Program Vice Chair
Program Vice Chair:
Mohan Sankaran
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
mohan_sankaran@avs.org
2D MATERIALS
- Topic Co-Chair: Batzill, Matthias, University of South Florida
- Topic Co-Chair: Gunlycke, Daniel, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Topic Co-Chair: Oleynik, Ivan, University of South Florida
- Edmonds, Mark, Monash Univ., Australia
- Gao, Hongjun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Hanbicki, Aubrey T., Laboratory for Physical Sciences
- Jariwala, Deep, University of Pennsylvania
- Katoch, Jyoti, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
- Kim, Jeehwan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- King, Phil, University of St Andrews, UK
- Luican-Mayer, Adina, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Robinson, Jeremy, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Tutuc, Emanuel, Univ. of Texas at Austin
- van der Zande, Arend, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Wang, Qing Hua, Arizona State Univ.
- Wiesendanger, Roland, University of Hamburg, Germany
ACTINIDES AND RARE EARTHS
- Topic Co-Chair: Shuh, David, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Topic Co-Chair: Tobin, James G., University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
- Denecke, Melissa, International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria
- Durakiewicz, Tomasz, NSF
- Geeson, David, AWE
- Gofryk, Krzysztof, Idaho National Lab
- Havela, Ladislav, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Newberg, John, Los Alamos National Lab
- Petit, Leon, Daresbury Laboratory, UK
- Tereshina-Chitrova, Evgeniya, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Gertrud Zwicknagl, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
ADVANCED ION MICROSCOPY AND ION BEAM NANO-ENGINEERING
- Topic Co-Chair: Livengood, Richard, Intel Corporation, USA
- Topic Co-Chair: Ovchinnikova, Olga, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Gölzhäuser, Armin, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Hlawacek, Gregor, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf, Germany
- Notte, John A., Carl Zeiss PCS, Inc.
- Ogawa, Shinichi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- Tan, Shida, Intel Corporation
ADVANCED SURFACE ENGINEERING
- Topic Chair: Lin, Jianliang, Southwest Research Institute
- Kodambaka, Suneel, University of California, Los Angeles
- Lee, Jyh-Wei, Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Mangolini, Filippo, The University of Texas at Austin
- Matjaz, Panjan, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
- Topic Chair: Ventrice, Jr., Carl A. SUNY Polytechnic Institute
- Counsell, Jonathan, Kratos Analytical Limited
- Ellsworth, Ashley, Physical Electronics
- Engelhard, Mark, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Fisher, Gregory, Physical Electronics, Inc.
- Gaskell, Karen, University of Maryland, College Park
- Harrison, Elisa, Ford Motor Company
- Herman, Gregory, Oregon State University
- Mahoney, Christine, Corning Inc.
- Piao, Hong, Fujifilm Electronic Materials Inc., USA.
- Robinson, Zachary, SUNY Brockport
- Rosenberg, Samantha, Sandia National Laboratories
- Shard, Alexander, National Physical Laboratory, UK
- Smentkowski, Vincent, GE Research
- Spool, Alan, Western Digital
- Thevuthasan, Theva, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Zakel, Julia, IONTOF GmbH, Germany
ATOMIC SCALE PROCESSING
- Topic Chair: Joseph, Eric A., IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Agarwal, Sumit, Colorado School of Mines
- Barry, Seán, Carleton University, Canada
- Chang, Jane, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
- Chen, Donna, University of South Carolina
- Clendenning, Scott, Intel
- Creatore, Adriana, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- deMarneffe, Jean-Francois, IMEC, Belgium
- Dendooven, Jolien, Ghent Univ., Belgium
- Detavernier, Christophe, Ghent University, Belgium
- Engelmann, Sebastian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- George, Steven M., University of Colorado at Boulder
- Hamaguchi, Satoshi, Osaka Univ., Japan
- Hilton, Jessica, SPECS
- Hofmann, Tino, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Huffman, Craig, Micron Technology
- Kachian, Jessica, Intel Corporation
- Kanarik, Keren, Lam Research Corp.
- Kessels, W.M.M. (Erwin), Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
- King, Sean W., Intel Corporation
- Lill, Thorsten, Lam Research
- Myers-Ward, Rachael L., U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Parsons, Gregory, North Carolina State Univ.
- Poodt, Paul, TNO-Holst Centre, The Netherlands
- Reinke, Petra, University of Virginia
- Rogers, Bridget, Vanderbilt University
- Walker, Amy, University of Texas at Dallas
- Wheeler, Virginia, U.S. Naval Research Lab
- Yanguas-Gil, Angel, Argonne National Lab
BIOMATERIAL INTERFACES
- Topic Chair: Howell, Caitlin, Univ. of Maine
- Fears, Kenan, U.S. Naval Research Lab
- Goacher, Robyn E., Niagara University
- Graham, Daniel, Univ. of Washington
- Hanley, Luke, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Jarvis, Karyn, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Lerach, Jordan, IONpath
- McArthur, Sally, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Parekh, Sapun, University of Texas at Austin
- Valtiner, Markus, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
BIOMATERIALS PLENARY SESSION
- Topic Chair: Howell, Caitlin, Univ. of Maine
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND IMAGING INTERFACES
- Topic Co-Chair: Kolmakov, Andrei, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Topic Co-Chair: Yu, Xiao-Ying, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
ELECTRONIC MATERIALS & PHOTONICS
- Topic Chair: King, Seth, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
- Banerjee, Parag, Univ. of Central Florida
- Cleveland, Erin, U.S. Naval Research Lab
- Douglas, Erica, Sandia National Labs
- Filler, Michael A., Georgia Inst. of Tech.
- Han, Sang M., University of New Mexico
- Henry, Michael David, Sandia National Labs
- Hilton, Jessica, SPECS
- Joseph, Eric A., IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Kapadia, Rehan, Univ. of Southern California
- Kawasaki, Jason, University of Wisconsin – Madison
- McDonnell, Stephen, Univ. of Virginia
- Myers-Ward, Rachael L., U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Paquette, Michelle M., University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Strandwitz, Nicholas, Lehigh University
- Wiggins, Bryan, Intel Corporation
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
- Flaherty, David W., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Parkinson, Gareth S., TU Wien, Austria
- Roy, Sharani, University of Tennessee Knoxville
- Schauermann, Swetlana, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
- Senanayake, Sanjaya, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Utz, Arthur, Tufts University
- Weaver, Jason, University of Florida
LEADERS IN ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- Topic Co-Chair: Brown, Sarah, University of Chicago
- Topic Co-Chair: Hannagan, Ryan, Tufts University
- Cramer, Laura, Tufts University
- Das, Anusheela, Northwestern University
MAGNETIC INTERFACES & NANOSTRUCTURES
- Topic Chair: Ohldag, Hendrik, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Topic Co-Chair: Lauter, Valeria, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Barsukov, Igor, UC Riverside
- Castro, Germán Rafael, Spanish CRG BM25-SpLine Beamline at the ESRF
- Donath, Markus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
- Enders, Axel, Univ. of Bayreuth, Germany
- Gai, Zheng, Oak Ridge National Lab
- Holcomb, Mikel B., West Virginia Univ.
