Sunday, August 3, 2008

• MAS Council Meeting (Ruidoso Room), 7:30 AM–5:30 PM

• MAM Editors' Board Meeting (Zuni Room), 3:00–5:00 PM

• Opening Reception, 6:30–9:30 PM (Rio Grande Zoo, ticket required, see Page 19)

Monday, August 4, 2008

• MAM Editorial Board Meeting (Zuni Room), 7:15–8:15 AM

• M&M 2008 Program Planning Meeting (Zuni Room), 3:30–5:00 PM

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

• M&M 2009 Call for Papers Meeting (Zuni Room), 10:00 AM–12:00 PM

• MAS Presidential Happening (Aztec Room), 12:15–1:15 PM

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

• MAS Affiliated Regional Societies Luncheon (Cochiti Room), 12:15–1:15 PM

• MAS Business Meeting (Aztec Room), 5:15–6:15 PM

• MAS Members Social, 6:30 PM (ticket required; visit MAS Booth for information)

Thursday, August 7, 2008

• MSA/MAS Sustaining Members Breakfast (Tesuque Room), 7:00–9:00 AM

Executive Council

• President: Ian M. Anderson

• President Elect: Catherine Johnson

• Past President: Paul G. Kotula

• Secretary: Scott D. Davila

• Treasurer: James J. McGee

Appointed Officers and Committee Chairs

• MAS Business Office: William S. Thompson

Peter Duncumb Award for Excellence in Microanalysis

The Duncumb Award recognizes outstanding achievement over a sustained period of time in the field of microanalysis through technical accomplishment, leadership, and educational and professional activities. The award winner is chosen through nomination by the MAS membership and selection by vote of MAS Council.

Presidential Service Award

This award honors a member of MAS for outstanding volunteer service to the society over a sustained period of time. The award winner is chosen annually by the MAS President.

Presidential Science Award

This award honors a senior scientist for outstanding technical contributions to the field of microanalysis over a sustained period of time. The award winner is chosen annually by the MAS President.

K. F. J. Heinrich Award

This award honors a scientist under the age of forty for distinguished technical contributions to the field of microanalysis. The award winner is chosen annually by the MAS President.

MAS Distinguished Scholar Awards

These awards are presented annually to students presenting high quality technical papers with significant microanalysis content at the annual meeting. The award is comprised of complimentary registration and significant funds to defray travel expenses to attend the meeting. Application is accomplished by requesting consideration for a student award during the paper submission process. Qualified applicants must be full-time students at an accredited educational institution, must be first author of the paper submitted for consideration, and must present the paper in person at the meeting. MAS Distinguished Scholars receive invitations to attend MAS-sponsored functions throughout the week of the annual meeting, including the Presidents' Reception and the MAS Social. The award winners are chosen annually by the MAS President.

MAS Outstanding Paper Awards

These awards are presented annually to the authors of outstanding papers from the previous annual meeting in each of four categories. The four awards are as follows:

• ʼn Birks Award, for best contributed paper;

• ʼn Macres Award, for best instrumentation or software paper;

• ʼn Cosslett Award, for best invited paper; and

• ʼn Castaing Award, for best student paper.

Candidates for the MAS Outstanding Paper Awards are nominated, through consultation with symposium organizers and the MAS membership, by the MAS Directors in their final year of service at the time of the meeting, then approved by vote of MAS Council.

Duncumb Award for Excellence in Microanalysis

Duncumb Award for Excellence in Microanalysis, Joseph I. Goldstein

Joseph I. Goldstein is a scientist, educator and administrator internationally known for his work in the development of X-ray techniques in electron microscopy to determine the chemistry of small regions of solid materials, ranging from cubic micrometers to cubic nanometers, and in the field of meteoritics, the study of meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials. Working with colleagues, he has developed methodologies and instrumentation for electron microscopes to improve spatial resolution, to minimize the effects of spurious radiation, and to improve light element and trace element analysis, and used these techniques to measure diffusion coefficients and phase diagrams, to study phase growth and ternary diffusion effects in iron base alloys and various diffusion coatings, and to understand the metal phases in meteorites and lunar samples. Dr. Goldstein has written over 200 technical papers. He has been awarded the Presidential Science Award of the Microbeam Analysis Society and the Leonard Medal of the Meteoritical Society.

Joe Goldstein has shown active leadership in his fields of study. He founded the Lehigh Microscopy School, the most influential and comprehensive education program in electron microscopy and microanalysis, and has co-authored textbooks that have become the recognized standards in the field. As a university administrator, he has overseen the development of several major research centers, the improvement of undergraduate engineering curricula, and the promotion of information technology education. He has served as president of the Microbeam Analysis Society and The Meteoritical Society.

Presidential Science Award

Presidential Science Award, Thomas F. Kelly

Thomas F. Kelly, professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until September 2001, founded Imago Scientific Instruments to commercialize the atom-probe microscope—a technology that enables researchers to analyze materials such as computer chips at the atomic scale. His invention, the Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP), captures an atom-by-atom “picture” of a material and renders that image on a computer screen in 3D.

