FEMMS 2017

FEMMS is a biennial meeting focused on the application of electron microscopy, primarily TEM, in materials science. The conference series primarily arose to satisfy the requirements of the electron microscopy community working on materials science problems, which grew explosively in the late 1980’s and has expanded to researchers working with analytical periphery, novel instrumentation, tomography, operando and correlative microscopy, and advancing into the domain of ultrafast time-resolved microscopy.

Traditionally, FEMMS brings together approx. 40 invited speakers plus one distinguished lecturer that are world-renowned experts, principal investigators and project leaders, to present their latest advances in the field of electron microscopy in the materials sciences.

Local Organizing Committee

• Alexander Ziegler
• Paul Franklyn
• Jacques Gerber
• Manoko Maubane
• Tyler Morgan
• Deran Reddy
• Zikhona Tetana
• Tutuzwa Xuma

International Advisory Board

• Pascale Bayle-Guillemaud (CEA, France)
• Steven Bradley (Honeywell, USA)
• Nigel Browning (PNNL, USA)
• Geoffrey Campbell (LLNL, USA)
• Barry Carter (U. Conn, USA)
• Uli Dahmen (LBNL, USA)
• Kazuo Furuya (NIMS, Japan)
• Wayne King (LLNL, USA)
• Angus Kirkland (Oxford, UK)
• Thomas LaGrange (EPFL, Switzerland)
• Joachim Mayer (RTWH Aachen, Germany)
• Karren More (ORNL, USA)
• Naoya Shibata (U. Tokyo, Japan)
• John Spence (ASU, USA)
• Ray Twesten (Gatan, USA)
• Knut Urban (Juelich, Germany)
• Klaus van Benthem (UC Davis, USA)
• Masashi Watanabe (Lehigh U., USA)
• Matthew Weyland (Monash, Australia)
• Yimei Zhu (BNL, USA)

From 1986 to 1996, meetings were held in the United States at venues in Illinois and California, this changed with FEMMS98 when J. Mayer and F. Ernst of MPI Stuttgart were principal organizers.

In 2000, FEMMS was organized by Dr. SumioIijima of NEC Fundamental Research Lab. The 2003 meeting was again organized by Wayne King. FEMMS2005 was organized by Knut Urban (ForschungszentrumJülich) and Joachim Mayer (RWTH Aachen University). FEMMS2007 was organized by Wayne King and Nigel Browning. FEMMS2009 was organized by Syo Matsumura (Kyushu University) and Kazuo Furuya (National Institute for Materials Science). FEMMS 2011 was organized by Nigel Browning (UC Davis). FEMMS 2013 was held at the Great Ocean Highway in Lorne, Australia, and was organized by Matthew Weyland (Monash University, Australia).

The most recent meeting was held at Lake Tahoe in northern California, and was organized by Klaus van Benthem (University of California, Davis).