PEMC Spring Symposium - April 10th, 2026

Join the PEMC for our Spring Symposium on April 10th, 2026! The day will include presentations from PEMC users, staff, and vendors.  Breakfast and lunch will be provided for networking opportunities, and hors d'oeuvres will be served during a poster session to round out the event.  This event is a wonderful opportunity to see the broad applications of electron microscopy and chat with current users and the EM Center staff. Please register for the event if you plan to attend so the EM staff can plan accordingly for food and space.  

Overview

The day will start in the lobby of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship (MRGN) at 9:00 am, with coffee and light breakfast sponsored by Oxford Instruments, who is the manufacturer of six EDX/EBSD detectors in the Center.  Once you are caffeinated to your desired level, we will move to the nearby lecture theater, MRGN 121 to listen to our various presenters: 

1. PEMC users, highlighting research currently being supported by electron microscopy.
2. PEMC staff, highlighting new techniques available in the Center. 
3. EM vendors, highlighting new advances in electron microscopy technology. 

The presentations will be broken up with short coffee/networking breaks, and lunch sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific, who is the manufacturer of ten of the electron microscopes in the center.  At the conclusion of the presentations, we will move on to poster presentations showcasing more research that is supported by the PEMC.  Hors d'oeuvres will be provided during the poster session.  

Finally, we will round out the day with a virtual tour of our three locations across campus (as April showers are notorious, we will omit the cross-campus walk in the rain this year!) 

Agenda

Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship (Lobby & Room 121)
1201 Mitch Daniels Blvd.
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057

Breakfast & Coffee (lobby):

9:00 AM – Breakfast and Coffee Sponsored by Oxford Instruments 

Session 1 (Room 121):

9:30 AM – Introduction by Dan DeLaurentis, Executive Vice President for Research

9:40 AM – Opening Remarks by Christopher Gilpin, Director of the PEMC

10:00 AM – User Presentation: Measuring gases from the Sun inside Moon dust using electron microscopy by Alexander Kling, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

10:30 AM – Staff Presentation: From Imaging to Quantitative Microanalysis: Introducing EPMA at the PEMC by Kuan-Yu Lin, PEMC Staff

10:40 AM – Vendor Presentation: TEM Without the Guesswork: Standardized Acquisition and AI-Ready Pipelines with AutoScript by Austin Wade, Thermo Scientific

Coffee & Networking (lobby):

11:00 AM – Coffee Sponsored by Oxford Instruments

Session 2 (Room 121):

11:20 PM – User Presentation: Microstructure Development in Additively Manufactured 316L Stainless Steel: Characterization of Rapid Solidification and Post-build Heat Treatment by Chenglu Tang, Department of Materials Engineering

11:30 AM – Staff Presentation: Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction: Basics and Applications by Zhongxia Shang, PEMC Staff

11:40 AM – User Presentation: Shape Controlled Synthesis of Rhombic Dodecahedral CsPbI3 Quantum Dots by Nick Favate, Chemistry Department

12:10 PM – Staff Presentation: S/TEM Characterizations for Magnetic Materials by Peng Zuo, PEMC Staff

12:20 PM – User Presentation: Plasticity in Ceramic Composites via Shear and Diffusion Induced Transformation by Huan Li, Department of Materials Engineering

12:30 PM – User Presentation: Title coming soon. by Yina Moon, Department of Chemistry

Lunch & Networking (lobby):

 12:40 PM – Lunch Sponsored by Thermo Scientific

Session 3 (Room 121):

1:30 PM – Staff Presentation: 3D Reconstruction with Electron Microscopy by Sidnie Bienz, PEMC Staff

1:40 PM – User Presentation: Effect of Clopidogrel on Hoof Laminar Strength and Hemidesmosome Density in Horses with Experimentally Induced Laminitis by Alexandra Usimaki, College of Veterinary Medicine

2:10 PM – Vendor Presentation: Title coming soon by Oxford Instruments

Poster Session & Hors D'oeuvres (lobby):

 2:30 PM – Hors D'oeuvres Sponsored by Oxford Instruments

PEMC Virtual Tour (Room 121):

 4:00 PM – No Established End Time

We will walk attendees through our new virtual tour of the PEMC and highlight several features we have utilized to showcase the PEMC's capabilities.