Nordic SPM Conference & User Meeting 2018: 10-11 October 2018
We’re holding a Nordic SPM Conference and User Meeting 2018 on Wednesday 10th – Thursday 11th October 2018 in Jyväskylä, Finland, following the annual Nanoscience Days conference at the University of Jyväskylä.
UPDATE: The date of this event has now passed. For more information about SPM, please get in touch.
Nordic SPM Conference and User Meeting
Catch up with the Nordic microscopy community at our meeting in Jyväskylä. Find out about new technology and how it’s being used by your peers, and give yourself a day to be inspired by what others are doing in all fields of scanning probe microscopy.
The conference will include:
- A programme of talks from invited speakers and SPM users
- Updates on the latest technological developments from Bruker
- Hands-on sessions with the Bruker Dimension Icon and MultiMode AFMs
- Networking opportunities with the Nordic SPM community
Programme
Wednesday 10th October 2018
Venue: Agora, University of Jyväskylä
- 10:30am – Registration
- 11:30 – Welcome and Introduction
- 11:35 – Elements of Eoarchean life trapped in mineral inclusions
Tue Hassenkam, University of Copenhagen - 12:30 – Lunch
- 14:00 – Probing forces between living stem cells and biomaterial: Advantages and challenges with colloidal probe technique and PeakForce QNM
Monika Österberg, Aalto University, Finland - 14:30 – Understanding of Abnormal Protein Aggregation
Mingdong Dong, Aarhus University, Denmark - 15:00 – Cellular response to surface roughness of two-component nanostructured latex polymer coatings
Emil Rosqvist, Åbo Akademi University - 15:30 – Coffee
- 16:00 – AFM Hands-On Workshop 1
- 17:00 – End of Day 1
- 18:30 – Conference Dinner
Thursday 11th October 2018
Venue: Physics Dept. Lecture Hall, University of Jyväskylä
- 09:00 – Recent advances in SPM instrumentation and measurements
Mickael Febvre, Applications Manager Europe, Bruker Nano Surfaces - 09:30 – Reliability of AFM measurements
Virpi Korpelainen, National Metrology Institute, Finland - 10:00 – Nanostructures and devices by DNA self-assembly
Jussi Toppari, University of Jyväskylä, Finland - 10:30 – Coffee
- 11:00 – Writing gallium oxide on GaN nanowires with the AFM tip
Jovana Colvin, Lund University - 11:30 – AFM Hands-On Workshop 2
- 12:30 – Lunch
- 14:00 – Open Session for AFM Measurements
Invited Speakers
Call for Presentations
Share your work at the conference by giving a short presentation about your research. Presentations are welcome on all topics related to SPM. Alongside the invited speakers we aim to present an interesting and informative programme of talks from SPM users to encourage discussion, recognise synergies and illustrate how Scanning Probe Microscopy is being used across various fields of research.
How to apply: If you would like to give a talk, please tick the box on the registration form, along with the title and a brief abstract.
Deadline for abstracts: 8th September 2018
Registration
UPDATE: The date of this event has now passed. For more information about SPM, please get in touch.
Hotels
If you need accommodation, these hotels are local to the University of Jyväskylä:
- Finlandia Hotel Alba (next door to the venue)
- Solo Sokos Hotel Paviljonki
- Boutique Hotel Yöpuu
- Hotel Verso
- Original Sokos Hotel Alexandra
- Hotel Pension Kampus
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