about the femms conference series::

The 10th conference on Frontiers of Electron Microscopy in Materials Science was the latest in the series of biennial conferences focusing on applications of electron microscopy, primarily of advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques, in solid state research. The conference series primarily arose to satisfy the requirements of the electron microscopy community working on materials science problems, which grew explosively in the late 1980's and has expanded to researchers working with analytical periphery, low energy microscopy and near field techniques. The conference is typically attended by about 100 participants. Previous meetings have had 13 to 26 invited lecturers, depending on the organisation structure and topics covered.

femms 2005 was hosted by the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons in Jülich and Aachen and attracted more than 140 participants from 16 countries throughout the world. The programme committee compiled an oral programme including record-breaking 26 keynote lectures and 24 invited talks plus the femms 2005 special lecture. An additional 54 contributions were scheduled for poster presentation.


conference sites and distinguished lecturers::

Year	Site	Distunguished Lecturer
1986	Argonne National Laboratory Argonne IL, US	Professor Albert Crewe University of Chicago
1988	Oak Brook Hyatt Regency Oak Brook IL, US	Dr. Hans Werner Fink IBM Zürich
1990	Oak Brook Hyatt Regency Oak Brook IL, US	Professor Sir Peter B. Hirsch University of Cambridge
1992	Claremont Hotel Oakland CA, US	Professor Gareth Thomas University of California Berkeley
1994	Claremont Hotel Oakland CA, US	Professor Severin Amelinkx University of Antwerp
1996	Oak Brook Hyatt Regency Oak Brook IL, US	Professor Manfred Rühle MPI für Metalforschung Stuttgart
1998	Kloster Irsee Irsee, Germany	Dr. Sumio Iijima NEC Fundamental Research Lab
2000	Kunibiki Messa Matsue, Japan	[no distinguished lecture that year]
2003	Claremont Resort and Spa Oakland CA, US	Professor John C.H. Spence Arizona State University
2005	Kasteel Vaalsbroek Vaalsbroek, The Netherlands	Professor John Silcox Cornell University

previous organisers::

In the early years, the meeting was organised primarily by Wayne King of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US), Charles Allen of Argonne National Laboratory (US), and Steve Bradley of University of the Pacific (US).

This changed in 1998 when Frank Ernst and Joachim Mayer of Max-Planck-Institut fuer Metallforschung in Stuttgart (Germany) were principal organisers. In 2000, femms was organised by Sumio Iijima of NEC Fundamental Research Laboratory (Japan) and discoverer of the nanotube while the 2003 meeting was again organised by Wayne King.


conference chairmen @ femms 2005::

>>> Knut Urban*	Forschungszentrum Juelich
>>> Joachim Mayer*	RWTH Aachen University
*co-affiliation with:	>>> Ernst Ruska-Centre
	for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons

local organising committee @ femms 2005::

>>> Martina Luysberg*	Forschungszentrum Juelich
>>> Karsten Tillmann*	Forschungszentrum Juelich
*co-affiliation with:	>>> Ernst Ruska-Centre
	for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons

programme chairman @ femms2005::

Manfred Ruehle

Max-Planck-Institut fuer Metallforschung, Stuttgart

international advisory committee @ femms2005::

Kathleen B. Alexander	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lawrence F. Allard	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Steven Bradley	University of Massachusetts
Ulrich Dahmen	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kazuo Furuya	National Research Institute for Metals, Tsukuba
Sumio Iijima	NEC Fundamental Research Laboratory
Wayne E. King	Lawrence Livermore National Laborator
Douglas L. Medlin	Sandia National Laboratory
Nestor J. Zaluzec	Argonne National Laboratroy
Ymei Zhu	Brookhaven National Laboratory

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