Thursday, February 21, 2008
The Minnesota Microscopy Society’s February meeting
will be a behind-the-scene tour of the Science
Museum of Minnesota. The last time the MMS was
given a tour of the Science Museum, it was at the
museum’s old location. This will give us a chance to
see the inner workings of the new facilities. After the
tour, those interested will be getting together for
dinner at The Liffey.
Location
Science Museum of MinnesotaParking
The Science Museum"s parking ramp can be accessed from either Kellogg Boulevard or Chestnut Street. Enter the museum by taking the parking ramp elevator to the Lobby level. Parking discounts also apply for Museum members. Ask when picking up your exhibit pass.
Schedule
3:00 to 5:00 PM Tour
5:30 to 7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
There will be an informal dinner at the Irish pub, The Liffey, which is in the Holiday Inn at 175 W 7th Street, St. Paul. A shuttle will be available from the Museum, so we won"t have to park twice
Cost of the Meeting and Registration
There will be no MMS registration fee. However, for
those who are not also members of the Science Museum,
there will be a $9 exhibit pass fee. In either
case, registration is required. The Microscopy Society
must prepay for the exhibit passes. There will also be
a limit of only 30 people allowed on the tour. So
make your reservations early. E-mailing Bede
Willenbring at reservations@mnmicroscopy.org.
Include whether you are a Science Museum member,
and whether you will be coming to the dinner. Reservations
must be made no later than noon on Monday, February 18th.
For Science Museum members, don’t forget to bring
your membership card with you to the meeting.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
MinnTS is an annual joint meeting of area technical and scientific organizations. This will be our sixth symposium. MinnTS was formed to provide a venue for local technical professionals to get together for networking, dining, and to provide an enriching evening of top quality speakers. Check the MinnTS web site at www.MinnTS.org for any late-breaking news about the meeting.
Location:
Medtronic Inc., World Headquarters,
Conference room: LT Garden A&B,
710 Medtronic Parkway (I-694 & Hwy 65)
Fridley, MN 55432
Location map - Medtronic World Headquarters. Parking is in the ramp north of the building.
The visitor entrance is on the third level.
Schedule
5:00 - 6:00 - Registration, Tours and Social Hour *
5:00 - 5:30 - Medtronic Lab Tours (every 5 min)
6:00 - 7:00 - Dinner
7:00 - 7:15 - Welcome & Introductions - Gary Korba
7:15 - 8:00 - Infrared Astronomy with NASA’s New Spitzer Space Telescope - Dr. Robert D. Gehrz
8:00 - 8:15 - Break
8:15 - 9:00 - Astrophysical Dust, in Space and in the Laboratory - Dr. Robert O. Pepin
* The Social Hour is sponsored by a generaous gift from Medtronic.
Cost $25 for members / $15 for students
Registration
Reservations MUST be made no later than Friday, March 14th. Register at reservations@minnts.org, or by phone at 651-236-5470 (Bede Willenbring). Include your name, company, phone number, e-mail address and Society affiliation. Reservations cannot be cancelled after March 14th.
Dinner Menu
Speakers
Dr. Robert D. Gehrz - University of Minnesota Department of Astronomy
Infrared Astronomy with NASA’s New Spitzer Space Telescope
Launched from Kennedy Spaceflight Center in the early morning of August 25, 2003, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF) is the fourth and final facility in the Great Observatories Program, joining Hubble Space Telescope (HST, 1990), the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO, 1991-2000), and the Chandra XRay Observatory (CXO, 1999). Spitzer, with a sensitivity that is orders of magnitude higher than that of any previous ground-based and space-based infrared (IR) observatories, is expected to revolutionize our understanding of the creation of the universe, the formation and evolution of primitive galaxies, the genesis of stars and planets, and the chemical evolution of the universe. A brief overview of infrared (IR) astronomy and of Spitzer’s role in the NASA’s Space IR Astronomy program for the New Millennium will be given. The construction, launch, and in-orbit checkout of the observatory will be reviewed. Science highlights from the first two and a half years of observations will be presented.