- Kaspar, Tiffany, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- King, Seth, Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse
- Mankey, Gary, The Univ. of Alabama
- Oleynik, Ivan, Univ. of South Florida
- Shuh, David, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Szulczewski, Greg, Univ. of Alabama
MANUFACTURING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Topic Chair: Rogers, Bridget, Vanderbilt University
- Cady, Nathaniel C., SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany
MANUFACTURING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (CONT’D)
- Diebold, Alain C., SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany
- Joseph, Eric A., IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Kaarsberg, Tina, Department of Energy
- Rubloff, Gary, University of Maryland, College Park
- Smentkowski, Vincent, GE Research
- Svedberg, Erik, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
MATERIALS AND PROCESSES FOR QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE
- Topic Co-Chair: Adiga, Vivekananda, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
- Topic Co-Chair: Myers-Ward, Rachael L., U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Topic Co-Chair: Richardson, Christopher, Lab. for Physical Sciences
- Blain, Matthew, Sandia National Labs
- Bouyer, Philippe, CNRS, France
- Bylander, Jonas, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Chen, Yong P., Purdue University
- Fuentes, Ivette, University of Nottingham, UK
- Gorman, Brian, Colorado School of Mines
- Joseph, Eric A., IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Kok, Pieter, University of Sheffield, UK
- Pappas, David, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Queen, Daniel, Northrop Grumman
- Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Halina, University of Queensland, Australia
- Silver, Richard, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Yeats, Andrew, U.S. Naval Research Lab
MEMS & NEMS
- Topic Chair: Wang, Max Zenghui, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Topic Co-Chair: Qian, Zhenyun, Northeastern University
- Blain, Matthew, Sandia National Labs
- Davis, Robert, Brigham Young University
- Hentz, Sébastien, Université Grenoble
- Alpes, CEA, LETI, France
- Ilic, B. Robert, National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST)
- Jordan, Matthew, Sandia National Labs
- Metzler, Meredith, Univ. of Pennsylvania
- Zorman, Christian, Case Western Reserve University
NANOSCALE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Topic Co-Chair: Cohen, Sidney, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Topic Co-Chair: Brown, Keith, Boston University
- Baykara, Mehmet, University of California Merced
- Burnham, Nancy, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.
- Celano, Umberto, IMEC
- Czaplewski, David, Argonne National Lab
- Dagderviren, Omur, McGill University
- Fantner, Georg, École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Hanbicki, Aubrey T., Laboratory for Physical Sciences
- Jariwala, Deep, University of Pennsylvania
- Li, An-Ping, Oak Ridge National Lab
- Liu, Xiaolong, Cornell University
- Luican-Mayer, Adina, Univ. Ottawa
- Mody, Jay, Intel
- Su, Chanmin, Bruker Nano
- Tu, Qing, Texas A&M University
- Wang, Canhui, Johns Hopkins University
NEW TRENDS IN STRUCTURAL ELECTRONIC CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERIALS, INTERFACES, AND SURFACES USING SYNCHROTRON AND FEL BASED LIGHT SOURCES
- Topic Co-Chair: Castro, Germán Rafael, Spanish CRG BM25-SpLine Beamline at the ESRF
- Topic Co-Chair: McChesney, Jessica, Argonne National Laboratory
- Liu, Zhi, ShanghaiTech University, China
- Molodtsov, Serguei, European XFEL GmbH, Germany
- Morais, Jonder, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS
- Såthe, Conny, Max IV Laboratory
- Schneider, Claus Michael, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany
- Slavomir, Nemsak, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Taleb-Ibrahimi, Amina, Synchrotron SOLEIL, France
PLASMA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Topic Chair: Walton, Scott, U.S. Naval Research Lab
- Agarwal, Ankur, KLA-Tencor
- Agarwal, Sumit, Colorado School of Mines
- Arnold, John, IBM Research Division, Albany, NY
- Darnon, Maxime, LN2, CNRS / Université de Sherbrooke, 3IT, Canada
- Despiau-Pujo, Emilie, LTM, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, France
- Engelmann, Sebastian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- George, Steven M., University of Colorado at Boulder
- Gordon, Michael, University of California at Santa Barbara
- Hayashi, Hisataka, KIOXIA
- Johnson, Erik V., LPICM, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
- Kanarik, Keren, Lam Research Corp.