Thomas F. Kelly received a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with highest honors from Northeastern University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. He joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in January 1983, becoming a Full Professor in 1994. Tom served as Director of the Materials Science Center from 1992 to 1999.

Tom Kelly has been active in the fields of microscopy and microanalysis, and their applications to rapidly solidified, electronic, and superconducting materials for over 30 years. He has published over 125 papers and 6 patents in these fields over this period. Dr. Kelly is an authority on microstructural characterization. He is expert in most methods and techniques of transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and atom probe microscopy and has brought innovations to their instrumentation and practice. Tom has served as a Director of the Microscopy Society of America. He is currently President of the International Field Emission Society.

K. F. J. Heinrich Award

K. F. J. Heinrich Award, Paul G. Kotula

Paul G. Kotula is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Materials Characterization Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. Paul received his B.S. from Cornell University and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, both in Materials Science and Engineering. Before joining Sandia, he was a Director-Funded Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His work at Sandia includes analytical electron microscopy support for microelectronic and micro-electromechanical device development, welding, brazing, soldering, forensics, process feedback, failure analysis, and 3D materials characterization and microanalysis. He is the Principal Investigator for a project for the Department of Homeland Security on the development of better analytical techniques for forensics and attribution of bio-weapon materials and has also helped build a world-renowned research program on acquisition and automated multivariate statistical analysis of spectral image data sets. The software developed from this work for x-ray microanalysis is commercially available from Thermo Fisher Scientific and is now in over 200 labs worldwide. Paul's work has also garnered several awards over the years, among them an R&D 100 Award in 2002, two MAS Outstanding Paper Awards (Macres, 2000; Birks, 2004), and two Best Analytical Techniques paper of the year in the society journal, Microscopy and Microanalysis (2003, 2006).

Paul has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University since 2001 and has authored or co-authored over 50 journal articles on a wide variety of topics involving electron microscopy and microanalysis as well as two patents and two book chapters. His work has been featured on two journal covers and he has given over 10 invited/keynote presentations at international meetings and over 30 at domestic meetings.

Presidential Service Award

Presidential Service Award, Louis M. Ross

Louis M. Ross is the Senior Electron Microscope Specialist in the Electron Microscopy Core Facility (EMCF) and Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri (MU) in Columbia. Lou received his Bachelors degree in Geology at Washington University in St. Louis in 1975. As an undergraduate research assistant during his senior year, he was introduced to scanning electron microscopy and X-ray microanalysis (SEM/EDS) in the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, where he remained as a research technician through 1982. In that year, Lou moved to MU to oversee the electron microprobe laboratory in the Department of Geological Sciences. In his years at MU, he has overseen the consolidation of electron microscopy operations, culminating with the present EBCF in 2000. Lou now teaches two graduate courses in SEM/EDS at MU.

Lou Ross has had a strong record of involvement in Microbeam Analysis Society (MAS) and its affiliated regional societies (AReS) since he joined MAS in 1985. In 1990, he co-founded MIKMAS (Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas MAS) and ten years later helped to orchestrate its merger with another regional society, forming the Central States Microscopy and Microanalysis Society (CSMMS); he served two terms as President of both MIKMAS and CSMMS. Lou has served as MAS Membership Services Chair for the past ten years, during which time he has been instrumental in fostering communications between the MAS Council and its members along with interacting with the various MAS committees while overseeing all aspects of the membership operations. In 2008, he will begin a three-year term as MAS Sustaining Membership Chair.

MAS Distinguished Scholars

• P. Bajaj, University of Texas at Dallas, Correlative Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Carboxylated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

• J. J. Cha, Cornell University, Tunneling Magnetoresistance and B Diffusion in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Characterized by STEM-EELS

• M. Eddy, University of Michigan, Microbeam Analysis of Plasma Effects in Synthetic Mica-Like Compound

• H. C. Floresca, University of Texas at Dallas, New FIB Fold-Out Method for TEM Cross-Section Sample Preparation

• B. R. Gipson, University of California at Davis, 2dx—Automated 3D Structure Reconstruction from 2D Crystal Data

• J. M. LeBeau, University of California at Santa Barbara, Quantitative HAADF-STEM and EELS

• B. McMorran, University of Arizona, Very Low Energy TEM Diffraction of Nanostructures

• W. D. Pyrz, University of Delaware, Using Aberration-Corrected STEM Imaging to Explore Chemical and Structural Variations in the M1 Phase of the MoVNbTeO Oxidation Catalyst

• W. Walkosz, University of Illinois at Chicago, Investigation of the Atomic Structures of Si ₃N ₄/CeO _2−δInterfaces using Atomic Resolution Z-Contrast Imaging and EELS Combined with First-Principles Methods

• H. L. Xin, Cornell University, Controlling Channeling Effects in Aberration-Corrected STEM Tomography

Microbeam Analysis Society Outstanding Paper Awards from M&M 2007

Previous Award Winners