Join NESM for our 2020 Spring Workshops & Symposium at the Marine Biological Laboratory on April 23rd and 24th! This year, we’re hosting two workshops: Intro to Light Sheet Microscopy, and Array Tomography/ATUMtome, so whether you deal in photons or electrons, we’ve got something for you. Friday will be an Read more…
The NESM 2015 Fall Symposium and Business Meeting was held at The Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, MA on Dec 3rd. The meeting consisted of four seminar-style talks and four short lightning talks. The first riveting talk of the evening was given by Vinothan Manoharan, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Physics Read more…
The NESM 2015 Fall meeting was held on October 8th at Saint-Gobain’s Northboro Research and Development Center. Saint-Gobain personnel provided a fascinating tour of the 350-year-old company’s facility, which develops and tests new high-performance building materials for sustainable environments. After a wonderful introduction to the history of Saint-Gobain, NESM President Read more…
The NESM 2015 “Spring” meeting was held March 5th at the Bruker Optics building in Billerica, MA, during which the Cape got a foot of snow. Meeting registration coincided with brief tours of demonstration/training lab spaces that house SEM-EDS-EBSD, AFM, stylus profilometer, optical emission spectroscopy, Raman and IR microscopy systems. Read more…
This year NESM tried something new – a fall symposium with a unifying theme. The Symposium, called “Development of Microscopy Tools and Techniques” was held at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, MA, on Nov 20th. After a warm welcome from 2014 president Blair Rossetti, Jun Xu, a research scientist at Read more…
This year’s Fall Meeting was held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Thursday, October 2nd. The meeting kicked off with an open house at the University’s Electron Microscopy facility, hosted by facility director Dr. Alexander Ribbe. The Open House featured a presentation of EM equipment at UMass, facility tours and Read more…
Dear Fellow Microscopists, Compared to some NESM members, I’m a bit of a newcomer. The 2010 Fall Meeting at Carl Zeiss SMT was my first glimpse of the NESM family — a cozy group of brilliant scientists with a shared passion for very tiny things. At the time, I didn’t Read more…
This year’s spring symposium was held on May 2, 2014 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. The symposium was outstanding in its variety of speakers and the depth of their presentations. Zvonimir Dogic, Physics Department at Brandeis University: Dr. Dogic showed us the beauty of self-assembling “model membrane” Read more…
The 31st Annual Spring Workshops were held on May 1st, 2014 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Three workshops ran concurrently throughout the afternoon, and covered topics ranging from computational image analysis with ImageJ to STM/AFM microscopy techniques and cathodoluminescence on geological samples. [divider scroll_text=”Return to Top”] Read more…
What is Heartbleed? As many of you have likely heard, the internet was recently made aware of a major security flaw in a commonly used piece of software called OpenSSL. An oversight in the OpenSSL code allows hackers to harvest data stored in the RAM of web servers running the Read more…