- Kessels, W.M.M. (Erwin), Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
- Koga, Kazunori, Kyushu Univ., Japan
- Lishan, David, Plasma-Therm LLC
- Maeda, Kenji, Hitachi High Technologies America Inc.
- O’Connell, Deborah, Univ. of York, UK
- Pargon, Erwine, LTM, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA-LETI, France
- Ranjan, Alok, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC
- Reniers, François, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Samukawa, Seiji, Tohoku University
- Sankaran, Mohan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sriraman, Saravanapriyan, LAM Research
- Tatsumi, Tetsuya, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Tian, Wei, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
- van de Sanden, Richard M.C.M., DIFFER, Eindhoven Univ., The Netherlands
- Vitale, Steven, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Wang, Mingmei, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC
- Yeom, Geun Young, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
SMART MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR NANOMEDICINE
- Topic Co-Chair: Reniers, François, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Topic Co-Chair: Satriano, Cristina, University of Catania, Italy
SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY
- Topic Chair: Hofmann, Tino, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Topic Co-Chair: Darakchieva, Vanya, Linkoping University, Sweden
- Topic Co-Chair: Diebold, Alain C., SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany
- Topic Co-Chair: Hilfiker, James, J.A. Woollam Co., Inc.
SURFACE SCIENCE
- Topic Chair: Chen, Donna, University of South Carolina
- Altman, Eric, Yale University
- Bluhm, Hendrik, Fritz Haber Institute, Germany
- Dohnalek, Zdenek, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Groot, Irene, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Iski, Erin, University of Tulsa
- Reinke, Petra, University of Virginia
- Schauermann, Swetlana, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
- Sykes, Charles, Tufts University
- Utz, Arthur, Tufts University
- Zaera, Francisco, University of California, Riverside
- Zhu, Junfa, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
THIN FILMS
- Topic Chair: Yanguas-Gil, Angel, Argonne National Laboratory
- Akyildiz, Halil, Uludag Univ., Turkey
- Banerjee, Parag, Univ. of Central Florida
- Becker, Joe, Kurt J. Lesker
- Conley, Jr., John F., Oregon State Univ.
- Creatore, Adriana, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Grubbs, Robert, Micron Technology, Inc.
- Gupta, Subhadra, University of Alabama
- Jur, Jesse, North Carolina State Univ.
- Kachian, Jessica, Intel Corporation
- Losego, Mark, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Mackus, Adrie, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Nejati, Siamak, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Park, Jin-Seong, Hanyang University, Korea
- Peng, Qing, University of Alabama
- Poodt, Paul, TNO-Holst Centre
- Stiff-Roberts, Adrienne, Duke University
- Vallee, Christophe, SUNY POLY, Albany
- Vanfleet, Richard, Brigham Young University
- Wang, Xinwei, Peking University
- Wheeler, Virginia, U.S. Naval Research Lab
UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION
- Topic Co-Chair: Arnadottir, Liney, Oregon State University
- Topic Co-Chair: Baber, Ashleigh, James Madison University
- Topic Co-Chair: Iski, Erin, Univ. of Tulsa
VACUUM TECHNOLOGY
- Topic Chair: Ricker, Jacob, National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Topic Co-Chair: Carter, Jason, Argonne National Laboratory
- Alfrey, Jason, Vacuum Technology, Inc.
- Bagge-Hansen, Michael, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Brucker, Gerardo, MKS Instruments, Inc., Pressure and Vacuum Measurement Group
- Fedchak, James, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Heinbuch, Scott, MKS Instruments, Inc.
- Hendricks, Jay, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Lanza, Giulia, SLAC National Accelerator Lab
- Li, Yulin, Cornell University
- Lushtak, Yevgeniy, Cornell University
- Omolayo, Sol, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, University of California, Berkeley
- Scherschligt, Julia, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Stutzman, Marcy, Jefferson Lab
- Van Drie, Alan, TAE Technologies
- Wuest, Martin, INFICON