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…
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…
On February 25th, 2014, the Spring meeting was held the Cabot Corporation headquarters in Billerica, MA starting at 5:30pm. The evening started with members socializing over a delicious meal generously provided by Cabot, before the Welcome address from NESM President Blair Rossetti. Dr. Toivo Kodas from Cabot Corporation spoke first and Read more…
The NESM fall meeting was held at Brandeis University this year. Lab tours were offered during registration. Interim President Fettah Kosar opened the meeting with the unfortunate news that Xiaowei Zhuang had lost her voice and would be unable to speak. Luckily, Jeff Gelles from Brandeis University stepped in Read more…
On Thursday, October 17th, NESM held its annual Fall Meeting at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s new Saab Emerging Technologies and Innovations Center (ETIC). The evening meeting kicked off with tours of the ETIC’s state-of-the-art nanofabrication facilities. Next, attendees socialized over a buffet-style dinner before being officially welcomed by NESM’s Read more…