PROGRAM CHAIR:
Virginia Wheeler
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
virginia_wheeler@avs.org
2D MATERIALS
- Topic Chair: Batzill, Matthias, University of South Florida
- Topic Co-Chair: Gunlycke, Daniel, Naval Research Laboratory
- Topic Co-Chair: Katoch, Jyoti, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ebrahimi, Aida, Penn State Univ.
- Li, Huamin, Univ. at Buffalo-SUNY
- Michely, Thomas, University of Cologne, Germany
- Ross, Frances, MIT
- Satriano, Cristina, University of Catania, Italy
- Shih, Chih-Kang, Univ. of Texas at Austin
- Singh, Simranjeet, Carnegie Mellon University
- Son, Young-Woo, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Republic of Korea
- Xiao, Kai, Oak Ridge National Lab
ACTINIDES AND RARE EARTHS
- Topic Co-Chair: Shuh, David, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Topic Co-Chair: Tobin, James G., University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
- Buck, Edgar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Durakiewicz, Tomasz, National Science Foundation
- Gofryk, Krzysztof, Idaho National Lab
- Havela, Ladislav, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Pugmire, Alison, LANL
- Roussel, Paul, AWE, UK
- Svanidze, Eteri, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
- Tereshina-Chitrova, Evgeniya, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Zwicknagl, Gertrud, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
ADVANCED FOCUSED ION BEAMS
- Topic Co-Chair: Ajantiwalay, Tanvi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Topic Co-Chair: Tan, Shida, Intel Corporation
- Topic Co-Chair: Thevuthasan, Theva, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Topic Co-Chair: Wolff, Lena, Caltech
ADVANCED SURFACE ENGINEERING
- Topic Chair: Kodambaka, Suneel Kumar, Virginia Tech
- Topic Co-Chair: Mangolini, Filippo, The University of Texas at Austin
- Topic Co-Chair: Matjaz, Panjan, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
- Topic Co-Chair: Fisher, Gregory L., Physical Electronics
- Topic Co-Chair: Scurr, David, University of Nottingham, UK
- Topic Co-Chair: Shard, Alexander, National Physical Laboratory, UK
- Consiglio, Steve, Tokyo Electron
- Counsell, Jonathan, Kratos Analytical Limited, UK
- Engelhard, Mark, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Francis, Andrew, Medtronic, Inc.
- Grzeskowiak, Jody, Tokyo Electron
- Harrison, Elisa, Ford Motor Company
- Lerach, Jordan, ImaBiotech Corp.
- Piao, Hong, FUJIFILM Electronic Materials USA., Inc.
- Robinson, Zachary, SUNY Brockport
- Rosenberg, Samantha, Sandia National Laboratories
- Sherwood, P.M.A., Kansas State University
- Spila, Timothy, University of Illinois
- Terlier, Tanguy, Rice University
- Thevuthasan, Theva, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Zakel, Julia, IONTOF GmbH, Germany
ATOMIC SCALE PROCESSING
- Topic Co-Chair: Bruce, Bobby, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Topic Co-Chair: Joseph, Eric A., IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center
- Agarwal, Sumit, Colorado School of Mines
- Armini, Silvia, IMEC Belgium
- Chang, Jane, University of California Los Angeles
- Clendenning, Scott B., Intel Corp.
- deMarneffe, Jean-Francois, IMEC, Belgium
- Detavernier, Christophe, Ghent University, Belgium
- Engelmann, Sebastian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Gordon, Peter, Carleton Univ., Canada
- Groot, Irene, Leiden Univ., The Netherlands
- Hamaguchi, Satoshi, Osaka Univ., Japan
- Hofmann, Tino, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Huffman, Craig, Micron
- Jewell, April, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL)
- Kachian, Jessica, Intel Corporation
- Kanarik, Keren J., Lam Research Corp.
