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EVENTS

AVS Mid-Atlantic Chapter DC Regional Meeting at NIST

Name: AVS Mid-Atlantic Chapter DC Regional Meeting at NIST
Start: 2026-05-15T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-15T23:59:00-04:00
Location: Building 101, Portrait Room, National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD

meeting

May 15, 2026

Building 101, Portrait Room, National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD

Free to all, but Pre-registration is required.

Registration Deadline: May 6, 2026 (foreign nationals are encourage to apply early)

Registration Contact

Jacob Edmond Ricker

[email protected]

(301) 975-4475

Technical Contact

Jay H. Hendricks

[email protected]

(301) 975-4836

Exhibitor Contact

Vendor Contact: DBaker [at] Teledyne.com (Doug Baker)

Highlight theme

Thin Films for Fusion and Extreme Environments

Invited speakers

Thomas R. Mion (NRL), “High stability magnetostrictive materials for magnetic field sensing in extreme environments”
Carlos A. Romero-Talamas (UMBC), “Requirements and challenges for plasma-facing components in nuclear fusion”
Bruce E. Koel (PPPL), “High temperature plasma-materials interactions and chemistry of Li as liquid metal plasma-facing surfaces”

Equipment Exhibit

Vacuum hardware and instrumentation

Poster Session

Open to students working in AVS research topics including:

Biomaterial Interfaces
MEMS & NEMS
Plasma Science
Thin Films
Electronic Materials & Processes
Vacuum Technology
Magnetic Interfaces & Nanostructures
Surface Science

NIST Lab Tours

NIST Center for Neutron Research
NIST NanoFab
and more

Cash Prizes for the best Graduate/Undergraduate student posters!

Physics and Thermodynamics