Nanoscience Days 2018: Jyväskylä, 9-10 October
Visit us at the Nanoscience Days 2018 on 9-10 October 2018 at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
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Following Nanoscience Days, we’ll be holding an SPM Conference at the same venue,
with talks from invited speakers and hands-on workshops. More details…[/alert]
Blue Scientific SPM Conference: follows immediately after
Nanoscience Days, October 10-11
Contact us on +44 (0)1223 422 269 or info@blue-scientific.com
Nanoscience Days
Nanoscience Days is an annual conference that’s been running for over ten years. The event is aimed at a diverse, multidisciplinary audience of chemists, physicists, biologists and other researchers. The programme presents an overview of the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology together with recent research, emerging trends and perspectives:
- Seminars with high-profile plenary speakers
- World class researchers, afterworks and poster presentations
- Industrial exhibition
- Meeting old friends in the scientific community and making new ones
Plenary Speakers
- Prof. Björk Hammer – Aarhus University, Denmark
- Prof. Peter Liljeroth – Aalto University, Finland
- Prof. Musa Mhlanga – University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Prof. R.J. Dwayne Miller – Hamburg DESY, Germany
- Assoc. Prof. Jill Millstone – University of Pittsburgh, United States
- Dr. Danny Porath – Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Prof. Gijs Wuite – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Acad. Prof. Seppo Ylä-Herttuala – University of Eastern Finland
Conference Programme
Tuesday 9th October 2018
- 8:00 Registration opens
- 9:00 Musa Mhlanga, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- 10:00 Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, University of Eastern Finland
Nanomedicines, genes and cardiovascular diseases - 11:00 Coffee/snack break
- 11:30 Gijs Wuite, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Frontier in direct observation and manipulation of molecular Interactions - 12:30 R. J. Dwayne Miller, Hamburg DESY, Germany
Mapping Atomic Motions with Ultrabright Electrons: Realisation of the Chemists’ Gedanken Experiment - 13:30 Lunch
- 15:00 Peter Liljeroth, Aalto University, Finland
Atomically precise nanomaterials through on-surface synthesis - 16:00 Danny Porath, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- 17:00 Poster session with Coffee/snack
- 17:45 Tour of NSC (until 19:00)
- 19:00 Conference Dinner at Restaurant Piato, Agora (until 22:00)
Wednesday 10th October 2018
- 9:00 Jill Millstone, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Metal-Ligand Chemistry in Multimetallic Nanoparticle Synthesis and Performance - 10:00 Björk Hammer, Aarhus University, Denmark
Machine learning in nanoscale structure optimisation - 11:00 Coffee/snack break
- 11:30 TBA
- 12:30–14:00 Lunch available
- Join us at our SPM Conference and User Meeting, from Wednesday lunchtime until lunch on Thursday 11th. Details here…
Poster Session
Share your research in the poster session on Tuesday afternoon. Usually there are 60-90 posters on display throughout the conference. Poster abstracts are also published online.
If you’d like to submit a poster, give an abstract on your registration form. The deadline is 15th September 2018.
Registration
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Blue Scientific at Nanoscience Days
Visit our stand in the industrial exhibition to find out about our portfolio of instruments for nanoscience:
- AFM, optical surface profilers and tribology testing – more details…
- SEM/TEM cameras, filters, imaging systems and sample preparation systems – more details…
- Nanomechanical test instruments (standalone and in-situ) – more details…
- X-ray nano-CT – more details…

Gatan OneView TEM Camera
SPM Conference and User Meeting
We’re holding an SPM Conference and User Meeting on 10-11 October 2018 (lunch to lunch) immediately after Nanoscience Days, at the same venue. The conference is free to attend but registration is required. Focus on SPM with talks from invited speakers, practical hands-on workshops and networking opportunities for the Nordic SPM community.
Invited speaker list, details & registration