Member Center

– Member Center Schedule –

David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Room 310-311

The Member Center will focus on career-related professional development sessions and provide networking opportunities to all attendees throughout the week. Attendees can stop in at any time to participate in our scheduled events, ask questions about how to access your membership benefits or have a place to meet up with other attendees. Be sure to stop in and network with Free Refreshments in our Member Lounge.

*While Supplies Last

– Member Center Agenda –

David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Room 310-311

Monday

12:15 p.m.
Welcome to AVS Overview Lunch*

Moderator: Jeff Fenton, Honeywell FM&T, Rachael Farber, University of Kansas

Are you new to AVS or have been with us a while and need a refresh on benefits and activities?
Want to know how to get involved?
Would you like to hear from AVS members and its leaders?

Then, join us for a lively session to learn about the benefits and opportunities available to you at the symposium and throughout the year. We will highlight our major activities and introduce you to Chairs within the organization.

• Professional Leadership: Jessica Hilton, SPECS-TII
• Early Career Professionals: Rachael Farber, University of Kansas
• Chapters, Divisions, Groups: Vin Smentkowski, GE Global Research; Michael Filler, Georgia Tech; Kateryna Artyushkova, Physical Electronics
• Publications: Eray Aydil, New York University
• Membership: Amy Walker, University of Texas at Dallas
• Education: Tim Gessert, Gessert Consulting, LLC
• Symposia & Conferences: Eric Joseph, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

4:00 p.m.
Early Career Professionals Happy Hour

Join your fellow early career professionals for a Happy Hour for an opportunity to connect, network, and get to know each other. Postdocs, junior faculty, and early career industrialists are all welcome at the ECPC Happy Hour just before the AVS Plenary Session!

Tuesday

4:00 p.m.
Work-Life Balance Happy Hour

Presenter: Dr. Lily M. Wang, Director of the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction in the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln

All persons in the workforce maintain some work-life balance (or work-life integration), although it may be less or more than they wish. We seek to be successful in professional endeavors, while also maintaining personal interests, family responsibilities, general health and wellness, and more. This first portion of this professional development session features a presenter and three panelists who will share information and individual experiences of how they have sought to maintain healthy work-life integration. In the latter half of the session, participants will be asked to join roundtable discussions on specific issues of interest to the table group (e.g. integrating childcare, elder care, work travel, volunteer activities, etc.), sharing approaches and strategies to achieve positive work-life integration. Refreshments will be served!

Panelists:

• Katherine Burzynski, Materials Engineer, Air Force Research Lab.
• Corinne D’Ambrosio, Self Employed, NPB Technology Group, Inc.
• Mike Meyer, Global Marketing Manager Advanced Energy

5:45 p.m.
Ohio Chapter Welcome Reception

After being apart for too long, the Ohio Chapter welcomes its’ members to AVS 68 with light food & refreshments. This is a great opportunity to meet & catch up with fellow Ohio Chapter members.

Wednesday

12:30 p.m.
Select Opportunities and Outlook in Quantum Information Science and Engineering Town Hall Lunch*

Moderator: Tomasz Durakiewicz, NSF

The Town Hall Meeting is designed to offer potential Principal Investigators an opportunity to be informed about the increasing number of new funding opportunities and all-of-government coordination efforts as well as challenges of workforce, education, and broadening participation in the area of Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE). Selection of speakers from government agencies will present different approaches to the funding of research, education, and workforce in QISE, including individual presentations, panel discussions and lunch* – table conversations.

Speaker/Panelists:

• Mathias Graf, DOE
• Gretchen Campbell EH OSTP
• Chris Richardson, LPS
• Tomasz Durakiewicz, NSF

Thursday

12:30 p.m.
Curve Fitting of XPS Spectra: Challenges and Where to Start Lunch*

Moderator: Jeff Fenton, Honeywell FM&T

A recent Applied Surface Science session at AVS, a series of publications, and ASTM committee meetings have focused on the challenges in reproducibility and reliability of surface analysis, in particular XPS analysis. These publications focused on solutions to the reproducibility challenges, practical guides to procedures for calibration, and more. This Lunch-N-Learn session will focus on the challenges in XPS curve fitting. What are common mistakes made? What parameters should I start with first? Which lineshape: Gaussian-Lorentzian, Asymmetric Lorentzian, Double Lorentzian, Doniach Sunjic, etc? Which resources are there that can help guide me or who can I ask? If you want to improve curve fitting and XPS analysis, this Lunch-N-Learn will provide an excellent opportunity.

Panelists:

• Alberto Herrera-Gomez, Cinvestav-Unidad Queretaro, Mexico
• Mark C. Biesinger, The University of Western Ontario Surface Science Western
• George Major, Brigham Young University