Midlands SEM users meeting (MIDSEM) 2025

Location
C Block Foyer, Ground Floor, Metallurgy and Materials Building (G6), GC13
Dates
Wednesday 4 June 2025 (09:30-15:30)
Contact

To register please either complete the booking form or use the QR Code.

Further information is available from the Facility for Electron Microscopy (FEM).

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Join the Facility for Electron Microscopy for the 2025 edition of their Midlands SEM users meeting which includes a series of scientific talks and a trade exhibition.

The meeting will follow the usual format of two scientific talks held in the morning, followed by a trade forum,culminating in two scientific talks held in the afternoon. The trade exhibition will be available throughout the day.

A buffet lunch will be provided, and registration is free. We look forward to seeing you.

Please either use the booking link or alternatively,  scan the QR code to access the booking form.

 midsem 2025 qr code

MidSEM 2025, Facility for Electron Microscopy, University of Birmingham

MIDSEM Programme
09:30 Arrival, registration and coffee
09:55 Welcome
10:00 Scientific talk 1:  “Correlative Electron and Ion Microscopy Techniques for Beam Sensitive Materials” by Dr Sang Pham from Facility for Electron Microscopy, University of Birmingham
10:30 Scientific talk 2:  “Cryo TEM to elucidate how lipids are transported across the gram-negative cell envelope” by Dr Tim Knowles from School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
11:00 Coffee
11:15

Trade Forum I (5 minutes each):

  • Bruker Nano Analytics
  • Carl Zeiss Ltd (ZEISS)
  • Gatan
  • Hitachi High-Tech Europe GmbH
  • JEOL
  • Lambda Photometrics Ltd
  • Oxford Instruments
12:00 Lunch and Trade Exhibition
14:00

Trade Forum II (5 minutes each):

  • Quorum Technologies
  • SciMed
  • TESCAN
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • VSM Instruments
14:30 Scientific talk 3: "4D STEM Electron Ptychography:  An Emerging Imaging Technology for Physical and Biological Sciences” by Prof Peng Wang from Condensed Matter Physics, University of Warwick
15:00 Scientific talk 4:  “Cathodoluminescence study of CdSeTe/CdTe Solar cells using FIBSEM and  STEM” by Dr Stuart Robertson from Loughborough Materials Characterisation Centre, Loughborough University
15:30

Closure

Exhibitors/sponsors

  • Bruker Nano Analytics
  • Calibre Scientific (Agar Scientific & Labtech International)
  • Carl Zeiss Ltd (ZEISS)
  • CN Tech
  • Gatan
  • Hitachi High-Tech Europe GmbH
  • ISS Group Services
  • JEOL
  • Lambda Photometrics Ltd
  • Oxford Instruments
  • Quorum Technologies
  • Royal Microscopical Society
  • SciMed
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • TESCAN
  • VSM Instruments