Further information about the Spitzer can be found on the WEB at http://spitzer.caltech.edu/.
Dr. Robert Pepin - University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy
Astrophysical Dust, in Space and in the Laboratory
Comets are frozen, largely unaltered reservoirs of dust and gases present in the early solar nebula. They are likely to contain well-preserved records of the chemical, mineralogic, and isotopic character of primordial solar-system matter. On January 15, 2006, the Stardust Mission returned to Earth with a cargo of particles collected from the coma of comet Wild 2, the first samples of indisputably cometary matter available for laboratory study. Among these investigations, the noble gases provide unique data on contributions to comets from various solar-system volatile reservoirs, and of physical processing of gases acquired from these reservoirs. In this talk, I discuss the first study of helium and neon in Stardust material, and of the identity of their likely carrier particles, carried out over the past year by workers in four different laboratories.
One of the surprises in the samples collected from an icy object that formed and spent most of its lifetime in the cold outer reaches of the solar system was the discovery that many of its constituent particles are igneous, refractory “rocklets” formed at very high temperatures, presumably close to the early Sun. These particles were then somehow transported to the trans-Neptunian Kuiper Belt and incorporated into Wild 2 at about the time of the solar system’s birth 4.57 billion years ago. (In retrospect, the presence of these “rocklets” wasn’t all that astonishing: Ed Ney, Louis Rose and others at Minnesota argued three decades ago from IR spectroscopic data that comets contained igneous grains.). A second and completely unanticipated feature of Stardust matter was enormous concentrations of He and Ne that, of known gas acquisition mechanisms, only intense ion irradiation seems able to explain. These two observations, together with Ne isotopic data suggest that gases in Stardust grains were implanted from an ancient, energetic nebular reservoir near the young evolving Sun.
Biographies
Dr. Robert Gehrz
Robert D. Gehrz was born in Evanston, Illinois and grew up in St. Paul, MN where he graduated from Central High School in 1963. He received a BA in Physics from the University of Minnesota in 1967 and a Ph.D in Physics from the University of Minnesota in 1971. From 1972 until 1985, Gehrz was on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Wyoming where, in collaboration with John A. Hackwell, he built the Wyoming Infrared Observatory Wyoming Infrared Observatory. The 2.34-meter Wyoming Infrared Telescope, funded jointly by the State of Wyoming and The National Science Foundation, was the largest IR telescope in the world at the time of its completion in 1977. Since 1985, Gehrz has been a Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Observatories at the University of Minnesota and a frequent guest observer at ground based and space based observatories worldwide. In addition to conducting an extensive research effort in ground based infrared astronomical observations and instrumentation development, Gehrz is a member of the Science Working Group SWG for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope with Facility Scientist responsibilities for the Cryogenic Telescope Assembly (CTA). His space infrared astronomy research has included programs conducted with the (International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE), the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), the European Space Agency’s Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the new Chandra X-ray Observatory. He was Chairman and member of the Board of the International Gemini Project during 1996- 1999 and was President of the American Astronomical Society during 1999-2000. During 2001, he served as a member of the Committee on the Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (COMRAA). Gehrz is a past chair and member of the NSF/NASA Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC). He currently serves as a member of the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Product Integrity Team (PIT) that reviews the optical telescope assembly and is the Leader of the NASA SOFIA Community Task Force (SCTF).
Dr. Robert Pepin
Bob Pepin received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, after which he came to Minnesota. He joined the Physics Department at the University of Minnesota in 1965. Dr. Pepin has been involved in astrophysics research since the beginning of his career. He has received many honors for his achievements, including having an asteroid named after him. Dr. Pepin’s present research focuses on the origin and early history of volatile elements and compounds in the solar system as revealed by mass spectrometry measurements of the distributions and compositions of noble gas and nitrogen isotopes trapped in meteoritic carrier phases, implanted in lunar and asteroidal regolith grains by solar wind and solar flare ion irradiation, and dissolved in minerals from the Earth’s mantle. Areas of particular interest include the composition of the primordial solar nebula, isotopic signatures of nucleosynthesis in primitive meteorites, the compositional history of solar wind and flares over the past 4+ billion years, the origin of volatiles in planetary interiors and atmospheres, and more generally the mechanisms of nuclear processing, mass fractionation, gas acquisition, and mixing responsible for the elemental and isotopic evolution of solar system volatile reservoirs through time.
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Twelve year-old Marie Schroeder got her Christmas wish through the MMS's Project MICRO to operate an electron microscope. Here she is at the University of Minnesota operating a TEM, investigating the structure of a kidney.
For those interested in volunteering for upcoming ProjectMicro events contact Jeff Payne at jjpayne@mmm.com.
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Spring Symposium
May 2nd, 2008 - Friday
Science Museum of Minnesota
More information in upcoming newsletters.
Regional Meetings
MAS EBSD Topical Workshop
May 20 - 22, 2008
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The first day of the meeting will be an all day tutorial for beginners on the basics of EBSD techniques and applications. The next two days will consist of talks with categories including:
In situ measurements in EBSD,
EBSD in three dimensions,
Frontiers in EBSD technique development,
Materials science and engineering applications,
Geological applications.
For more information contact John Fournelle at johnf@geology.wisc.edu.
National Meetings
M&M 2008
August 3 - 7, 2008
Albuquerque Convention Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
This is the joint annual meeting of the Microscopy Society of America and the Microbeam Analysis Society. For more information go to: http://www.microscopy.org/MMMeetings/MM08/HomePage.html
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Minnesota Microscopy Society’s
Treasurers Report - Year 2007
Cash Flow Summary
01/01/2007 Through 12/31/2007
| INCOME | ||
| Dues | ||
| Corporate | 2,175.00 | |
| Members | 1,054.00 | |
| Total Dues | 3,229.00 | |
| Interest Income | ||
| Interest – CD | 410.98 | |
| Interest - Checking | 20.07 | |
| Total Interest Income | 431.05 | |
| Meeting Registrations | ||
| MinnTS | 5,137.00 | |
| MMS Meetings | 2,635.00 | |
| Total Meeting Registration | 7,772.00 | |
| Donations | 150.00 | |
| Spring Symposium 2007 | 4,935.00 | |
| TOTAL INCOME | 16,517.05 | |
| EXPENSES | ||
| Credit Card Fees | 488.34 | |
| Meeting Expenses | ||
| MinnTS | 5,102.55 | |
| MMS Meetings | 4,111.18 | |
| Total Meeting Expense | 9,213.73 | |
| Miscellaneous | 350.27 | |
| Newsletter | 195.77 | |
| Project Micro | 2,019.32 | |
| Spring Symposium 2007 | 4,198.52 | |
| TOTAL EXPENSES | 16,465.95 | |
| OVERALL TOTAL | 51.10 | |
Sustaining members are the backbone of financial support for the Society. These members make it possible for the Society to support Project Micro, and to cover many expenses of the regular meetings and the Spring Symposium. We greatly appreciate the continued support of these individuals and corporations. To become a Sustaining Member, fill out the MMS membership form at the end of the newsletter.
| • John Benson Thermo Electron 608-826-9049 • Michael Boykin Mager Scientific, Inc. 734-426-3885 • Michael Coscio Medtronic, Inc. 763-505-4561 • Melissa Dubitsky Tousimis Research Corp 301-881-2450 • Matt Dugas ARC 651-789-9000 • Lester Engel Engel Metallurgical Ltd. 320-253-7968 • Chris Frethem University of Minnesota 612-624-4652 • Jeff Gschwend Hitachi HTA 847-816-6098 • Larry Hanke Materials Evaluation & Engineering Inc. 763-449-8870 • Jim Hardy EDAX 201-529-6277 • Gary Hawkinson FEI 608-291-0157 |
• Mark Kelsey Bruker AXS Microanalysis 708-386-9684 • Peter McSwiggen McSwiggen & Associates 612-781-2282 • Robert Mierzwa JEOL USA, Inc. 920-803-8945 • Kara Noack Oxford Instruments USA 248-563-2329 • Nicholas Piotrowski Keyence 888-539-3623 • Gary Saxrud Fryer Company, Inc. 952-942-6747 • Jean L. Schlosser Crane Engineering and Forensic Services 763-557-9096 • Chad Tabatt Gatan, Inc. 888-778-7933 • Jack Vermeulen Ted Pella, Inc. 530-243-2200 • Ted Weldon Leeds Precision Instruments 612-546-8575 • Bede Willenbring BY Design of New Hope, Inc. 763-533-0649 |
If any Sustaining Members are missing from this list, please contact either: Jason Heffelfinger (763-514-1021, jason.r.heffelfinger@medtronic.com) or Peter McSwiggen (612-781-2282, PMcS@McSwiggenAssoc.com).
