MARCH 23-25, 2027 | BOSTON, MA
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  SMPConnect  


About SPMConnect

SPMConnect is an annual AFM-based conference to foster and support the AFM community in terms of idea exchange, best practices development, mentoring, and career development. In addition to research talks, in line with the industrial/innovation theme of the broader TCW meeting, SPMConnect will feature panel discussions on Perspectives from Early-Career Scientists and Perspectives from Industry and plenty of opportunities for AFM researchers and scientists to meet, network and exchange ideas.

This conference aims to bring together users from a wide variety of disciplines including polymer science, biology, energy, computing, materials science, and more who share an interest in SPM as an instrument to explore nanoscale phenomena and characterization. SPMConnect aims to include scientists and researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds including industry, instrumentation vendors, academia, and national labs. Technical abstracts for both oral and poster presentation are welcomed with topics for SPMConnect listed below.

Posters Due: January 15

Please first review the information for authors — abstract submission guidelines.


Topics & Application Areas
  • Data-driven and automated SPM
  • Multi-modal SPM
  • SPM to measure nanoscale dynamics
  • SPM in biology
  • SPM for new materials
  • Nanomechanical measurements with SPM
  • SPM for low dimensional materials
  • SPM in liquid environments
  • Other
 

Symposium Co-Chairs


Hanna Cho

Hanna Cho

Associate Professor

The Ohio State University

Richard Sheridan

Richard Sheridan

Research Scientist

Duke University


Marti Checa Nualart

Marti Checa Nualart

R&D Staff Scientist

Oak Ridge National Laboratory


Keynote Speaker


David Ginger

Scanning Probes for Next-Generation Semiconductors: Mapping Dynamics from Polymers to Perovskites

David Ginger

Professor,

University of Washington


Key Speakers


Sabine Neumayer

Exploring nanoscale electrical and dielectric phenomena with scanning microwave impedance microscopy

Sabine Neumayer

R&D Staff Scientist,

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Bede Pittenger

Application of AI and SPM automation toward efficient materials characterization and discovery

Bede Pittenger

Senior Applications Scientist,

Bruker


Matthew Rosenberger

Generalized defect quantification of 2D materials with atomic force microscopy

Matthew Rosenberger

Assistant Professor,

University of Notre Dame

Roger Proksch

4,000 Femtometers Below the Noise: Revealing Hidden Structures and Dynamics with Interferometric AFM

Roger Proksch

CTO,

Oxford Instruments


Long Ju

Long Ju

Associate Professor

MIT

Hans Gunstheimer

Photothermal Off-Resonance Tapping for Rapid and Automated Nanomechanical Mapping

Hans Gunstheimer

Application Scientist,

Nanosurf


Igor Sokolov

AFM mechanical spectroscopy: machine-learning identification of materials from multichannel Ringing-mode data

Igor Sokolov

Professor,

Tufts University

Alex Cartagena-Rivera

Glycocalyx Desialylation Remodels Surface Mechanics to Potentiate Cytotoxic T Cell Responses in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Alex Cartagena-Rivera

Stadtman Investigator,

NIH


Gil Min

Gil Min

Technical Manager

Park Systems

Kim Fraser

Unveiling Structure–Processing–Property Relationships in Thermoplastic Polyurethanes Using Atomic Force Microscopy

Kim Fraser

Senior Scientist,

Lubrizol


Josh Agar

Josh Agar

Co-founder and CTO

Dataerai






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