SPMConnect

Submit your Poster Only Abstract - due March 31

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Symposium Co-Chairs

Liam Collins
Staff Scientist
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jason Killgore
Project Leader
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Greg Haugstad
Technical Staff Member & Director, Characterization Facility (CharFac)
University of Minnesota

Dalia Yablon
Technical Program Chair
TechConnect World Innovation Conference

Key Speakers

Faster and gentler: new scan algorithms and probes for AFM
Paul Ashby
Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In situ and Operando Force-based Atomic Force Microscopy For Probing Local Functionality in Energy Storage Materials
Nina Balke
Associate Professor, North Carolina State University

Multiplexed nanoscale viscoelastic mapping of melanoma cells as a biomarker of tumor progression and metastasis
Alex Cartagena-Rivera
Investigator, National Institutes of Health

Single electron spectroscopy and ultrafast time resolution by AFM
Peter Grutter
Professor, McGill University

The effects of beam dynamics on Atomic Force Microscopy measurements
Ryan Wagner
Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Exploiting infrared light-matter interactions to explore complex systems at the nanoscale
Laurene Tetard
Associate Professor, University of Central Florida

In Situ Study of the Pressure-Dependent Lubrication Mechanism of Phosphonium Phosphate Ionic Liquid in Nanoscale Single-Asperity Sliding Contacts
Filippo Mangolini
Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin

Real-Time Physics-Constrained Machine Learning in Multidimensional Atomic Force Microscopy
Josh Agar
Assistant Professor, Drexel University

A deep learning content-based image retrieval tool for AFM topography maps
Bahram Rajabifar
Senior Research Scientist, 3M

Contact Resonance AFM using Long, Massive, Flexible Tips
Ryan Tung
Associate Professor, University of Nevada Reno

Development of an automated sample preparation process for polymer blend morphology by AFM
Carl Reinhardt
Senior Technologist, The Dow Chemical Company

Rama Vasudevan
Group Leader
Oak Ridge National Labs

Evaluation of FluidFM for genome editing in single cells
Simona Patange
Biologist, NIST

Special Session: SPM Shared User Facilities

Managing an SPM Shared User Facility at MIT
Alan Schwartzman
Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christina Newcomb
SPM Lab Manager
Stanford University

Jason Tresback
Staff Scientist
Harvard University

About SPMConnect

SPMConnect is launching at TechConnect 2023 as an annual AFM-based conference to foster and support the AFM community in terms of idea exchange, best practices development, mentoring, and career development. In addition to research talks, in line with the industrial/innovation theme of the broader TCW meeting, SPMConnect will feature panel discussions and plenty of opportunities for AFM researchers and scientists to meet, network and exchange ideas.

This conference aims to bring together users from a wide variety of disciplines including polymer science, biology, energy, computing, materials science, and more who share an interest in SPM as an instrument to explore nanoscale phenomena and characterization. SPMConnect aims to include scientists and researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds including industry, instrumentation vendors, academia, and national labs. Technical abstracts for both oral and poster presentation are welcomed with topics for 2023 SPMConnect listed below.

Topics & Application Areas