The Minnesota Microscopy Society would like to express sincere thanks to our Patron Members. These members provide financial support to the organization above the standard membership fee. This type of added support makes it possible for MMS to maintain its financial well being. To become a Patron Member, complete and return the MMS membership form.
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President
Peter Yurek,
(763) 514-1250; peter.yurek@medtronic.com,
6700 Shingle Creek Parkway, Brooklyn Center, MN 55350
President Elect
Klaus Wormuth ,
(952) 947-8652, kwormuth@surmodics.com,
Surmodics Inc., 9924 West 74th Street, Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Past President
Sue Okerstrom,
(763) 526-0225, sue.okerstrom@medtronic.com,
Medtronic Inc., MS MVN51, 8200 Coral Sea Street NE. Mounds View, MN 55112
Secretary
Patricia Sanft
(651) 236-5384, patricia.sanft@hbfuller.com,
H.B. Fuller Company, 1200 Willow Lake Blvd., Vadnais Heights, MN 55110
Treasurer
Bede Willenbring
(651) 236-5470, Bede.Willenbring@HBFuller.com,
H.B. Fuller Company, 1200 Willow Lake Blvd., Vadnais Heights, MN 55110
Corporate Liaison
Jason Heffelfinger,
(763) 514-1021, jason.r.heffelfinger@medtronic.com,
Medtronic Inc., 7000 Central Ave. NE. Minneapolis MN 55432
Newsletter Editor
Peter McSwiggen,
(612) 781-2282, PMcS@McSwiggenAssoc.com,
McSwiggen & Associates, P.A., 2855 Anthony Lane South, Suite B1, St Anthony MN 55418
MAS Representative
Michael Coscio
(763) 505-4561, FAX (763) 505-4712, mike.coscio@medtronic.com,
Medtronic Inc, 710 Medtronic Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55432-5604
Project MICRO Director:
Jeff Payne,
(651) 733-2352, jjpayne@mmm.com;
3M Center, Bldg. 201-BE-16, St. Paul, MN 55144
Webmaster:
Stuart McKernan,
(651) 736-5993, smckernan@mmm.com,
3M Center, Bldg. 201-BE-16, St. Paul, MN 55144
Other Board Members:
Paul Baker, Medtronic Inc., 7000 Central Ave. NE., Minneapolis MN 55432;
(763) 514-4519, paul.baker@medtronic.com
Steve Block, JEOL Inc.;
s-block@attbi.com
Dwight Erickson, 3M Center, Bldg. 251-1A-03, St. Paul, MN, 55144;
(651) 763-2830, Fax (651) 763-7496, dderickson3@mmm.com
Robert Lundquist, Boston Scientific, One Scimed Place, Maple Grove, MN 55311
(763) 494-7945, Robert.Lundquist@bsci.com
Ev Osten, 3M Center, Bldg. 201-1E-16, St. Paul, MN 55144;
(651) 763-0104, efosten@mmm.com
Ann Palmer, Dept. of Pediatrics, 420 Delaware St., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455;
(612) 626-3708, palme003@umn.edu
Ky Pham, Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN
(612) 514-4705, ky.pham@medtronic.com
Mary Swierczek, 3M Center, Bldg. 201-BE-16, St. Paul, MN 55144;
(651) 763-5087, Fax (651) 733-0648, mjswierczek@mmm.com
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