AReS Tour Speakers
MAS provides interesting technical speakers for meetings of its Affiliated Regional Societies (AReS). The MAS-Sponsored Speakers and the titles of their talks are shown below. View the speakers’ abstract and bio by clicking on the links.
Newest Available MAS Tour Speakers:
- To be announced…
Previous MAS Sponsored Speakers:
- Jotham Austin II (for GLMS) “Don’t Call it a Comeback: High Pressure Freezing has Been Here for Years!“, October 2025
- Masashi Watanabe (for SEMS) “Development of a high energy electron energy-loss spectrometry system for an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope“, May 2025
- Edward Vicenzi (for NESM), “Milli- to Nano-scale Examination of Early Metal-based Photograph“, April 2025
- Michelle Thompson, MAS director 2020-2022, “From Atomic Scales to Asteroidal Surfaces: Using Microanalytical Techniques to Understanding Surfaces across the Solar System”
- Thomas Kelly, MAS president 2014-2016, “Applications of Atom Probe Tomography Across the Materials Spectrum” OR “Toward Atomic Scale Tomography”
- Masashi Watanabe, MAS president 2016-2018, Lehigh University, “Theoretical Evaluation of Atomic-Resolution X-ray Analysis toward Quantification. ”
- Rhonda Stroud, MAS president, 2018-2020, Naval Research Laboratory, “The Universe is my nano-fab: scanning transmission electron microscopy of carbonaceous nanomaterials“
- Edward Vincenzi, Smithsonian Institution, “Desert Varnish in the Political Swamp: Nanoscale Mn-oxide deposits on Architectural Stone, Washington, DC” and “From Portable to SEM-based XRF: Complementing Electron-based X-ray Microanalysis”
MAS Sponsored Student Council Talks:
- Justin Warner (for GLMS) “The Role of Thermal History on Microstructural Evolution in 316L Stainless Steel Formed via Laser Powder Bed Fusion“, October 2025
- Lynn Massenburg (for SEMS) “AI-Automated Morphological Feature Analysis of Bacterial Ultrastructures for CryoEM“, May 2025
Remember that all arrangements by Affiliated Regional Societies for MAS-Sponsored Speaker Program must be made through the MAS AReS Director. If the designated MAS-Sponsored Speakers are not appropriate for your meeting, please contact the AReS Director to discuss alternative arrangements. A specific speaker can be requested. The only requirements are that the speaker is a MAS member in good standing and willing to make the trip.
Any suggestions for the MAS-Sponsored Speaker Program are welcomed. This program belongs to the Society membership, and we want to remain flexible in our approach to the program so that the regional societies benefit from our rich and varied member-based expertise.
If you would like to volunteer as a MAS-sponsored speaker, please contact MAS through this form: ARes Tour Speaker Volunteer Form