List of Topics

Materials Science and Nanotechnology

• M-1  Nanowires, Nanotubes and Particles
• M-2  Graphene, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes
• M-3  Surfaces, Interfaces, Thin Films and Coatings
• M-4  Grain Boundaries and Defected Structures
• M-5  Semiconductors and LSI device materials
• M-6  Magnetic materials and super-conducting materials
• M-7  Catalytic materials
• M-8  Metals, alloys and phase transformations
• M-9  Ceramic Materials and Complex Oxides
• M10  Amorphous, disordered materials and quasicrystals
• M-11  Polymers, molecular crystals and radiation sensitive materials
• M-12  Engineered nanostructures/nanomaterials
• M-13  Composite and self-assembled materials
• M-14  Porous materials
• M-15  Geological and mineralogical materials
• M-16  Microscopy of Biological, Biomimetic and Medical Materials
• M-17  Industrial applications of microscopy
• M-18  Forensic applications
• M-19  In situ applications of microscopy
• M-20  Materials in archeology and cultural heritage
• M-21  Energy-related materials
• M-22  Environmental-related materials and air-born particles

Life Sciences

• L-1  Confocal and multifoton microscopy
• L-3  Live cell imaging
• L-4  Correlative light-electron microscopy
• L-5  Advances in scanning electron microscopy Applied to Life Sciences
• L-6  Scanning probe microscospy
• L-7  Identification and localization of proteins and other molecules by electron microscopy
• L-8  Microscopy cytochemistry
• L-9  Analytical microscopy and biological nanoanalysis
• L-10  Electron microscopy of cellular transport and dynamics
• L-11  Three-dimensional reconstruction in electron microscopy
• L-12  Advanced Replica techniques for TEM and high-resolution SEM
• L-13  Plant science
• L-14  Mycology and parasitology
• L-15  Bacteriology and virology
• L-16  Cell and tissue structure
• L-17  Pathology
• L-18  Hard tissues
• L-19  Supramolecular structure
• L-20  Structure of macromolecular complexes
• L-21  Advances in biological sample preparation

Instrumentation and Techniques

• I-1  Development in electron optical elements (guns, lens monochromator, filter, detector)
• I-2  Advancing HR-TEM and HR-STEM
• I-3  Advances in SEM and SIM
• I-4  Quantitative electron diffraction techniques (CBED, EBSD)
• I-5  Electron energy loss spectroscopy and energy-filtered imaging/mapping
• I-6  Advances in X-ray/CL spectrometry and mapping
• I-7  Electron tomography
• I-8  Electron holography
• I-9  In-situ and UHV electron microscopy
• I-10  Environmental microscopy (SEM, TEM, SPM)
• I-11  Surface microscopy (LEEM, PEEM, AEM, EPMA)
• I-12  Scanning probe microscopy (STM, SFM, MFM)
• I-13  Advanced optical microscopy (NSOM, Confocal microscopy)
• I-14  Atom Probe Tomography
• I-15  X-ray microscopy
• I-16  Digital imaging and processing techniques
• I-17  Remote electron microscopy
• I-18  Advances in sample preparation techniques
• I-19  Focused ion beam theory, application and techniques for physical and biological sciences
• I-20  Advances in instrumentation and techniques
• I-21  Lensless Imaging
• I-22  Forty Years after the First EM Images of Single Atoms
• I-23  Phase Contrast Devices theoretical concepts and applications