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This one-day pre-meeting congress, organized by the MSA Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscopy (ACEM) FIG, will be a forum for the discussion of the latest advances and solutions to problems associated with application of aberration correction technology. There will be platform presentations by both invited and contributed speakers, with poster presentations during a working lunch. Invited speakers will introduce innovations and issues, while contributors will highlight practical experiences and solutions to problems encountered during the application of ACEM to on-going experimental studies. This workshop includes: image collection/interpretation, new spectroscopies or other signals, artifacts and practical experiences in applications of ACEM to difficult situations such as hard/soft materials and in-situ experiments. All platform presentations will be intentionally kept short (∼15–20 minutes) to allow the maximum amount of interaction and information flow among attendees. Please send one page abstracts, including figures, to batson@rutgers.edu with the subject line: M&M PMC Abstract.

These full-day courses run from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM on Sunday, August 7, 2011 (additional fees are required).

Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) stands as the premier meeting of the Microscopy Society of America, the Microanalysis Society, and the International Metallographic Society, Inc. We are pleased welcome to all the physical, life, and analytical scientists whose work encompasses the full range of microscopic and analytical techniques. In particular, we extend a warm welcome to those researchers who are new to our meeting, and are confident that you will find areas of specific interest in our meeting this year and for many years to come.

Microscopy and Microanalysis would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the M&M 2011 Conference and EXPO. (Sponsors as of May 16, 2011)

These In-depth courses will be held Monday–Thursday from 1:00 PM–5:00 PM (additional fees are required)

Microscopy & Microanalysis 2011, the premier conference of the field, is this year being hosted by the Microscopy Society of America, the Microanalysis Society, and the International Metallographic Society. On behalf of our respective societies, we welcome you to Nashville, Tennessee, the Music City, truly one of the most entertaining cities in America. We are confident that Nashville will serve as a wonderful location for our meeting, and that the conference will prove to be stimulating and worthwhile for all both on a professional and personal level.

Fellow Microscopists and Microanalysts, Colleagues and most importantly Students, welcome to Microscopy & Microanalysis 2011 here in Nashville, Tennessee, our seventeenth conference under that appellation.

On behalf of the membership of the Microanalysis Society (MAS), welcome to Microscopy and Microanalysis 2011 and to Nashville. The Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) meeting was established in 1996 as the joint annual meeting of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) and MAS. Since 2002, M&M has also served as the annual meeting of the International Metallographic Society (IMS), and it is now the premier meeting in our field, spanning the full spectrum of activities in microanalysis and the varied disciplines of microscopy. I thank my counterparts in the joining societies, MSA President Nestor Zaluzec and IMS President Nat Saenz, for all the time and effort they have invested to make this meeting a success.

On behalf of the International Metallographic Society I would like to welcome all of you to Microscopy and Microanalysis 2011 in Nashville, TN. IMS is pleased to have contributed to the exciting technical program for the tenth year. We thank MSA Program Chair David Giovannucci, MSA Program Vice-Chair Luke Brewer, MAS Co-Chair Masashi Watanabe, and especially IMS Co-Chair Don Susan for developing an excellent roster of presentations.