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Surface Canada 2013 conference runs from May 7-10, with workshop on May 11.

 

surface_canada_2013_570_180Surface Canada 2013 conference runs from May 7 – 10.

Surface and interface science is a key area of interdisciplinary research at Western with a long and distinguished history, especially within the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Chemistry.

This conference offers us the opportunity to showcase some key research  facilities within the Faculties of Science and Engineering, in particular Nanofabrication facility, Tandetron Accelerator facility and Surface Science Western.

A special workshop dedicated to experimental techniques to investigate surfaces will be held on Saturday, May 11, 2013.

There will be more than 170 participants at the conference, as well as over 105 at the Saturday’s workshop.

We are very pleased to announce that the following have confirmed that they will speak at Surface Canada 2013:

T.K. Sham, Western University (Plenary Speaker)

John Dutcher, University of Guelph;

Daniel Guay, INRS;

Jean-François Masson, Université de Montréal;

Roger Newman, University of Toronto;

Federico Rosei, INRS.