SPMConnect

Symposium Co-Chairs

Liam Collins
Staff Scientist
Oak Ridge National Lab

Jason Killgore
Project Leader
NIST

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

Dalia Yablon
Technical Program Chair
TechConnect World Innovation Conference

Key Speakers

Paul Ashby
Staff Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Nina Balke
Associate Professor
NC State

Alex Cartagena-Rivera
Investigator
NIH

Peter Grutter
Professor
McGill University

Ryan Wagner
Assistant Professor
Purdue University

Laurene Tetard
Associate Professor
University of Central Florida

Filippo Mangolini
Assistant Professor
UT Austin

Josh Agar
Assistant Professor
Drexel University

Bahram Rajabifar
Senior Research Scientist
3M

Ryan Tung
Associate Professor
University of Nevada Reno

Carl Reinhardt
Senior Technologist
Dow

Special Session: SPM Shared User Facilities

Alan Schwartzman
Research Scientist
MIT

Christina Newcomb
SPM Lab Manager
Stanford 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.