Scanning '95
 
Seventh Annual International Scientific Meeting
 
                              March 28-31, 1995
         Doubletree Hotel, Monterey, California
 
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Sponsored by the Foundation for Advances in Medicine and Science (FAMS)
 
in participation with the
 
Northern California Society for Microscopy (NCSM)
 
 
 
Scanning '95 is an international meeting devoted to microscopy and related
techniques bringing together scientists from a wide variety of disciplines
ranging from biology to material science.
 
 
Highlights:
 
Invited presentations, extensive commercial exhibit, workshops, tutorials,
contributed papers and mini-short courses.
 
 
Session Topics:
 
Advances in confocal and near-field scanning optical microscopies
Applications in marine science
Automated diagnostic microscopy
Biological applications Biomaterials
Cell surface labeling techniques
Cryopreparation and cryomicroscopy for biological and material science
Electron beam interaction modeling
Environmental SEM
Food Structure and functionality
Forensics
Image analysis, digital processing and stereology
Low voltage, high resolution SEM - theory and practice
Material applications
Microstructure of materials
Monte Carlo simulation in SEM and in electron beam lithography
Pharmaceutics: methods and microscopy
Polymer microscopy and microanalysis
Scanning probe microscopies - applications in cell biology
Self-organized microstructures
3-D imaging and reconstruction
 
 
 
Short courses:
 
95A: Manufactures' confocal workshop
95B: Colloidal gold labeling for LM, SEM and TEM
95C: Scanning electron microscopy and microelectronics
95D: Digital image acquisition, handling, processing and archiving
95E: TEM sample preparation for material science
95F: Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry with NIST desktop spectrum
     analyzer
 
 
 
 
 
Registration:
 
Pre-registration:  before March 3, 1995       $275.00
on-site                                       $300.00
 
The above fee includes a 1995 subscription of J. Scanning Microscopies
(a $163.00 value) and your choice of one Scanning 95 short course
 
 
Special meeting registration without journal subscription and short course
Pre-registration: before March 3, 1995        $175.00
on-site                                       $225.00
 
one-day registration:
Pre-registration: before March 3, 1995        $75.00
on-site                                       $85.00
 
Student registration:
Pre-registration: before March 3, 1995        $35.00
on-site                                       $35.00
 
 
Short-courses:                                $95.00 each
 
 
 
 
Official car rental:  Hertz (use code: CV-13972)
Official air carrier: United Airlines
 
Official travel agency:
     Chevy Chase Travel (800)333-1225
        Washington, D. C. area (301)565-4400
 
 
 
 
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For more information, please contact:
 
Mary K. Sullivan, Foundation for Advances in Medicine and Science
P.O. Box 832, Mahwah, NJ 07430-0832
tel: 201-818-1010
FAX: 201-818-0086
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Program Committee:
 
Robert P. Becker (Univ. of Illinois; 312-996-7215)
Ping-chin Cheng (State Univ. of New York at Buffalo; 716-645-3868)
Beverly Giammara (Medical College of Ohio; 419-381-4996)
David G. Howitt (Univ. of California Davis; 916-752-1164)
David C. Joy (Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville; 615-974-3642)
Michael T. Postek, Jr. (National Institute of Standards and technology;
301-975-2299)
William P. Wergin (USDA; 301-504-9027)