- Kessels, Erwin, TU / Eindhoven, Netherlands
- King, Sean W., Intel Corporation
- Lill, Thorsten, Lam Research Corporation
- Paquette, Michelle M., University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Parsons, Gregory N., North Carolina State University
- Reinke, Petra, Univ. of Virginia
- Rogers, Bridget, Vanderbilt Univ.
- Wang, Mingmei, Lam Research Corp.
- Wheeler, Virginia, U.S. Naval Research Lab
BIOMATERIAL INTERFACES
- Topic Chair: Valtiner, Markus, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
- Topic Co-Chair: Fears, Kenan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Bilotto, Pierluigi, CEST GmbH, Austria
- Goacher, Robyn E., Niagara University
- Graham, Dan, University of Washington
- Hanley, Luke, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
- Jarvis, Karyn, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Parekh, Sapun, Univ. of Texas at Austin
- So, Christopher, Naval Research Lab
- Weidner, Tobias, Aarhus University, Denmark
BIOMATERIALS PLENARY SESSION
- Topic Chair: Valtiner, Markus, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND IMAGING INTERFACES
- Topic Co-Chair: Kolmakov, Andrei, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Topic Co-Chair: Yu, Xiao-Ying, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ELECTRONIC MATERIALS & PHOTONICS
- Topic Chair: McDonnell, Stephen, University of Virginia
- Topic Co-Chair: Banerjee, Parag, University of Central Florida
- Cleveland, Erin, Univ. of Maryland
- Douglas, Erica, Sandia National Labs
- Gong, Cheng, Univ. of Maryland
- Henry, Michael David, Sandia National Laboratories
- Kawasaki, Jason, University of Wisconsin – Madison
- King, Seth, Univ. of Wisconsin – La Crosse
- Krishnamoorthy, Sriram, UC Santa Barbara
- Paquette, Michelle M., University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Pennachio, Daniel, NRL
- Rockett, Angus, Colorado School of Mines
- Roy, Tania, Duke University
EXHIBITOR TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT WORKSHOPS
- Topic Chair: DeGennaro, Jeannette, AVS
FUNDAMENTAL DISCOVERIES IN HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS
- Topic Co-Chair: Arnadottir, Liney, Oregon State University
- Topic Co-Chair: Baber, Ashleigh, James Madison University
- Topic Co-Chair: Killelea, Dan, Loyola University Chicago
- Farber, Rachael, The Univ. of Kansas
- Parkinson, Gareth S., TU Wien, Austria
- Roy, Sharani, University of Tennessee Knoxville
- Schauermann, Swetlana, Christian-Albrechts-Univ. Kiel, Germany
- Senanayake, Sanjaya, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Utz, Arthur, Tufts University
- Weaver, Jason, Univ. of Florida
LABORATORY-BASED AMBIENT-PRESSURE X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY
- Topic Chair: Herman, Gregory, Argonne National Laboratory
- Topic Co-Chair: Bluhm, Hendrik, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany
- Topic Co-Chair: Ptasinska, Sylwia, University of Notre Dame
MAGNETIC INTERFACES AND NANOSTRUCTURES
- Topic Chair: Ohldag, Hendrik, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
- Topic Co-Chair: Lauter, Valeria, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Barsukov, Igor, UC Riverside
- Donath, Markus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Univ. Münster, Germany
- Enders, Axel, Univ. of Bayreuth, Germany
- Gai, Zheng, Oak Ridge National Lab
- Holcomb, Mikel B., West Virginia University
- Kaspar, Tiffany, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Kelber, Jeffry, Univ. of North Texas
MANUFACTURING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Topic Co-Chair: Diebold, Alain C., SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
- Topic Co-Chair: Kaarsberg, Tina, Department of Energy
- Antonelli, G. Andrew, Onto Innovation
- Joseph, Eric A., IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center
- Mehta, Jeremy, DOE-EERE
- Rogers, Bridget, Vanderbilt Univ.
- Rubloff, Gary, University of Maryland, College Park
- Svedberg, Erik, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
MEMS & NEMS
- Topic Co-Chair: Lee, Jaesung, University of Texas at El Paso
- Topic Co-Chair: Zheng, Xu-Qian, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecomm, China
- Ansari, Azadeh, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Burkett, Susan L., Univ. of Alabama
- Davis, Robert, Brigham Young University
- Diao, Zhu, Halmstad University/Stockholm University, Sweden
MEMS & NEMS (cont’d)
- Esteves, Giovanni, Sandia National Laboratories
- Feng, Philip, University of Florida
- Ghodssi, Reza, Univ. of Maryland
- Gousev, Evgeni, Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc.
- Hanay, Selim, Bilkent University, Turkey
- Hentz, Sébastien, CEA/LETI-University Grenoble Alpes, France
- Hiebert, W.K., University of Alberta and The National Institute for Nanotechnology, Canada
- Ilic, B. Robert, National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST)
- Jordan, Matthew, Sandia National Laboratories
- Kotru, Sushma, Univ. of Alabama
- Krylov, Slava, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel
- Maboudian, Roya, University of California at Berkeley
- Metzler, Meredith, NIST
- Naik, Akshay, Indian Institute of Science, India
- Ng, Tse Nga (Tina), University of California at San Diego
- Qian, Zhenyun, Northeastern University
- Smith, Connor, United States Naval Academy
- Sumant, Anirudha, Argonne National Lab
- Thundat, Thomas, University of Alberta and The National Institute for Nanotechnology, Canada
- Tian, Wei-Cheng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Wang, Max Zenghui, University of Electronic Science and Tech. of China
- Wang, Yanan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Weig, Eva, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Zorman, Christian, Case Western Reserve University
NANOSCALE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Topic Chair: Fantner, Georg Ernest, École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Topic Co-Chair: Klimov, Nikolai, National Institute of Standards and Tech.
- Topic Co-Chair: Luican-Mayer, Adina, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Ebrahimi, Maryam, Lakehead University, Canada
- Engel, Leeya, Technion, Israel
- Jariwala, Deep, Univ. of Pennsylvania
- Ko, Wonhee, Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville
- Kolmer, Marek, Ames Laboratory
- Orgiu, Emanuele, Univ. du Québec
- Stavis, Samuel, NIST
NANOSCALE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PLENARY
- Topic Chair: Fantner, Georg Ernest, École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Switzerland
PLASMA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Topic Chair: Wang, Mingmei, Lam Research Corp.
- Topic Co-Chair: Gordon, Michael, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara
- Agarwal, Sumit, Colorado School of Mines
- Arnold, John, IBM Research Division, Albany, NY
- Bezard, Philippe, IMEC, Belgium
- Boris, David, Naval Research Lab
- Bruce, Bobby, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
- Buzi, Luxherta, IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center
- Darnon, Maxime, CNRS/Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
- Despiau-Pujo, Emilie, CNRS-LTM, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Engelmann, Sebastian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Ganta, Sathya, Applied Materials, USA
- Go, David, Notre Dame University
- Hayashi, Hisataka, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Japan
- Ishii, Yohei, Hitachi High Technologies America Inc.
- Ishikawa, Kenji, Nagoya University, Japan
- Kessels, W.M.M. (Erwin), Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Lishan, David, Plasma-Therm LLC
- Liu, Lei, Lam Research Corp.
- Luan, Pingshan, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC
- Maeda, Kenji, Hitachi High Technologies, Japan
- Marcha, Nathan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
- Miller, Eric, IBM Research Division, Albany, NY
- Odunuga, Samson, Intel Corporation
- Pargon, Erwine, CNRS-LTM, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Peeters, Floran, LeydenJar Technologies
- Raley, Ms. Angelique, TEL US
- Reniers, Francois, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Sankaran, Mohan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Shearer, Jeffrey, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC
- Tatsumi, Tetsuya, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp., Japan
- Tsai, Yu-Hao, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC
- Uner, Necip, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
- van de Sanden, Richard M.C.M., Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Vitale, Steven, MIT Lincoln Lab
- Wang, Jerry, Applied Materials, USA
QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE
- Topic Co-Chair: Engelmann, Sebastian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Topic Co-Chair: Pappas, David, Rigetti Computing
- Bal, Mustafa, Fermi Lab
- Bouyer, Philippe, CNRS, France
- Bylander, Jonas, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Chen, Yong P., Purdue University
- Kok, Pieter, University of Sheffield, UK
- Lake, Russell, Bluefors
- McRae, Corey Rae, University of Colorado Boulder/National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST)
- Richardson, Christopher, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
- Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, University of Queensland, Australia
- Silver, Richard, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Yoder, Jonilyn, MIT Lincoln Lab.
SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY
- Topic Co-Chair: Hofmann, Tino, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Topic Co-Chair: Mock, Alyssa, Weber State University
- Antonelli, G. Andrew, ONTO Innovations
- Aspnes, David, North Carolina State University
- Diebold, Alain C., SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
- Mathias, Schubert, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Urban, F.K., Florida International University
SURFACE SCIENCE
- Topic Chair: Groot, Irene, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Altman, Eric, Yale University
- Anderson, Scott, University of Utah
- Baber, Ashleigh, James Madison Univ
- Calaza, Florencia, UNL-Conicet, Argentina
- Jiang, Nan, University of Illinois – Chicago
- Maier, Sabine, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
- McEwen, Jean-Sabin, Washington State University
- Stacchiola, Dario, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Utz, Arthur, Tufts University
- Zhang, Zhenrong, Baylor University
THEORY FOR SURFACE PROCESSES AND SPECTROSCOPIES FOCUS TOPIC
- Topic Chair: Bagus, Paul, University of North Texas
- Pacchioni, Gianfranco, University of Milan, Italy
THIN FILMS
- Topic Chair: Jewell, April, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL)
- Banerjee, Parag, University of Central Florida
- Becker, Joe, Kurt J. Lesker Company
- Choudhury, Devika, Argonne National Laboratory
- Conley, Jr., John F., Oregon State University
- Creatore, Adriana, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- George, Steven M., University of Colorado at Boulder
- Grubbs, Robert, IMEC, Belgium
- Jalan, Bharat, University of Minnesota
- Kachian, Jessica, Intel Corporation
- Losego, Mark, Georgia Institute of Tech.
- Mackus, Adrie, Eindhoven University, Netherlands
- Nejati, Siamak, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Park, Jin-Seong, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
- Parsons, Gregory N., North Carolina State University
- Poodt, Paul, Spark Nano, Netherlands
- Vallee, Christophe, SUNY POLY, Albany
- Vanfleet, Richard, Brigham Young Univ.
- Wang, Xinwei, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, China
- Yanguas-Gil, Angel, Argonne National Lab
- Young, Matthias, University of Missouri
- Zhao, Junjie, Zhejiang Univ., China
UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION
- Topic Co-Chair: Árnadóttir, Líney, Oregon State University
- Topic Co-Chair: Baber, Ashleigh, James Madison University
- Topic Co-Chair: Iski, Erin, Univ. of Tulsa
VACUUM TECHNOLOGY
- Topic Chair: Lushtak, Yev, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
- Topic Co-Chair: Lanza, Giulia, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Alfrey, Jason, Vacuum Technology, Inc.
- Bagge-Hansen, Michael, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Carter, Jason, Argonne National Lab.
- Fedchak, James A., National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Heinbuch, Scott, MKS Instruments, Inc.
- Hendricks, Jay, NIST
- Li, Yulin, Cornell University
- Molkenboer, Freek, TNO Science and Industry, the Netherlands
- Omolayo, Sol, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, University of California, Berkeley
- Ricker, Jacob, NIST
- Romel, Chandra, Consultant
- Scherschligt, Julia, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Stutzman, Marcy, Jefferson Lab
- Tingle, Ms. Alex, Cold Quanta
- Van Drie, Alan, TAE Technologies
- Wüest, Martin, INFICON Ltd., Liechtenstein
- Wulfsberg, Steven, SAES Group