Short Courses

The ACMM and IUMAS have a long history of conducting comprehensive workshops and short courses and we will be no exception.

The Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis (CMM) at the University of Western Australia is considering co-ordinating its regular basic short courses, or a relevant subset, to be available. These include:

Pre-conference Short Courses*

Thursday 7th - Friday 8th February

Number
Topic/Instructor
CU - 01
Fundamentals of Scanning Electron Microscopies
David Joy & Brendan Griffin
CU - 02
Fundamentals of Transmission Electron Microscopy
Nestor Zaluzec & Martin Saunders
CU - 03
Fundamentals of Confocal and Multi-photon Microscopy
Robert Price & Jay Jerome
CU - 04
Fundamentals of X-ray microanalysis by SEM & STEM
Paul Carpenter & Janet Muhling
CC - 05
Canceled
CU - 06
Fundamentals of Digital Imaging
Brendan Griffin & John Mansfield

* Instructors may vary from those nominated here but will be of similar expertise

The Short Courses will:

  • cover basic components, operation, signal collection and sample preparation in these core microscopies
  • include small group live demonstrations, interactive theory and tutorial presentations and bench-top practical exercises
  • be supported by material on CD and these will be distributed prior to the Short Course.

A certificate of completion will be presented to all registrants that exhibit an appropriate level of involvement.

Venues:

U - Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Microanalysis, The University of Western Australia

C - Curtin University of Technology