MMS Events

Symposium Theme: Extreme Microscopy

Join us Friday, May 5th at our new location in MacMillan Hall at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. This year we will also be having a Poster Session (with prizes!) that is open to undergraduate, graduate students, and postdocs.

Schedule of Events

8:30-9:15 am        Registration, breakfast, vendor displays

9:15-9:30 am        Welcome

9:30-10:30 am     Chris Own (Voxa) - “Seeing the small in the vastness of space”

10:30-11:30 am    Khalid Hattar (U of TN) - “Nanoscale Evaluation of Extreme Environments”

11:30-12:30 pm    Lunch and vendor displays

12:30-1:30 pm      Posters and vendor displays

1:30-1:45 pm        Business Meeting

1:45-2:45 pm       Jeff Havig (U of M) - “Microscopy of Yellowstone Siliceous Sinters and Geyserites”

2:45-3:45 pm       Sarick Matzen (U of M) - “Microscopy helps reveal how iron from deep sea hydrothermal vents feeds carbon-fixing phytoplankton in surface waters”

3:45 pm                  Close