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2019 MAS Society Awards
/in Uncategorized /by WebbyThe Microanalysis Society is proud to announced its award winners for 2019.
MAS Society Awards
Presidential Science Award – Lawrence Allard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Presidential Service Award – Lucille Giannuzzi (EXpressLO LLC)
Peter Duncumb Award for Excellence in Microanalysis – David Seidman (Northwestern University)
Kurt FJ Heinrich Award – Miaofang Chi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
2019 Best Paper Awards for papers presented at M&M 2018
Castaing – Best Student Paper
Ery Hughes (University of Bristol)
Analysis of Redox Changes in Silicate Glasses Using EPMA and Raman Spectroscopy (Paper 2022)
Macres – Best Instrumentation/Software Paper
Lewys Jones (Trinity College Dublin)
The MTF and DQE of Annular Dark Field STEM: Implications for Low-dose Imaging and Compressed Sensing (Paper 478)
Birks – Best Contributed Paper
Bradley De Gregorio (Naval Research Laboratory)
Low Energy STEM-EELS Characterization of Primitive Organic Matter and Silicates in the Meteorite LAP 02342 (Paper 2074)
Cosslett – Best Invited Paper
Jordan Hachtel (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Novel EELS Experiments in the Newly Opened Monochromatic Regime (Paper 418)
M&M Student Scholar Awards
Winning registration and travel support for M&M 2019
QMA-2019 – Round-up
/in Uncategorized /by WebbyThanks to University of Minnesota and Anette von der Handt for hosting the event, to Heather Lowers and the full organizing committee for building the strong program and taking care of every detail. ‘Til we meet again in Portland at M&M 2019…
QMA 2019 Program now available online!
/in Uncategorized /by emmafisiThe QMA 2019 Topical conference is now only a couple of weeks away. If you are attending the meeting, please make sure you have registered (here) and let us know your food preferences for the banquet (yum!). We also strongly encourage you to support our wonderful sponsors by signing up to attend the User group meetings on Monday (link).
The full program can be dowloaded now too:
High-resolution: here (62MB)
Low-resolution: here (12MB)
(We recommend that you right-click and save the program guide to your computer).
Announcing the Inaugural Class of MAS Fellows
/in Uncategorized /by WebbyIn 2018, the first class of “Legend Fellows” was recognized. This class consisted the very most distinguished members of the community who through decades of involvement in the field and with the society could be considered to be “legends” in the field of microanalysis.
In 2019, the second class of fellows is being recognized under the title of “Inaugural Fellows.” This class consists of the following members:
A full list of all MAS fellows can be found here.
The Microanalysis Community Loses Some Magic
/in Uncategorized /by WebbyMIT’s first microprobe built by R. Ogilvie’s students (left-to-right ?, Flanagan, Ogilvie, Nixon, ?, Colby, ?, Ziebold)
John Colby passed away in March. I first met John in 1969 when I was at RPI in graduate school working with our MAC probe. I had heard about MAGIC, a computer ZAF correction program coming out of Bell Laboratories, then in Allentown PA, and contacted John, its author, to ask for a copy on punch cards to run on our IBM 360. He readily complied, and that was a start of what turned out to be a long friendship and occasional business relationship. John was lured away from Bell Labs by Kevex Corporation a few years later, and soon John and his MAGIC put Kevex firmly on the map, most notably in Japan, where he became very appreciative of the Japanese culture and collected many Japanese artifacts. John and I had the opportunity to work together for a brief time at PGT (now Bruker) and then later with his new EDS quant program called FLAME, based loosely on Fuzzy Logic and incorporated by Scott Davilla as part of the 4Pi EDS package. Later John developed SLICE, a very clever EDS database search and match program done with FBI funding under the auspices and in close cooperation with Dennis Ward, a chemist and SEM expert working in Quantico.
John and I had some very good times together, and I would often meet up with him when he and his wife Susan, who survives him, lived in Foster City (CA). At that time, I had started Peak Instruments and was visiting Silicon Valley frequently, seeking and supporting customers using the Peak Spectrometer for the analysis of borophosphosilicate glass (BPSG), a dielectric layer used in chip technology. John and I would often finish our dinner with a nice cigar. I remember one instance, when we were enjoying a cigar together on a bench in Palo Alto, during which we learned from two policemen in a cruiser, lights flashing, that smoking anywhere in Palo Alto was against the law. Fortunately, they let us off with just a warning.
John was a prolific software creator and an accomplished algorithm developer. John was one of the founders of the Microanalysis society and one of the contributing authors on the first “Goldstein book”, which has become a bible for electron beam microanalysis. Later, he became somewhat of a maverick in the scientific microanalysis community, seldom publishing and letting slide his associations with other elite developers in the field. Possibly because of this, John may not be well known among the current MAS and EMSA memberships. Just last year, however, John was recognized for his contributions to electron beam microanalysis by being made a fellow of MAS.
I am sure I can speak for Scott and Dennis when I say that I will miss J.W. Colby, the stubborn man with the very creative mind, and know that the Microanalysis community has truly lost some magic.
Nick Barbi
nicholasbarbi@gmail.com