscopy and Mapping in Nanostructures
  • 2:00 – 2:30 pm: Juan-Carlos Idrobo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Towards a New Era in Imaging and Spectroscopy in the STEM:
    Probing Magnetism, Temperature & Anharmonicity at the Nanoscale
  • 2:30 – 3:00 pm: Christian Dwyer, Arizona State University
    Prospects of Vibrational Mapping in the STEM
  • 3:00 – 3:30 pm: Mitra Taheri, Drexel University
    Implications of Direct Detection Electron Energy-loss Spectroscopy
    (DD-EELS) for In-situ TEM: Challenges and Opportunities
  • 3:30 – 4:00 pm: Break
Session IV: Imaging and Spectroscopy (1)
Chair: Ruqian Wu
  • 4:00 – 4:30 pm: Jianwei Miao, University of California, Los Angeles
    Atomic Electron Tomography: Probing 3D Structure and
    Material Properties at the Single-Atom Level
  • 4:30 – 5:00 pm: Tina Scheu, Max Planck Institut fur Eisenforschung
    Combining Ultimate Resolution: Cs Corrected STEM and
    3D Atom Probe Tomography
  • 5:00 – 5:30 pm: David C. Bell, Harvard University
    Identifying Topological Materials for Quantum Computing Applications with Advanced Electron Microscopy
  • 5:30 – 6:00 pm: Holland Cheng, University of California, Davis
    Multimodal Imaging and Convolutional Neural Network for Nanomedicine

Friday, June 8, 2018

Location: CALIT2 Auditorium
Registration starts at 8:00 am at CALIT2
Symposium continues at 8:30 am at CALIT2 auditorium
Sign up for demos at registration table

Session IV: Imaging and Spectroscopy (2)
Chair: John Hemminger
  • 8:30 – 9:00 am: Susanne Stemmer, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Understanding Point Defects in Complex Oxides Using Quantitative STEM
  • 9:00 – 9:30 am: Yimei Zhu, Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Topological Vortices and Charge-Lattice Interactions in Multiferroic Oxides
  • 9:30 – 10:00 am: Huolin Xin, Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Five-Dimensional Transmission Electron Microscopy
  • 10:00 – 10:30 am: Peng Wang, Nanjing University
    Electron Ptychography
  • 10:30 – 10:50 am: Break
Chair: Regina Ragan
  • 10:50 – 11:10 am:  Hidetaka Sawada, JEOL
    Enhancement of Image Resolution and Analytical Sensitivity
    by Latest Technology in STEM and TEM
  • 11:10 – 11:30 am: Ray D. Twesten, Gatan
    Electron Counting Detectors for Imaging and Spectroscopy
  • 11:30 – Noon: Wu Zhou, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Interplay of Strain and Lattice Structure in Novel 2D Semiconductors
  • Noon – 12:30 pm: Peng Gao, Peking University
    Electron Microscopy Laboratory at PKU
  • 12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch
Session V: Cryo TEM for Biological Science
Chairs: Thomas Poulos and Celia Goulding

1:30 – 2:00 pm: Grant Jensen, Caltech
Structural Biology in vivo through Electron Cryotomography

2:00 – 2:30 pm: Andrew Ward, Scripps Institute
Structure-based Vaccine Design

2:30 – 3:00 pm: Tamir Gonen, University of California, Los Angeles
MicroED: Conception, Practice and Future Opportunities

3:00 – 3:15 pm: Break

3:15 – 3:45 pm: Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego
Opening Windows into the Cell:   Bringing Structure to Cell Biology
with Cryo-Electron Tomography

3:45 – 4:15 pm: Jose Rodriguez, University of California, Los Angeles
Atomic Resolution MicroED of Amyloid Assemblies

4:15 – 4:30 pm: Shane Gonen, University of California, San Francisco
Harnessing the Potential of Cryo-EM through Protein Design

4:30 – 4:40 pm: Closing remarks


Demo Schedule:

Wednesday, 1:30 – 3:30 pm: K2 EELS & STEMx (Gatan)

Thursday, 1:30 – 3:30 pm: In-Situ TEM using Gas Cell (DenzSolution)

Friday, 11:00 – 12:30 pm: In-Situ TEM using MEMS heating (Protochips)