APS/CNM/EMC Users Meeting: May 6-9, 2013

• Meeting web site

CNM-Specific Events

CNM Plenary Session

• Keynote Speaker: Paul Nealey
  Brady W. Dougan Professor in Molecular Engineering
  University of Chicago
  "Directed Assembly of Nanoscale Materials"
• Junhong Chen
  Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
  University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
  "Nanocarbon-Based Gas Sensors"
• Chad Folkman
  Materials Science Division
  Argonne National Laboratory
  "Catalysis and Electronic Structure of Complex Epitaxial Oxide Thin Films Studied by in situ X-Ray Scattering and Cross-Sectional STM"
• Greg Wurtz
  Experimental Biophysics & Nanotechnology Group
  King's College London
  "Ultrafast Dynamics and Spectral Behavior of Nanorod-Based Plasmonic Metamaterials and Their Excitonic Hybrids"
• Sanja Tepavcevic
  Center for Nanoscale Materials
  Argonne National Laboratory
  "Nanoarchitectures for Batteries Beyond Lithium"
• Invited Student Talk
  Daniel Hannah
  Northwestern University
  "Optical and Structural Properties of Silicon Nanoparticles at High Pressures"

Thematic Workshops

• Nanoscale Imaging of Next-Generation Materials
  Co-Organizers: Jorg Maser (APS), Jeff Guest (CNM), and Jianguo Wen (EMC/MSD)
• Pushing the Boundaries in Energy Technology: Materials Design for Battery Applications:
  Co-Organizers: Mahalingam Balasubramanian (APS), Elena Shevchenko (CNM), Mitra Taheri (EMC/Drexel)
• Driving Discovery: Visualization, Data Management, and Workflow Techniques
  Co-Organizers: Nicholas Schwarz & Siwei Wang (APS), Ian McNulty (CNM) C.D. Phatak (EMC/NST)

CNM Workshop

• Nanostructured Carbon Materials for MEMS/NEMS and Nanoelectronics
  Co-Organizers: Ani Sumant (CNM) and Horacio Espinosa (NU)

Industrial Workshop

• Argonne User Facilities for Industry 101
  Co-Organizers: Jyotsana Lal (APS) and Andreas Roelofs (CNM)

Short Courses

• Confocal Raman Microscopy
  Organizer: Dave Gosztola
• Modeling and Simulation of Nanofabrication Processes
  Organizer: Ralu Divan
• Using the Hard X-Ray Nanoprobe
  Organizer: Martin Holt
• High-Performance Computing Techniques for Materials Modeling and Nanophotonics
  Organizer: Michael Sternberg

Poster Session

CNM Best Student Poster Prize awarded to Mark Huntington, Northwestern University, for "Nanomanufacturing for Plasmonic and Photonic Crystals" by Mark Huntington, Alexander Hryn, and Teri Odom

Vendor Expo