ISM 2014 - The 48th annual meeting of the Israel society for microscopy
Dear ISM Members and Friends,
Thank you all for participating and contributing to a very inspiring meeting.
Special thanks to all our plenary and invited speakers !
We also wish to thank our partners from the industry and from the academia for their generous financial support, the dedicated team of the David Lopatie Conference Center as well as the graphics department at the Weizmann Institute of Science for providing the luxurious infrastructure of our meeting.
Congratulations to:
- Adi Pantzer, Department of Materials Engineering and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, recipient of the Lev Margulis Prize for her work titled: “Quantitative dopant mapping in silicon nanostructures by off axis electron holography”.
- Lior Embon, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, , recipient of the Lev Margulis Prize for his work titled: “Novel scanning SQUID-on-tip microscope for the imaging of magnetic phenomena at the nanoscale”.
- Hadas Sternlicht, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, the recipient of the Best poster Prize in Materials Sciences, for her poster titled: “The Mechanisms of Grain Boundary Motion”.
- Dvir Gur, Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, the recipient of the Best poster Prize in Life Sciences, for his poster titled: “When Bright Becomes Brighter: Amplification of the Structural Colors in the Koi Fish”.
- Eran Gross, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, the recipient of the Best Micrograph Prize for his micrograph “Lava”.
Pictures from the meeting can be found here.
We hope to meet you again at the ISM 49th meeting!
Yours Sincerely,
Eyal Shimoni, Yaron Kauffmann
Chair, ISM Secretary, ISM
Conference Program:
Materials Science Session:
Life Science Session:
Tutorials Program:
The conference lunch is provided by the generous sponsoring of Eisenberg Bros. Ltd.
The conference evening Beer & Sushi snacks are provided by the generous sponsoring of El-Mul Technologies and AVBA Hi Tech services Ltd.
The Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger Conference Foundation at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
The Irving and Cherna Moskowitz Center for Nano and Bio-Nano Imaging at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), Technion.
The Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
We are happy to announce that this year the Lev Margulis Prize committee awarded the Prize to two recipients (ex-aequo):
- Adi Pantzer, Department of Materials Engineering and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, for her work titled: “Quantitative dopant mapping in silicon nanostructures by off axis electron holography”.
- Lior Embon, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, for his work titled: “Novel scanning SQUID-on-tip microscope for the imaging of magnetic phenomena at the nanoscale”.
The ISM board wishes to thank the jury of the Lev Margulis Prize for the year 2014:
- Prof. Jordi Arbiol – Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Prof. Chris Boothroyd – Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Prof. Valeria Nicolosi – Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Organizing committee:
Life science committee:
Materials science committee:
Lev Margulis prize committee:
