Microscopy and Microanalysis Vol17

Welcome from the Society Presidents

doi:10.1017/S1431927611000730 Greetings from the Presidents

Microscopy & Microanalysis 2011, the premier conference of the field, is this year being hosted by the Microscopy Society of America, theMicroanalysis Society, and the Inter- nationalMetallographic Society. On behalf of our respective societies, we welcome you to Nashville, Tennessee, the Mu- sic City, truly one of the most entertaining cities in Amer- ica.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 profes- sional and personal level. M&M2011will beginwith our traditional SundayNight

Reception, which is being held in the Grand Ball Room of theMarriott RenaissanceHotel. This venue promises to pro- vide an excellent, informal location to see old friends or to make new acquaintances, especially the record number of students who have submitted papers this year. Symposia pre- sentations, during the week,will be held at the nearby Nash- ville Convention Center and our Plenary session onMonday morning will feature Dr. Stefan Hell speaking on super- resolution microscopy and Dr. Gene Ice, speaking on X-ray micro/nanoprobe characterization using synchrotron sources. During the Plenary,we will also highlight the winners of our major societal awards, and publicly recognize the winners of our student and postdoctoral travel fellowships. Microscopy and Microanalysis 2011 promises to be the

quintessential conference of our field whose scientific diver- sity spans disciplines from the life sciences to the physical sciences, all unified by the tools of our research. The pro- gram committee led by Program Chair David Giovannucci ~MSA!, and Program Co-Chairs, Luke Brewer ~MSA!, MasashiWatanabe ~MAS!, and Don Susan ~IMS! should be congratulated on a strong program, which features over one thousand invited and contributed papers. This team has put

together a compelling suite of over 30 symposia reflecting the current state-of-the-art, as well as the innovative and emerging fields of research. Whether your interest is in nanotechnology or traditional metallurgy, biology or clini- cal diagnosis, or the growing field of multifunctional hard/ soft materials, you will find M&M 2011 a fascinating venue for discovery and scientific discourse. In addition, the Pro- ceedings of Microscopy and Microanalysis 2011 contains copies of all the papers being presented at the meeting, and thus presents a useful overview and reference resource of the many diverse research and development activities of our members and other colleagues involved with microscopy and microanalysis techniques today. Complementing our symposia is one of the largest

exhibitions of microscopy/microanalysis instrumentation and resources in the world, which includes access to our very popular evening vendor tutorials.Make sure you allow time to visit the exhibit hall that opens at Noon onMonday after the Plenary. In addition to our traditional Sunday Short Courses, “Back to the Basics” tutorials, and in-depth,multi- day intensive workshops, we will be joined this year by a Pre-Meeting Specialist Workshop on “Opportunities, Arti- facts and Interpretation of Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscopy Data.” This will undoubtedly be a very busy meeting for all

those attending and we look forward to greeting you at our opening Sunday Reception in the Music City for what we are sure will be an exciting and educational conference.

Nestor J. Zaluzec, President,Microscopy Society of America John Henry J. Scott, President,Microanalysis Society

Natalio T. Saenz, President, InternationalMetallographic Society

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