The UMass Amherst Physics Dept. and Polymer Science and Engineering Dept. jointly hosted the NESM fall meeting. Thanks for Dr. Jennifer Ross and Dr. Alex Ribbe for all their help setting up the meeting. NESM would also like to say a special thanks to Dr. Todd Emrick, (Director of the National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) on Polymers at UMass Amherst) for a donation to support UMass student attendance at the fall meeting. We hope to see all our new student members at a future meeting.
The meeting started with four well attended workshops in the afternoon: Introduction to HRSEM for Soft Materials presented by Alex Ribbe (UMass Amherst), Lessons Learned by Building a Multicolor TIRF/STORM Microscope presented by the Ross Lab (UMass Amherst), Modern Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications in Materials Science, Nano-Technology and Other Fields presented by Joe Dorsheimer & Alex Rzhevskii (Thermo Scientific), and Helium Ion Microscopy for Materials Application and Biological Imaging presented by Bernhard Goetze & Bipin Singh (Carl Zeiss). NESM sincerely thanks all the presenters for putting on such great workshops.
After dinner, Professor Lori Goldner (UMass Amherst) presented her work on single-molecule sensitive fluorescence microscopy of droplet-confined biomolecules. Professor Goldner shared her groups experience making single-molecule sensitive fluorescence measurements and discussed several schemes for trapping, tracking, mixing, and making measurements in nanodroplets.
The evening concluded with a talk from Professor Joseph Goldstein (UMass Amherst) on the Extraterrestrial metal as observed by electron microscopy techniques. Professor Goldstein generously passed around some polished samples of meteors so we could all appreciate the Widmanstatten pattern up close. He then explained how, by using electron microscopy to study the metal phases, he could determine the cooling rate of different meteors and determine the history of the early solar system.
NESM thanks both speakers for generously giving up their Friday evening to share their research with us.
Arthur McClelland
2015 Physical Sciences Director
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