Message from Director

Welcome!

Hitachi High Technologies (HHT) and Northwestern University's NUANCE Center are holding a one-day focused workshop on "Microscopy of Soft and Hybrid Materials" on Monday, October 25, 2010, at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Organized as a part of the NUANCE Center's "A Decade of Excellence" initiative, the primary purpose of the workshop is to review progress in, and prospects for, the emerging field of microscopy of soft and hybrid materials, and to provide an informative, intellectually stimulating and mutually beneficial forum on the topics. Sessions are on the topics of Cryo SEM; Cryo STEM; Analytical STEM; and Xray Scattering.

The workshop will be held at Northwestern University's James L. Allen Center Tribune Auditorium, 2169 Campus Drive (see campus map) and will feature the following Invited Speakers:

  • Richard Leapman, Scientific Director, NIBIB, NIH
  • Lia Addadi, Professor, Dept of Structural Biology, Weizmann Inst of Science, Israel
  • Chris Jacobsen, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
  • Dr. Roger Wepf, Electron Microscopy ETH Zurich (EMEZ)
  • Michael Marko, Resource for Visualization of Biological Complexity, Wadsworth Center, New York State Dept of Health
  • Eli Sone, Professor, Inst. of Biomaterials & Biomed Engineering, University of Toronto
  • Mr. Mitsuru Konno, Hitachi High Technologies
  • Mr. Atsushi Muto, Hitachi High Technologies
  • Dr. Kenji Iwasaki, Professor, Inst. of Protein Research, Osaka Univ. Laboratory of Protein Synthesis & Expression

Please let us know if you plan to attend by providing your information on the Registration page.

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!

Best regards,
Professor Vinayak P. Dravid, NUANCE Center Director
and the Scientific Program Committee


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