FEMM S2024

Catania
29th September / 4th October
Four Points by Sheraton Catania Hotel & Conference Center (Aci Castello)
Previous Meetings From 1986 to 1996, meetings were held in the United States at venues in Illinois and California, this changed with FEMMS98 when J. Mayer and F. Ernst of MPI Stuttgart were principal organizers. In 2000, FEMMS was organized by Dr. Sumio Iijima of NEC Fundamental Research Lab. The 2003 meeting was again organized by Wayne King. FEMMS2005 was organized by Knut Urban (Forschungszentrum Jülich) and Joachim Mayer (RWTH Aachen University). FEMMS2007 was organized by Wayne King and Nigel Browning. FEMMS2009 was organized by Syo Matsumura (Kyushu University) and Kazuo Furuya (National Institute for Materials Science). FEMMS 2011 was organized by Nigel Browning (UC Davis). FEMMS 2013 was held at the Great Ocean Highway in Lorne, Australia, and was organized by Matthew Weyland (Monash University, Australia). FEMMS 2015 was held at Lake Tahoe in northern California, and it was organized by Klaus van Benthem (University of California, Davis). The most recent meeting was held in 2019 in Asheville, NC , USA, and it was organized by Juan Carlos Idrobo (Oak Ridge National Laboratory). After a long stop due to the pandemic FEMMS came back again in Catania, Italy
Year Venue Distinguished Lecturer
1986 Argonne National Laboratory Prof. Albert Crewe University of Chicago
1988 Oak Brook Hyatt Regency, Oak Brook, IL Dr. Hans Werner Fink IBM Zurich
1990 Oak Brook Hyatt Regency, Oak Brook, IL Sir Peter B. Hirsch FRS Oxford University
1992 Claremont Hotel, Oakland, CA Prof. Gareth Thomas UC Berkeley
1994 Claremont Hotel, Oakland, CA Prof. Severin Amelinkx University of Antwerp
1996 Oak Brook Hyatt Regency, Oak Brook, IL Prof. Manfred Rühle MPI für Metallforschung, Stuttgart
1998 KlosterIrsee, Irsee Germany Dr. Sumio Iijima NEC Fundamental Research Lab
2000 KunibikiMessa, Matsue, Japan (no distinguished lecturer that year)
2003 Claremont Hotel, Oakland, CA Prof. John Spence, ForMemRS Arizona State University
2005 Kasteel Vaalsbroek, Netherlands Prof. John Silcox Cornell University
2007 DoubleTree Sonoma, Rohnert Park, CA Prof. Mick Brown FRS Cambridge Universtity
2009 Huis Ten Bosch, Nagasaki, Japan Dr. Akira Tonomura
2011 DoubleTree Sonoma, Rohnert Park, CA Prof. Archie Howie FRS Cambridge University
2013 Mantra Lorne, Victoria, Australia Prof. Christian Colliex University Paris Sud
2015 Granlibakken Conference Center and Lodge, Lake Tahoe, CA Dr. Ondrej Krivanek FRS Nion Company / Arizona State University
2017 Indaba Hotel & Conference Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa Prof. Stephen J. Pennycook, National University of Singapore
2019 Crowne Plaza Asheville, NC, 1 Resort Dr, Asheville, NC 28806 Prof. Yuichi Ikuhara, The University of Tokyo